**Meet the editors**

Bülent Şen graduated from the Faculty of Science, Ankara University, and was granted by the Turkish Government to carry out his postgraduate studies abroad. He was accepted by Bristol University (United Kingdom) and completed his PhD degree course under the supervision of the world's famous phycologist Professor F.E. Round. He continued to produce researches both on

algal ecology and algal culture since then, and one of his conspicuous research brought him an award of Bold Award Committee (USA) in 1991. He supervised many MSc and PhD theses and produced over 100 articles and 5 books. He became a professor in 1994 and was appointed as the dean of Fisheries Faculty. He has been a vice rector between 2008 and 2012. Professor Sen is a member of the Board of the *Turkish Journal of Botany* published by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey. He has also been a member of many international phycological associations and an editor of *NWSA Journal*.

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

structures, especially seeds, and in particular studying wheat and the related leguminous species. For many years, he collaborated 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 a supervisor for many MSc and PhD degree 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. As a referee for a few peer-reviewed journals, many times, he has been invited as a visiting professor by national and international universities and research centres.

Contents

**Preface IX**

Nhamo

Casemiro Soares

**Wetlands 101**

Gibbs

Chapter 1 **Impacts of Climate Change and Climate Variability on Wildlife Resources in Southern Africa: Experience from Selected**

Chapter 2 **Biological Conservation and Nature Protection Strategies in**

Chapter 3 **Methods for Biodiversity Assessment: Case Study in an Area of**

Chapter 4 **Seabed Biodiversity Shifts Identify Climate Regimes: The 2011 Climate Regime Shift and Associated Cascades 59**

**Maltese Small-Scale Fisheries and Alien Species 83**

Jelassi Raja, Khemaissia Hajer and Nasri-Ammar Karima

Chapter 5 **Safeguarding Marine Biodiversity in a Changing World:**

Chapter 6 **Biodiversity of Amphipoda Talitridae in Tunisian**

Maria Raquel Kanieski, Solon Jonas Longhi and Philipe Ricardo

Jeffrey B. Marliave, Donna M. Gibbs, Laura A. Borden and Charles J.

Javier Ferreiro da Costa and Pablo Ramil-Rego

**Atlantic Forest in Southern Brazil 45**

Olga L. Kupika, Edson Gandiwa, Shakkie Kativu and Godwell

**Protected Areas in Zimbabwe 1**

**Spanish Atlantic Region 25**

Adriana Vella and Noel Vella
