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The karst landforms of China are renowned around the world for the
beauty of their landscapes, but it is less well appreciated that
they also contain extensive cave systems with very significant
underwater habitats. China also has an extremely high level of
biodiversity, including over 1,500 freshwater fish species.
Unsurprisingly, some of these species inhabit the karst cave
systems and have flourished and diversified under unique
environmental conditions. As a result, cave fishes in China are
particularly abundant and diverse when compared to those of other
countries of the world. These remarkable fishes have received
considerable research attention from Chinese ichthyologists and,
for the first time, this book makes their resulting findings
directly accessible to the English-speaking world through a
remarkable endeavour of Sino-British collaboration.
There are many books on biological control, but this will bring up
to date the regulatory and other specific challenges facing
biological control, and how they are being met. It is the first
book to bring together a comprehensive account of global activities
in biological control, region-by-region, amalgamating information
from introduction biological control, conservation biological
control and augmentative biological control (including commercial
use). Offers a historical summary of organisms and main strategies
used in biological control. Outlines key challenges confronting
biological control in the 21st century and describes the main
socioeconomic challenges that need to be addressed. Global
overview: summarises biological control efforts around the globe
and highlights important successes and failures, providing
suggestions to best move biological control forward in a changing
world. Biological control is a fairly specialized field but one
that is spread across a broad array of socio-environments in
agriculture and public health around the world. There is also a
significant regulatory component to a subset of this field
(classical biological control) that researchers must navigate to
achieve the aims of their research and its application. This book
will help!
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