Biodiversity, Conservation and Sustainability in Asia: Volume 2: Prospects and Challenges in South and Middle Asia

ISBN-13: 9783030739423 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 1096 str.

Münir Öztürk; Shujaul Mulk Khan; Volkan Altay

Spis treści

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Mohammad Ebrahim Banihabib

University of Tehran, Iran

Remote Sensing Procedure for the Assessment of the Impact of Watershed Management and Urbanization on Land and Vegetable Cover  (Case Study; Iran)

2

Mohammad Askari

Ardabil - Iran

Vegetation of Eastern Iran with a Focus on Rangelands

3

Manijeh Maghsudi, Bahram Zehzad, Mehdi Mojtahedi

Iran

Ethnical and Economic Important Plants of the Nubo-Sindian Region of Iran with Special Reference to Minab District (Hormozgan Province)

4

A. Iqbal

Pakistan

Quantitative ethnobotanical studies of Jaban Wartair Hills District Malakand, KPK, Pakistan

5

Mushtaq Ahmad

Pakistan

Economically Important Aquatic Plants of Pakistan

6

Abdul Waheed

Pakistan

Vegetation, ecosystem services and their integration in decision making process

7

Iram Noreen, Saifullah, Zeeshan Ahmad, Shujaul Mulk Khan

Pakistan

Phytogeographic studies of a polluted ecosystem, the Nashpa Oil and Gas Plant in the region of District Karak, Pakistan

8

Yaseen Khan, Anwar Hussain, Shujaul Mulk Khan*, Farzana, Mohammad Sohail

Pakistan

Effect of Hexavalent Chromium on Growth and Physiology of a Wild Fern Pteris vittata

9

Farman Ullah, Shujaul Mulk Khan, Kishwar Ali, Mohammad Nisar

Pakistan

Ethnobotanical and ecological studies of Myrtus communis var. italica and var. baetica L. in Bajaur Agency (FATA), Pakistan

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Syeda Sabina Nizakat, Rabia Afza, Habib Ahmad, Shujaul Mulk Khan

Pakistan

Floristic Composition, Ethnobotanical studies, sustainability and conservation of Medicinal Plants of Ayubia National Park, Abbottabad, KP-Pakistan

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Shakil Ahmad Zeb, Shujaul Mulk Khan*, Nadeem Ahmad, Farman Ullah

Pakistan

Floristic Inventory of the Ethnobotanical Profile of Thangy dara District Lower Dir KP, Pakistan

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Fazal Manan, Shujaul Mulk Khan, Zeeshan Ahmad

Pakistan

Conservation and Ethno-Ecological Studies of Parrotiopsis jacquemontiana (Dcne.) Rehder in Dir, KPK- Pakistan

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Saqib Kamran, Zeeshan Ahmad, Abdur Rehman, Shujaul Mulk Khan

Pakistan

Graveyard in species conservation and Beta diversity vegetation appraisal of sacred habitats from Bannu, Pakistan

14

Imran Aziz, Shujaul Mulk Khan, Munir Ozturk

Pakistan

Floristic evaluation and vegetation analyses of the Bagh Duskheil Valley, District Dir Lower

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Fazlullah, Syed Nasir Shah, Asadullah, Mushtaq Ahmad

Pakistan

Pteridophytes of Pakistan

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Sohail Anwar, Shujaul M. Khan, Z.Ahmad, Z.Ullah

Pakistan

Floristic Composition, Ecological classification of the Liakot Forests in Kalam, District Swat, Pakistan

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Murtaza Hussain, Shujaul Mulk Khan

Pakistan

Invasive Plant Species of Pakistan

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Batool Zahra, Shujaul Mulk Khan*, Sanam Asmat, Sabina Nazakat

Pakistan

Floral Diversity and Biological Spectrum of Vegetation in the Sumayar Nagar, Gilgit Baltistan, Pakistan

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Murtaza Hussain, Shujaul Mulk Khan, Zeeshan Ahmad

Pakistan

Flora and plant communities of the Zeran Valley, Kurram Agency, Pakistan

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Riaz Ul Haq, Habib Ahmad, Abdullah, Shujaul Mulk Khan

Pakistan

Species composition and Plant communities pattern of the Doag Dara, District Dir Upper, Pakistan

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Fatima Abid, Shujaul Mulk Khan*

Pakistan

Floristic Inventory, Biological spectrum and sustainable utilization of vegetation in the Potohar Plateau

