Wetlands

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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WETLANDS The definitive guide to wetlands for students and professionals alike Wetlands rank among the most productive but also the most vulnerable ecosystems. They break down toxins and help maintain aquatic ecosystems, provide both permanent and temporary homes for key species, and contribute enormously to biodiversity and global ecological health. In recent years the importance of wetlands has been increasingly well understood, and their management and restoration has become a particular focus of environmental research. Wetlands provides a thorough and comprehensive overview of wetlands, updated to reflect the latest research findings and methodological approaches, as it has done for more than a generation. The new edition has been optimized for classroom use, breaking down the topic into four parts: introduction to wetlands, the wetland environment, wetland ecosystems, and wetland management. Readers of the sixth edition of Wetlands will also find: A detailed discussion of the role of wetlands in improving water quality, protection from storm damage, and other ecosystem servicesThe latest approaches and examples of wetland creation and restorationA thorough discussion of the impacts of climate change on wetlands, and how to mitigate themWetlands is essential reading for students and professionals in ecology, environmental engineering, and water resource management.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-07-13
Mått:173 x 246 x 36 mm
Vikt:1 361 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:672
Upplaga:6
Förlag:John Wiley & Sons Inc
ISBN:9781119826934

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Mer om författaren

William J. Mitsch, PhD, is Professor Emeritus in both the School of Environment and Natural Resources at The Ohio State University and in The Water School at Florida Gulf Coast University. Prior to OSU and FGCU, he held professorships at Illinois Institute of Technology and University of Louisville. His research and teaching focused on wetland ecology and biogeochemistry, wetland creation and restoration, ecological engineering and ecosystem restoration. He founded and was editor-in-chief for 25 years of the international journal Ecological Engineering and was a Stockholm Water Prize Laureate in 2004. Dr. Mitsch completed 85 graduate students through thesis or dissertation in his 47 years as a professor. James G. Gosselink, PhD (deceased), was Professor at the Center for Coast and Environment at Louisiana State University. In 1998 he received the Society of Wetland Scientists Lifetime Achievement Award. Christopher J. Anderson, PhD, is a professor of wetland ecology at the Auburn University College of Forestry, Wildlife and Environment. He specializes on coastal wetlands with an emphasis on functional changes related to land use, climate and hydrologic change. M. Siobhan Fennessy, PhD, is the Philip and Sheila Jordan Professor of Environmental Studies and Biology at Kenyon College. She is a wetland ecosystem ecologist studying the response of wetland plant communities and biogeochemical cycles to human disturbance, how that disturbance can be quantified and then reversed by ecological restoration, and the role of wetlands in climate mitigation.

Innehållsförteckning

Preface viiAbout the Companion Website ixPart I Introduction1 Wetland History and Science 32 Wetland Definitions 223 The World’s Wetlands 40Part II The Wetland Environment4 Wetland Hydrology 1055 Wetland Soils 1576 Wetland Biogeochemistry 1767 Wetland Vegetation and Succession 210Part III Wetland Ecosystems8 Coastal Wetlands 2519 Freshwater Marshes and Swamps 33110 Peatlands 393Part IV Wetland Management11 Wetland Classification and Mapping 43512 Wetland Laws and Protection 45613 Wetland Ecosystem Services 47814 Wetland Creation and Restoration 51815 Wetlands and Water Quality 56616 Wetlands and Climate Change 612Glossary 643Index 657