The Wetland Book

I: Structure and Function, Management, and Methods
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-94-007-1471-7
Verlag: Springer

Medienkombination, Englisch, 2238 Seiten, Book + Online Access

The Wetland Book is a comprehensive resource aimed at supporting the trans- and multidisciplinary research and practice which is inherent to this field. Aware both that wetlands research is on the rise and that researchers and students are often working or learning across several disciplines, The Wetland Book is a readily accessible online and print reference which will be the first port of call on key concepts in wetlands science and management. This easy-to-follow reference will allow multidisciplinary teams and transdisciplinary individuals to look up terms, access further details, read overviews on key issues and navigate to key articles selected by experts

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Finlayson, C. Max

Everard, Mark

Irvine, Kenneth

McInnes, Robert J.

Middleton, Beth A.

van Dam, Anne A.

Davidson, Nick C.

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Hydrobiologie
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Hydrologie, Hydrogeologie
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Marine Geologie, Ozeanographie (Meereskunde)
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltmanagement, Umweltökonomie
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Feuchtgebiete, Sümpfe, Moore
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

· Introduction to the Wetland Book 1: Wetland Structure and Function, Management, and Methods

· Succession in wetlands
· Environmental Sieve Model of Wetland Succession

· Egler's $10,000 succession challenge

· Succession in Ecological Education

· Self-design vs Designer Theories and Wetland Restoration and Creation

· Cattle Grazing in Wetlands

· Fire in Borneo peatlands

· Succession in Coastal Wetlands

· Landscape ecology of wetlands: Overview

· Connectivity of wetlands

· Corridors

· Dispersal and Wetland Fragmentation

· Disturbance

· Ecosystem Function

· Ecosystem Services

· Gap and Patch Dynamics

· Patch

· Metacommunity dynamics of riparian ecosystems

· Metapopulation Dynamics of Wetland Species

· Riparian buffer zone for wetlands

· Source-sink dynamics of wetlands

· Wetland Restoration

· Wetland heterogeneity

· Landscape Genetics: Wetlands
· Concepts in Landscape Genetics

· Wetland hydrology

· Hydrology of Coastal Wetlands

· Hydrologic Modeling of Wetlands

· Hydrologic and Treatment Performance of Constructed Wetlands: The Everglades Stormwater Treatment Areas

· Microbially-mediated Chemical transformations in wetlands

· Carbon flux from wetlands

· Ecosystem Processes

· Photosynthesis in wetlands
· Photosynthetic measurements in wetlands

· Primary Production & Respiration: Ecological processes in Wetlands

· Wetland Ecosystem Services

· The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB)

· Impact of human activities on the carbon cycle

· Ecosystem Services Partnership

· Intergovernmental Panel for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)

· Millennium Ecosystem Assessment

· Anatomy of Wetland Plants
· Wetland Plant Morphology

· Physiological Adaptations to Wetland Habitats

· Symbioses: Assisting Plant Success in Aquatic Settings

· Overview of wetland management

· Systems scale thinking for wetland management



· Framework of International Conventions

· Biodiversity-related conventions and initiatives relevant to wetlands

· Ramsar Convention on Wetlands: scope and implementation

· Ramsar Convention: Ramsar Site designation process

· Ramsar Convention: Transboundary Ramsar Sites

· Wise Use Concept of the Ramsar Convention

· Convention of Migratory Species (CMS) and Wetland Management
· Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and Wetland management

· Strategic Plan for Biodiversity (2011-2020) and the Aichi Biodiversity Targets

· Transnational and regional legal frameworks

· Waterbird flyways and History of International Co-operation for Waterbird Conservation

· African-Eurasian Waterbird Agreement (AEWA) and Wetland Management

· Flyways management in Wetlands

· North American Waterfowl Management Plan (NAWMP)

· Transboundary wetland management

· Transboundary Ramsar site management: Lake Chad

· Danube River Basin Regional Management Agreement

· Indus Waters Treaty
· Mekong River Basin regional legal framework

· Murray-Darling Basin: Conservation and Law

· The Okavango Delta legal framework

· European Union Natura 2000

· European Union Water Framework Directive and Wetlands

· North America transnational legal frameworks

· Climate change and wetlands

· Climate change: United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

· Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation

· Management and Sustainable Development of Wetlands

· Sustainable Development Goals
· Millennium Development Goals

· Non-Governmental Organisations: International and Regional

· Birdlife International

· Conservation International

· Ducks Unlimited (DU)

· International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)



· International Crane Foundation

· International Peat Society

· International Water Management Institute
· Society of Wetland Scientists

· South Africa’s National Wetland Rehabilitation Programme: Working for Wetlands

· The Nature Conservancy (TNC)

