Wetland Ecology and Management: Case Studies

Abstract

One: Wetland Management.- 1. A regional strategy for wetlands protection.- 2. Smoldering combustion, thermal decomposition and nutrient content following controlled burning of Typha dominated organic mat.- 3. Microscale succession and vegetation management by fire in a freshwater marsh of Atlantic Canada.- 4. The response of Distichlisspicata (L.) Green and Spartinapatens (Ait.) Muhl. to nitrogen fertilization in hydrologically altered wetlands.- 5. Maximizing duckweed (Lemnaceae) production by suitable harvest strategy.- 6. Methods and techniques of wetland reclamation in Byelorussia.- Two: Landscape Issues Related to Wetland Management.- 7. Effect of human activities and sea level rise on wetland ecosystems in the Cape Fear River estuary, North Carolina, USA.- 8. The response of Atlantic-White Cedar wetlands to varying levels of disturbance from suburban development in the New Jersey Pinelands.- 9. Consequences of management practices on coastal wetlands in the East and West Indies.- 10. Effect of peatland development on water quality, fish and wildlife habitat: A review.- 11. The impact of hydroelectric developments on the Lechwe and its feeding grounds at Kafue Flats, Zambia.- 12. Should there be man-made lakes in Africa?.- 13. Survey of macrophytic vegetation in North German water courses.- 14. Vegetation and land use in the Luznice River floodplain and valley in Austria and Czechoslovakia.- 15. Danube backwaters and their response to anthropogenic alterations.- 16. Vegetational changes in response to drainage at Sarobetsu Mire, N. Hokkaido, Japan.- Three: Wetland Ecology and Utilization.- 17. The apiary of the mangroves.- 18. Characteristics of a seasonally flooded freshwater system in monsoonal Australia.- 19. Ecology of Atlantic White Cedar Swamps in the New Jersey Pinelands.