Long description:

Terrestrial Biomes: Global Biome Conservation and Global Warming Impacts on Ecology and Biodiversity explores the effects of anthropogenic activities on Earth’s terrestrial biomes, species, and climate. The book summarizes operational and potential monitoring tools to conserve or recover terrestrial biomes at a global scale. Written by international experts in ecology and biodiversity conservation, this book identifies the challenges and threats to terrestrial organisms and connects them to real cases of conservation.

This is an important resource for students, professors, researchers, and governmental and non-governmental organizations active in biodiversity conservation and climate change mitigation.

• Discusses the decline and conservation of the world's major terrestrial biomes
• Provides the use of ecological indicators to analyze the conditions of terrestrial biomes with a global perspective
• Spans desert, Mediterranean, grassland, forest, subterranean, taiga, and tundra biomes
• Highlights the work of researchers whose expertise includes insular biomes, prairies, shrublands, steppes, taiga, tundra, and global warming perspectives

Table of Contents:

Section I: Deserts
1. Antarctica Desert
2. Northern Great Rift Valley: deserts and otherbiomes
3. Ecosystem services in the Atacama region, Chile
4. Chihuahuan Desert
5. Simpson Desert
6. Indian Thar
7. Sahara and other African Deserts

Section II: Insular Biomes
8. Madagascar and Mauritius as Insular Biomes

Section III: Mediterranean
9. Mediterranean Basin
10. An Afromontane biome in South Africa:ecological quality of natural vs transformed habitats

Section IV: Prairies and Steppes
11. Prairies and Steppes: Cradles of GrasslandBiodiversity
12. European steppes and forest-steppes
13. American

Section V: Shrublands
14. Biodiversity and Ecological Dynamics of theFynbos Biome in South Africa
15. Mediterranean Shrublands
16. Xeric Shrublands

Section VI: Savannas
17. Land degradation and its associated eff ects ondung beetle species in African Savanna
18. Asia
19. Australian Savannas
20. American Savanna: A brief review

Section VII: Subterranean
21. Subterranean

Section VIII: Taiga
22. Asia
23. North Europe

Section IX: Temperate Forests
24. Temperate forest of Asia in the wake of climatechange
25. Temperate forests at Southern South America:Challenges for management and conservation to faceclimate change
26. Europe Temperate Forests
27. North America

Section X: Tropical Forests
28. Conservation status of dung beetles(Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) in African tropical forests
29. The use of phytotelmata by amphibians in theAmazon rainforest: A review and case study
30. Asia’s Ecological Tapestry: NavigatingConservation Challenges in the Era of Global Warming
31. Atlantic Forest
32. Biodiversity, function and change of tropicalrainforests of Borneo
33. Caatinga

Section XI: Tundras
34. Asian Arctic tundra: Vast permafrost ecosystemsunder increasing pressure by climate change and industrialdevelopment
35. The importance of Belarus tundra peat bogs forbiodiversity conservation in global warming condition
36. North American tundras: Imperiled landscapesat a continent’s latitudinal and altitudinal extremes