Abstract
Ramsar Wetlands: Understanding Change in Ecological Character
Highlights
To ensure protection and “wise use”, many wetlands are included in the Ramsar Convention’s List of Wetlands of International Importance
Evidence from the past often reveals a wider range of “natural” conditions, and can inform the potential trajectory of change through which the wetland is currently passing. This PAGES workshop provided a valuable opportunity for contemporary and paleo-ecologists to review the knowledge of wetland change needed to better manage wetlands of international significance
Emerging from the 2010 PAGES Floodplain Lakes meeting in Arkansas, USA (Gell et al 2011) this workshop focused on the nature of wetland change and variability at key Ramsar sites across the globe
Summary
To ensure protection and “wise use”, many wetlands are included in the Ramsar Convention’s List of Wetlands of International Importance (www.ramsar.org). Listing a wetland requires a site description and account of the “natural ecological character”. The site description, undertaken at the time of listing, constitutes a modern baseline against which a wetland’s present condition can be measured.
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