Innovative Conservation Techniques and Perspectives: Global Biome Conservation and Global Warming Impacts on Ecology and Biodiversity explores operational and potential monitoring tools to conserve and/or recover biomes at a global scale. Written by international experts in ecology and biodiversity conservation, this book identifies operational, emerging, and proposed methods for land monitoring and management across the world’s biomes. This important resource on biodiversity is an ideal resource for students, professors, researchers, and both governmental and non-governmental organizations active in biodiversity conservation.
Edited by:
Germano Leão Demolin-Leite PhD (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais Brazil)
Imprint: Academic Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 276mm,
Width: 216mm,
Weight: 450g
ISBN: 9780443404900
ISBN 10: 0443404909
Pages: 376
Publication Date: 16 June 2025
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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College/higher education
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Undergraduate
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Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Section I: Innovative Techniques in Conservation and Remote Sensing 1. Biome Functioning and Bioindicators 2. Integration of Ecological Informatics, Remote Sensing, and Machine Learning: A Systematic Literature Review 3. Research progress of eDNA technology in biodiversity monitoring 4. Importance Indice 5. Importance Indice-Production Unknown 6. Long-Term Biome Biomonitoring 7. Forestry Conservation through Machine Learning Innovations 8. Remote Sensing Section II: Global Warming Perspectives for 50 years 9. Insular Biomes 10. Glaciers 11. Deserts 12. Mediterranean and Shrublands 13. Steppes and Prairies 14. Effects of Climate Change on the distribution of dung beetle species in South American pasturelands 15. Potential changes in vegetation across Northern Eurasia in warmed climates predicted from CMIP5 climate models by the end of the century 16. Temperate Forests 17. Tropical Forests 18. Moving forward: mitigating the effect of climate change in subterranean ecosystems 19. Agriculture and Agroecology 20. Changing landscape of Agriculture: Innovative Approaches for Food Security and Sustainability in Qatar 21. Traditional Peoples and Communities: The Coming Blessing Land 22. Zoonoses and Pandemic Potential 23. Conclusions and Remarks
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.
