Integrative Observations and Assessments (eBook)

 Preface.- Part 1 General introduction: perspectives for spatial variability within an ecosystem and interdependence between various ecosystems.- 1 Asian biodiversity network as the linkage with other major global bodies.- 2 Effects of ecosystem diversity on species richness and ecosystem functioning and services: a general conceptualization.- Part 2 Status quo of biodiversity monitoring.- 3 Monitoring breeding bird population in Taiwan.- 4 Current status of the national coral database in Japan: dataset development, applications and future directions.- 5 Development of a large-scale, long-term coral cover and disturbance database in the Philippines.- 6 Zooxanthellate scleractinian corals of Jeju Island, Republic of Korea.- 7 Landscape mosaicness in the ocean: its significance for biodiversity patterns in benthic organisms and fish.- Part 3 Historical changes in biodiversity and challenges for biodiversity conservation.- 8 Long-term and spatial variation in the diversity of littoral benthic macroinvertebrate fauna in Lake Biwa, Japan.- 9 Research on the biodiversity of the seas surrounding Malaysia.- Part 4 Advanced concept and methods of integrated biodiversity monitoring.- 10 Development of a national land-use/cover dataset to estimate biodiversity and ecosystem services.- 11 Land cover classification using multi-temporal satellite images in a subtropical region.- 12 Impervious surface area as an indicator for evaluating drainage basins.- 13 Biodiversity of Kargil Cold Desert in the Ladakh Himalaya.- 14 Water circulation in a fringing reef and implications for coral distribution and resilience.- 15 An integrated indicator of biodiversity in agricultural ponds: definition and validation.- 16 Ubiquitous genotyping for conservation of endangered plant species.- 17 Eco-evolutionary genomic observation for local and global environmental changes.- Part 5 Ecosystem service and socio-economic aspects with special reference to biodiversity.- 18 Monitoring changes in ecosystem services within a forest ecosystem.- 19 Evaluating relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functions in forests using forest inventory and allometry data.- 20 Regional comparison of the ecosystem services from seagrass beds in Asia.- 21 Environmental disclosure in Japanese wood-related companies for 2005 and 2010.- 22 Greening the cities with biodiversity indicators: experience and challenges from Japanese cities with CBI.- BM Index.