ISBN:
9781468483789
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource
,
online resource
Edition:
Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
DDC:
50
Keywords:
Science (General)
Description / Table of Contents:
I. The Resource1. Global Wetlands - History, Current Status and Future -- 2. The Functions of a Pristine Estuarine Ecosystem -- 3. Aquatic Animal Production and Wetland Relationships: Insights Gleaned Following Wetland Loss or Gain -- River Regulation Effects on Floodplain Hydrology and Ecology -- 5. Expertise in Wetlands Research and Management: The Need and Some Priorities for North-South Transfer -- II. Hydrologic and Water Quality Values of Wetlands -- 6. A Review of the Recharge-Discharge Function of Wetlands -- 7. Some Comments on the Relation Between Ground Water and Wetlands -- 8. Water Quality Functions of Wetlands: Natural and Managed Systems -- 9. Analysis of Flood Peak Moderation by Depressional Wetland Sites -- 10. Physical and Biological Control of Mangrove Pore Water Chemistry -- 11. The Value of Wetlands in Low Relief Landscapes -- 12. Wetland Evapotranspiration in Temperate and Arid Climates -- 13. Role of Coastal Marshes in Energy Dissipation and Shore Protection -- 14. Ground-water and Surface-water Interactions in Minnesota and Wisconsin Wetlands -- III. Biological Values of Wetlands -- 15. Wetlands and Their Relationship to Migrating and Winter Populations of Waterfowl -- 16. Aquatic Habitats of Breeding Waterfowl -- 17. Coastal Wetlands - Major Ecological Entities for Wading and Shore Birds -- 18. Mammals and Wetlands -- 19. Endangered, Threatened and Rare Wetland Plants and Animals of the Continental United States -- 20. Aquatic Invertebrates of Freshwater Wetlands: Function and Ecology -- IV. Formation, Chemistry and Biology of Wetland Soils -- 21. Soil Formation Under Hydromorphic Conditions -- 22. Characterization and Origin of Delmarva Bay Basin Fill -- 23. Gas Exchange and Atmospheric Properties of Flooded Soils -- 24. Chemistry of Metals and Trace Elements in a Submerged Soil -- 25. Phosphorus Transformations in Flooded Soils -- 26. Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics in Wetland Soils -- 27. The Influence of Redox Potential on the Environmental Chemistry of Contaminants in Soils and Sediments -- 28. Wetland Soils with High Sulfide Contents -- 29. Soil Nitrogen, Phosphorus and Organic Carbon in Transplanted Estuarine Marshes -- V. The Tolerance of Plant Species to Wetland Sites -- 30. Biochemical Adaptations to Anoxia in Barnyard Grass -- 31. Involvement of the Hormones Ethylene and Abscisic Acid in Some Adaptive Responses of Plants to Submergence, Soil Waterlogging and Oxygen Shortage -- 32. Nutrient Uptake and Acclimation to Soil Waterlogging and Oxygen Shortage in Non-wetland Plants -- 33. Cytoplasmic Acidosis and Flooding Tolerance in Crop Plants -- 34. The Relationship of Soil Parameters and Root Metabolism to Primary Production in Periodically Inundated Soils -- 35. Mineral Nutrition of Oxygen-stressed Crops and its Relationship to some Physiological Responses -- 36. Responses of Woody Seedlings to Elevated Flood Water Temperatures -- 37. Ultrastructure Studies as a Means of Evaluating Plant Tolerance to Flooding -- 38. Use of Oxygen Microelectrodes to Measure Aeration in the Roots of Intact Tree Seedlings -- 39. Flood Tolerance Indices for Palustrine Forest Species -- 40. Interspecific Genetic Variation of Loblolly Pine Tolerance to Soil Waterlogging -- VI. Estuarine Wetlands and Interactions Among Their Components -- 41. Pathways and Controls of the Carbon Cycle in Salt Marshes -- 42. Irregularly Flooded Salt Marshes of the Gulf and Atlantic Coasts of the United States -- 43. A Comparison of Vascular Plant Communities in Tidal Freshwater and Saltwater Marshes -- 44. Herbivore Population Dynamics in Intertidal Marshlands: The Role of Host Plant Nutrition -- 45. The Utilization of Seagrass Meadows by Fishery Organisms -- 46. A Comparison of Fish and Invertebrate Community Composition in Tidal Freshwater and Oligohaline Marsh Systems -- 47. Pattern and Process in Arid-region Salt Marshes - Southern California.
DOI:
10.1007/978-1-4684-8378-9
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