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  title info:
    title: Wetland ecology
    sub title: principles and conservation
  name:
    name part: Keddy, Paul A.
    name part: 1953-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Book
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2000
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiv, 614 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
  abstract: "Wetlands are among the most productive and biologically diverse ecosystems on Earth. Their very diversity has confounded ecologists and produced a fragmented area of study where each wetland type has tended to be considered in isolation. The discipline has been further compartmentalized by narrow focus on specific organisms and geographic regions. This book, in contrast, provides a synthesis of the existing field of wetland ecology, using a few central themes. These themes include basic characteristics of wetlands, key environmental factors that produce wetland community types and some unifying problems such as assembly rules, restoration and conservation.
  abstract: The volume draws upon a complete range of wetland habitats and geographic regions, including examples from Africa, Asia, Europe, Australia and New Zealand, as well as from North and South America. No other book provides up-to-date ecological syntheses over the entire geographical and habitat range of wetlands. As such, Wetland Ecology is essential reading for anyone planning research or management in wetland habitats."--Jacket.
  table of contents: Properties of wetlands : Wetlands: an overview : Definitions and distributions ; Causal factors in wetland ecology ; Wetland classification ; Plants, stress and wetland types ; Wetland functions ; The Pantanal -- Zonation and succession: shorelines as a prism : Shorelines as a model system for the study of wetlands ; Mechanisms of zonation ; Some relevant theory: ecological and physiological response curves ; Empirical studies of zonation ; On the nature and existence of communities ; General lessons from analysis of zonation ; Conclusions -- Diversity : Dominance and diversity ; Factors controlling the number of species in wetlands ; Biomass and diversity: a general model for herbaceous plant communities ; Species pools and biodiversity ; Conservation of biological diversity ; Conclusions -- Factors controlling properties of wetlands : Hydrology : Gilgamesh ; Some biological consequences of changing water levels ; The general relationship between wetlands and water level fluctuations ; The ubiquity of water level fluctuations ; Reservoirs, dams and floodplains: the consequences of altered hydrology ; A predictive model: changes in shoreline wetlands ; A summary model: frequency and intensity of flooding ; Back to reality: the Amazon river basin -- Fertility : Fertility and primary production ; Fertility gradients ; Evolution along fertility gradients ; Mycorrhizae ; Animals and fertility ; Eutrophication: too much of a good thing ; Effect of eutrophication ; Hydrology, fertility and wetlands -- Disturbance : Four properties of disturbance ; Regeneration from buried seeds after disturbance ; Examples of disturbance ; Disturbance and gap dynamics in wetlands ; Measuring the effects of disturbance ; Comparing disturbances -- Competition : Testing for competition ; Competition and field distributions ; Mechanisms of competition: exploitation vs. interference ; Constraints upon competition: three relevant models ; Competition and co-operation ; Conclusions -- Herbivory …
  note: Paul A. Keddy.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 543-593).
  subject:
    topic: Wetland ecology
  subject:
    topic: Wetland conservation
  subject:
    topic: Écologie des zones humides
  subject:
    topic: Zones humides
    topic: Conservation
  subject:
    topic: Wetland conservation
  subject:
    topic: Wetland ecology
  subject:
    topic: Feuchtgebiet
  subject:
    topic: Naturschutz
  subject:
    topic: Ökologie
  subject:
    topic: Ecologie
  subject:
    topic: Wetlands
  subject:
    topic: Écologie des zones humides
  subject:
    topic: Conservation des zones humides
  classification: QH541.5.M3 K44 2000
  classification: 577.68
  classification: 42.90
  classification: cci1icc
  classification: coll1
  classification: WI 5180
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  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 990817
    record change date: 20240807182903.3
    record identifier: in00004807456
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng