Global Biodiversity (4-Volume Set)

About this book

This new four-volume set, Global Biodiversity, provides a wealth of insightful information on the biodiversity of selected nations around the world. The volumes provide informative summaries of the available data on both wild and cultivated plants, wild and domesticated animals, and microbes of the different nations selected.

Contents

Volume 1: Selected Countries in Asia
1. Global Biodiversity Threats and Development Trends / Kjetil Bevanger
2. Biodiversity in Afghanistan / S. W. Breckle, I. C. Hedge, and M. D. Rafiqpoor
3. Biodiversity of Bangladesh / Sharif A. Mukul, Shekhar R. Biswas, and A. Z. M. Manzoor Rashid
4. Biodiversity in India / T. Pullaiah and Ramakrishna
5. Biodiversity of Indonesia / Irawati and Didik Widyatmoko
6. Biodiversity of Iran / M. M. Dehshiri
7. Biodiversity in Iraq / Nature Iraq
8. Biodiversity of Japan / Takafumi Ohsawa, Fumiko Nakao, and Tohru Nakashizuka
9. Biodiversity in Lebanon / Salma N. Talhouk, M. Itani, and M. Al-Zein
10. Biodiversity in Malaysia / A. Latiff
11. Biodiversity in Mongolia / Gombobaatar Sundev et al.
12. Biodiversity in Myanmar / Naing Zaw Htun
13. Biodiversity of Nepal: An Overview / Krishna K. Shrestha and Siddhartha B. Bajracharya
14. Biodiversity of Vietnam / P. K. Loc and M. D. Yen Leonid Averyanov

Volume 2: Selected Countries in Europe
1. Biodiversity of Bosnia-Herzegovina / S. Barudanovic
2. Biodiversity in France / Philippe Grandcolas
3. Biodiversity of Georgia / Guram Aleksidze et al.
4. Biodiversity of Greece / Anastasios Legakis, Theophanis Constantinidis, and Panos V. Petrakis
5. Biodiversity in Hungary / Zoltán Varga
6. Biodiversity in Italy / Gianniantonio Domina and Marzio Zapparoli
7. Biodiversity in Norway / K. Bevanger
8. Biodiversity in Serbia / Biljana Panjkovic and Slobodan Puzovic
9. Biodiversity of Slovakia / Libor Uirych et al.
10. Biodiversity of Sweden / Ulf Gärdenfors
11. Biodiversity in Turkey / Ali A. Dönmez and Sedat V. Yerli
12. Biodiversity in the United Kingdom / Ranee Om Prakash and Fred Rumsey

Volume 3: Selected Countries in Africa
1. Phytodiversity of Burkina Faso / Nacoulma Blandine Marie Ivette et al.
2. Biodiversity in Egypt / Wafaa M. Amer
3. Biodiversity of Gabon: An Overview / Jean B. Mikissa, Flore Koumba Pambou, and Emmanuel Bayani Ngoyi
4. Biodiversity in Ghana / Michael Kwabena Osei et al.
5. Biodiversity of Libya / Mahklouf H. Mohammed and Etayeb S. Khalid
6. Biological Diversity in Morocco / Mohamaed Menioui
7. Biodiversity of Senegal: Terrestrial Ecosystems Flora and Great Fauna / Gueye Mathieu, Ba Taïbou, and Diop Sall Aminata
8. Biodiversity in Sierra Leone / Prince E. Norman et al.
9. Biodiversity of South Africa / Danni Guo and Judith L. Arnolds
10. Biodiversity of Sudan / Ahmed A. H. Siddig et al.
11. An Overview of Biodiversity of Tanzania and Conservation Efforts / Ally K. Nkwabi et al.
12. Biodiversity in Togo / Kouami Kokou et al.
13. Biodiversity of Zambia / Stanford Mudenda Siachoono

Volume 4: Selected Countries in the Americas and Australia
1. Biodiversity in Bolivia / Mónica Moraes R. and Jaime Sarmiento
2. Biodiversity of Brazil / Adriana Luiza Ribeiro De Oliveira, Eliel De Jesus Amaral, and Daniel Silva Santiago
3. Biodiversity of Canada: An Overview / David A. Galbraith
4. Still Searching the Rich Coast: Biodiversity of Costa Rica, Numbers, Processes, Patterns, and Challenges / Gerardo Avalos
5. Biodiversity in Cuba / Dennis Denis, Daryl D. Cruz-Flores, and Ernesto Testé
6. Plant Biodiversity of Ecuador: A Neotropical Megadiverse Country / P. E. Lozano Carpio
7. Biodiversity in Honduras: The Environment, Flora, Bats, Medium- and Large-Sized Mammals, Birds, Freshwater Fishes, and the Amphibians and Reptiles / James R. McCranie et al.
8. Biodiversity of Mexico: State of Knowledge and Conservation / Patricia Koleff et al.
9. Biodiversity in Paraguay / Pamela Marchi et al.
10. Biodiversity in North America (North of Mexico) / Kanchi N. Gandhi
11. Biodiversity in Venezuela / Grande Allende and José Ramón
12. Biodiversity of Australia: An Overview / C. R. Dickman

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Biography

T. Pullaiah, PhD, is a former Professor at the Department of Botany at Sri Krishnadevaraya University in Andhra Pradesh, India, where he has taught for more than 35 years. He has held several positions at the university, including Dean, Faculty of Biosciences, Head of the Department of Botany, Head of the Department of Biotechnology, and Member Academic Senate