AQUATIC BIOMES

Auteur

Dr. Germano Leão Demolin-Leite is a researcher for the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development, as well as a full professor in the Institute of Agricultural Sciences at Federal University of Minas Gerais (ICA/UMFG). He currently teaches courses on Animal Biology and Plant Production. Dr. Demolin-Leite's recent research focuses on degraded area recuperation. He has been Coordinator of the Zoology & Entomology Laboratory. and Insectarium G.W.G. Morães (Trichogramma sp.). He has published over 230 scholarly journal articles and six books. Dr. Demolin-Leite also serves on the review board for numerous journals and periodicals, including Elsevier's Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety.

Texte du rabat

Aquatic Biomes: Global Biome Conservation and Global Warming Impacts on Ecology and Biodiversity explores the effects of anthropogenic activities on Earth’s aquatic biomes, species, and climate. It summarizes operational and potential monitoring tools to conserve or recover aquatic biomes at global scale. Written by international experts in ecology and biodiversity conservation, this book identifies the challenges and threats to aquatic organisms and connects them to real cases of conservation.

Aquatic Biomes: Global Biome Conservation and Global Warming Impacts on Ecology and Biodiversity is an important resource for students, professors, researchers, governmental and non-governmental organizations active in biodiversity conservation and climate change mitigation seeking guidance on the best practices for aquatic biome conservation.

Contenu

Section I: Freshwater

1. Impacts on fish and microbial communities occurring in the Amazon River Basin
2. Danube River
3. Linking Water Information Systems for the Preservation of Hydrological Resources in the Jamapa River Basin in Mexico
4. Darling River
5. Nile River
6. Indus River and Its Ecological Resources
7. Rangkul-Shorkul lake system (Eastern Pamir Mountains, Tajikistan)
8. The uniqueness of the biome of lake Ledulu in the rote dead sea area Indonesia
9. Lake Balaton
10. Lake Chapala, Jalisco, Mexico
11. Lake Titicaca
12. Victoria Lake
13. Macquarie Marshes: inland floodplain wetlands of Australia, with reference to microbial biodiversity
14. Danube Delta Wetland
15. The Grijalva- Usumacinta floodplain: historical ecology of a wetland under long-term human use and large climatic variability
16. Pantanal Wetland

Section II: Marine

17. Mangrove estuaries in the tropical southwestern Atlantic
18. Brazilian’s Coastal Ecosystems: Human Impacts and Sustainability
19. Atlantic Ocean
20. Strategies and Challenges for Conserving the Indian Ocean in a Warming World: Insights from Case studies
21. The Southern Ocean pelagic ecosystems around the Antarctic Peninsula
22. The Arctic Ocean