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This book provides essential information on Mexico’s Holocene and Anthropocene climate and vegetation history. Considering the geography of Mexico – which is home to a variety of climatic and environmental conditions, from desert and tropical to high mountain climates – this book focuses on its postglacial paleoecology and paleoclimatology. Further, it analyses human intervention since the middle Holocene as a major agent of environmental change. Offering a valuable tool for understanding past climate change and its relationship with present climate change, the book is a must-read for botanists, ecologists, palaeontologists and graduate students in related fields.
This new four-volume set, Global Biodiversity, provides a wealth of insightful information on the biodiversity of selected nations around the world. The volumes provide informative summaries of the available data on both wild and cultivated plants, wild and domesticated animals, and microbes of the different nations selected.
This publication is one of a series of strategic impact assessments carried out as part of the Global International Waters Assessment Project (GIWA-UNEP/GEF) to evaluate the world's transboundary waters, in recognition of the links between freshwater and coastal marine environments and the effects of human activities. This report focuses on the Patagonian Shelf and associated river basins, particularly La Plata Basin, the second largest watershed in South America, and the South Atlantic Drainage System.
Amphibian Biology was inspired by Biology of the Reptilia, edited by Carl Gans, and is intended as a companion to that series.
Spanish edition ("Una Evaluación del Estado de Conservación de las Eco-regiones Terrestres de America Latina y el Caribe"). Published in association with the World Wildlife Fund. Describes a new strategy for conserving biodiversity in Latin America and the Caribbean and identifies ecoregions that deserve high-priority action. This handbook presents a framework for prioritizing conservation action in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), based on the biological distinctiveness and conservation status of natural communities. To ensure that all biologically meaningful communities are represented, the authors subdivide LAC into 5 major ecosystem types, 11 major habitat types, and 191 ecoregions. After explaining their methodology and presenting the results of their assessments, the authors rank the ecoregions to identify priorities for biodiversity conservation. Such rankings--together with economic, social, political, and institutional considerations--can guide the investment activities of the World Bank, national policymakers, donors, and nongovernmental organizations. The handbook includes a poster-sized color map as well as 11 full-page maps (9 in color). Also available in English: (ISBN 0-8213-3295-3) Stock No. 13295.
Approach; Major ecosystem types, major habitat types, and ecoregions of LAC; Conservation status of terretrial ecoregions of LAC; Biological distinctiveness of territorial ecoregions of LAC at different biogeographic scales results; Integrating biological distinctiveness and conservation status; Conservation assessment of mangrove ecosystems.
A book focused solely on Andean Cloud Forests (ACF) has never been published. ACF are high biodiversity ecosystems in the Neotropics with a large proportion of endemic species, and are important for the hydrology of entire regions. They provide water for large parts of the Amazon basin, for example. Here I take advantage of my many years working in ACF in Ecuador, to edit this book that contains the following sections: (1) ACF over space and time, (2) Hydrology, (3) Light and the Carbon cycle, (4) Soil, litter, fungi and nutrient cycling, (5) Plants, (6) Animals, and (7) Human impacts and management. Under this premise, international experts contributed chapters that consist of reviews of what is known about their topic, of what research they have done, and of what needs to be done in the future. This work is suitable for graduate students, professors, scientists, and researcher-oriented managers.