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Author:   Germano Leão Demolin-Leite, PhD (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil)
Publisher:   Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
Imprint:   Academic Press Inc
Weight:   0.450kg
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9780443157264

ISBN 10:   044315726
Pages:   370
Publication Date:   16 June 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Section I: Freshwater 1. Impacts on fish and microbial communities occurring in the Amazon River Basin Paula Benevides Morais, Dayane Juliate Barros, Luiz Vanzela, Cleber Fernando Mansano, Acacio Aparecido Navarrete and Adriana Oliveira Meeiros 2. Danube River András Abonyi 3. Linking Water Information Systems for the Preservation of Hydrological Resources in the Jamapa River Basin in Mexico Jordi Vera Cartas and Michelle Arroyo Fonseca 4. Darling River Simon Mitrovic, Tsuyoshi Kobayashi, Donald Davis and Matthew Balzer 5. Nile River Khaleid Fouad Abd El-Wakeil 6. Indus River and Its Ecological Resources Sardar Khan 7. Rangkul-Shorkul lake system (Eastern Pamir Mountains, Tajikistan) Monika Metrak, Lukasz Chachulski, Piotr Chibowski, Iwona Jasser, Elzbieta Rojan, Mateusz Wilk, Malgorzata Suska-Malawska and Marcin Sulwinski 8. Lakes and other biome aquatics in Indonesia Media Fitri Isma Nugraha, Dr. Kayat, Atriyon Julzarika, Elisa Iswandono, Alfred O. M Dima and Luki Subehi 9. Changing biodiversity in Lake Balaton – a long-term, catchment-scale perspective Vera Istvánovics, Tibor Eros, Lajos Nagy, Judit Padisák, Judit Petrovszki and Péter Szilassi 10. Lake Chapala, Jalisco, Mexico Joshua Cullen Greene 11. Lake Titicaca Daniel A. Villar 12. Lake Victoria MARTIN MAMBOLEO, Evans Lomodei, Andrew Munyua Mwenga and Dorothy Khasisi Lukhabi 13. Macquarie Marshes: inland floodplain wetlands of Australia, with reference to microbial biodiversity Tsuyoshi Kobayashi and Timothy J. Ralph 14. Danube Delta Wetland Cogalniceanu Dan and Dorel Marian Rusti 15. The Grijalva- Usumacinta floodplain: historical ecology of a wetland under long-term human use and large climatic variability Andrea Saenz-Arroyo, Vera Camacho, Matteo Cazzanelli, Rocio Rodiles-Hernandez and Pablo Sandoval-Rivera 16. Pantanal Wetland Izaias Fernandes Section II: Marine 17. Mangrove estuaries in the tropical southwestern Atlantic Jesser F. Souza-Filho Sr., Eliete Zanardi Lamardo, Ralf Schwamborn and Sigrid Neumann-Leitão 18. Brazilian’s Coastal Ecosystems: Human Impacts and Sustainability Caio Rodrigues Nobre, Aline Vecchio Alves, Camilo Dias Seabra Pereira, Augusto Cesar Sr., Nathany Roberta Herrera Aguiar, Gislaine Lima, Daniele Garcia and Thais Oliveira 19. Atlantic Ocean Cachapa Francisco Agostinho, Gabriel Mbuta Tchivelekete, Domingas Perpetua André Quiatuhanga, Nelson Francisco Baiao Cambinda, Eduardo Saquenha, Pedro Tchipalanga and Alfredo Noré Muacahila Saluanja 20. Strategies and Challenges for Conserving the Indian Ocean in a Warming World: Insights from Case studies Pascal Thoya 21. The Southern Ocean pelagic ecosystems around the Antarctic Peninsula Silvina Botta, Carlos Rafael Borges Mendes, Eduardo Secchi, Afonso Ferreira, Raul Ridrigo Costa, Renan Costa de Lima, Julieta Denise Cebuhar and Elisa Seyboth 22. Arctic Ocean Francesc Gordó Vilaseca Section III: Desert 23. Antarctica Desert Cecilia Nahomi Kawagoe Suda, Helena Lavrado and Edson Rodrigues 24. Northern Great Rift Valley: deserts and other biomes Mazin B. Qumsiyeh and Zuhair Amr 25. Ecosystem services in the Atacama region, Chile Claudia