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    Keywords: Plant ecology. ; Environmental monitoring. ; Physical geography. ; Ecology . ; Plant Ecology. ; Environmental Monitoring. ; Physical Geography. ; Ecology.
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Physical, Geographical and Geological Description of the Retezat Mountains -- 2. History of Floristic and Vegetation Research -- 3. Areal-Geographical Characterization of the Retezat Flora and the Endangered Species -- 4. Mapping Rare, Endangered Angiosperm Species of Phytogeographical Interest from the Retezat National Park -- 5. Vegetation of the Retezat Mountains -- 6. Description of the Plant Associations Distinguished in the Retezat National Park -- 7. Considerations on the Flora, Vegetation and Conservation of the Plant Gene Pool in the Retezat National Park.
    Abstract: The floristic studies carried out during the 19th and 20th centuries in the Retezat Massif identified 1,152 plant species and 104 subspecies within the Cormobionta sub-regnum. Of these, about 12% are endemic Carpathian and Dacian-Balkan taxa that induce a regional specificity to the hosting communities. The phytocoenological research led to the description of 67 plant associations, grouped in 28 alliances, 19 orders and 13 vegetation classes. These classes are: Asplenietea trichomanis, Thlaspietea rotundifolii, Salicetea herbaceae, Montio-Cardaminetea, Scheuchzerio-Caricetea fuscae, Oxycocco-Sphagnetea, Molinio-Arrhenatheretea, Caricetea curvulae, Loisleurio-Vaccinietea, Elyno-Seslerietea, Mulgedio-Aconitetea, Carpino-Fagetea and Vaccinio-Piceetea. The following plant associations herein described are new syntaxa: Phyteumo confusi-Junicetum trifidi, Salici kitaibelianae-Dryadetum octopetalae and Aconito taurici-Rumicetum alpine. For the protection of some rare plant species and vulnerable plant associations, two natural reserves are proposed to be created within the “Limestone Retezat” area.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: XI, 259 p. 77 illus., 76 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    ISBN: 9783031056185
    Series Statement: Geobotany Studies, Basics, Methods and Case Studies,
    DDC: 581.7
    Language: English
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  • 2
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    Keywords: Plant ecology. ; Biodiversity. ; Anthropology. ; Plant Ecology. ; Biodiversity. ; Anthropology.
    Description / Table of Contents: Explorers and Botany -- Our expeditions through personal memories -- Flora -- Plant Communities -- Water and Aborigines -- Man and Vegetation { Conservation -- The Pignatti Rockholes -- Sketches.
    Abstract: The book contains detailed descriptions of the unique desert environment with particular emphasis on vegetation and survival strategies of plants. Nine expeditions through the Southwest of Western Australia over a period of 15 years triggered the interest of the authors to explore also some deserts in the region, which leads to three further excursions into the sandy dunes of the desert. Observations of plant life in the deserts focused not only on identifying plants, but also on gaining some understanding of the aboriginal desert people of centuries past, and their own survival strategies in such extreme conditions. Also part of the Canning Stock Route was followed and explored, but the most rewarding and interesting finds were done criss-crossing the desert away from highways, tracks, and paths. The most remote areas showed species richness and surviving strategies which by far exceeded expectations.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: XIII, 441 p. 385 illus., 97 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2021.
    ISBN: 9783030853297
    Series Statement: Geobotany Studies, Basics, Methods and Case Studies,
    DDC: 581.7
    Language: English
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  • 3
    Keywords: Ecology . ; Engineering. ; Bioethics. ; Conservation biology. ; Ecology. ; Technology and Engineering. ; Bioethics. ; Conservation Biology.
