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Author Aber, James S.

Title Wetland environments : a global perspective / James Sandusky Aber, Firooza Pavri, Susan Ward Aber
Published Hoboken, NJ : Wiley, 2012
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Contents Machine generated contents note: Part I -- 1.Wetland overview -- 1.1.Introduction -- 1.2.How much and where -- 1.3.Wetland trends -- 1.4.Wetland preservation and protection -- 1.5.Wetland science -- 1.6.Book approach and outline -- 1.7.Summary -- 2.Wetland criteria -- 2.1.Definitions -- 2.2.Water -- 2.3.Soil -- 2.4.Vegetation -- 2.5.Wetland classification -- 2.6.Peatland -- 2.7.Anthropogenic dimensions of wetlands -- 2.8.Summary -- 3.Methods in wetland research -- 3.1.Introduction -- 3.2.Remote sensing -- 3.2.1.Image resolution and interpretability -- 3.2.2.Wetland image interpretation -- 3.2.3.Macro-level systems -- 3.2.4.Meso-level systems -- 3.2.5.Micro-level systems -- 3.3.Maps and geographic information systems -- 3.4.Physical ground-based methods -- 3.4.1.Surface methods -- 3.4.2.Subsurface methods -- 3.5.Flora, fauna and ecological monitoring and survey methods -- 3.6.Social science methods and techniques -- 3.7.Summary -- Part II -- 4.Wetland hydrology -- 4.1.Introduction -- 4.2.Surface and ground water -- 4.3.Floods and flooding -- 4.4.Hydrologic functions of streams and wetlands -- 4.5.Hydrochemistry -- 4.6.Summary -- 5.Wetland soil -- 5.1.Introduction -- 5.2.Brief history and soil classification -- 5.3.Hydric soil criteria -- 5.4.Mineral and organic hydric soils -- 5.5.Submerged wetland substrates -- 5.6.Summary -- 6.Wetland vegetation -- 6.1.Plant adaptations -- 6.1.1.Structural adaptations -- 6.1.2.Biochemical adaptations -- 6.2.Ecological categories -- 6.2.1.Shoreline plants -- 6.2.2.Emergent plants -- 6.2.3.Floating plants -- 6.2.4.Submerged plants -- 6.2.5.Plant zonation -- 6.3.Indicator categories -- 6.4.Plant hardiness zones -- 6.5.Invasive plant species -- 6.6.Summary -- 7.Wetland wildlife -- 7.1.Introduction -- 7.2.Wetland invertebrates -- 7.2.1.Insects -- 7.2.2.Mosquitos -- 7.2.3.Corals -- 7.3.Wetland vertebrates -- 7.3.1.Amphibians -- 7.3.2.Reptiles -- 7.3.3.Birds -- 7.3.4.Mammals -- 7.4.Invasive animal species -- 7.5.Summary -- Part III -- 8.Wetland change -- 8.1.Introduction -- 8.2.Hydroseral succession -- 8.3.Sea-level change and crustal movements -- 8.3.1.Glacial eustasy -- 8.3.2.Glacial isostasy -- 8.3.3.Complicated responses -- 8.3.4.Modern sea-level rise -- 8.4.Climate change -- 8.4.1.Climate basics -- 8.4.2.Climate and wetlands -- 8.5.Fire -- 8.6.Summary -- 9.Wetlands through time -- 9.1.Introduction -- 9.2.Coal -- 9.2.1.Paleozoic coal -- 9.2.2.Cretaceous-Tertiary coal and lignite -- 9.3.Amber -- 9.4.Pleistocene and Holocene wetlands -- 9.4.1.Nordic region -- 9.4.2.North America -- 9.4.3.Tropics and Antarctica -- 9.4.4.Holocene climate and early man -- 9.5.Summary -- 10.Environmental cycles and feedback -- 10.1.Biogeochemical cycles -- 10.1.1.Wetland elements -- 10.1.2.Nitrogen -- 10.1.3.Phosphorus, potassium and sulfur -- 10.2.Carbon cycle -- 10.2.1.Carbon reservoirs -- 10.2.2.Carbon balance -- 10.2.3.Carbon gases and climatic feedback -- 10.3.Fossil fuels -- 10.3.1.Fossil-fuel consumption -- 10.3.2.Coal mining and acid rain -- 10.3.3.Estonian oil shale -- 10.4.Human experiment -- 10.5.Summary -- Part IV -- 11.Wetland services, resources and valuation -- 11.1.Human use of wetland ecosystems -- 11.2.Ecosystem services -- 11.2.1.Habitats -- 11.2.2.Wetlands