· Wetland Care Australia

· Wetlands International

· Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust

· World Wetland Network

· Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF)



· Wetland law and policy: Overview
· National Wetland Policies: The Basics

· National Wetland Policies: Overview

· National wetland policy: Australia

· National wetland policy: Canada

· National wetland policy: Chile

· National wetland policy: China

· National wetland policy: Ghana

· National wetland policy: New Zealand

· National wetland policy: South Africa
· National wetland policy: Taiwan

· National wetland policy: Uganda

· National wetland policy: USA

· No Net Loss: Overview

· No Net Loss Case Study: Structural and Functional Equivalence of Mitigation Wetlands

· No Net Loss Case Study: Wetland Banking in Chicago (USA)

· Regulation of activities for wetland conservation and management: Overview

· Environmental Impact Assessments

· Strategic Environmental Assessments
· Permit schemes

· Avoid-mitigate-compensate sequence: Wetland Conservation

· Avoiding loss of agricultural subsidies: Swampbuster

· Compensation in wetlands

· Mitigation banking for Wetlands

· Enforcement: Wetlands

· Conservation Reserve Programme (CRP): Example of land retirement

· Contribution of wetlands to the food-water-energy nexus

· Economic incentives for the non-regulatory conservation and management of wetlands

· Economics of wetland conservation case study: Learning from managed realignment

· Economics of wetland conservation case study: Catchment management for water quality

· Economics of wetland conservation case study: ‘Systemic solutions’ for integrated water management

· Ecosystem Credit and Payment Stacking: Overview
· Corporate Wetlands Restoration Partnership: Banrock Station

· Financial incentives for wetland protection and restoration

· Granting exclusive use of wetland area

· In-lieu fees in wetlands

· Payments for ecosystem services

· Payments for ecosystem services: Examples from around the world

· Cost-sharing and direct payments for wetland protection

· Ontario wetland habitat fund

· Property rights<

· Safe Harbor Agreements



· Management of provisioning services: Overview
· Provisioning services: The basics

· Agricultural management and wetlands: An overview

· Flood recession agriculture: Case studies

· Food from Wetlands

· Rice paddies

· Lake Bed Cropping: Wetland Products (Australia)

· Swamp wetlands: Provisioning Services

· Wetland Management for Sustainable Fisheries: Overview



· Sustainable Fisheries Management Case Study (Africa)


· Lake Chilika: Sustainable Fisheries Management Case Study

· Tonle Sap: Fisheries Management Case Study
· Recreational fishery Case Study (UK)

· Products from Wetlands: Overview

· Medicinal plants in wetlands

· Traditional medicines from wetlands

· Reed products from Lake Burullus, Egypt

· Salt production from Secovlje Salina Nature Park, Slovenia

· Sustainable Use of Papyrus from Lake Victoria, Kenya



· Management of regulating services: Overview

· Regulating services: The basics

· Balancing water uses at the Donana National Park, Spain

· Groundwater dependent wetlands
· Managing wetlands for pollination

· Managing wetlands for water supply

· Climate regulation and Wetlands: Overview

· Weather, climate and wetlands: Understanding the terms and definitions

· Local climate regulation by urban wetlands

· Climate regulation: salt marshes and blue carbon

· Climate regulation: South east Asian peat swamps

· Hydrological services of wetlands and global climate change

· Climate regulation by capturing carbon in mangroves

· Greenhouse gas regulation by wetlands

· Natural hazard regulation: Overview

· Tsunamis and wetland management

· Soft engineering for coastal protection: Natural hazard regulation

· Wetland Pest and Disease Regulation

· Flood management and the role of wetlands

· Surface water and the maintenance of hydrological regimes

· Mississippi watershed and the role of wetlands in flood management

· Water quality regulation: overview

· East Kolkata Wetlands: Water Quality Regulation

· Integrated constructed wetlands for water quality improvement
· Wetlands in the management of diffuse agricultural run-off

· Constructed wetlands for water quality regulation

· Managing phosphorus release from restored minerotrophic peatlands

· Managing urban waste water



· Cultural aspects of wetland management: An Overview

· Cultural services: The basics

· Cultural, aesthetic and associated wetland ecosystem services

· Learning for life and educational services

· Educational benefits of wetlands

· Wetland Visitor and education centres

· Education Centres in Australia and New Zealand

· Traditional knowledge and wetlands

· Traditional knowledge applied to the management of small tank wetland systems in Sri Lanka
· Archaeological resources and the protection of cultural services

