TY - CHAP AU - Lucia Vieira Hoffmann AU - Tereza Cristina de Oliveira Borba AU - Laísa Nogueira Allem AU - Paulo Augusto Vianna Barroso AU - Raquel Neves de Mello ED - Adriano Sofo Y1 - 2011-10-10 PY - 2011 T1 - Biodiversity Measures in Agriculture Using DNA N2 - Biodiversity is strongly affected by the rapid and accelerating changes in the global climate, which largely stem from human activity. Anthropogenic activities are causing highly influential impacts on species persistence. The sustained environmental change wildlife is experiencing may surpass the capacity of developmental, genetic, and demographic mechanisms that populations have developed to deal with these alterations. How biodiversity is perceived and maintained affects ecosystem functioning as well as how the goods and services that ecosystems provide to humans can be used. Recognizing biodiversity is essential to preserve wildlife. Furthermore, the measure, management and protection of ecosystem biodiversity requires different and innovative approaches. For all these reasons, the aim of the present book is to give an up-to-date overview of the studies on biodiversity at all levels, in order to better understand the dynamics and the mechanisms at the basis of the richness of life forms both in terrestrial (including agro-ecosystems) and marine environments. BT - Biodiversity SP - Ch. 6 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/23565 DO - 10.5772/23565 SN - PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-03-29 ER -