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Terrestrial Biomes

Global Biome Conservation and Global Warming Impacts on Ecology and Biodiversity

  • 1st Edition - April 12, 2025
  • Latest edition
  • Editor: Germano Leão Demolin-Leite
  • Language: English

Terrestrial Biomes: Global Biome Conservation and Global Warming Impacts on Ecology and Biodiversity explores the effects of anthropogenic activities on Earth’s terrestrial… Read more

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Terrestrial Biomes: Global Biome Conservation and Global Warming Impacts on Ecology and Biodiversity explores the effects of anthropogenic activities on Earth’s terrestrial biomes, species, and climate. The book summarizes operational and potential monitoring tools to conserve or recover terrestrial biomes at a global scale. Written by international experts in ecology and biodiversity conservation, this book identifies the challenges and threats to terrestrial organisms and connects them to real cases of conservation.

This is an important resource for students, professors, researchers, and governmental and non-governmental organizations active in biodiversity conservation and climate change mitigation.

Key features

  • Discusses the decline and conservation of the world's major terrestrial biomes
  • Provides the use of ecological indicators to analyze the conditions of terrestrial biomes with a global perspective
  • Spans desert, Mediterranean, grassland, forest, subterranean, taiga, and tundra biomes
  • Highlights the work of researchers whose expertise includes insular biomes, prairies, shrublands, steppes, taiga, tundra, and global warming perspectives

Readership

Researchers and practitioners in conservationism, biodiversity, and ecology

Table of contents

Section I: Deserts

1. Antarctica Desert

2. Northern Great Rift Valley: deserts and otherbiomes

3. Ecosystem services in the Atacama region, Chile

4. Chihuahuan Desert

5. Simpson Desert

6. Indian Thar

7. Sahara and other African Deserts

Section II: Insular Biomes

8. Madagascar and Mauritius as Insular Biomes

Section III: Mediterranean

9. Mediterranean Basin

10. An Afromontane biome in South Africa:ecological quality of natural vs transformed habitats

Section IV: Prairies and Steppes

11. Prairies and Steppes: Cradles of GrasslandBiodiversity

12. European steppes and forest-steppes

13. American

Section V: Shrublands

14. Biodiversity and Ecological Dynamics of theFynbos Biome in South Africa

15. Mediterranean Shrublands

16. Xeric Shrublands

Section VI: Savannas

17. Land degradation and its associated eff ects ondung beetle species in African Savanna

18. Asia

19. Australian Savannas

20. American Savanna: A brief review

Section VII: Subterranean

21. Subterranean

Section VIII: Taiga

22. Asia

23. North Europe

Section IX: Temperate Forests

24. Temperate forest of Asia in the wake of climatechange

25. Temperate forests at Southern South America:Challenges for management and conservation to faceclimate change

26. Europe Temperate Forests

27. North America

Section X: Tropical Forests

28. Conservation status of dung beetles(Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) in African tropical forests

29. The use of phytotelmata by amphibians in theAmazon rainforest: A review and case study

30. Asia’s Ecological Tapestry: NavigatingConservation Challenges in the Era of Global Warming

31. Atlantic Forest

32. Biodiversity, function and change of tropicalrainforests of Borneo

33. Caatinga

Section XI: Tundras

34. Asian Arctic tundra: Vast permafrost ecosystemsunder increasing pressure by climate change and industrialdevelopment

35. The importance of Belarus tundra peat bogs forbiodiversity conservation in global warming condition

36. North American tundras: Imperiled landscapesat a continent’s latitudinal and altitudinal extremes

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: June 11, 2025
  • Language: English

About the editor

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Germano Leão Demolin-Leite

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.

Affiliations and expertise
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil

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