Cerda, Alyzon Valdés-Rojas, Matías Guerrero-Gatica, Valeria Tapia and Daniela Gaymer 26. Loss of biodiversity and effect of climate change on the vascular flora of the Chihuahuan Desert of Mexico Alberto González-Zamora and Rebeca Pérez-Morales 27. Simpson Desert Christopher R. Dickman 28. Indian Thar Vijay Kumar Koli, Jaya Arora and Abhishek Joshi 29. Sahara and other African Deserts Haroun Chenchouni, Abdelhafid Bouzekri, Adel Bezzalla and Souad Neffar Section IV: Insular biomes 30. Madagascar and Mauritius as Insular Biomes Chandani Appadoo and Lalao Aigrette Section V: Mediterranean 31. Mediterranean basin Alexandra D. Solomou 32. An Afromontane biome in South Africa: ecological quality of natural vs transformed habitats Gimo M. Daniel and Astrid Jankielsohn Section VI: Prairies and Steppes 33. Prairies and Steppes: Cradles of Grassland Biodiversity Kishwar Ali, Zahida Bano and Madieha Ambreen 34. European steppes and forest-steppes Péter Török, Ákos Bede-Fazekas and László Erdos 35. American P. Roxanne Kellar, Conor Gearin and Emily Geest Section VII: Shrublands 36. Biodiversity and Ecological Dynamics of the Fynbos Biome in South Africa Evaristo A. Bruda and Gimo M. Daniel 37. Mediterranean Shrublands Luciana Ghermandi and Sofia Laura Gonzalez 38. Xeric Shrublands Souad Neffar and Haroun Chenchouni Section VIII: Savannas 39. Land degradation and its associated effects on dung beetle species in African Savanna Gimo M. Daniel and Evaristo Bruda 40. Savannas in Asia Zhan Shu, Evaristo A. Bruda and Hui Huang 41. Australia Lindsay B. Hutley and Samantha A. Setterfield 42. American Savanna: A brief review Sybelle Barreira Section IX: Subterranean 43. Subterranean Francis G. Howarth, Rodrigo Lopes Ferreira and Stefano Mammola Section X: Taiga 44. Asia ??????? ????? 45. Northern Europe Surina Anatolyevna Elena and Nataliya Yakovenko Section XI: Temperate Forests 46. Temperate forest of Asia in the wake of climate change Kishwar Ali 47. Temperate forests at Southern South America: Challenges for management and conservation to face climate change Guillermo José Martínez Pastur Sr., Pablo L. Peri, Julián Rodríguez Souilla, Marcelo Daniel Barrera, Mónica D.R. Toro Manríquez and Alejandro Huertas Herrera 48. Europe Temperate Forests Germano Leão Demolin-Leite Sr. 49. Temperate Forests of North America Joshua W. Campbell and Alexandra Tsalickis Section XII: Tropical Forests 50. Conservation status of dung beetles (Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) in African tropical forests Gimo M. Daniel and Evaristo Bruda 51. The use of phytotelmata by amphibians in the Amazon rainforest: A review and case study DOMINGOS DE JESUS RODRIGUES Sr., Janaína da Costa Noronha, Marcos Penhacek, Rogério José Custódio, Fabrício Hiroiuki Oda, Milton Omar Cordova Neyra and Thadeu Sobral-Souza 52. Asia’s Ecological Tapestry: Navigating Conservation Challenges in the Era of Global Warming Kishwar Ali, Fozia Abasi and Iqra Ilyas 53. Atlantic Forests Daniel Meira Arruda Sr., Pedro Villa, Alice Rodrigues, Paulo Villanova and Carols Torres 54. Biodiversity, function and change of tropical rainforests of Borneo Marion Pfeifer, Laura Braunholtz, Rebekah Puttick and Natasha Lucy May Mannion 55. Caatinga Emanuelle Luiz da Silva Brito, Fernanodo César Vieira Zanella and Jakeline Bezerra Section XIII: Tundras 56. Asian Arctic tundra: Vast permafrost ecosystems under increasing pressure by climate change and industrial development Gabriela Schaepman-Strub, Ksenia Ermokhina, Ramona Heim and Vitalii Zemlianskii 57. Europe Gennadi