    Description / Table of Contents: Part I. General Concepts -- 1. From Parks for Landscapes: Reading of a Long Process -- 2. Landscape: Re-assessing the Conservation Paradigm -- 3. Biodiversity Conservation in Human-prone Landscapes: Social and Ethical Issues -- 4. Landscapes require new Legal Framework to Conserve Biodiversity -- Part II. Data to Support the Conservation Action -- 5. Qualitatively Describing Forests of the Landscape -- 6. Bonobos in the Lake Tumba: Describing the Landscape Species -- 7. Genetics of Bonobos in the Lake Tumba Landscape -- 8. Forest Refugia Theory, Density-Dependence and Stress Syndrome and the Proto-pan -- 9. Wild Bonobos and Wild Chimpanzees and Human Diseases -- 10. Alternative Cheaper Methods to Estimate Bonobos -- 11. Chimpanzees of the Ngiri Triangle -- 12. Lions of Malebo: Population and Conflicts with Humans -- 13. Diurnal Primates: Estimates and Conservation Issues -- 14. Elephants in Lake Tumba Landscape: Malebo, Ngiri and Bolombo-Losombo -- 15. Developing a Threat Index for Documented Large Mammal Species -- 16. Synopsis of Freshwaters, Species Diversity and Conservation Issues -- 17. An Abridgement of the Birds Throughout the Diversity of Habitats -- Part III. Not Only Biodiversity but also Human Communities -- 18. The Political Economy of Landscape -- 19. Assessing the Needs in Lands in the Lake Tumba Landscape -- Part IV. Using the Data to Strategize and Manage the Landscape -- 20. Planning for the Management of the Landscape -- 21. Setting Habitats Aside for Biodiversity Conservation -- 22. Protected Areas: Defining the Optimum Law Enforcement Resources -- 23. Planning to Mobilization of Resources via Sustainable Tourism -- 24. Decent Knowledge for Future Directions in the Landscape Management -- 25. Are there Good Ethical Reasons to Preserve Biodiversity at the Expense of the Needs of Local Communities Who Could Benefit from Exploiting those Natural Resources?
    Abstract: Protected areas have often been defined as the backbones of biodiversity conservation. However, legitimate demands formulated by countries for their economic development, growing human populations, forest fragmentations, and needs of local communities for sustainable livelihoods are also pressing demands on protected areas, stringently pressuring conservation community to identify means to reconcile long term biodiversity conservation and communities’ livelihoods. Hence, integrating conservation activities within the global framework of economic development of countries with high biodiversity had become part of conservation paradigms. Integrated development as a route to conservation, strict protected areas, community managed areas, etc. have been tried but resulted in debatable outcomes in many ways. The lukewarm nature of these results brought ‘landscape approach’ at the front of biodiversity conservation in Central Africa. Since the late 1990s the landscape approach uses large areas with different functional attributes and shifts foundational biodiversity conservation paradigms. Changes are brought to the role traditionally attributed to local communities, aligning sustainable development with conservation and stretching conservation beyond the confines of traditional protected areas. These three shifts need a holistic approach to respond to different conservation questions. There are only a few instances where the landscape experience has been scientifically documented and lessons learnt drawn into a corpus of knowledge to guide future conservation initiatives across Central Africa. To subjugate one biodiversity conservation landscape as one case study emerged as a matter of urgency to present the potential knowledge acquired throughout the landscape experiment, including leadership and management, processes tried, results (at least partially) achieved, and why such and such other process or management arrangement were been chosen among many other alternatives, etc. The challenges of the implementation of the conservation landscape approach needed also to be documented. This book responds to the majority of these questions; drawing its content from the firsthand field knowledge, it discusses these shifts and documents what has been tried, how successful (unsuccessful) it was, and what lessons learnt from these trials. Theoretical questions such as threat index, and ecological services, etc. are also discussed and gaps in knowledge are identified.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: XV, 382 p. 12 illus., 5 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2020.
    ISBN: 9783030387280
    Series Statement: Environmental History, 12
    DDC: 577
    Language: English
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  • 4
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    Keywords: Ecology . ; Ecology.
