Marine, Freshwater, and Wetlands Biodiversity Conservation (eBook)

Introduction; D.L. Hawksworth. Extinction of fen and bog plants and their habitats in Croatia; J. Topic, Z. Stancic.- Floristic and ecological diversity of Ranunculus aquatic habitats in the sub-Atlantic range: implications for conservation; C. Mony et al.- Testing the higher-taxon approach: a case study of aquatic marcophytes in China’s northwest arid zone and its implications for conservation; Z. Li et al.- Aquatic plants diversity in arid zones of Northwest China: patterns, threats and conservation; Z. Li et al.- Red Data List of Charophytes in the Balkans; J. Blažencic et al.- Seasonal changes in bird species diversity at the interface between forest and reed-bed; M. Vâlcu.- Plant-water regime management in a wetland: consequences for a floating vegetation-nesting bird, whiskered tern Chlidonias hybridus; J.-M. Paillisson et al.- Population trends and calling phenology of anuran populations surveyed in Ontario estimated using acoustic surveys; S.R. de Solla et al.- Diversity of anurans across agricultural ponds in Argentina; P.M. Peltzer et al.- Species turnover: the case of stream amphibians of rainforests in the Western Ghats, southern India; K. Vasudevan et al.- Small-scale biogeographical patterns in some groundwater Crustacea, the syncarid, Parabathynellidae; A.I. Camacho et al.- Freshwater finfish biodiversity and conservation: an asian perspective; T.T.T. Nguyen, S.S. De Silva.- The upper reached ichthyofauna of the Tietê River, São Paulo, Brazil: aspects of their diversity and conservation; F. Soller Dias da Silva et al.- Captive breeding of endangered fish Chitala chitala (Hamilton-Buchanan) for species conservation and sustainable utilization; U. Kumar Sarkar et al.- Distinctive invertebrate assemblages in rockface seepages enhance lotic biodiversity in northern New Zealand;K.J. Collier, B.J. Smith.- Rare, threatened and alien species in the gastropod communities in the clay pit ponds in relation to the environmental factors (The Ciechanowska Upland, Central Poland); I. Lewin, A. Smolinski.- Littoral mollusc communities and water quality in southern Lake Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; E. Pip.- Coral diversity across a disturbance gradient in the Pulau Seribu reef complex off Jakarta, Indonesia; D.F.R. Cleary et al.- Biological characterisation of a subtidal tunnel in São Miguel island (Azores); J. Micael et al.- Faunal change and bathymetric diversity gradient in deep-sea prosobranchs from Northeastern Atlantic; C. Olabarria.- Distribution and abundance of marine turtles in the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam; M. Hamann et al.- Invertebrate infestation on eggs and hatchlings of the loggerhead turtle, Caretta caretta, in Dalaman, Turkey; Y. Katilmis et al.- Marine sponges of the Dampier Archipelago, Western Australia: patterns of species distributions, abundance and diversity; J. Fromont et al.- Effects of habitat alteration caused by petrochemical activities and oil spills on the habitat use and interspecific relationships among four species of Afrotropical freshwater turtles; L. Luiselli et al.-