Environmental Science/Climate Change & Mitigation

Global Biodiversity, Volume 4
Selected Countries in the Americas and Australia

Editor: T. Pullaiah, PhD

Global Biodiversity, Volume 4

Published. Available now.
Pub Date: December 2018
Hardback Price: See Ordering info
Hard ISBN: 9781771887502
Paperback Price: see ordering info
Paperback ISBN: 978-1-77463-133-1
E-Book ISBN: 9780429433634
Pages: 590pp w/index
Binding Type: hardback / paperback / ebook
Notes: 60 color and 1 b/w illustrations

Now Available in Paperback


This fourth volume in the new multi-volume set Global Biodiversity is a rich resource on the biodiversity of a selection of countries in the Americas and in Australia. Chapters explore both wild and cultivated plants, wild and domesticated animals, and the variety of microbes of the countries of Bolivia, Brazil, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, Honduras, Mexico, Paraguay, Venezuela, Canada, the United States, and Australia.

The different chapters explore the geographical status, ecosystem diversity, species diversity, genetic diversity, and conservation efforts in each selected country. They focus on genetic diversity of crop plants/cultivated plants and domesticated animals and their wild relatives and also discuss the endangered and protected plants and animals of the respective counties.

Other volumes in this series include coverage of selected countries in Asia, Europe, and Africa. The volumes provide an informative compilation on the variety and variability of life in the regions discussed and will help to fill the gap in knowledge while also encouraging the conservation of biodiversity and sustainable utilization.

The volumes will be valuable references for professors, biology teachers, researchers, scientists, students of biology, foresters, agricultural scientists, wild life managers, as well as botanical gardens, zoos, and aquariums.

Key features:
  • Provides an overview of biodiversity in many countries of the Americas and Australia
  • Explores the specific biodiversity information
  • Features over 50 photos
  • Reviews the threats to biodiversity in each region covered
See Volume 1 here: Selected Countries in Asia

See Volume 2 here: Selected Countries in Europe

See Volume 3 here: Selected Countries in Africa

See information on the complete set here: Global Biodiversity, 4-volume set

CONTENTS:
Preface

1. Biodiversity in Bolivia
Mónica Moraes R. and Jaime Sarmiento

2. Biodiversity of Brazil
Adriana Luiza Ribeiro De Oliveira, Eliel De Jesus Amaral, and Daniel Silva Santiago

3. Biodiversity of Canada: An Overview
David A. Galbraith

4. Still Searching the Rich Coast: Biodiversity of Costa Rica, Numbers, Processes, Patterns, and Challenges
Gerardo Avalos

5. Biodiversity in Cuba
Dennis Denis, Daryl D. Cruz-Flores, and Ernesto Testé

6. Plant Biodiversity of Ecuador: A Neotropical Megadiverse Country
P. E. Lozano Carpio

7. Biodiversity in Honduras: The Environment, Flora, Bats, Medium- and Large-Sized Mammals, Birds, Freshwater Fishes, and the Amphibians and Reptiles
James R. McCranie, Et al.

8. Biodiversity of Mexico: State of Knowledge and Conservation
Patricia Koleff, Tania Urquiza-Haas, Sylvia P. Ruiz-González, and José Sarukhán

9. Biodiversity in Paraguay
Pamela Marchi, Frederick Bauer, Pier Cacciali, Alberto Yanosky, Marcelo Dujak, Christian Dujak, Michelle Campi, Sigrid Drechsel, and Bernardo Cañiza

10. Biodiversity in North America (North of Mexico)
Kanchi N. Gandhi

11. Biodiversity in Venezuela
José Ramón Grande Allende

12. Biodiversity of Australia: An Overview
C. R. Dickman

Index


About the Authors / Editors:
Editor: T. Pullaiah, PhD
Former Professor, Department of Botany, Sri Krishnadevaraya University, Andhra Pradesh, India

T. Pullaiah, PhD, is a former Professor at the Department of Botany at Sri Krishnadevaraya University in Andhra Pradesh, India, where he has taught for more than 35 years. He has held several positions at the university, including Dean, Faculty of Biosciences, Head of the Department of Botany, Head of the Department of Biotechnology, and Member Academic Senate. He was President of the Indian Botanical Society (2014), President of the Indian Association for Angiosperm Taxonomy (2013), and Fellow of the Andhra Pradesh Akademi of Sciences. He was awarded the Panchanan Maheswari Gold Medal, the Dr. G. Panigrahi Memorial Lecture Award of the Indian Botanical Society, the Prof. Y. D. Tyagi Gold Medal of the Indian Association for Angiosperm Taxonomy, and a Best Teacher Award from Government of Andhra Pradesh. Under his guidance 53 students obtained their doctoral degrees. He has authored 45 books, edited 15 books, and published over 300 research papers, including reviews and book chapters. His books include Flora of Eastern Ghats (4 volumes), Flora of Andhra Pradesh (5 volumes), Flora of Telangana (3 volumes), Encyclopedia of World Medicinal Plants (5 volumes), and Encyclopedia of Herbal Antioxidants (3 volumes). He was also a member of Species Survival Commission of International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Professor Pullaiah received his PhD from Andhra University, India, attended Moscow State University, Russia, and worked as postdoctoral Fellow during 1976-78.




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