Biodiversity Conservation: Aspects and Prospects

ISBN-13: 9783659695841 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 244 str.

Veersamy Aravindhan;Rajendran Arumugam

Opis

The prime aim of this book is to transmit recent scientific data on biodiversity conservation and sustainable utilization. This edited book incorporate varied aspects of biodiversity such as aquatic flora, grasses, bryophytes, seaweeds, spruce, rare, endemic and threatened taxa (RET), impact of exotic taxa on native species, distributional novelties, medicinal plants, afforestation and reforestation, impact of climate change, termite mounds and ethnobotany. This book comprises 22 chapters provided by renewed scientists, which embodies the wealth of knowledge on diversified aspects of biodiversity. The chapters are critically reviewed by experts in the field to increase the quality. The present collectanea would be markedly useful for the plant taxonomists, botanists, foresters, ecologists, environmentalists, ethnobotanists, academicians, researchers, conservationists, etc. Since this is an edited book, the views and opinions expressed by the authors, who belong to different organizations are entirely their own and neither Bharathiar University nor the editors takes any responsibility for the same.

O autorze

Dr. Rajendran Arumugam is a Professor in Department of Botany, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore. His areas of specialization include Plant systematics, Ecology and Ethnobotany. He has worked as Scientist in NBRI, Ministry of Science and Technology, Govt. of India. He has more than 230 research publications and 7 books in his credit.