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Ahmad Zeb, Munir Ozturk, Mehboob ur Rahman, Farman Ullah, Abdur Razaq, Shujaul Mulk Khan

Pakistan

Vegetation zonation along the elevation Gradient in the Balakot Forests of District Swat in the Hindu Kush range of mountains

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Sana Rasheed, Shujaul Mulk Khan

Pakistan

Desert Vegetation of Pakistan   

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Rahmatullah Qureshi          

Pakistan

Edapho-Vegetation Relationship of Nara Desert, Pakistan

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Majid Iqbal, Shujaul Mulk Khan

Pakistan

Phyto-ecological and Edaphological evolution of Margalla foot hills of Islamabad Pakistan in the Scenario of Anthropogenic activities

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Shahzada A. Khan, Shujaul M. Khan, Zahid Ullah, Z. Ahmad

Pakistan

Phytogeographic classification of the Jambil valley Swat, Pakistan

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Zeeshan Ahmad, Muhammad Iqbal, Shahab Ali

Pakistan

Weeds vegetation of Pakistan

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Muhammad Iqbal, Shujaul Mulk Khan, Azeem Khan, Zeeshan Ahmad

Pakistan

Quantitative ecological studies of Weed species in Wheat crop in the Malakand region of Pakistan

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Faiza

Pakistan

Genetic Diversity in Brassica genotypes through Morphological and Biochemical Markers

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Zeeshan Ahmad, Shujaul Mulk Khan, H. Ahmad

Pakistan

Weed species composition and distribution pattern in Maize crop of Shahbaz Ghari, District Mardan

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Zahidullah, Hamayun Shaheen, Shujaul M. Khan

Kashmir - Pakistan

Sub-alpine and Alpine Vegetation of Northern Pakistan

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Hamayun Shaheen, Shamshad Aziz

Kashmir - Pakistan

Ecosystem Services of Western Himalayan Highland Flora of AJK

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Hamayun Shaheen, Kainat Fatma

Kashmir - Pakistan

Vegetation of Pir Panjal Range of mountains, AJK

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Rafia Zargar

Kashmir - India

Gummosis of Stone Fruits

35

Khursheed Ahmad

Kashmir- India

The Vegetation of Dachigam National Park

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S. Mansoor Shafi, Vikas Sharma, Javid I. Mir, Sumira Jan, Khalid Z. Masoodi

Kashmir - India

Himalayan Ibex (Capra sibirica hemalayanus) Distribution, Population Structure, Conservation Strategies

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K.R. Sridhar

India

Vegetation in coastal sand dunes of Southwest

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Harsh Singh

India

Vegetation, flora, traditional uses and management through religious belief system of vegetation in Western Himalaya.

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Abin Mani

India

Molecular marker assisted breeding in Psidium sp.: An effective approach for horticultural impotence trades.

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Shyamasree Ghosh, N. Roy, Shraddhanjali Behera, W. Ansar

India

Climate change and medicinal plants, India: An Overview

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Kandikere R. Sridhar

Department of Biosciences, Mangalore University, Mangalagangotri, Mangalore, India

Diversity of Macrofungi in the Western Ghats of India

42

Dilfuza Egamberdieva

Uzbekistan

Desert and Mountain plants of Uzbekistan

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Dilfuza Egamberdieva

Uzbekistan

The Vegetation of Aral Sea Basin: Past, Present and Future

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Dilfuza Egamberdieva

Uzbekistan

Agrobiodiversity conservation: lessons from Uzbekistan

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Muhammad Rafay, M. Abdullah

Tajkistan

Rangelands Health in Pakistan and Central Asia 

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Askarova  Maulken, Medeu  Alikhan, Medeu  Akhmetkal, Arslan Mehmet

Kazakhstan

Assessment of the current plant biodiversity status in the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan

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Mehmet Arslan, Timur Dadabaev, Bakdaulet Akyn

Kazakhstan

Implementation of Civil Service Reforms in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan: Legal Framework, Opportunities and Challenges

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Shah Fahad

China

Climate Change and Biodiversity Problems

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Ajmal Iqbal, Volkan Altay, Munir Ozturk

China

A potential Nature Genetic Resource: Berberis

O autorze

Prof. Munir Ozturk (PhD, DSc.) specialises in the fields of Ecology & Environmental Sciences. He is the author of over 450 papers on ecological studies as well as biomonitoring in different habitats. Dr. Öztürk has received fellowships from Alexander von Humboldt and Japanese Society for Promotion of Science. He has worked at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with funding from the National Science Foundation, USA. He was a Consultant Fellow at the Faculty of Forestry, University Putra Malaysia and a “Distinguished Visiting Scientist” at the ICCBS, Karachi University, Pakistan. His scientific interests include Plant Eco-Physiology; Conservation of Plant Diversity; Biosaline Agriculture and Crops; Pollution, Biomonitoring, and Medicinal/Aromatic Plants. 

