This new volume focuses on the biodiversity of the Mediterranean Basin, a very heterogeneous area with an extremely complex geological history where, within a few kilometers, there is a gradient of microhabitats that goes from the coasts with a Mediterranean climate to high altitude mesophilic areas.Stretching from the archipelago of Cabo Verde in the west to Jordan and Turkey in the east, the region is well known for its exceptional richness in biodiversity and its high rate of en...

The Indo-Burma Biodiversity Hotspot, spanning over two million total square kilometers, covers parts of Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, southern China, northeast India, and Bangladesh. It is one of the world 36 biodiversity hotspots and is considered one of the most biologically important regions on Earth. The hotspot is home to a remarkable diversity of plants and animals.This new volume covers a range of diverse topics, including studies of the paleoclimatic oscillati...

Biodiversity is declining at an alarming rate due to anthropogenic activities around the world. As a part of the new series Biodiversity Hotspots of the World, which highlights the 36 hotspot regions of the world, this new book covers the Eastern Afromontane, encompassing regions of Africa and Arabia. This series is our humble attempt to document the various hotspots around the world as a conservation and preservation measure.The concise volumes in this series focus on the most int...

Biodiversity is declining at an alarming rate due to anthropogenic activities around the world. This book is part of the new series Biodiversity Hotspots of the World, which highlights the 36 hotspot regions of the world that are Earth's most biologically rich but threatened terrestrial regions, each defined by having at least 1,500 endemic plant species and having lost at least 70% of its original natural vegetation.This volume covers the Coastal Forests of Eastern Africa...

Pollution refers to the negative impact of human activity on the environment, posing risks to human health, ecosystems, and economic growth. Environmental sciences, an interdisciplinary field, investigates the influence of humans on the environment and solutions to solve problems.The present book, encompassing ten chapters, covers the impacts of aerosol, and bioaerosol pollution, ozone and black carbon, micro plastics on marine life, rare earth elements, the environmental impact of...

This book provides an in-depth and comprehensive overview of andrographolides and their analogues, highlighting their botanical origins, phytochemistry, pharmacological properties, and biotechnological applications. It explores the isolation, purification, and spectroscopic characterization of andrographolides from natural sources, emphasizing their therapeutic potential in antidiabetic studies and other medicinal uses. The book also explains cultivation techniques, agronomic strategies fo...

This book provides an in-depth and comprehensive overview of andrographolides and their analogues, highlighting their botanical origins, phytochemistry, pharmacological properties, and biotechnological applications. It explores the isolation, purification, and spectroscopic characterization of andrographolides from natural sources, emphasizing their therapeutic potential in antidiabetic studies and other medicinal uses. The book also explains cultivation techniques, agronomic strategies fo...

This book provides comprehensive information on tropane alkaloids, from their discovery to their pharmacological applications and biotechnological production. It focuses on the challenges and opportunities in the sustainable utilization of tropane alkaloid-yielding plants. The book serves as a desk reference for pharmacologists, biomedical scientists, biotechnologists, and herbal drug manufacturers, offering detailed insights into tropane alkaloid research from discovery to commercial prod...

Nature gives us ample opportunity to understand and observe her secrets, and scientists and inventors can and do study the characteristics of things in nature to come up with amazing and astonishing technologies and products invented as a result.This new volume provides a sampling of technological issues that have been tackled with the help of biologically inspired engineering, by such things in nature as bionic plants, the lotus leaf, insects and beetles, geckos, bats, spiders, an...

This book provides a comprehensive overview of plants and plant-derived phytochemicals in the management of cardiovascular diseases. It presents the cardioprotective potential of plants and phytochemicals, covering various preclinical models, assays, and clinical research protocols of plant medicine for cardioprotection. Chapters cover the role of plants and phytochemicals in prevention and cure of atherosclerosis, hypertension, cardiomyopathy, arrhythmia, myocardial ischemia, cardiotoxici...

Polysaccharide gums have a wide range of applications due to their hydrophilic properties. They have been used as a gelling agent, encapsulating agent, thickener, emulsifier, and stabilizer. Sourcing natural gums from botanical and plant sources has become an important focus in producing acceptable food ingredients in liquids and semi-solid forms. This is mainly because of the positive attitude of consumers toward plant-based gums rather than other gums from animal and microbial sources.

Plants are a source of bioactive compounds and specialty chemicals such as ginsenosides; paclitaxel, artemisinin, veregen and nutraceuticals. Biopharmaceuticals are important in human healthcare, and herbal actives are gaining importance all over the world. With natural resources dwindling, in vitro production of secondary compounds on a commercial scale is being more and more required. The difficulties that are increasingly encountered in procuring ample supply of raw plant material becau...