"Biodiversity: Selected Studies" ed. by Bülent Şen

The present book offers an overall up-to-date overview of the biological diversity, comprising many interesting chapters focussing on the different aspects of biodiversity. The present book would definitely be an ideal source of scientific information to the advanced students, junior researchers, scientists and a portion of the public involved in ecology and other research areas involving biodiversity studies. It will also help to the development of the growing awareness of the close linkage between the conversation of biodiversity and economic development.

Most of the chapters include findings of investigations and observations on biodiversity, whilst a few are based on statistically and theoretically derived information. The book produced sufficient information on the occurrence and distribution of many plant and animal species or groups of organisms with environmental estimates from a wide variety of interesting terrestrial and aquatic habitats.

Contents
1 Impacts of Climate Change and Climate Variability on Wildlife Resources in Southern Africa: Experience from Selected Protected Areas in Zimbabwe
2 Biological Conservation and Nature Protection Strategies in Spanish Atlantic Region
3 Methods for Biodiversity Assessment: Case Study in an Area of Atlantic Forest in Southern Brazil
4 Seabed Biodiversity Shifts Identify Climate Regimes: The 2011 Climate Regime Shift and Associated Cascades
5 Safeguarding Marine Biodiversity in a Changing World: Maltese Small-Scale Fisheries and Alien Species
6 Biodiversity of Amphipoda Talitridae in Tunisian Wetlands
7 Biodiversity Restoration and Renewable Energy from Hydropower: Conflict or Synergy?
8 Determinants of Orchid Occurrence: A Czech Example
9 Dark-Colored Forest Bee Apis mellifera in Siberia, Russia: Current State and Conservation of Populations
10 Integration of Ecological and Socioeconomic Factors in Securing Wildlife Dispersal Corridors in the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area, Southern Africa
11 Usefulness of Plant Biodiversity in the Cities of Togo
12 Towards an Integrative Taxonomy of the Genus Alstroemeria (Alstroemeriaceae) in Chile: A Comprehensive Review
13 Ecosystem Services Provided by the Little Things That Run the World
14 Commercial Harvesting of Marula (Sclerocarya Birrea) in Swaziland: A Quest for Sustainability
15 Synopsis of Mangle Species in Mexico
16 Positive Rules Can Lead to Positive Behaviours: Students' Perceptions of Messages on Information Boards in Protected Areas
17 Prey Selection of Pseudorasbora parva (Temminck and Schlegel, 1846) in a Freshwater Ecosystem (Lake Egirdir/Turkey)
18 Importance of Underutilized Field Crops for Increasing Functional Biodiversity