Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction -- Amphibian diversity and natural history: an overview -- Essentials of standardization and quantification -- Research design for quantitative amphibian studies -- Keys to a successful project: associated data and planning -- Standard techniques for inventory and monitoring -- Supplemental approaches to studying amphibian biodiversity -- Estimating population size -- Analysis of amphibian biodiversity data -- Conclusion and recommendations -- Handling live amphibians -- Techniques for marking amphibians -- Recording frog calls -- Preparing amphibians as scientific specimens -- Collecting tissue for biochemical analysis -- Vendors -- Table of random numbers.…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction: Setting the scene -- Outcomes from the WSSD -- Environment : the path of global environmental governance : form and function in historical perspective -- Economy : the economic problem of sustainable governance -- Society : participation and engagement -- Water : water and governance -- Energy : energy governance, poverty, and sustainable development -- Health : health and sustainable development : addressing the challenges post Johannesburg -- Agriculture : improving governance for food security and agriculture -- Biodiversity : biodiversity governance after Johannesburg -- Conclusion: Where next?.…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The tropical environment -- Hot deserts and environmental factors -- Grasslands and primary production -- Savanna and population dynamics -- Lakes, energy flow and biogeochemical cycling -- Rivers, floodplains and estuaries: the flood-pulse and river continuum concepts -- Wetlands and succession -- Tropical rain forests and biodiversity -- Mountains, zonation and community gradients -- Mangroves, seagrasses and decomposition -- Coral reefs and community ecology -- Isolated habitats and biogeography: islands in the sea, air and land -- Cities and human ecology -- Global ecology: biodiversity conservation, climate change and sustainable development.…”