Marine, Freshwater, and Wetlands Biodiversity Conservation
Marine, coastal and wetland habitats are threatened, not only through exploitation, but also by the prospect of climate change – as ocean currents change course, sea levels rise, and rainfall patterns change. Even the once-common cod is now under threat f
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TOPICS IN BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION Volume 4
The titles published in this series are listed at the end of this volume.
Marine, Freshwater, and Wetlands Biodiversity Conservation
Edited by
David L. Hawksworth and Alan T. Bull
Reprint from Biodiversity and Conservation, volume 15:11 (2006)
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Contents
Marine, Freshwater, and Wetlands Biodiversity Conservation Introduction
1–2
JASENKA TOPIC´ and ZVJEZDANA STANCˇ IC´ / Extinction of fen and bog plants and their habitats in Croatia
3–13
C. MONY, J.F. MONY, G. THIÉBAUT and S. MULLER / Floristic and ecological diversity of Ranunculus aquatic habitats in the sub-Atlantic range: implications for conservation
15–32
ZHONGQIANG LI, DAN YU, WEN XIONG, QIANG WANG and MANGHUI TU / Testing the higher-taxon approach: a case study of aquatic marcophytes in China’s northwest arid zone and its implications for conservation
33–48
ZHONGQIANG LI, DAN YU, WEN XIONG, DONG WANG and MANGHUI TU / Aquatic plants diversity in arid zones of Northwest China: patterns, threats and conservation JELENA BLAŽENCˇ IC´, BRANKA STEVANOVIC´, ŽIVOJIN BLAŽENCˇ IC´ and VLADIMIR STEVANOVIC´ / Red Data List of Charophytes in the Balkans
49–76
77–89
MIHAI VÂLCU / Seasonal changes in bird species diversity at the interface between forest and reed-bed
91–99
JEAN-MARC PAILLISSON, SEBASTIEN REEBER, ALEXANDRE CARPENTIER and LOIC MARION / Plant-water regime management in a wetland: consequences for a floating vegetation-nesting bird, whiskered tern Chlidonias hybridus
101–112
SHANE R. DE SOLLA, KIM J. FERNIE, GLENN C. BARRETT and CHRISTINE A. BISHOP / Population trends and calling phenology of anuran populations surveyed in Ontario estimated using acoustic surveys
113–129
PAOLA M. PELTZER, RAFAEL C. LAJMANOVICH, ANDRES M. ATTADEMO and ADOLFO H. BELTZER / Diversity of anurans across agricultural ponds in Argentina
131–145
KARTHIKEYAN VASUDEVAN, AJITH KUMAR and RAVI CHELLAM / Species turnover: the case of stream amphibians of rainforests in the Western Ghats, southern India
147–157
A.I. CAMACHO, T. TORRES, C.J. PUCH, J.E. ORTIZ and ANTONIO G. VALDECASAS / Small-scale biogeographical patterns in some groundwater Crustacea, the syncarid, Parabathynellidae
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