Plant biodiversity : monitoring, assessment and conservation

✍ Scribed by Abbas, Zahid Khorshid; Ansari, Abid A.; Gill, Sarvajeet Singh; Naeem, M

Publisher: CABI
Year: 2017
Tongue: English
Leaves: 630
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Conservation biologists use the results of regular monitoring of the species diversity and structure of plant communities to help understand the impacts of perturbations caused by humans and other environmental factors on ecosystems worldwide. Changes in plant communities can, for example, be a reflection of increased levels of pollution, a response to long-term climate change, or the result of shifts in land-use practices by the human population.
This book presents a series of essays on the application of plant biodiversity monitoring and assessment to help prevent species extinction and ecosystem collapse and to solve problems in biodiversity conservation. Written by a large, international team of researchers, Plant Biodiversity uses case studies and examples from all over the world and from a broad range of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.
The book is aimed at any graduate students and researchers with a strong interest in plant biodiversity monitoring and assessment, plant community ecology, biodiversity conservation, and the environmental impacts of human activities on ecosystems

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Section I: Plant Biodiversity-An OverviewChapter 1: New Challenges to Promote Botany's Practice Using Botanic Gardens: The Case Study of the Lisbon Botanic GardenChapter 2: New Horizons in Diversification of Temperate Fruit CropsChapter 3: Asteraceae of India and its Diversity and Phytogeographical AffinityChapter 4: Maintenance of Plant Species Diversity in Forest EcosystemsSection II: Plant Biodiversity and EthnobotanyChapter 5: Plant Diversity of the Drylands in Southeast Anatolia-Turkey: Role in Human Health and Food SecurityChapter 6: Observations on Some Ethnomedicinal Plants of JharkhandSection III: Plant Biodiversity and Biochemical ParametersChapter 7: Plant Diversity: Envisioning untold Nanofactories for Biogenic Synthesis of Nanoparticles and their applicationsChapter 8: Plant Diversity Repertoire of Bioactive TriterpenoidsSection IV: Plant Biodiversity and Climatic FactorsChapter 9: Roles of Secondary Metabolites in Protection and Distribution Of Terrestrial Plants Under Climatic stressesChapter 10: Summersemi-deciduous Species of the Mediterranean Landscape: a Winning Strategy of Cistus speciestoface the Predicted Changes of the Mediterranean Climate Otilia CorreiaSection V: Plant Biodiversity and Environmental StudiesChapter 11: Aquatic Plant Biodiversity: A Biological Indicator for Monitoring and Assessment of Water QualityChapter 12: Gymnosperm Diversity of Kashmir HimalayasSection VI: Cross talk between Plant and Microbial BiodiversityChapter 13: Diversity of Plant Parasitic Nematodes in PulsesChapter 14: The Influence of Soil Microbes on Plant DiversityChapter 15: Plant Associated Endophytic Plethora an Emerging Source of Antimicrobial PotentialsSection VII: Plant Biodiversity: Monitoring and AssessmentChapter 16: Biodiversity, Bioindicators and Biogeography of Freshwater Algae.Chapter 17: Quantitative Description of Upper Storey Vegetation at a Foothill Forest in Indian Eastern HimalayasChapter 18: Significance of Permanent Sample Plots (PSPs) Established In Different Forest Ecosystems in Monitoring Ecological Attributes and Conservation of Biodiversity: A ReviewChapter 19: Effects of Harvesting Plan on Tree Species Diversity: An Evaluation of Two Logged Forest CompartmentsChapter 20: Diversity of Angiospermic Flora of West Bengal, IndiaChapter 21: Status of Invasive Plants in Tamil Nadu, India - Its Impacts and SignificanceChapter 22: Patterns of Plant Endemism and Forest Regeneration Processes Innorthern Western Ghats.Chapter 23: DNA Barcoding as a Molecular Tool for the Assessment of Plant BiodiversitySection VIII: Plant Biodiversity: ConservationChapter 24: Onion and Related Taxa: Ecogeographical Distribution and Genetic Resources in IndiaChapter 25: Traditional Ecological Knowledge And Plant Biodiversity Conservation in a European Transfrontier LandscapeChapter 26: Cryoconservation Methods for Extended Storage of Plant Genetic ResourcesChapter 27: Interspecific Chemical Differentiation within the Genus Astragalus(Fabaceae) Based on Sequential Variability of Saponin StructuresChapter 28: Implementing Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Conservation EffortsChapter 29: Conserving Forest BiodiversityChapter 30: Invasive Alien Weed Species: a Threat to Plant Biodiversity

✦ Subjects

Plant diversity;Plant diversity conservation;Plant Physiological Phenomena;Biodiversity;Ecosystem

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