Environmental Impact on Biodiversity
Contents: 1. Biodiversity conservation: status, planning and legal aspects in India/B.R. Bamniya, Neelima Nair, Dhavan Saini, M.G. Ranjitkar and Dharmender Kumar. 2. Impact of biosolids on agriculture and biodiversity/M.L. Dotaniya, V.D. Meena, Kuldeep Kumar, B.P. Meena, S.L. Jat, Manju Lata, Asha Ram, C.K. Dotaniya and M. Sreenivasa Chari. 3. Threat to aquatic biodiversity of arid regions: a review on dyeing units in Rajasthan/Rohini Trivedi and Anuya Verma. 4. Role of environmental impact assessment in biodiversity conservation/Charu Jhamaria. 5. Sariska tiger reserve Vis-a Vis global biodiversity/Manju Lata and Deepa Johari. 6. Aquatic bird diversity and their conservation problems in Southern Rajasthan/Vijay Kumar Koli. 7. Diversification through high yielding varieties of wheat (Triticum aesivum L. ) under front line demonstrations in Jhalawar district of Rajasthan/Arjun Kumar Verma. 8. Effect of Water stress and Ethephon on Nitrogen Metabolism in cenchrus setigerus 76-AC4 grass/Reena Bora. 9. Evaluation of microbial activity and nitrogen assimilatory enzymes, and identification of B-sitosterol in C4 grasses of Thar Desert/Premlata Singariya, Krishan Kumar Mourya and B.r. Gadi. 10. Bioavailability and impact of heavy metals on survival of plants/Monalisa, Praveen Mohil and Shalini Rawat. 11. Conservation genetics: a new approach to protect threatened plants/Harish and Pallavi Saxena. 12. Isolation of microorganism from Rhizosphere and Rhizoplane/Lalchand P. Dalal. 13. Wildlife diversity of desert national park, Jaisalmer (Raj.)/B.R. Jaipal. 14. The changing scenario of desert antelopes population in Western Rajasthan of India/H.S. Gehlot. 15. Impact of climate change on biodiversity: an overview of Udaipur region/Hemlata Lohar and Shilpi Sadhu. 16. Managing the unseen: ecological interactions and biodiversity conservation/D.M. Kumawat and Santosh Kumar Sharma. 17. Environmental pollution: impact on biodiversity and human health/Pranab Pal. 18. Some orans in Thar Desert of India and their role in biodiversity conservation/B.R. Gadi, C.R. Gadi and K.R. Panwar. 19. Threatened plants of the arid region of Rajasthan/R.K. Gehlot, Vinod Kumari and G.K. Barupal. 20. Traditional uses of ethno-medicinal and nutritive plants by tribals of Southern Rajasthan/B.R. Bamniya, C.S. Kapoor and R.S. Meena. 21. Sources and phytotoxicity of fluorides in the environment/B.R. Gadi, Kavita Bhati, Bhuwnesh Goswami, Rekha Rankawat, Suresh Kumar, Ramesh Kumar, Amra Ram, Verma Pooja, Vidhya Laxmi and Premlata Singariya. 22. Tourism development in Desert tourist circuit of Jaisalmer: impacts on its socio-cultural and biodiversity/C.R. Gadi and R.D. Doi.
Environmental impacts on biodiversity are a well-compiled book that covers the various dimensions of environments and biodiversity. In the present book, we present a collection of 22 chapters related to environmental impacts on biodiversity. It includes changes in biodiversity by climate change, tourism and some adverse environmental factors such as heavy metals fluoride, water shortage, salinity, pollutants and biotic interferences.
With increase in industrialization and urbanization, pollution is becoming a global problem. Plants have mechanisms (metabolic and enzymatic) to survive in such sub-optimal conditions. There has been a growing awareness about the hazards of atmospheric pollution during the past many decades. Air pollutants be able to hurt ecological resources, as well as water superiority, soils, plants, in addition to humans, birds and other animals. The problems of overpopulation, overconsumption, development and industrialization are intertwined and the causes are not singular and straight forward.
In India, ecologically unique and biodiversity rich regions are legally protected as biosphere reserves, national parks and sanctuaries. Important Indian Acts, Policies related to environmental and bio-Diversity and strategic plan for biodiversity 2011-2020 have been well discussed.
