Biodiversity

Edited by Adriano Sofo

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Abstract: Biodiversity is strongly affected by the rapid and accelerating changes in the global climate, which largely stem from human activity. Anthropogenic activities are causing highly influential impacts on species persistence. The sustained environmental change wildlife is experiencing may surpass the capacity of developmental, genetic, and demographic mechanisms that populations have developed to deal with these alterations. How biodiversity is perceived and maintained affects ecosystem functioning as well as how the goods and services that ecosystems provide to humans can be used. Recognizing biodiversity is essential to preserve wildlife. Furthermore, the measure, management and protection of ecosystem biodiversity requires different and innovative approaches. For all these reasons, the aim of the present book is to give an up-to-date overview of the studies on biodiversity at all levels, in order to better understand the dynamics and the mechanisms at the basis of the richness of life forms both in terrestrial (including agro-ecosystems) and marine environments.

JEL-codes: Q57 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
ISBN: 978-953-307-715-4
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Biodiversity Measures in Agriculture Using DNA

Lucia Vieira Hoffmann, Tereza Cristina De Oliveira Borba, Raquel Neves De Mello, Paulo Augusto Vianna Barroso and Laisa Nogueira Allem

Biological Cr(VI) Reduction: Microbial Diversity, Kinetics and Biotechnological Solutions to Pollution

Evans M. Nkhalambayausi Chirwa and Pulane E. Molokwane

Cell Surface Display

Michael Danquah and Sharadwata Pan

Evolution of Ecosystem Services in a Mediterranean Cultural Landscape: Don?ana Case Study, Spain (1956-2006)

Erik Gomez-Baggethun, Berta Martin-Lopez, Pedro L. Lomas, Pedro Zorrilla Miras and Carlos Montes

Implications of Wood Collecting Activities on Invertebrates Diversity of Conservation Areas

Thokozani Simelane

Integrating Spatial Behavioral Ecology in Agent-Based Models for Species Conservation

Christina Semeniuk, Marco Musiani and Danielle J. Marceau

Molecular Techniques to Estimate Biodiversity with Case Studies from the Marine Phytoplankton

Linda Medlin and Kerstin Toebe

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DOI: 10.5772/1836

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