Hungary, in climate change and ecosystem ecology, acarology, entomology, biogeography, biometrics, and ecological research methodology. He has more than 20 years of experience at leading Hungarian academic institutions teaching PhD, MSc, and BSc students from various social and cultural backgrounds. He has more than 200 scientific publications (in both aquatic and terrestrial ecological aspects of plants, animals, and microbes, at community as well as population level) and more than 900

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... ent citations. As a participant of several big ecological research and development projects, he has significant experience in multidisciplinary cooperations (with more than 180 coauthors in different publications). As the supervisor of several PhD, BSc, and MSc theses, and as editor-in-chief of an international scientific journal indexed by Web of Science and Scopus, he has wide supervising and editing experience. Dr. Hufnagel graduated from Eötvös Lorand University with a Master's degree in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and a PhD degree in Hydrobiology. He also graduated from Szent István University with a PhD degree in Agricultural Science. Contents Preface XIII Section 1 General Aspects 1 Chapter 1 3 Introductory Chapter: The Present Global Ecological Crisis in the Light of the Mass Extinctions of Earth History by Levente Hufnagel, Melinda Pálinkás, Ferenc Mics and Réka Homoródi Section 2 Specific Aspects and Case Studies 13 Chapter 2 15 Valuing Caribbean Biodiversity Knowledge