G. Sushko and Natalia Zeliankevich 58. North American tundras: Imperiled landscapes at a continent’s latitudinal and altitudinal extremes Christian John Section XIV: Innovative Techniques in Conservation and Remote Sensing 59. Biome Functioning and Bioindicators Marina Frizzas, Pedro Henrique Brum Togni, Ludmilla Moura de Souza Aguiar, Cássia Beatriz Rodrigues Munhoz, Ricardo Bomfim Machado and Charles Martins de Oliveira 60. Integration of Ecological Informatics, Remote Sensing, and Machine Learning: A Systematic Literature Review Christian Dias Cabacinha, Fabrizzio Alphonsus Alves de Melo Nunes Soares and Emilia Nogueira 61. Research progress of eDNA technology in biodiversity monitoring Nengwen Xiao, Xiaoxuan Sun, Mei Shen and Ninging Guo 62. Importance Indice Germano Leão Demolin-Leite Sr. 63. Importance Indice-Production Unknown Germano Leão Demolin-Leite Sr. 64. Long-Term Biome Biomonitoring Ming Bai 65. Forestry Conservation through Machine Learning Innovations Fernando Coelho Eugenio, Sally Deborah Pereira da Silva, Roberta Aparecida Fantinel, Ivana Pires de Sousa-Baracho and Fabiano Ramos Costa 66. Remote Sensing Eric Bastos Gorgens and Maria Luiza Azevedo Section XV: Global Warming Perspectives for 50 Years 67. Insular Biomes Germano Leão Demolin-Leite Sr. 68. Glaciers Marcelo H S Ramada, Stephan Dohms and Ana Lourenço 69. Deserts Haroun Chenchouni and Souad Neffar 70. Mediterranean and Shrublands Filippo Bussotti and Martina Pollastrini 71. Steppes and Prairies Sara Gamboa Jurado-Centurión and Manuel Hernández Fernández 72. Effects of Climate Change on the distribution of dung beetle species in South American pasturelands Maria Eduarda Maldaner, Ricardo José Silva, Priscila Lemes de Azevedo Silva, Fernando Zagury Vaz de Mello and Gabriel de Mello 73. Potential changes in vegetation across Northern Eurasia in warmed climates predicted from CMIP5 climate models by the end of the century Nadja M. Tchebakova and Elena I. Parfenova 74. Temperate Forests Germano Leão Demolin-Leite Sr. 75. Tropical Forests Germano Leão Demolin-Leite Sr. 76. Moving forward: mitigating the effect of climate change in subterranean ecosystems Rodrigo Lopes Ferreira, Francis G. Howarth and Stefano Mammola 77. Agriculture and Agroecology Nuno Rodrigo Madeira, Carlos Eduardo Pacheco Lima and Mariane Carvalho Vidal 78. Changing landscape of Agriculture: Innovative Approaches for Food Security and Sustainability in Qatar Kishwar Ali and Rachid Benlamri 79. Traditional Peoples and Communities: The Coming Blessing Land Pedro Cardoso Aspahan, César Geraldo Guimarães and André Brasil 80. Zoonoses and Pandemic Potential Janice Reis Ciacci Zanella Conclusions and Remarks Germano Leão Demolin-Leite Sr.

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Dr. Germano Leão Demolin-Leite is a researcher for the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development, as well as a full professor in the Institute of Agricultural Sciences at Federal University of Minas Gerais (ICA/UMFG). He currently teaches courses on Animal Biology and Plant Production. Dr. Demolin-Leite’s recent research focuses on degraded area recuperation. He has been Coordinator of the Zoology & Entomology Laboratory. and Insectarium G.W.G. Morães (Trichogramma sp.). He has published over 230 scholarly journal articles and six books. Dr. Demolin-Leite also serves on the review board for numerous journals and periodicals, including Elsevier’s Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety.

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