Dr. Shujaul Mulk Khan is currently an Associate Professor of Plant Sciences in Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad. He is also member Pakistan Academy of Sciences. He served as Lecturer in Botany for nine years in Hazara University, Pakistan. He obtained his PhD in Biology from University of Leicester, UK in 2012 as a nominee for the best thesis award in the School of Biological Sciences followed by a Post Doctorate from the Centre for Landscape and Climate Research, University of Leicester, UK. His research mainly focuses on Plan Ecology & Conservation of the Himalayas. He has published 3 books, 10 book chapters, 112 research papers in journals with an impact factor of more than 200. He also published more than 130 abstracts in conference proceedings.

Dr Volkan Altay is an Assoc. Professor of Ecology and Environmental Sciences at the Botany Department of Hatay Mustafa Kemal University, Turkey. His fields of scientific interest are Plant Ecology, Taxonomy, Biodiversity, Biomonitoring, and sustainable use of medicinal plants. He received his PhD. in 2009, has a proven track record of over 30 research publications in highly reputed professional journals. He has also published 1 book with Springer.

Dr Recep Efe, Professor of Geography and Ecology at Balikesir University, obtained his PhD in Geography from Istanbul University. An active researcher with research interests spanning over a wide range of topics in geography, biogeography and ecology, he has over 200 publications with more than 120 papers in national and international scientific journals. Dr. Efe has authored and co-authored/edited 60 books and 18 book chapters in Turkish and English. He is member of International Geographical Union (IGU), Association of American Geographers (AAG), International Associations of Geomorphologists (IAG), International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS-6648), Balkan Geographical Association, Turkish Geographical Association.

Dr. Dilfuza Egamberdieva received her PhD in Agricultural Sciences from the Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany in 2000. She conducted her postdoctoral studies at the Helsinki University of Finland, University of Florence, Manchester Metropolitan University, and Leiden University of Netherlands. She has a long-term experience in plant and soil biotechnology research and has collaborated widely with scientists across the world. She served as international project coordinator in her home country on a variety oftopics, including soil improvement, crop productivity, food security and sustainable management of natural resources. She is member of the Asian PGPR Society for Sustainable Agriculture. Dr. Egamberdieve is the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards, including the UNESCO-L’OREAL Fellowship for Women in Science, Alexander Von Humboldt Fellowship. In 2012 she recieved the TWAS Prize in Agricultural Sciences for her contributions to the study of plant-microbe interactions in stressed environments. She is a member of several journal editorial boards, the author of four books, and co-author of over 100 publications related to plant nutrition, agricultural biotechnology and soil fertility.

Dr Furkat O Khassanov is a researcher at the Institute of Botany of the Academy of Sciences at Uzbekistan. He has published over 60 articles with a network of international collaborators. His research interests are the flora of Central Asia, ethnobotany and the Taxonomy of genus Allium.

Blurb

Of the world’s seven continents, Asia is the largest. Its physical landscapes, political units, and ethnic groups are both wide-ranging and many.  Southwest, South and Middle Asia are highly populated regions which, as a whole, cover an extremely large area of varied geography. In total, this domain is unique in its plant diversity and large vegetation zones with different communities and biomes. It is rich in endemics, with specific and intraspecific diversity of fruit trees and medicinal plants, including a number of rare, high value, species. At the same time, much of the land in the region is too dry or too rugged, with many geographical extremes. Overgrazing, oil and mineral extraction, and poaching are the major threats in the area.

This two-volume project focuses on the dynamic biodiversity of the region with in-depth analysis on phytosociology, plants, animals and agroecology.  There are also chapters that explore new applications as well as approaches to overcome problems associated with climate change. Much of the research and analysis are presented here for the first time.  We believe this work is a valuable resource for professionals and researchers working in the fields of plant diversity and vegetation, animal diversity and animal populations, and geo-diversity and sustainable land use, among others.

The first volume guides our readers to West Asia and the Caucasus region, while volume two focuses on issues unique to South and Middle Asia.