· Recreational management and Wetlands

· Sustainable wetland tourism

· Religious and spiritual aspects of wetland management

· Landscape aesthetics and wetlands

· The arts and wetlands



· Supporting services for wetlands: an overview

· Nutrient cycling in wetlands

· Biodiversity in wetlands<

· Soils of wetlands and their ecosystem services

· Supporting Services: A summary

· Wetland Classification: Overview

· Wetland Delineation: Overview

· Wetland Classification: Hydrogeomorphic System

· Wetland Classification: Geomorphic-Hydrologic System

· Coastal Wetlands

· Estuary Types

· Peatland classification
· Ramsar Convention Typology of Wetlands

· South African Wetlands: Classification of Ecosystem Types

· USA Wetlands: Classification

· USA Wetlands: NWI-Plus Classification System

· Wetland Classification in India

· Brazilian Wetlands: Classification

· The Canadian Wetland Classification System

· Earth Observation Methods for Wetlands: Overview

· Electromagnetic spectrum: regions relevant to wetlands

· Remote sensing instruments: sensor types relevant to wetlands

· Remote Sensing of Water in Wetlands: Inundation patterns and extent
· Remote Sensing of Water in Wetlands: Persistence and duration

· Remote sensing of anthropogenic activities: Agricultural Production

<· Remote sensing of anthropogenic activities: Aquaculture

· Remote Sensing of Wetland Types: Arctic and boreal wetlands

· Remote Sensing of Wetland Types: Mangroves

· Remote Sensing of Wetland Types: Peat Swamps

· Remote Sensing of Wetland Types: Sea Grasses

· Remote Sensing of Wetland Types: Semi-Arid Wetlands of Southern Hemisphere

· Remote Sensing of Wetland Types: Subtropical Wetlands of Southern Hemisphere

· Remote Sensing of Wetland Types: Temperate Bogs, Mires and Fens

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Über Autor(innen)

Max Finlayson is an internationally renowned wetland ecologist with extensive experience internationally in water pollution, agricultural impacts, invasive species, climate change, and human well-being and wetlands. He has participated in global assessments such as those conducted by the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change, the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, and the Global Environment Outlook 4 & 5 (UNEP). Since the early 1990s he has been a technical adviser to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands and has written extensively on wetland ecology and management. He has also been actively involved in environmental NGOs and from 2002-07 was President of the governing council of global NGO Wetlands International. He has contributed to over 300 journal articles, reports, guidelines, proceedings and book chapters on wetland ecology and management. He has contributed to the development of concepts and methods for wetland inventory, assessment and monitoring, and undertaken many site-based assessments in many countries.

Nick Davidson was the Deputy Secretary General of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands from 2000 to 2014, with overall responsibility for the Convention's global development and delivery of scientific, technical and policy guidance and advice and communications as the Convention Secretariat’s senior advisor on these matters. He has long-standing experience in, and a strong commitment to, environmental sustainability supported through the transfer of environmental science into policy-relevance and decision-making at national and international scales. Nick currently works as an independent expert consultant on wetland conservation and wise use.

Beth A. Middleton is a research ecologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, Wetland and Aquatic Research Center in Lafayette, USA. Her biogeographical research focuses on the impact of climate and landuse change on wetlands, particularly forested freshwater wetlands. Her most recent studies are on hydrologic remediation and vegetation response, and she applies those findings to natural resource conservation. Her work has contributed to the understanding of world wetland restoration and global climate change and her book "Wetland restoration, flood pulsing and disturbance dynamics" received the Merit Award of the Society of Wetland Scientists. Her dissertation was on monsoonal wetlands in India (Ph.D. Iowa State University), and was the origin of her later research on the implications of shifts in drought cycles on wetland biodiversity. Her writing is extensive with several books, and more than 125 research articles. She is a member of the graduate faculty at the University of Louisiana. Before moving to USGS, she was a full professor at Southern Illinois University. Currently, she is a member of several climate change advisory committees and management working groups. She has done extensive research on worldwide wetlands including monsoonal wetlands, baldcypress swamps, peatlands, salt marshes, fens and mangrove swamps. Her Fulbright work was at G.B. Pant University. She has served as a senior visiting professor with the Chinese Academy of Science working on wetlands dynamics in China, and is a Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecturer. Also, has given several high level addresses including the Earth Day talk for the U.S. Consulate in Chennai India, and a TEDx talk called “Conservation Oblivion” (www.youtube.com/watch?v=8O72jOgTQPw).

