TY  - BOOK
AU  - Thieme,Michele L.
TI  - Freshwater ecoregions of Africa and Madagascar: a conservation assessment 
SN  - 9781441608932
AV  - QH77.A35 F74 2005eb
U1  - 333.95/2816/096 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Washington
PB  - Island Press
KW  - Biodiversity conservation
KW  - Africa
KW  - Ecological regions
KW  - Freshwater ecology
KW  - Madagascar
KW  - Biodiversité
KW  - Conservation
KW  - Afrique
KW  - Écorégions
KW  - Écologie d'eau douce
KW  - SCIENCE
KW  - Life Sciences
KW  - Biological Diversity
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - NATURE
KW  - Animals
KW  - Wildlife
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-415) and index; About Island Press -- Title Page -- Copyrights Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Special Essays -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Boxes -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Ch. 1: Introduction -- The Evolution and Diversity of Africa's Freshwater Systems -- Threats -- Structure of the Book -- Essay 1.1: Contribution of Inland Fisheries to Rural Livelihoods and Food Security in Africa: an Overview -- Essay 1.2: The Economic Value of Africa's Wetlands -- Essay 1.3: Dragonflies: Sensitive Indicators of Freshwater Health -- Ch. 2: Approach; Geographic Scope of the Study -- Ecoregions and Bioregions -- Freshwater Habitat Types -- Conceptual Foundations -- Elements of Analysis: Biological Distinctiveness and Conservation Staus Indexes -- Integrating Biological Distinctiveness and Conservation Status -- Ch. 3: Biological Distinctiveness of African Ecoregions -- Africa and Madagascar's Fresh Waters: Teeming wiht Life -- Species Biological Values -- Combining Species Richness and Endemism: Preliminary Biological Distinctiveness -- Nonspecies Biological Values -- Synthesis of Biological Distinctiveness Data -- Conclusions; Essay 3.1: Freshwater Fish Biodiversity in the Congo Basin -- Essay 3.2: Freshwater Fish Biodiversity in the Congo Basin -- Essay 3.3: Baseline Fish Biodiversity Surveys: African Wildlife Foundations Experiences from the Zambezi River, Southern Africa -- Essay 3.4: Cichlid Species Flocks in Small Cameroonian Lakes -- Essay 3.5: The Niger Delta in Nigeria: A Hotspot and a Crossroad for Freshwater Fish Biodiversity -- Essay 3.6: Madagascar's Freshwater Fishes: An Imperiled Treasure -- Ch. 4: Reversing the Flow: Conservation Status of Africa's Freshwater Ecoregions -- Snapshot Conservation Status; Future Threat Assessment -- Final Conservation Status -- Essay 4.1: Invasive Alien Species in African Freshwater Ecosystems -- Essay 4.2: Impacts of Fishing on Inland Fish Populations in Africa -- Essay 4.3: Climate Change, Human Water Use, and Freshwater Ecosystems in Africa: Looking toward the Future -- Ch. 5: Setting Priorities for Biodiversity Conservation among Africa's Freshwater Ecoregion -- The Priority-Setting Matrix -- Integrating Biological Importance and Conservation Status Indexes: Where to Act First -- Priority Ecoregions -- Comparison with Other Priority-Setting Exercises
N2  - Essay 5.1: Safeguarding Human Health, Safeguarding Aquatic Snail Diversity: Conflicting Goals? -- Ch. 6: Africa's Freshwater Systems and Their Future -- Who's Watching the Water -- Conservation Planning in Ecoregions and River Basins -- Visionary Work in Freshwater Ecoregions and River Basins -- Challenges to Freshwater Conservation and Sustainable Development in Africa and Madagascar -- Essay 6.1: The Convention on Wetlands (Ramsar): An International Treaty Sparks Freshwater Conservation -- Essay 6.2: Lake Naivasha, Kenya: Community Management of a Ramsar Site
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