AQUATIC BIOMES

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.

Section I: Freshwater
Chapter 1: Impacts on fish and microbial communities occurring in the Amazon River Basin
Chapter 2: Danube River
Chapter 3: Linking Water Information Systems for the Preservation of Hydrological Resources in the Jamapa River Basin in Mexico
Chapter 4: Darling River
Chapter 5: Nile River
Chapter 6: Indus River and Its Ecological Resources
Chapter 7: Rangkul-Shorkul lake system (Eastern Pamir Mountains, Tajikistan)
Chapter 8: The uniqueness of the biome of lake Ledulu in the rote dead sea area Indonesia
Chapter 9: Lake Balaton
Chapter 10: Lake Chapala, Jalisco, Mexico
Chapter 11: Lake Titicaca
Chapter 12: Victoria Lake
Chapter 13: Macquarie Marshes: inland floodplain wetlands of Australia, with reference to microbial biodiversity
Chapter 14: Danube Delta Wetland
Chapter 15: The Grijalva- Usumacinta floodplain: historical ecology of a wetland under long[1]term human use and large climatic variability
Chapter 16: Pantanal Wetland Section II: Marine
Chapter 17: Mangrove estuaries in the tropical southwestern Atlantic
Chapter 18: Brazilian’s Coastal Ecosystems: Human Impacts and Sustainability
Chapter 19: Atlantic Ocean
Chapter 20: Strategies and Challenges for Conserving the Indian Ocean in a Warming World: Insights from Case studies
Chapter 21: The Southern Ocean pelagic ecosystems around the Antarctic Peninsula
Chapter 22: The Arctic Ocean