| ISBN13: | 9783031668210 |
| ISBN10: | 3031668219 |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| No. of pages: | 590 pages |
| Size: | 235x155 mm |
| Language: | English |
| Illustrations: | 34 Illustrations, black & white; 104 Illustrations, color |
| 700 |
The Future of Amazonian Aquatic Biota
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The aquatic habitats of the Amazon region are subject to natural daily and seasonal variations in the physico-chemical properties of the water. The organisms that inhabit these habitats have developed adaptations to cope with these natural events. However, human-induced environmental changes are threatening ecosystems and affecting biodiversity at all levels of biological organization by causing drastic changes in climatic conditions in a shorter period of time, without giving organisms time to adapt. In this sense, the book addresses the future of aquatic organisms in the Amazon, including bacterial symbionts, insects, crustaceans, fish, plants, and amphibians, and provides an overview of what the future of biodiversity in the Amazon will look like, both in terms of organisms' adaptations to natural changes and in terms of vulnerability and responses to human impacts, highlighting possible mechanisms to minimize the expected impacts. The book also provides a brief overview of the risks that climate change poses to livestock, strategies for the sustainable use of species in the Amazon region and the impact of climate change on fish diseases.
The aquatic habitats of the Amazon region are subject to natural daily and seasonal variations in the physico-chemical properties of the water. The organisms that inhabit these habitats have developed adaptations to cope with these natural events. However, human-induced environmental changes are threatening ecosystems and affecting biodiversity at all levels of biological organization by causing drastic changes in climatic conditions in a shorter period of time, without giving organisms time to adapt. In this sense, the book addresses the future of aquatic organisms in the Amazon, including bacterial symbionts, insects, crustaceans, fish, plants, and amphibians, and provides an overview of what the future of biodiversity in the Amazon will look like, both in terms of organisms' adaptations to natural changes and in terms of vulnerability and responses to human impacts, highlighting possible mechanisms to minimize the expected impacts. The book also provides a brief overview of the risks that climate change poses to livestock, strategies for the sustainable use of species in the Amazon region and the impact of climate change on fish diseases.
Introduction.- Part I Impacts of anthropogenic pressure and climate change in the responses of Amazonian aquatic organisms.- 1 Anthropogenic climate change is a present and future stressor for fish communities in the Amazon Basin.- 2 Genetics, toxicological background, and environmental adaptation processes of disease- vector mosquitoes in the Amazon.- 3 Dissolved Organic Carbon (DOC) of the Rio Negro, Amazonia: Importance, Processes and Potential Anthropogenic Impacts.- 4 Impacts of climate change and local disturbance on stream fish assemblages in the Amazon.- 5 Amazonian aquatic insects in a changing world.- 6 Aquatic herbaceous plants of the Amazonian Wetlands: key species under pressure.- 7 The fate of floodplain forests in a changing Amazon.- 8 Amazonian aquatic food webs, their variation and vulnerability in regard to climate change.- Part II ? Ecotoxicology: fish and amphibian sensitivity.- 9 A double threat to Amazonian frogs: toxic contaminants and their interaction with global climate change.- 10 Toxicological impacts of pesticides and heavy metals on Amazon fish: trends and future perspectives.- 11 Impact of organic pollution on the genome of native Amazonian fish species: highlights for the cytogenomics and gene expression.- Part III ? Phenotypic plasticity and adaptive mechanisms: change to survive.- 12 Amazonian fish and their bacterial symbionts: An intricate co-dependence relationship in a changing environment.- 13 Environmental nucleic acids: A toolkit for monitoring diversity, conservation and environmental/population health.- 14 Air-breathing fish in the Amazon facing elevated temperatures.- Part IV - Physiological and biochemical responses.- 15 AMAZONIAN CRUSTACEANS: Macrobrachium amazonicum (Decapoda, Palaemonidae).- 16 Is electron transport system activity assay useful for aerobic scope estimation of thermal metabolic stress in fish? A case study with fish from different climatic zones..- 17 Limited thermal capacity of Amazonian fishes to survive in a warming world.- Part V ? Aquaculture as a tool to ensure food security in the Amazon.- 18 The future of the value chain of the Pirarucu in the Brazilian Amazon.- 19 Impacts of Climate Change on the Parasite-Host Relationship in Freshwater Aquaculture.- 20 Conclusion and Perspectives.