    Description / Table of Contents: Basic semiologic principles to define coherent color palettes for vegetation mapping -- Plant species distributions and ecological complexity: mapping sampling-effort bias explicitly -- Mapping of biogeographical territories: flora, vegetation and landscape criteria -- Dynamic-catenal vegetation mapping as a tool for ecologic restoration, conservation and policy -- Climate Change, Wetland Management and Alpaca Pastoralism in the Bolivian High Andes Mountains -- Essays on geobotanic mapping in the Andes of Bolivia, with particular reference to the conservation status of vegetation -- Using geobotanical tools to map and assess ecosystem services (MAES) in southern Portugal -- Spatial representation of plant diversity at geographical scale: the Italian experience -- Cognitive mapping of forest fragments -- California ultramafic vegetation: a phytosociological update -- Plant associations of the Petasition officinalis alliance in the east Carpathians (Călimani and Gurghiu Mountains) -- Arthrocaulon (Arthrocnemum) macrostachyum plant communites in the Iberian Peninsula, Balaeric and Canary Islands (Spain and Portugal) -- Geosynphytosociological typology of the French atlantic coastal rocky cliffs vegetations -- Symphytosociology: a tool for landscape monitoring: case study from the Swiss Alps -- Why does Mediterranean vegetation seem so diverse? -- Coastal dune vegetation zonation in Italy: squeezed between environmental drivers and threats -- Topographic and other constraints on evergreen broad-leaved forests in the southeastern USA -- Role of riparian zones in reducing pollution of surface and ground water, and increasing agricultural production nutrient acquisition and storage in river catchments -- Vegetation and flora of sacred natural sites in northwestern Morocco – landscape context and conservation value -- The Kaga Coast in Japan: Natural ecosystem and cultural landscape insuring biodiversity -- Species and habitat biodiversity measurement and conservation at different fine scales.
    Abstract: This book contains the papers presented at the conferences of the International Association Vegetation Science of Pirenopolis (2016) on Applied Mapping for Conservation and Management: from Plant and of Palermo (2017) on Vegetation Patterns in relation to multi-scale levels of ecological complexity: from associations to geoseries. The reports refer to general themes (semiological bases of mapping, dynamic-catenal mapping, nature conservation, plant biodiversity, biogeography, and geosynphytosociology) and their application to vegetation in different parts of the world (Andes of Bolivia, California, Kaga Coast in Japan, Southeastern USA, Morocco, Europe: Carpathians mountains, Swiss Alps, Sicily, Southern Portugal, Spain, and French Atlantic coastal). One of the benefits of the book is that it offers the possibility of comparing the different methodologies used in very different types of vegetation in the world (Boreal, Mediterranean, Tropical, Neotropical, etc.). The book is intended for researchers, Ph.D. students, and university professors.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: XI, 451 p. 227 illus., 141 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2021.
    ISBN: 9783030749507
    Series Statement: Geobotany Studies, Basics, Methods and Case Studies,
    DDC: 577
    Language: English
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  • 5
    Keywords: Plant ecology. ; Physical geography. ; Applied ecology. ; Plant Ecology. ; Physical Geography. ; Applied Ecology.
    Abstract: The second-longest European river after the Volga, the Danube is one of the world’s most important rivers in terms of its geographical and historical significance. In recent history, it has served as a major international waterway and numerous cities, including four capitals, have been founded on its banks. The 2826km-long Danube has a watershed measuring 801,093 km2 that is now shared between 19 countries, from its source in the Black Forest to the Black Sea, into which it pumps an average of 827 km3 of water a year. This book describes and explains key landscape values interactions (geographical, cultural and natural heritage). It also identifies the threats and various types of human impact affecting this system in all the countries of the Danube River Basin, based on the investigations and perspectives of a team of experienced naturalists, and in the context of the early 21st century, in which the human-nature relationship is still far from balanced. These studies demonstrate how biodiversity, conservation and ecological studies can help us successfully promote mutual cooperation and combine our efforts to address problems as a responsible continent.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: VI, 437 p. 121 illus., 107 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2020.
    ISBN: 9783030372422
    Series Statement: Geobotany Studies, Basics, Methods and Case Studies,
    DDC: 581.7
    Language: English
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  • 6
    Keywords: Ecology . ; Freshwater ecology. ; Marine ecology. ; Pollution. ; Biotic communities. ; Population biology. ; Ecology. ; Freshwater and Marine Ecology. ; Pollution. ; Community and Population Ecology. ; Ecosystems.
    Abstract: The book provides for the first time an overview of the latest scientific studies conducted on micro and nano plastic pollution in the Mediterranean Sea both from the biological and environmental point of view as well as from the chemical point of view in order to have a more real idea of the current situation.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: XII, 109 p. 1 illus. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    ISBN: 9783031304811
    Series Statement: SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science,
    DDC: 577
    Language: English
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