Integrative Observations and Assessments [Hardcover]

This volume focuses on new trends in monitoring biodiversity in the Asia-Pacific region, one of the most rapidly changing areas in the world. It provides reviews of the challenges in studying the spatial variability of biodiversity across various ecosystems. This book also describes newly developed concepts and methods for biodiversity observation including ubiquitous genotyping, systematic conservation, monitoring of the functions and services of ecosystems and biodiversity informatics. These contributions will lead to establishing integrative observations and assessments of biodiversity, essential for reporting the current status and for the effective conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity. This work will interest biodiversity researchers not only in the Asia-Pacific region but also across the entire globe.

?Preface.- Part 1 General introduction: perspectives for spatial variability within an ecosystem and interdependence between various ecosystems.- 1 Asian biodiversity network as the linkage with other major global bodies.- 2 Effects of ecosystem diversity on species richness and ecosystem functioning and services: a general conceptualization.- Part 2 Status quo of biodiversity monitoring.- 3 Monitoring breeding bird population in Taiwan.- 4 Current status of the national coral database in Japan: dataset development, applications and future directions.- 5 Development of a large-scale, long-term coral cover and disturbance database in the Philippines.- 6 Zooxanthellate scleractinian corals of Jeju Island, Republic of Korea.- 7 Landscape mosaicness in the ocean: its significance for biodiversity patterns in benthic organisms anl3v