Author: Dimos KhynriamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Loaches
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Taxonomic Study on Nemacheiline Loaches of North East India
Author: Dimos KhynriamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Loaches
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Biodiversity of Fishes in Arunachal Himalaya
Author: Achom Darshan SinghPublisher: Academic Press
ISBN: 0128158379
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Biodiversity of Fishes in Arunachal Himalaya: Systematics, Classification, and Taxonomic Identification provides a detailed piscatorial resource of the fish species living in the rich mountain waterbodies of the eastern Himalayan region. It presents the latest classifications and updated taxa of fish dwelling in high-altitude cold waters, mid-altitude cold and warm waters, and warm waters in the low altitude foothill regions of the Arunachal Himalaya. The book includes the scientific and vernacular names of more than 200 fish species, as well as coloration, distributional and conservational status. It addresses increasing threats to the endemic fishes of this region, including habitat shrinkage, habitat destruction, and more. This book will be a valuable resource for biodiversity and conservation researchers, especially those specializing in ichthyo-faunal diversity. Fishery researchers and students will also find the information presented on taxonomic and classification very useful to their initiatives. - Documents the taxonomy of 218 freshwater fish species from the headwaters of the Brahmaputra basin - Includes quality photographs of each species, either in the wild or as fresh specimens, for easy visual identification - Provides species registration numbers and key distinguishing features for fast field and research references
Indochinese Nemacheilines
Author: Maurice KottelatPublisher:
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Category : Fishes
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The Status and Distribution of Freshwater Biodiversity in the Eastern Himalaya
Author: David James AllenPublisher: IUCN
ISBN: 2831713242
Category : Freshwater biodiversity
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Extremophile Fishes
Author: Rüdiger RieschPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319133624
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
This book summarizes the key adaptations enabling extremophile fishes to survive under harsh environmental conditions. It reviews the most recent research on acidic, Antarctic, cave, desert, hypersaline, hypoxic, temporary, and fast-flowing habitats, as well as naturally and anthropogenically toxic waters, while pointing out generalities that are evident across different study systems. Knowledge of the different adaptations that allow fish to cope with stressful environmental conditions furthers our understanding of basic physiological, ecological, and evolutionary principles. In several cases, evidence is provided for how the adaptation to extreme environments promotes the emergence of new species. Furthermore, a link is made to conservation biology, and how human activities have exacerbated existing extreme environments and created new ones. The book concludes with a discussion of major open questions in our understanding of the ecology and evolution of life in extreme environments.
Freshwater Biodiversity in Asia
Author: Maurice KottelatPublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 9780821338087
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
World Bank Discussion Paper No. 337. Draws on household survey data from 87 rural villages in Bangladesh to examine the contribution that government family planning programs, as well as other health care interventions, have made toward the recent reduction in fertility by increasing contraceptive use and reducing infant mortality. The paper suggests that the programs have been effective and finds that targeted credit program placement, such as the Grameen Bank and the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC), contributed to the effort as well.
Freshwater Biodiversity
Author: Brian GroombridgePublisher:
ISBN: 9781899628124
Category : Biodiversity
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Presents "Freshwater Biodiversity: A Preliminary Global Assessment," number eight of the World Conservation Monitoring Centre (WCMC) Biodiversity Series. Features information on the biodiversity of inland waters, prepared for the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) by the WCMC in Cambridge.
World Atlas of Biodiversity
Author: Brian GroombridgePublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520236684
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Global biological diversity, ecosystem diversity.
Freshwater Biodiversity
Author: David DudgeonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108882625
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 517
Book Description
Growing human populations and higher demands for water impose increasing impacts and stresses upon freshwater biodiversity. Their combined effects have made these animals more endangered than their terrestrial and marine counterparts. Overuse and contamination of water, overexploitation and overfishing, introduction of alien species, and alteration of natural flow regimes have led to a 'great thinning' and declines in abundance of freshwater animals, a 'great shrinking' in body size with reductions in large species, and a 'great mixing' whereby the spread of introduced species has tended to homogenize previously dissimilar communities in different parts of the world. Climate change and warming temperatures will alter global water availability, and exacerbate the other threat factors. What conservation action is needed to halt or reverse these trends, and preserve freshwater biodiversity in a rapidly changing world? This book offers the tools and approaches that can be deployed to help conserve freshwater biodiversity.
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