Marine, Freshwater, and Wetlands Biodiversity Conservation

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Extinction of fen and bog plants and their habitats in Croatia

Chapter 3 Floristic and ecological diversity of Ranunculus aquatic habitats in the sub-Atlantic range: implications for conservation

Chapter 4 Testing the higher-taxon approach: a case study of aquatic marcophytes in China’s northwest arid zone and its implications for conservation

Chapter 5 Aquatic plants diversity in arid zones of Northwest China: patterns, threats and conservation

Chapter 6 Red Data List of Charophytes in the Balkans

Chapter 7 Seasonal changes in bird species diversity at the interface between forest and reed-bed

Chapter 8 Plant-water regime management in a wetland: consequences for a floating vegetation-nesting bird, whiskered tern Chlidonias hybridus

Chapter 9 Population trends and calling phenology of anuran populations surveyed in Ontario estimated using acoustic surveys

Chapter 10 Diversity of anurans across agricultural ponds in Argentina

Chapter 11 Species turnover: the case of stream amphibians of rainforests in the Western Ghats, southern India

Chapter 12 Small-scale biogeographical patterns in some groundwater Crustacea, the syncarid, Parabathynellidae.

Chapter 13 Freshwater finfish biodiversity and conservation: an asian perspective

Chapter 14 The upper reached ichthyofauna of the Tietê River, São Paulo, Brazil: aspects of their diversity and conservation

Chapter 15 Captive breeding of endangered fish Chitala chitala (Hamilton-Buchanan) for species conservation and sustainable utilization

Chapter 16 Distinctive invertebrate assemblages in rockface seepages enhance lotic biodiversity in northern New Zealand

Chapter 17 Rare, threatened and alien species in the gastropod communities in the clay pit ponds in relation to the environmental factors (The Ciechanowska Upland, Central Poland)

Chapter 18 Littoral mollusc communities and water quality in southern Lake Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Chapter 19 Coral diversity across a disturbance gradient in the Pulau Seribu reef complex off Jakarta, Indonesia

Chapter 20 Biological characterisation of a subtidal tunnel in São Miguel island (Azores)

Chapter 21 Faunal change and bathymetric diversity gradient in deep-sea prosobranchs from Northeastern Atlantic

Chapter 22 Distribution and abundance of marine turtles in the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam

Chapter 23 Invertebrate infestation on eggs and hatchlings of the loggerhead turtle, Caretta caretta , in Dalaman, Turkey

Chapter 24 Marine sponges of the Dampier Archipelago, Western Australia: patterns of species distributions, abundance and diversity

Chapter 25 Effects of habitat alteration caused by petrochemical activities and oil spills on the habitat use and interspecific relationships among four species of Afrotropical freshwater turtles