Download or read book Endemic Fish Diversity of Western Ghats written by A. G. Ponniah and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers presented at the Workshop on Germplasm Inventory and Genebanking of Freshwater Fishes, held at Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Cochin, India in 1998; organized by National Bureau of Fish Genetic Resources.
Download or read book Ornamental Fishes of the Western Ghats of India written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Biodiversity Hotspot of the Western Ghats and Sri Lanka written by T. Pullaiah and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2024-02-20 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biodiversity is declining at an alarming rate due to anthropogenic activities around the world. This book is the first volume in the new series Biodiversity Hotspots of the World, which highlights the 36 hotspot regions of the world, regions that were designated as reaping maximum benefit from preservation efforts. This series is our humble attempt to document these hotspots as a conservation and preservation measure. This first volume in the series focuses on the Western Ghats and Sri Lanka, construed as forming a community of species because of their shared biogeographical history. The volume explores the diversity and conservation efforts of the extraordinarily rich species found here, including plants, many of which are found nowhere else in the world; forests, which face tremendous population pressure and have been dramatically impacted by demands for timber and agricultural land; as well as the hotspot’s diverse mammals, birds, insects, and amphibian species, and more. The volumes in this series will be essential resources for researchers and practitioners in the fields of conservation biology, ecology, and evolution.
Download or read book Freshwater Biodiversity written by David Dudgeon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-21 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing human populations and higher demands for water impose increasing impacts and stresses upon freshwater biodiversity. Their combined effects have made these animals more endangered than their terrestrial and marine counterparts. Overuse and contamination of water, overexploitation and overfishing, introduction of alien species, and alteration of natural flow regimes have led to a 'great thinning' and declines in abundance of freshwater animals, a 'great shrinking' in body size with reductions in large species, and a 'great mixing' whereby the spread of introduced species has tended to homogenize previously dissimilar communities in different parts of the world. Climate change and warming temperatures will alter global water availability, and exacerbate the other threat factors. What conservation action is needed to halt or reverse these trends, and preserve freshwater biodiversity in a rapidly changing world? This book offers the tools and approaches that can be deployed to help conserve freshwater biodiversity.
Download or read book Western Ghats Ecosystem written by Dina Nath Tewari and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book describes ecology, natural resource potential, bio-diversity and socio-economic activities of the region to promote income generating activities through conserving, upgrading and using natural resources, environmentally sound mining, sustainable tourisms, Employment generating schemes that increase the productive base.
Download or read book The Freshwater Fishes of the Indian Region written by K. C. Jayaram and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an up to date compendium of all information available up to 1997 in respect of the freshwater fish fauna of this region . The classification adopted is generally after Nelson's Fishes of the World (1994), Howes (1991) with inputs from Eschmeyer's Genera of Fishes (1990). For Cyprinine genera the order of an arrangement proposed by Rainborth (1991) has been adhered to. In respect of nemacheilines the arrangement proposed by Banarescu and Nalbant (1995), Kottelat (1990) have been followed. As indicated in the title the Indian region as conceived here includes India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Mayanmar, Nepal and Sri Lanka within their political boundaries. Afghanistan and other border areas excluded. All primary freshwater fishes are definitely listed and many secondary and peripheral species that visit freshwater are also included. A uniform pattern of citation is adopted. Brief salient features of all the taxa up to orders are given. Descriptive details in respect of families and genera are provided more elaborately. Synonymies include the latest valid name, first reference, type-designations and more important pertinent references to that taxa. All citations have been checked, and cross-checked with the aid of Eschmeyer's work. Species are not described but listed alphabetically with their known range of distribution, but genera are described and arranged according to their known phylogenetic and intergeneric affinities. Keys are provided and simple drawings illustrating characters where needed are given. Synonyms, notes on species, genera, nomenclatural clarifications are given as foot-notes against relevant species marked with an asterisk, but in the foot-note the same serial number alone is cited and not the full species name. Figures depicting a representative of most genera can be seen; for many genera the more common species are illustrated as plate figures. A total of 272 genera with 852 species falling under 71 families and 16 orders are dealt with in this book. A glossary of 218 technical terms with adequate illustrations and a bibliography of 649 references are given. 241 figures and 18 plates are in the book. An addenda made up to date carries brief information of one new genus, 11 new species and one new subspecies.
Download or read book Fish Diversity of Karnataka An Update written by Dr. H.M. Lalitha and published by Shineeks Publishers. This book was released on 2021-12-23 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Currently 20,000-30,000 species of fish are identified in the diverse aquatic ecosystems globally, as a result in a freshwater ecosystem everyday new species are including by the researchers in the area of Ichthyology diversity. Generally, 24000 fish species listed scientifically in the global scenario, in that, nearer to 11% are available in Indian aquatic environment. Among them, 2200 species so far recorded, 3.32% belongs to the cold freshwater ecosystem, 24.73% belongs to the warm fresh waters bodies, 6.50% belongs to the brackish waters and 65.45% belongs to the ocean system. In that, the fish biodiversity of the Karnataka shares the richness of species around 240, in Cauvery river belt of Southern Karnataka share around 109 species, in Krishna river belt of Northern share around 168 species, in Kali river belt of Western Karnataka share 124 species and Karnaja river belt of Eastern Karnataka share 59 species of fishes distributed as a 102 genera, 38 families and 14 orders covering whole Karnataka fish diversity. Among these total fish species, 3 orders dominating with diverse species richness by the composition of Cypriniformes covering 5 families, 45 genera and 140 species, whereas order Siluriformes covering 9 families, 24 genera and 51 species and in Perciformes covering 9 families, 15 genera and 26 species. It has been also recognized as around 40 species under the list of threatened, 5 species are critically endangered, 22 species are endangered and 13 are vulnerable as per the red data book. As conservation strategies, researchers were involved with selective breeding method to enrich the native fish species and it may help to reduce or mitigate the problem of fish species diversity in Karnataka.
