Grassland biodiversity
Subtitle: habitat types, ecological processes and environmental impacts
By: Johan Runas and Theodor Dahlgren, editors
Series: Environmental science, engineering and technology series; Environmental science, engineering and technology series
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 377
ISBN-13: 9781608765423
Description: "Genetic diversity and species diversity are both crucial for ecosystem stability. Analysis of plant diversity aims to understand the organization and the variability of biological populations within ecosystems. This book provides a review on chemotaxonomical criteria helping to understand complex structures of plant diversity. It focuses particularly on the chemotaxonomic usefulness of phenolic compounds in analysis of chemical polymorphisms at different taxonomic levels. The relationship between grazing pressure and grassland vegetation is also examined, using drastically improved information technology such as remote sensing, Geographic Information System (GIS) and Ground Positioning Systems (GPS). Furthermore, an overview of the unique ecosystem of the South Brazilian Campos grasslands are given. The role of disturbance in maintaining Campos biodiversity and dynamics, and the importance of its conservation, is looked at as well. Other chapters in this book discuss the relationship between management and vegetation, and also suggest ways to conserve the species diversity of both plants and butterflies in semi-natural grassland."--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Chemotaxonomical analyses of herbaceous plants based on phenolic patterns: a flexible tool to survey biodiversity in grasslands / Nabil Semmar, Yassine Mrabet and Muhammad Farman; title: Framework for integrating indigenous knowledge and ecological methods for implementation of desertification convention / Hassan G. Roba and Gufu Oba; title: Montane grasslands of the Udzungwa Plateau, Tanzania: a study case about its herpetological importance within the Eastern Afromontane hotspot / Roberta Rossi ... [et al.]; title: Evaluation of grazing pressure on steppe vegetation by spectral measurement / Tsuyoshi Akiyama ... [et al.]; title: South Brazilian Campos grasslands: biodiversity, conservation and the role of disturbance / Alessandra Fidelis; title: Relationship of management practices to the species diversity of plants and butterflies in a semi-natural grassland, central Japan / Masako Kubo ... [et al.]; title: Towards the influence of plant-soil-microbes feedbacks on plant biodiversity, grassland variability and productivity / A. Sanon ... [et al.]; title: Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi: a belowground regulator of plant diversity in grasslands and the hidden mechanisms / Qing Yao and Hong-Hui Zhu; title: Carnivorous mammals in a mosaic landscape in southeastern Brazil: is it possible to keep them in an agro-silvicultural landscape? / Maria Carolina Lyra-Jorge ... [et al.]; title: Genetic diversity of Festuca pratensus Huds and Lolium multiflorum Lam. ecotype populations in relation to species diversity and grassland type / Madlaina Peter-Schmid, Roland Kolliker and Beat Boller; title: Soil organic matter in an altitudinal gradient / Bente Foereid and Kim Harding; title: The biodiversity potential of riparian field margins in intensively managed grasslands / L.J. Cole ... [et al.].