Environmental Role of Wetlands in Headwaters
Internationally, the wetlands of headwater and upland regions provide many valuable environmental services. This book moves towards a more comprehensive inventory of the benefits and costs of headwater wetlands. It evaluates the research that tries to understand the tolerances, exchanges, checks and...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
---|---|
Autor Corporativo: | |
Otros Autores: | , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
2006.
|
Edición: | 1st ed. 2006. |
Colección: | NATO Science Series: IV:, Earth and Environmental Sciences ;
63 |
Temas: | |
Acceso en línea: | Texto Completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Headwater Wetlands
- Mapping Wetlands in European Headwater Areas
- The Role of Forest on the Hydrology of Headwater Wetlands
- Role of Grassland Ecosystems in Protection of Forested Wetlands
- The Effect of Peat Land Drainage and Afforestation on Runoff Dynamics
- Impact of Herbaceous Vegetation on Recovery of a Harvested Headwater Catchment
- Leaching of Nitrogen from Upland Forest-Regeneration Sites into Wetland Areas
- Hydrology of Disturbed Peat-Land, Heads of The Valleys, Wales
- Estimation of Water Budget in the Forested Peat-Lands of Western Ireland
- Role of the Planktonic Communities in the Regulation and Indication of Eutrofication Processes in Shallow Mountain Wetlands
- New Wetland Formation in Subsidence Hollows of Western Dondass, Ukraine
- Integrating Wetlands into Watershed Management: Effectiveness of Constructed Wetlands to Reduce Impacts from Urban Stormwater
- Disasters and Climate Change - Their Relation with Wetland Headwaters
- The Alleghe Lake (Dolomites, Italy): Environmental Role and Sediment Management
- Alpine Wetlands from Ecological Network to Land-Based Risk Prevention
- Headwater Resources and Headwater Hazards: Perspectives from Environmental Education
- Hydrology of Wetlands in the Headwaters of Great African Rivers
- Headwater Wetlands in Eastern and Southern Africa
- Economic Contribution of Headwater Wetlands
- The Lake Kinneret Drainage Basin
- Environmental Change in Headwater Peat Wetlands, UK
- Environmental Problems of Headwater Wetlands in Hungary
- Headwater Wetlands in the Czech Republic
- Analysis of the Water Balance of Small Páramo Catchments in South Ecuador
- Summary Reports
- Headwater and Wetland Protection
- Next Generation of Watershed Management Programmes
- Conclusion - Wetlands in Context
- Erratum.