**Meet the editor**

Dr Lameed, Stephen Gbolagade Akeem is a Reader (Associate Professor) in the Department of Wildlife and Ecotourism Management, Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry; University of Ibadan. Nigeria. Before joining the University service in 1996, he had worked in the field of Natural Resources Management at National Park Service in Nigeria as Park Officer. He specializes

in Wildlife Ecology with specialties in Primate - ecology, Environmental Impact Assessment on Wildlife, socio-economics/eco-tourism and domestications of some indigenous wildlife such as cane-rat/grasscutter, snailery and guineafowl. Dr Lameed graduated from the University of Ibadan with Bachelor degree in Wildlife and Range Management in 1988. He also batched his Master and Doctorate degrees in the same field of knowledge within the year 1993 to 1999.

Contents

**Preface IX** 

**Section 1 Agricultural Science 1** 

Chapter 3 **Soil Fauna Diversity –** 

Cristina Menta

**Section 2 Genetics and Life Sciences 95** 

**Agroecosystems and Agricultural Landscapes 3** 

**of Biodiversity and Ecosystems in the Tropics 23** 

F.F. Goulart, T.K.B. Jacobson, B.Q.C. Zimbres, R.B. Machado, L.M.S. Aguiar and G.W. Fernandes

**Biological Indices, Soil Restoration 59** 

Chapter 4 **Species Distribution Patterns, Species-Area and Species-**

Chapter 5 **Biological Identifications Through DNA Barcodes 109**  Hassan A. I. Ramadan and Nabih A. Baeshen

**Section 3 Physical Sciences, Engineering and Technology 129** 

**Conservation in Lower Prut Basin 131** 

Chapter 7 **Image Processing for Spider Classification 159**  Jaime R. Ticay-Rivas, Marcos del Pozo-Baños, Miguel A. Gutiérrez-Ramos, William G. Eberhard,

Carlos M. Travieso and Alonso B. Jesús

**Temperature Relationships in Eastern Asian Plants 97** 

Dariusz Jaskulski and Iwona Jaskulska

Chapter 2 **Agricultural SystemS and the Conservation** 

**Function, Soil Degradation,** 

Jianming Deng and Qiang Zhang

Chapter 6 **Integrated Measurements for Biodiversity** 

Florin Vartolomei

Chapter 1 **Plant Diversity in** 
