Environmental Science/Climate Change & Mitigation

Biodiversity of Freshwater Ecosystems
Threats, Protection, and Management

Editors: Suhaib A. Bandh, PhD
Basharat Mushtaq, PhD
Mohammad Farooq Mir, PhD
Shahid A. Wani

Biodiversity of Freshwater Ecosystems

Published. Available now.
Pub Date: December 2022
Hardback Price: see ordering info
Hard ISBN: 9781774910023
E-Book ISBN: 9781003277125
Pages: 352pp w/index
Binding Type: Hardback / ebook
Notes: 17 color and 18 b/w illustrations

This new volume examines the ecological importance, threats, protection, and management of the biodiversity of freshwater ecosystems, such as lakes, ponds, rivers, streams, reservoirs, pools, and wetlands. As populations have been increasing exponentially, humans are using freshwater ecosystems severely, resulting in habitat destruction and breakdown. Environmental contamination, climate change, the introduction of harmful and invasive organisms, unplanned dredging and de-weeding processes, disposal of sewer systems in freshwater bodies, and badly planned water diversions are the leading causes of habitat loss in freshwaters. These impacts have led to significant decreases in the numbers and productivity of many freshwater species and decreased biodiversity in freshwater.

This book presents a selection of primary research and review papers on several freshwater aquatic biodiversity studies, which involve evaluating plants, macroinvertebrates, macrophytes, benthic zones, and fish diversity in freshwater ecosystems. It provides an abundance of new information on freshwater biodiversity distribution, status, and patterns.

Key features:

  • Discusses the importance, threats, and management of biodiversity of freshwater ecosystems

  • Provides detailed coverage of modern and updated techniques used in the evaluation and conservation of freshwater biodiversity

  • Looks at the impact of pesticides pollution on freshwater environs on aquatic and terrestrial life

  • Reviews how global climate change affects freshwater biodiversity


Biodiversity of Freshwater Ecosystems: Threats, Protection, and Management promotes the enhancement and strengthening of freshwater protection and its unique biodiversity for scientists, policymakers, scholars, researchers, NGOs, and the public, providing necessary background knowledge and practical tools to help manage aquatic ecosystems and their biodiversity in a holistic manner.

CONTENTS:

Preface

1. Freshwater Biodiversity: Importance, Threats, and Management
Gyanendra Kumar and Uzma Afaq

2. Freshwater Biodiversity: Advances and Challenges
Sumaya Hassan, Mahroofa Jan, and Asmat Ara

3. Diversity and Management of Freshwater Macrophytes in Kashmir Himalayas
Nafeesa Farooq Khan and Zafar A Reshi

4. Genus Schizothorax in the Northwestern Himalayas
Uzma Naseer, Ibraq Khurshid, and Musheerul Hassan

5. Influence of Catchment on Freshwater Biodiversity
Lone Rafiya Majeed, Sumaira Rashid, Heena Nisar Pahlavi, and Bisma Nisar

6. Pesticides Pollution in Freshwater Environs: Impacts on Aquatic and Terrestrial Life
Zia Ur Rahman Farooqi, Muhammad Saad Bin Zafar, Moaz Khursheed, Muhammad Usama Raheem, Nouman Gulzar, and Predrag Ilic

7. Developmental Activities and Freshwater Biodiversity
Ruquia Gulzar, Tabasum Hassan, and Aadil Gulzar

8. Global Climate Change and Freshwater Biodiversity
Sami Ullah Qadir, Vaseem Raja, Naseer Ahmad Dar, and Sayar Yaseen Wani

9. Phytoremediation Potential of Spirodela polyrhiza for Cd and Cr under Hydroponic Culture
Rifat Ara Wani, Bashir Ahmad Ganaie, and Manzoor Ahmad Shah

10. Factors Affecting Habitat Selection of Freshwater Fishes of Sri Lanka: A Review
Sudesh Batuwita, Sampath Udugampala, and Udeni Edirisinghe

