Biodiversity Hotspots

Current loss of biodiversity places a premium on the task of recognising and formulating proposals on potential areas for biological conservation based on scientific criteria; among these tasks, identification of hotspots has a relevant role on conservation of biodiversity. In this book, the authors discuss the application of different biogeographic methods to identify plant biodiversity hotspots. The areas recognised as such have a relevant role in plant biodiversity and are important in conservation due to their climatic conditions, the historical factors that have been involved in their evolution, and the restricted distribution of some plant taxa that inhabit them. Furthermore, the consequences of deforestation on biodiversity are substantial and widely recognised. This book predicts future land-use change, generates ecological niches of large mammals and assesses wildlife concentrations and their hotspots in different areas of the world. The evolution of the forest fragmentation in the Brazilian Atlantic forest, the present situation of its remnants, and the main strategies, conflicts and potentials for conservation are evaluated as well.

ISBN 1608764583   DEWEY edition DC22 ISBN13 9781608764587 (What's this?)   Pages 200 Publisher Nova Science Publishers Inc   Published in New York Imprint Nova Science Publishers Inc   Height (mm) 260 Format Hardback   Width (mm) 180 Publication date 20 Aug 2010   Academic level Tertiary education, Professional / Scholarly DEWEY 333.9516

		Preface
Chapter 1		Biodiversity Conservation and Management in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest: Every Fragment Must Be Considered by Philippe Grandcolas		1
Chapter 2		Biodiversity of Sourdough Lactic Acid Bacteria by Giancarlo Moschetti		37
Chapter 3		Identifying Priority Areas for Biodiversity Conservation in Northern Thailand: Land Use Change and Species Modeling Approaches by Somying Tanhikorn		81
Chapter 4		An Overview of the Biodiversity and Biogeography of Terrestrial Green Algae by Juan M. Lopez-Bautista		105
Chapter 5		China: A Hot Spot of Relict Plant Taxa by Ming-Xun Ren		123
Chapter 6		Conservation and Management of the Biodiversity in a Hotspot Characterized by Short Range Endemism and Rarity: The Challenge of New Caledonia by Philippe Grandcolas		139
Chapter 7		Macroinvertebrate Distribution on Erosional and Depositional Areas Including A Former Gravel-Pit.z. Biodiversity and Ecological Functioning by J. L Peiry		153
Chapter 8		An Assessment of Biodiversity Status in Semen Mountains National Park, Ethiopia by S. C. Rai		169
Chapter 9		Plant Biodiversity Hotspots and Biogeographic Methods by Raul Contreras-Medina		181
		Index		193

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