About this Item
Contents: Foreword. Preface. 1. Biodiversity: Leisure, Cultural and Aesthetic Values/Anand Kar* and Lata Sunhre. 2. Taxonomic Review on the Potter Wasp Genus Pseumenes Giordani Soika (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae) from India/P. Girish Kumar and P.M. Sureshan. 3. Studies on Water Quality Status and Plankton Diversity of Krishnagiri/Reservoir, Tamilnadu, Indi R. Ramanibai*, K. Vikram and M. Gomathi Jeyam. 4. Exploring the Soil Microbial Diversity and Ecosystem Functions with/Respect to Climate Change Kanchan Vishwakarma1, Shivesh Sharma1*, Neha Upadhyay1, Nitin Kumar1, Ashish Tiwari1, Vivek Kumar. 5. Understanding Cyanobacterial Diversity in Relation to Different Ecological Niches/N.K. Singh1, D.B. Patel1, B.G. Morad1 and D.W. Dhar2*. 6. Biodiversity and Characteristics of Endolithic Cyanobacteria from the Antarctic/Meenakshi Bhattacharjee. 7. Algal Biotechnology: Potential Source for the Future Energy Demand/Ravindra Singh1 and Sadhana Chaurasia. 8. Approaches in Studying the Diversity of Arbuscular/Mycorrhizal Fungi. Harbans Kaur Kehri*1 and Ovaid Akhtar.9. Diversity and Function of Am Fungi in Heavy Metal Contaminated Soils/Harbans Kaur Kehri*, Ifra Zoomi and Pragya Srivastava. 10. Global Biodiversity Assessment: Current Status and Threats/Rinku, A. Sharma, S.K. Patel and G.S. Singh. 11. Biodiversity Assessment at Larsemann Hills, East Antarctica/Pawan Kumar Bharti. 12. Measuring and Monitoring Biodiversity/Anjana Pant. 13. Threats to Biodivesrity/Disha Jaggi and Bhumesh Kumar. 14. Concept of Endangered Species/Surendra Singh, Ankita Kachhwaha and Sameer Choudhary. 15. Impact of Environmental Changes on Biodiversity/Shikha Jaggi and Abhay Singh Yadav. 16. Possible Threat of Radiations of Cell Phones and their Towers on Existing Biodiversity/Dev Narayan Gautam, S.Marmat, Taj N. Qureshi and H. S. Rathore. 17. Conservation and Management of Biological Diversity: Global Challenges and Opportunities/Anil Sharma, Rinku, S. K. Patel and G. S. Singh. 18. The Legal Foundations of Biodiversity Conservation/Ankita Yadav1 and Abhay Singh Yadav. 19. Biological Diversity Conservation and its Legal Paradigm/Himangini Singh. 20. Traditional Knowledge among Indian Tribes and Conservation of Phytodiversity through Faith, Taboos and Sacred Groves/Ashok K. Jain. 21. Conservation of Species under International Environmental Law/Jagdish Khobragade, P.P. Singh and Vikash Agrawal. 22. Biodiversity Conservation and International Conventions/Nair Bindu Vijay. 23. Legal Implications of Biodiversity: Associated Policies, Laws, IPR and Patent/Manali Datta and S.L. Kothari. 24. Biodiversity Utilization and Human Well-Beings: Current State and Trends/S. K. Patel, Rinku, A. Sharma and G. S. Singh. 25. Biodiversity Business: New Facet of Revenue Generation/Manali datta and S. L. Kothari. Biodiversity includes different animals, plants, micro-organisms and their genes, water ecosystems, terrestrial and marine ecosystems. Conservation of this biological diversity which includes the variety of the whole species present on earth is important for our future, for human food to feed people on Earth. Biodiversity: Monitoring, Management & Utilization has been designed primarily for students studying biodiversity on a range of courses in botany, zoology, biotechnology, microbiology, environment and ecology. It is beneficial for teachers, as well as generalists and amateurs interested in exploring the fundamentals, uses, threats and conservation of biodiversity. It is also essential reading for anyone requiring an overview of the vast literature on this topic. This volume contains several contributions that illustrate the state of the art of the academic research in the field of biological interactions in its widest sense. The purpose is to increase understanding, awareness and appreciation of the diverse values of biodiversity, necessary to create the willingness to undertake the behavioural changes required to conserve and sustainably use biodiversity. The bo.
Seller Inventory # 125281
Contact seller
Report this item
