**Meet the editor**

Oscar Grillo was born in Catania (Sicily) in 1977, he is a food technologist with an international PhD in applied and environmental botany. Since 2003 he has been working as researcher at the Stazione Sperimentale di Granicoltura per la Sicilia, a governmental institute of agronomic research, mainly working with computer vision applied to food matrices and plant structures, above

all seeds, and in particular studying wheat and the related leguminous. Currently, he is collaborating with the Sardinian Germplasm Bank of the Biodiversity Conservation Centre of the University of Cagliari on projects devoted to seed characterization and identification by image analysis. He is also working as supervisor for many MSc and PhD students, making their own contributions to the agronomical and botanical research. Results of his work have been published in many peer-reviewed journals and international conference papers. Referee for a few peer-reviewed journals, many times he has been invited as visiting professor by national and international universities and research centres.

Contents

**Preface VII**

**Landscapes 1**

**of the Future 69** Stéphane La Barre

**South India 95**

Herzig

Chapter 1 **Prioritising Land-Use Decisions for the Optimal Delivery of**

Chapter 2 **Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning: a Conceptual Model**

Dalana C. Muscardi, José H. Schoereder and Carlos F. Sperber

Indira P. Sarethy, Sharadwata Pan and Michael K. Danquah

Chapter 4 **Marine Biodiversity and Chemodiversity — The Treasure Troves**

Chapter 5 **Protection of Riparian Habitats to Conserve Keystone Species**

Chapter 6 **Evolution, Biodiversity and Ecology in Microbial Communities:**

Chapter 7 **Diversity and Abundance of Fish Larvae Drifting in the Madeira**

**Evolutionary Constructor" Software Tool 111**

Valentin V. Suslov and Nikolay A. Kolchanov

B.C. Nagaraja, C. Sunil and R.K. Somashekar

**with Reference to Terminalia arjuna – A Case Study from**

**Mathematical Modeling and Simulation with the "Haploid**

**River, Amazon Basin: Sampling Methods Comparison 137** R. Barthem, M.C. da Costa, F. Cassemiro, R.G. Leite and N. Silva Jr.

Sergey A. Lashin, Yury G. Matushkin, Alexandra I. Klimenko,

**of Leaf Litter Decomposition 33**

Chapter 3 **Modern Taxonomy for Microbial Diversity 51**

**Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity Protection in Productive**

Emily S. Weeks, Norm Mason, Anne-Gaelle E. Ausseil and Alexander
