Freshwater Key Biodiversity Areas In The North Western Mediterranean Sub Region
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| Author | : V. Barrios |
| Publisher | : IUCN |
| Total Pages | : 100 |
| Release | : 2014-01-01 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 2831716985 |
While the Mediterranean basin biodiversity hotspot is well known for its globally important biodiversity, its freshwater biodiversity has not been as widely recognized for its importance. Through this project, freshwater key biodiversity areas (KBAs) have now been identified, mapped and validated throughout much of the Mediterranean hotspot. It is now important to raise awareness of their status as validated freshwater KBAs and to develop plans for appropriate conservation actions at these sites, as this biodiversity is highly threatened largely due to the conflicting demands upon a diminishing supply of fresh water which is further exacerbated by the increased severity of drought across the region.
| Author | : Jungmeier, M., Arpa, N.Y. |
| Publisher | : Food & Agriculture Org. |
| Total Pages | : 88 |
| Release | : 2022-04-25 |
| Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
| ISBN | : 9251356599 |
This document is one of seven guidelines developed to provide standards and recommendations for management of the country’s natural assets. The Guidelines for Biodiversity Monitoring is intended for conservation scientists, managers and stakeholders involved in the management of ecosystems. It specifically provides support for natural resource managers, protected area planners, decision-makers and managers, staff of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF), NGOs and universities, with a view to elaborating adequate and realistic monitoring plans for individual steppe protected areas, in order to establish a working monitoring system for steppe ecosystems. The Guidelines provide a methodology and structure to set up clear indicators and targets for a comprehensive monitoring system for ecosystems. They offer a working basis for national and local experts and specialists, and support the steps towards a comprehensive monitoring scheme. They constitute the first stage in a longer process of defining clear objectives and indicators for individual pillars of monitoring for the ecosystems and their components.
| Author | : David James Allen |
| Publisher | : IUCN |
| Total Pages | : 100 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : Freshwater biodiversity |
| ISBN | : 2831713242 |
| Author | : Kevin G. Smith |
| Publisher | : IUCN |
| Total Pages | : 149 |
| Release | : 2014-01-01 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 2831716993 |
The Eastern Mediterranean region supports just over 4.4% of the global human population yet contains only 1.1% of its renewable water resources, which are under constant threat from the impacts of unsustainable water withdrawal, dam development and climate change. This IUCN report and accompanying dataset represents a major advance in the provision of information to help incorporate biodiversity needs into water development planning processes within an Integrated River Basin Management framework. This volume includes species information compiled for each river and lake sub-basin and incorporates information from the assessment conducted by IUCN's Global Species Programme, in collaboration with its partners, of the status and distribution of all described species of freshwater fishes, molluscs, odonates, and plants from across the Eastern Mediterranean with existing information for species of freshwater dependent amphibians, birds, crustaceans, and mammals. This work represents the most comprehensive assessment yet of freshwater biodiversity at the species level for this part of the world.
| Author | : Kevin G. Smith |
| Publisher | : IUCN |
| Total Pages | : 44 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 9782831709086 |
| Author | : David Dudgeon |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 517 |
| Release | : 2020-05-21 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 1108882625 |
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.
| Author | : Collectif |
| Publisher | : IRD Éditions |
| Total Pages | : 736 |
| Release | : 2018-11-19 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 2709922207 |
This book has been published by Allenvi (French National Alliance for Environmental Research) to coincide with the 22nd Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP22) in Marrakesh. It is the outcome of work by academic researchers on both sides of the Mediterranean and provides a remarkable scientific review of the mechanisms of climate change and its impacts on the environment, the economy, health and Mediterranean societies. It will also be valuable in developing responses that draw on “scientific evidence” to address the issues of adaptation, resource conservation, solutions and risk prevention. Reflecting the full complexity of the Mediterranean environment, the book is a major scientific contribution to the climate issue, where various scientific considerations converge to break down the boundaries between disciplines.
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : IUCN |
| Total Pages | : 176 |
| Release | : 2015-06-01 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 2831717213 |
This situation analysis was undertaken to inform responses to several resolutions made at the 5th World Conservation Congress in 2012 about the plight of large vertebrates in West and Central Africa. It draws on a wide range of information to provide information on the status of these species, important sites, pressures, legislation, the effectiveness of protected areas, and both community-based incentives for conservation and institutional responses. The overriding conclusion is of substantial wildlife declines and inadequate responses to either long-standing pressures or rapidly escalating threats that have emerged in recent years.
| Author | : Penny F. Langhammer |
| Publisher | : IUCN |
| Total Pages | : 134 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 283170992X |
Important Bird Areas and Important Plant Areas have already been identified in more than 170 countries. The Key Biodiversity Areas approach builds on the work done to date, in order to provide practical guidance to governments in identifying those sites which must be protected to ensure the future of both biodiversity and humanity.
| Author | : Peter James Palmer Whitehead |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 480 |
| Release | : 1984 |
| Genre | : Fishes |
| ISBN | : |
Deel 1 van een serie van 3 bevat een determinatietabel en een beschrijving van soorten uit 64 families. De 3 delen zullen totaal 1256 soorten van 218 families omvatten
