Environmental Pollution, Biodiversity, and Sustainable Development-Issues and Remediation

✍ Scribed by Hasnain Nangyal (Editor); Muhammad Saleem Khan (Editor)

• Publisher: Apple Academic Press
• Year: 2020
• Leaves: 328
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Environmental Pollution, Biodiversity, and Sustainable Development: Issues and Remediation provides an extensive summary of biodiversity. It is the result of the assistance of environmentalists, researchers, policy experts, and academicians from across the globe sharing their research and knowledge on biodiversity and ways to mitigate the threat from climate change, over-utilization of natural resources, pollution, and more. The volume considers that biodiversity encompasses a wide range of biological processes, ranging from genetic diversity, species, populations, communities and ecosystems to landscapes and regions.

This book, written by a panel of international experts in biodiversity, conservation biology, and evolution from different countries, including Iran, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Tajikistan, Russia, and others, highlights the human impact on biodiversity hotspots on a global scale.

The volume provides an abundance of valuable research for faculty, students, and researchers in environmental sciences, government agencies, and many others.

✦ Table of Contents

1. Phytoremediation Potential of Typha: An Approach to Biodiversity Conservation

H. Nangyal et al.

2. The Genetic Resources as an Inexhaustible Source of Biodiversity in Tajikistan

N. Firuza, H. Nangyal, A. Nawaz, and M. S. Khan

3. Phytodiversity and the Conservation Status of the Nara Desert, Pakistan

R. Qureshi

4. Acute and Biological Effects of Some Synthetic Organic Compounds on Spiny Bollworma

R. M. Fikry et al.

5. The Simplest Way to Determine the Most Appropriate Diversity Indices in a Study Area

J. Parchizadeh

6. Diversity of Pollen Grain Fertility and Crossing of Potato in Tajikistan

K. Partoev et al.

7. Impact of Arsenic on Structural and Functional Composition of Dominant Bacterial Populations Associated with Various Natural Ecosystems

Soma Ghosh, Meenakshi Mukherjee, and Pinaki Sar

8. Seabuckthorn: Its Sustainable Utilization for Biodiversity Conservation

N. Malik et al.

9. Environmental Pollution: Increasing Risk of Neurodegenerative Diseases

H. Ikram and H. Nangyal

10. Community-Based Conservation of the Sambhar Salt Lake, Jaipur, India

S. Kulshreshtha, G.V. Reddy, and H. Nangyal

11. Biodiversity and Conservation of the Orphans of Rio in Northern Africa-Egypt: A Case Study

A. M. Abdel-Azeem and F. M. Salem

12. Diversity of Functional Potential of Selected Medicinal Plants

Hasnain Nangyal et al.

13. Fungal Biodiversity of Foods and Feeds

Fatima Abdul Majeed and Ali Akbar

14. Biodiversity and Distribution of Algae in Egypt

Heba S. Abbas

15. Role of Diverse Medicinal Algae in Therapeutic World

Heba S. Abbas