Terrestrial Biomes: Global Biome Conservation and Global Warming Impacts on Ecology and Biodiversity explores the effects of anthropogenic activities on Earth's terrestrial biomes, species, and climate. The book summarizes operational and potential monitoring tools to conserve or recover terrestrial biomes at a global scale. Written by international experts in ecology and biodiversity conservation, this book identifies the challenges and threats to terrestrial organisms and connects them to real cases of conservation.This is an important resource for students, professors, researchers, and governmental and non-governmental organizations active in biodiversity conservation and climate change mitigation.
- Discusses the decline and conservation of the world's major terrestrial biomes
- Provides the use of ecological indicators to analyze the conditions of terrestrial biomes with a global perspective
- Spans desert, Mediterranean, grassland, forest, subterranean, taiga, and tundra biomes
- Highlights the work of researchers whose expertise includes insular biomes, prairies, shrublands, steppes, taiga, tundra, and global warming perspectives
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Section I: Deserts1. Antarctica Desert2. Northern Great Rift Valley: deserts and otherbiomes3. Ecosystem services in the Atacama region, Chile4. Chihuahuan Desert5. Simpson Desert6. Indian Thar7. Sahara and other African DesertsSection II: Insular Biomes8. Madagascar and Mauritius as Insular BiomesSection III: Mediterranean9. Mediterranean Basin10. An Afromontane biome in South Africa:ecological quality of natural vs transformed habitatsSection IV: Prairies and Steppes11. Prairies and Steppes: Cradles of GrasslandBiodiversity12. European steppes and forest-steppes13. AmericanSection V: Shrublands14. Biodiversity and Ecological Dynamics of theFynbos Biome in South Africa15. Mediterranean Shrublands16. Xeric ShrublandsSection VI: Savannas17. Land degradation and its associated eff ects ondung beetle species in African Savanna18. Asia19. Australian Savannas20. American Savanna: A brief reviewSection VII: Subterranean21. SubterraneanSection VIII: Taiga22. Asia23. North EuropeSection IX: Temperate Forests24. Temperate forest of Asia in the wake of climatechange25. Temperate forests at Southern South America:Challenges for management and conservation to faceclimate change26. Europe Temperate Forests27. North AmericaSection X: Tropical Forests28. Conservation status of dung beetles(Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) in African tropical forests29. The use of phytotelmata by amphibians in theAmazon rainforest: A review and case study30. Asia's Ecological Tapestry: NavigatingConservation Challenges in the Era of Global Warming31. Atlantic Forest32. Biodiversity, function and change of tropicalrainforests of Borneo33. CaatingaSection XI: Tundras34. Asian Arctic tundra: Vast permafrost ecosystemsunder increasing pressure by climate change and industrialdevelopment35. The importance of Belarus tundra peat bogs forbiodiversity conservation in global warming condition36. North American tundras: Imperiled landscapesat a continent's latitudinal and altitudinal extremes
