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Biodiversity Conservation, Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change: A Complex Interrelationship

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Biodiversity means a variety of life forms. Regions, home to many different species, are high in biodiversity. Ecosystems with high biodiversity are characterized by complex interactions between different species, which can help the ecosystem remain intact and healthy in the face of disturbance and environmental change. For this reason, looking at biodiversity is a good parameter for assessing the overall health of an ecosystem. Beside habitat loss and fragmentation, overexploitation, pollution, and the impact of invasive alien species, climate change is a serious environmental challenge that could undermine the drive for sustainable development. As a result, governments, communities, and civil society are increasingly concerned with anticipating the future effects of climate change while searching for strategies to mitigate, and adapt to, it’s ill effects.

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    I. S. Bisht

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    Sunil Nautiyal

  2. , Department of Botany, University of Delhi, University Road, Delhi, 110007, India

    K.S. Rao

  3. Landscape Research, Institute of Socioeconomics, Leibniz Centre for Agricultural, Eberswalder Str 84, Müncheberg, 15374, Germany

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  5. , Centre for Environmental System Research, University of Kassel, Wilhelmshöher Allee 47, Kassel, 34119, Germany

    Ruediger Schaldach

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Bisht, I.S. (2013). Biodiversity Conservation, Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change: A Complex Interrelationship. In: Nautiyal, S., Rao, K., Kaechele, H., Raju, K., Schaldach, R. (eds) Knowledge Systems of Societies for Adaptation and Mitigation of Impacts of Climate Change. Environmental Science and Engineering(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36143-2_8

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