Focusing on the principles and practices of medicinal plant conservation and cultivation, this book offers an updated exploration of ethnobotany and herbal medicine. It addresses contemporary issues and trends, enhancing understanding through revised content and illustrations. Readers will find valuable insights into the sustainable utilization of medicinal plants, making it a vital resource for those interested in botany, conservation, and herbal practices.
Climate change is one of the greatest challenges of the 21st century. Climate is changing across our planet, largely, as a result of human activities. The indicators of climate change include physical responses such as changes in the surface temperature, atmospheric water vapour, severe climatic events, melting of glaciers, and a rise in sea level. Mountain ecosystems being exceptionally fragile are prone to both natural and anthropogenic drivers of change, which ranges from volcanic and seismic events and flooding to global climate change and of vegetation and soils, resulting from inappropriate agricultural and forestry practices and extractive industries. Environmental issues directly affect agricultural productivity, famine and pandemics, health, economy, and ecology. In this light, environmental protection, the practice of protecting the environment on individual, community, organizational, or governmental level, assumes a significant role. This book provides a holistic coverage of the basics of climate change, changes in biodiversity, phytosociological changes, and thus proposes a comprehensive set of solutions to resolve various issues related to environment and climate change. This book would be beneficial for researchers, policy makers, academicians, environmentalists, and university students.
Biodiversity is basic for adjustment of a biological system, ensuring of general condition, quality and for understanding the natural worth of all species on earth. The fish fauna diversity has its significance like other aquatic and terrestrial animals. Water is an elixir of life; it is the source of energy, govern the evaluation and function of the universe on the earth. The water resources, which hold the biological life, have undergone considerable change in its quality on account of interference by the human and natural phenomenon. This is more specific to the Himalayan region on the account of fast-changing climatic and natural phenomenon. In past, construction of dam or barrages across on many rivers for hydroelectric power generation, irrigation, and navigation purposes have interfered with the riverine environment, inevitable affecting the fishery resources of the concerned rivers. The existing dam or barrages are poison threat to food and feeding habit, spawning biology and fish migration. They are altering and magnitude, chronology, quality of streams flows below dams and effecting fish stock.