Download or read book Freshwater Biodiversity in Asia written by Maurice Kottelat and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World Bank Discussion Paper No. 337. Draws on household survey data from 87 rural villages in Bangladesh to examine the contribution that government family planning programs, as well as other health care interventions, have made toward the recent reduction in fertility by increasing contraceptive use and reducing infant mortality. The paper suggests that the programs have been effective and finds that targeted credit program placement, such as the Grameen Bank and the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC), contributed to the effort as well.
Download or read book Biodiversity Earth s Living Treasure written by Dr. Arpita Chatterjee and published by Insta Publishing. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biodiversity is a vast arena in the sphere of life dealing with many living organisms of botanical and zoological origin and also microbes. Though majority of the research and studies of the biodiversity focus on the macroscopic organisms, but the economic importance of the microbial species present in biosphere cannot be neglected due to its huge importance in ecology as well as pathology. Moreover, air born microbes are also significant as potential pathogens of different diseases. From the beginning of the twenty‐first century, it has become evident that the loss of biodiversity are posing threat, mainly due to loss of forest plants and also extinction of many animals and birds. This also results in the biodiversity loss in a broad sense due to environmental pollution, global warming, human negligence and associated hazards.
Download or read book An Overview on the Faunal Diversity of Western Ghats written by Ramakrishna and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Biological reviews of important Cambodian fish species based on fishbase 2004 Volume 1 written by and published by WorldFish. This book was released on with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Biodiversity Conservation written by Asish K. Ghosh and published by APH Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Indian context.
Download or read book Biological Reviews of Important Cambodian Fish Species Based on Fishbase 2004 written by Leng Sy Vann and published by WorldFish. This book was released on 2006 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Perspectives and Applications of Indigenous Small Fish in India written by Archana Sinha and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 599 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Magbook Indian World Geography 2020 written by Arihant Experts and published by Arihant Publications India limited. This book was released on 2019-08-09 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When it comes to the preparation of the examinations like UPSC and State PCS students need to have solid yet precise knowledge about the subjects from the point of view of exam. ARIHANT’s MAGBOOK provides all the study material in a concise and brief manner which is easy to digest by the students Magbook series is 2 in 1 series i.e. it’s a combination of magazines and books that offers unique advantages of both as it comprehensively covers syllabus of Indian and World Geography of UPSC and State PCS Preliminary Examination. It is useful for the aspirants as it covers all the topics of the syllabus in a concise and notes format to help students in easy remembrance and quick revision. This series covers every topic of ‘Indian and World Geography & Environment, Ecology & Biodiversity’ in an easy-to-understand language which helps students grasp the topics easily and quickly. It focuses on the trends of questions of Previous Years’ Civil Services Exams, Chapter-wise practice questions are given with more than 3,000 MCQs which covers the whole syllabus, Subject wise detailed explanations of Previous Years’ Civil exams (2019-2010) and 5 practice sets are also provided in the book that help the students to know latest pattern of the paper as well as its difficulty level. This book is a must for the civil services aspirants as it help them to move a step ahead towards their aim. TABLE OF CONTENT India and World Geography – The Universe and The Solar System, The Earth, Geomorphology, Geomorphology II, Climatology, Oceanography, Biogeography, Human Geography, Economic Geography, Continents, India: Physical Aspects, Indian States and Union Territories, Resources, Indian Agriculture, Industrial Features of India, Transport, Trade and Communication in India, India-Cultural Settings, Urbanisation in India, Environment, Ecology and Biodiversity – Ecology : Basic Concepts, Environment, Biodiversity and Its Conservation, Climate Change, Disaster Management, Sustainable Development, Practice Sets (1-5), Previous Years’ Solved Papers 1, Previous Years’ Solved Papers 2.
Download or read book Western Ghats From Ecology To Economics written by Shanavas P H and published by Educreation Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-23 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hill chain of Western Ghats, a treasure trove of biodiversity and the water tower of peninsular India has been engrossed the attention of various stakeholders all over the world. This region is identified as one among the eight hottest hotspots of biodiversity and hence attracted worldwide attention. This book is a compilation of various research articles related to Western Ghats, its ecology, environment, geography, biodiversity, etc. The editors have taken utmost care to include articles related to various issues such as, the debates over WGEEP and HLWG reports, studies on mining and quarrying activities, agriculture and allied activities, issues related to sustainable agricultural practices, agrarian distress, impact of migration, changing land use pattern, other economic activities and its impact on the environment and ecology, etc. The book offers an insight into the concerns of the farmers and offers policy solutions wherever possible.
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