Climate Change and Its Impact on Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity in Arid and Semi-Arid Zones

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Ecosystems provide services that are crucial and beneficial to the human population. The management and conservation of these services can assure the wellbeing of the local population. Climate Change and Its Impact on Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity in Arid and Semi-Arid Zones is an essential reference source that studies the effects of climate change on biodiversity and ecosystem services in dry regions and examines various strategic local, national, and international policy developments to help overcome these impacts. Featuring research on topics such as poverty reduction, climate change, and adaption policies, this book is ideally designed for environmentalists, policymakers, government officials, academicians, researchers, and technology developers who want to improve their understanding of climate change impact, vulnerability, and sustainability, and the strategic role of adaptation and mitigation.

Contents

Preface / Ahmed Karmaoui
Acknowledgments

Chapter 1. The Need to Establish a Long-Term Ecological Research Network in Morocco as a Tool to Monitor Ecosystems Under Climate Change (pages 1-22) / Ahmed Karmaoui, Siham Zerouali
Chapter 2. Associations Between Climate, Ecosystems, and Ecosystem Services in the Pre-Sahara: Case Study of Tafilalet, Morocco (pages 23-44) / Abdelkrim Ben Salem, Souad Ben Salem, Mohammed Yacoubi Khebiza, Awatif Zine Elabidine
Chapter 3. Ecosystem Services Demand Management Under Climate Change Scenarios: Use of WEAP Software in Case of Water Demand in Ziz Basin, Morocco (pages 45-65) / Abdelkrim Ben Salem, Souad Ben Salem, Mohammed Khebiza Yacoubi, Mohammed Messouli
Chapter 4. Monetary Value Change of Some Provisioning Ecosystem Services of Middle Draa Valley, South of Morocco (pages 67-77) / Siham Zerouali, Mohammed Yacoubi-Khebiza, Fadoua El Qorchi
Chapter 5. Potential Role of Endophytes for Sustainable Environment (pages 78-95) / Zubair A. Dar, Bhat Rifat, Javeed I. A. Bhat, Asma Absar Bhatti, Shamsul Haq, Azra Amin, Shakeel Ahmad Dar
Chapter 6. Health Effects of Air Pollution in Urban Environment (pages 96-115) / Banwari Dandotiya
Chapter 7. Climate Change Impacts on Biodiversity in Arid and Semi-Arid Areas: Biodiversity Under Climate Change (pages 117-141) / Hanane Boutaj, Aicha Moumni, Oumayma Nassiri, Abdelhak Ouled Aitouna
Chapter 8. Impacts of Climate Change on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Current Trends (pages 142-159) / Vartika Singh
Chapter 9. Impact of Climatic Changes on Earth's Survival: An Analysis of Changing Environment and Its Consequences at a Global Level (pages 160-182) / Akash, Navneet
Chapter 10. Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Land Degradation and Desertification: Land Degradation and Climate Change (pages 183-195) / Dharumarajan S., Veeramani S., Kalaiselvi Beeman, Lalitha M., Janani N., Srinivasan R., Rajendra Hegde
Chapter 11. Potential Impacts of Climate Change on the Inland Fisheries of Arid and Semi-Arid Regions of Africa: Impacts of Climate Change on Inland Fisheries (pages 196-216) / Imefon Udo Udo, Imekan Isaac Akpan
Chapter 12. Climate Change and Its Impacts on Oases Ecosystem in Morocco (pages 217-245) / Mohamed Ait El Mokhtar, Raja Ben Laouane, Mohamed Anli, Abderrahim Boutasknit, Abdessamad Fakhech, Said Wahbi, Abdelilah Meddich
Chapter 13. Ecosystem Services, Climate Change, and Food Security (pages 247-279) / Samreen Siddiqui
Chapter 14. Ecosystem Services-Climate-Health Associations: Water-Climate-Leishmaniasis Nexus in an Endemic Focus of Zoonotic Cutaneous Leishmaniasis (pages 280-290) / Ahmed Karmaoui, Siham Zerouali, Ashfaq Ahmad Shah, Mohammed Yacoubi-Khebiza, Fadoua El Qorchi
Chapter 15. Relationships Between Climate Parameters and the Density of Phlebotomus papatasi, the Main Vector of Zoonotic Cutaneous Leishmaniasis (pages 291-302) / Ahmed Karmaoui, Siham Zerouali
Chapter 16. Effectiveness of Local Community Policy Responses to Climate Change Impact on Ecosystem Services for Biodiversity Conservation in the Semi-Arid Zones (pages 304-315) / Wilson Truman Okaka
Chapter 17. Adaptive Strategies of Small Family Farms in the Face of Climate Change: The Case of the Tleta Watershed in Northern Morocco (pages 316-330) / Mohamed El Amrani

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