11. Freshwater Biodiversity: Indicators of Eutrophication and Pollution
Mahroofa Jan, Sumaya Hassan, and Asmat Ara

12. Conservation of Biodiversity and Freshwater Ecosystems
Gresh Chander, Sonali Verma, Ruchi Shah, and Rakesh Kumar

Index


About the Authors / Editors:
Editors: Suhaib A. Bandh, PhD
Assistant Professor, Higher Education Department of Jammu and Kashmir Government, India

Suhaib A. Bandh, PhD, is working as an Assistant Professor in the Higher Education Department of Jammu and Kashmir Government, India. He teaches courses on environmental science and disaster management at the graduate level. He is President of the Academy of EcoScience in addition to being a life member of the Academy of Plant Sciences India and National Environmental Science Academy. He is a recipient of many awards and has participated in a number of national and international conferences organized by different reputed scientific bodies in India and abroad. He has a number of scientific publications to his credit, published in some highly reputed and impacted journals, which attests to his scientific insight, fine experimental skills, and outstanding writing skills. Dr. Bandh has recently edited and authored a number of books, including Freshwater Microbiology: Perspectives of Bacterial Dynamics in Lake Ecosystem, Environmental Management and Perspectives of Environmental Science with leading publishing houses like Elsevier, Springer Nature, and Callisto Reference.

Basharat Mushtaq, PhD
Chief Chemist, 4 MLD Sewage Treatment Plant Mehandi Kadal Ananatnag, Jammu and Kashmir, India

Basharat Mushtaq, PhD, is working as Chief Chemist at the 4 MLD Sewage Treatment Plant Mehandi Kadal Ananatnag, Jammu and Kashmir, under the Bionics Consortium Pvt Ltd. Bionics Advanced Filtration System, New Delhi, India. He earned his doctorate in Environmental Science (Aquatic Ecology) on the topic “Variations in macrozoobenthos communities in various basins of Dal lake Srinagar, Kashmir.” He has a strong interest in aquatic ecology and studied the water and sediment chemistry and different aspects of macrozoobenthic communities. His overarching goal is to provide a general and predictive understanding of aquatic ecology and to promote the application of basic ecological science to water quality and conservation. A central focus of his research has been lake ecosystems and how human influences affect water quality and biological integrity. In addition, he has worked as Associate Functional Area Expert in an environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)

Mohammad Farooq Mir, PhD
Principal, Higher Education Department, Government of Jammu and Kashmir, India

Mohammad Farooq Mir, PhD, is working as a Principal in the Higher Education Department, Govt. of Jammu and Kashmir, India. Prof. Mir has also worked as Coordinator of the Hydrobiology Research Laboratory located at Sri Pratap College Campus of Cluster University Srinagar, India. He earned his doctorate in Zoology on “Macrozoobenthos fauna in different freshwater ecosystems of Kashmir.” He has completed a number of major and minor research projects sponsored by different funding agencies of India. Presently, his focus of study is coldwater fisheries and the trophic status of freshwater bodies of Kashmir. He has a strong interest in aquatic ecology and, as such, has guided many research students in this field. Prof. Mir has worked in different capacities in the Jammu and Kashmir Higher Education Department since its inception. He has published a number of research articles in reputed refereed international and national journals.

Shahid A. Wani
Head, P.G. Department of Environmental Science, S. P. College Campus, Cluster University Srinagar, India

Shahid A. Wani is Head of the P.G. Department of Environmental Science, S. P. College Campus, Cluster University Srinagar, India. He has cleared the National Eligibility Test (NET) in Environmental Science conducted by the University Grants Commission, New Delhi. He is pursuing his PhD at Lovely Professional University, Chandigarh Punjab, in the area of aquatic ecology. He has a strong interest in aquatic ecology and, as such, has guided a number of postgraduate students in the same area. Mr. Wani has also worked as in-charge controller of examination at the Cluster University Srinagar in addition to working in different capacities in the Jammu and Kashmir Higher Education Department. He has published many research articles in international and national journals.




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