This book presents a series of essays on how the results of monitoring and assessment of different aspects of plant biodiversity can be used to combat species extinction and ecosystem collapse using case studies from around the world in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Contributions by: Maria Amélia Martins-Loução, Gisela Gaio-Oliveira, Mohammad Maqbool Mir, Umar Iqbal, Shafat Ahmad Banday, Sheikh Mehraj, Shabir Ahmad Mir, Munib ur Rehman, Ghulam Hasan Rather, Sunit Mitra, Sobhan Kumar Mukherjee, Kathryn E Barry, Stefan A Schnitzer, Munir Ozturk, Volkan Altay, Salih Gucel, Sanjeev Kumar, Syed Baker, K S Kavitha, P. Azmath, D Rakshith, B P Harini, S Satish, Asma-Hammami Semmar, Nabil Semmar, Otília Correia, Lia Ascensão, Sulaiman Mohammad Al-Ghanim, Zahid Khorshid Abbas, Fahad Mohammed Alzeibar, Subrata Trivedi, Hasibur Rehman, Shalini Saggu, Anand Mohan, Mudasir Irfan Dar, Mohd Irfan Naikoo, Fareed Ahmad Khan, Farha Rehman, Fouzia Nousheen, Tarique Hassan Askary, Mohammad Mobin, H C Yashavantha Rao, Martin T Dokulil, Gopal Shukla, Nazir A Pala, Saikat Gantait, Sumit Chakravarty, Jyoti K Sharma, Saiful Islam, S M Sundarapandian, K Subashree, Pundarikakshudu Tetali, Sujata Tetali, Sankar K Ghosh, Anjula Pandey, K Pradheep, K S Negi, José Antonio González, Ana Maria Carvalho, Francisco Amich, Uma Rani Sinniah, Narayan Chandra Sahu, Abir Sarraj, Meg Trau, Robin Owings, Nishanta Rajakaruna, Petros Ganatsas, Disha Jaggi, Mayank Varun, Saurabh Pagare, Niraj Tripathi, Meenal Rathore, Raghwendra Singh, Bhumesh Kumar