Plant Biodiversity: Monitoring, Assessment and Conservation

By: Nishanta Rajakaruna and Tarique Hassan Askary and Mohammad Mobin and Munir Ozturk and Sanjeev Kumar and Zahid Khorshid Abbas and Subrata Trivedi and Hasibur Rehman and Anand Mohan and Volkan Altay and Shabir Ahmad Mir and Mohammad Maqbool Mir and Shalini Saggu and Maria Amélia Martins-Loução and Gisela Gaio-Oliveira and Umar Iqbal and Shafat Ahmad Banday and Sheikh Mehraj and Munib Ur Rehman and Ghulam Hasan Rather and Sunit Mitra and Sobhan Kumar Mukherjee and Kathryn E Barry and Stefan A Schnitzer and Salih Gucel and Syed Baker and K S Kavitha and P. Azmath and D Rakshith and B P Harini and S Satish and Asma-Hammami Semmar and Nabil Semmar and Otília Correia and Lia Ascensão and Sulaiman Mohammad Al-Ghanim and Fahad Mohammed Alzeibar and Mudasir Irfan Dar and Mohd Irfan Naikoo and Fareed Ahmad Khan and Farha Rehman and Fouzia Nousheen and H C Rao and Martin T Dokulil and Gopal Shukla and Nazir A Pala and Saikat Gantait and Sumit Chakravarty and Jyoti K Sharma and Saiful Islam and S M Sundarapandian and K Subashree and Pundarikakshudu Tetali and Sujata Tetali and Sankar K Ghosh and Anjula Pandey and K Pradheep and K S Negi and José Antonio González and Ana Maria Carvalho and Francisco Amich and Uma Rani Sinniah and Narayan Chandra Sahu and Abir Sarraj and Meg Trau and Robin Owings and Petros Ganatsas and Disha Jaggi and Mayank Varun and Saurabh Pagare and Niraj Tripathi and Meenal Rathore and Raghwendra Singh and Bhumesh Kumar

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Synopsis: Results of regular monitoring of the species diversity and structure of plant communities is used by conservation biologists to help understand impacts of perturbations caused by humans and other environmental factors on ecosystems worldwide. Changes in plant communities can, for example, be a reflection of increased levels of pollution, a response to long-term climate change, or the result of shifts in land-use practices by the human population. This book presents a series of essays on the application of plant biodiversity monitoring and assessment to help prevent species extinction, ecosystem collapse, and solve problems in biodiversity conservation. It has been written by a large international team of researchers and uses case studies and examples from all over the world, and from a broad range of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. The book is aimed at any graduate students and researchers with a strong interest in plant biodiversity monitoring and assessment, plant community ecology, biodiversity conservation, and the environmental impacts of human activities on ecosystems.