Plant and Animal Diversity Research

Radical changes in land use and natural resource governance over the past century have resulted in rapid degradation of our native ecosystems and biodiversity. The time has come to conserve biodiversity for sustainable development by comprehensive plan designed for the benefit of the entire world. Preserving global biodiversity is a priority in strategic conservation plans that are designed to engage public policy and concerns affecting local, regional and global scales of communities, ecosystems, and cultures. This book constitutes research and review papers on various topics like diversity of medicinal plants, animals, phytoplanktons, zooplanktons, aero bio components, fungi from soil, decomposing leaf , water, biodiversity and environmental sustainability, sustainable development etc. written by professors and researchers. This book is useful for researchers, academicians, students, nature lovers, environmentalists, government officials and policy makers etc.