and biogeochemical cycles -- 11.2.3.Storm surge and coastal flood protection -- 11.3.Hydrological services -- 11.3.1.Flood abatement -- 11.3.2.Water quality -- 11.3.3.Water storage and diversion -- 11.4.Economic services -- 11.4.1.Extractive industries -- 11.4.2.Pearl production -- 11.4.3.Services industries -- 11.5.Wetland valuations -- 11.5.1.Why value wetlands? -- 11.5.2.Property regimes and externalities in wetland use and valuations -- 11.5.3.How to value wetlands? -- 11.6.Summary -- 12.Conservation and management: Wetland planning and practices -- 12.1.The conservation movement -- 12.2.Wetland resource management -- 12.3.Wetland management plans -- 12.4.Wetland management practices -- 12.4.1.Terrestrial and hydrologic-based strategies -- 12.4.2.Biological and chemical strategies -- 12.4.3.Socio-economic strategies -- 12.5.Summary -- 13.Wetland restoration, enhancement and creation -- 13.1.Introduction -- 13.2.Terminology -- 13.3.Wetland restoration, enhancement and creation design principles -- 13.4.Restoration and enhancement considerations -- 13.5.Approaches to wetland restoration and enhancement -- 13.5.1.Active approaches -- 13.5.2.Passive and hybrid approaches -- 13.6.Artificial treatment wetlands -- 13.7.Contaminated mine-water treatment -- 13.8.Summary -- 14.Wetlands governance and public policy -- 14.1.Wetlands governance and policy -- 14.2.International wetland policy -- 14.3.Wetland policy in the developed world -- 14.3.1.United States -- 14.3.2.Canada -- 14.3.3.Western Europe -- 14.3.4.Central Europe -- 14.3.5.Commonwealth of Independent States -- 14.3.6.Australia, New Zealand and Antarctica -- 14.4.National wetland policy in the developing world -- 14.5.Shared wetlands -- 14.6.Summary -- Part V -- 15.Low-latitude wetland case studies -- 15.1.Introduction -- 15.2.Sundarbans of South Asia -- 15.3.Okavango Delta of southern Africa -- 15.4.Pantanal of South America -- 15.5.Gulf of Mexico, United States -- 15.5.1.Florida Everglades -- 15.5.2.Mississippi River delta -- 15.5.3.Padre Island and Laguna Madre -- 15.6.Summary -- 16.Middle-latitude wetland case studies -- 16.1.Introduction -- 16.2.Great Plains of North America -- 16.2.1.Upper Arkansas River valley, Colorado and Kansas -- 16.2.2.Biocontrol of saltcedar along the upper Arkansas River valley -- 16.2.3.Cheyenne Bottoms, Kansas -- 16.2.4.Nebraska Sand Hills -- 16.2.5.Missouri Coteau, southern Saskatchewan -- 16.3.Coastal wetlands of Maine and Massachusetts, United States -- 16.3.1.Wells Reserve, southeastern Maine -- 16.3.2.Plum Island Ecosystem, northeastern Massachusetts -- 16.4.Estonia, eastern Baltic region -- 16.5.Summary -- 17.High-latitude and high-altitude wetland case studies -- 17.1.Introduction -- 17.2.Andes Mountains, Venezuela -- 17.3.Southern Colorado, United States -- 17.3.1.Culebra Range -- 17.3.2.San Luis Valley -- 17.4.The Arctic -- 17.4.1.Arctic Coastal Plain, Alaska -- 17.4.2.Yukon Delta, Alaska -- 17.4.3.Lena River delta, Russia -- 17.5.Summary -- 18.Sustainability for wetlands -- 18.1.Introduction -- 18.2.Key risks to wetlands -- 18.3.Key opportunities in wetland conservation -- 18.4.Future directions
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Subject Wetland ecology.
Wetlands.
Form Electronic book
Author Aber, Susan Ward.
Pavri, Firooza.
LC no. 2012018136
ISBN 1118349512 (electronic bk.)
1118349520
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1283592266 (MyiLibrary)
1405198419 (cloth)
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