دراسة التنوع الاحيائي في بحيرة الرزازة و المناطق المجاورة

الملخص EN

Biodiversity consider one of most important resources for peoples and nations and they responsible for their conservation.

Healthy biodiversity responsible for huge numbers of environmental process and goods which life could not continue without them, such as decomposition of organic refuses , air purification, soils conservation ….etc.

Therefore, biodiversity studies are important for environment protection.

The biodiversity studies should give priority to the affected areas that need to special care and number of argent acts which able to eliminate the bad consequences.

Razzaza Lake which considers the second largest lake in Iraq for fresh water was badly affected as results of their decreasing water quantity and increasing salinity.

These factors contributed to destroy many of their biodiversity.

Such factors extended their bad effects to the neighboring areas.

The current study aimed to monitoring such changes depending mainly on field surveys which conducted between 2009 and 2010, authors field observations and on published data from literatures.

The current study referred to the available species inside razzaza lake and at neighboring areas and they were as fallow : Fishes ,2 ; amphibians,2 ; reptiles,15 ; birds , 37 ; mammals , 8 and plants , 64 .