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Main Title Ecology of Threatened Semi-Arid Wetlands Long-Term Research in Las Tablas de Daimiel / [electronic resource] :
Type EBOOK
Author Sánchez-Carrillo, Salvador.
Other Authors
Author Title of a Work
Angeler, David G.
Publisher Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
Year Published 2010
Call Number QH541.5.S3
ISBN 9789048191819
Subjects Life sciences ; Landscape ecology ; Aquatic biology ; Conservation biology ; Environmental management ; Soil conservation
Internet Access
Description Access URL
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9181-9
Collation XVI, 292 p. online resource.
Notes Due to license restrictions, this resource is available to EPA employees and authorized contractors only
Contents Notes Playing a critical role in both influencing climate change and mitigating its impacts, the world's diverse wetlands have become one of the world's most threatened ecosystems as unsustainable land-use practices coupled with irrational use of water have already resulted in large-scale wetlands loss and degradation. To develop sound management and conservation schemes to assure wetlands sustainability in the long term requires long-term understanding of wetlands ecology. Yet until now, long-term interdisciplinary research into these systems has been limited to only a few systems from tropical or temperate climates (such as the Florida Everglades, and Czech biosphere reserve). This new book adds to the existing wetlands literature, providing a unique reference in basic and applied Mediterranean wetland ecology, based on results from long-term interdisciplinary research at the RAMSAR and UNESCO Biosphere site, of Las Tablas de Daimiel, Spain. Dating back to the early 1990s the research highlights changes in the biotic and abiotic environment in response to cumulative anthropogenic stressors, and provide guidance on applying this understand to sound management and conservation. With particular relevance to researchers dealing with semi-arid wetlands in the Mediterranean and elsewhere, as well as to resource managers, the book discusses the complexity of the interacting abiotic and biotic environment across different spatial and temporal scales and across various levels of biological hierarchy is highlighted, and reveals how management based on poor knowledge causes more damage than repair. The book will be of interest to researchers interested in freshwater ecology, hydrobotany, hydrology, geology, biogeochemistry, landscape ecology and environmental management.
Place Published Dordrecht
Corporate Au Added Ent SpringerLink (Online service)
Title Ser Add Ent Wetlands: Ecology, Conservation and Management, 2
Host Item Entry Springer eBooks
PUB Date Free Form 2010
Series Title Untraced Wetlands: Ecology, Conservation and Management, 2
BIB Level m
Medium computer
Content text
Carrier online resource
Cataloging Source OCLC/T
OCLC Time Stamp 20130725205849
Language eng
Origin SPRINGER
Type EBOOK
OCLC Rec Leader 03809nam a22005775i 45