Robert McInnes is an independent Chartered Environmentalist with over 25 years’ experience in wetland-related environmental research, consultancy and conservation. His main areas of interest in wetlands revolve around three inter-related themes: understanding their biodiversity and the ecosystem services provided to human society; the practical restoration and creation of wetlands for multifunctional benefits; and the development and implementation of wetland conservation and wise use policies and strategies. He works on wetland-related projects within the UK and overseas and has knowledge extending across a range of wetland types. He regularly publishes articles in peer-reviewed journals, books and conference proceedings. Prior to working independently Rob was Head of Wetland Conservation at the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust, UK, and has also worked in ecological consultancy and in academia at the Universities of Exeter andLondon. Rob has been actively involved with the Ramsar Convention’s Scientific and Technical Review Panel since 2008 where he has contributed to the Panel’s work on urban wetlands, wetland restoration, wetlands and climate change and wetland ecosystem services. In addition to undertaking projects on behalf of the Ramsar Convention Secretariat, he has worked for intergovernmental organisations including UNESCO, CBD and UN HABITAT, major international NGOS, national and local governments and private clients. In addition to his project work Rob is an active member of the Society of Wetland Scientists (SWS), has been a former President of the European Chapter of SWS, is an Associate Editor of the Society’s journal Wetlands, and in 2011 was awarded the President’s Service Award for the significant contributions he has made inpromoting the goals of the Society.


Mark Everard is Associate Professor of Ecosystem Services at the University of the West of England (UWE, Bristol) in the UK, as well as a consultant, author and broadcaster. Mark has extensive involvement in the development and implementation of ecosystem services and the Ecosystem Approach since the 1980s. He has particular interests in wetland and water systems, including the many important roles they play in socio-ecological systems and sustainable or other feedback between human and natural elements of these systems. Mark’s work has included extensive international development work, principally in Africa and India, exploring and helping people optimise their interdependencies with wetlands. He has also served as a policy adviser to UK government around ecosystem and environmental issues, as well as to governments in South Africa, India and Sri Lanka. However, as the formal policy environment is only as strong as its influence and enforcement, Mark has also worked at local and regional scales particularly in developing countries to learn and out-scale social processes that develop sustainable relationships between people and water resources. Mark’s academic involvement has been extensive, including his most recent role at UWE, and he has also been involved in Trustee and advisory capacities with many environmental NGOs. Mark is also a prolific communicator, writing many books, academic papers and magazine articles targeting a range of scientific, technical and popular audiences, also making regular contributions also to TV, radio and online media.

Anne van Dam is Associate Professor of Environmental Systems Analysis at the UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education in Delft, The Netherlands. He holds a PhD in Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (1995) from Wageningen University in The Netherlands. Before joining UNESCO-IHE in 2003, he worked for the International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management (ICLARM) and for Wageningen University, in various aquaculture and fisheries research projects in The Netherlands, South and Southeast Asia, Africa and Latin America. His research interests are in the areas of sustainable aquatic resource management, freshwater wetland ecology and governance, nutrient dynamics, and ecosystems modelling. His publications cover subjects like fish growth modelling, periphyton-based fish production systems, integrated agriculture-aquaculture systems, and wetland ecosystem services. During the last 10 years he had a leadership role in research and capacity development projects in East Africa, with research focusing on the interactions between livelihoods activities (e.g. agriculture) and the ecological functioning of papyrus wetlands, collaborating with universities, government agencies and NGOs in Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda. He has represented UNESCO-IHE at the Scientific and Technical Review Panel (STRP) of the Ramsar Convention, is an executive edtitor of the international journal Aquaculture Reports, and was guest editor of a special issue of Wetlands Ecology and Management on the ecology and livelihoods of papyrus wetlands



Kenneth Irvine, born in Dublin, has worked on a range of lakes and catchments in Europe and Africa, gaining broad experience of the global challenges facing water and habitat quality. After gaining a PhD in 1987 at the University of East Anglia (U.K) for a study on shallow lake food webs, he worked as a Nature Conservation Officer for the U.K. Nature Conservancy Council, before moving to study ecosystem structure and estimating the secondary production of Lake Malawi in Africa. From there, in 1994 he moved to Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, and spent a decade and a half grabbling with the intricacies of policy and ecology to support the implementation of the EU Water Framework Directive. His alter ego continued to work on the African Great Lakes of Malawi and Tanganyika, and the ecology of the Makgadikgadi salt pans of Botswana. In 2011 he moved to UNESCO-IHE Institute of Water Education in the Netherlands to engage more fully in research and teaching to support capacity development. He heads up the Aquatic Ecosystems Group and their work on, mainly, African wetlands, with other recent work on the capacity development within the Danube basin and for Integrated Water Resource Management in India and S.E. Asia. He continues to learn about the complexities and wicked problems of sustainable use of water and ecosystems.