Overview

Amazonian rain forest forms one of the most precious ecosystems and provides habitat for more than 50% of plant and animal species. This unique ecosystem is highly disturbed by human activities, which causes biodiversity losses. Biodiversity monitoring and conservation plays one of the most important roles of tropical environment protection. This book focuses on the assessment of species diversity and species richness in various land use systems. This book also discusses the challenges and opportunities facing the Brazilian ecotourism industry and the establishment of an eco-triple helix in the Brazilian Amazon region. Over the past two decades, the international community has become aware of the global and regional environmental risks associated with possible massive forest losses in the Brazilian Amazon. The authors of this book investigate the stochastic and dynamic relationship of land use in the Brazilian Amazon. Other chapters in this book examine the main deforestation drivers of the Brazilian Amazon rainforests, the various factors (i.e., geological age, habitat heterogeneity) that generate and maintain fish species diversity in Amazon floodplain lakes, and the causes and effects of fish contamination due to malaria control in the Brazilian Amazon.

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Author:   Nicolás Rojas ,  Rafael Prieto
Publisher:   Nova Science Publishers Inc
Imprint:   Nova Science Publishers Inc
Weight:   0.480kg
ISBN:  

9781607414636

ISBN 10:   1607414635
Pages:   218
Publication Date:   18 May 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface; Agricultural Systems in the Savanna-Forest Ecotone of Venezuelan Amazonian: Evaluation of Soil Quality Indicators; Factors Determining Fish Species Diversity in Amazonian Floodplain Lakes; Morphological Diversity of Neotropical Characiformes; Assessment of Insect Logical Diversity in Various Land Use Systems in the Peruvian Amazon; Ethnobotanical Study of Dye-Yielding Plants used in Communities of Shipibo-Konibo Amerindians around Pucallpa City, Peru; Ecotourism in the Brazilian Amazon Region: Promises and Challenges; Fish Contamination with DDT due to Malaria Control in the Brazilian Amazon; The Dynamic of Land Use in Brazilian Amazon: A Structural VAR with Panel Data Analysis; Isn't there an Alternative to Deforestation in Amazonas?; Index.

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