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| Ecology of Freshwater and Estuarine Wetlands
ISBN: 9780520932890
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of California Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Wetland ecology;
Designed as a textbook, this volume is an important, up-to-date, authoritative, and accessible survey in ecology of freshwater and estuarine wetlands. Prominent wetland scholars address the physical environment, geomorphology, biogeochemistry, soils, and hydrology of both freshwater and estuarine wetlands. Careful syntheses review how hydrology and chemistry constrain wetlands plants and animals. In addition, contributors document the strategies employed by plants, animals, and bacteria to cope with stress. Focusing on the ecology of key organisms, each chapter is relevant to wetland regulation and assessment, wetland restoration, how flood pulses control the ecology of most wetland complexes, and how human regulation of flood pulses threatens wetland biotic integrity. Ideal for the classroom, this book is a fundamental resource for anyone interested in the current state of our wetlands.
Batzer Darold P. :
Darold Batzer is Professor of Entomology at the University of Georgia. He is the coeditor of Invertebrates in Freshwater Wetlands of North America and Bioassessment and Management of North American Freshwater Wetlands and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Wetlands. Rebecca Sharitz is Professor of Plant Biology at the University of Georgia and Senior Ecologist at the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory. She is the coeditor of Freshwater Wetlands and Wildlife. |
