TY - BOOK AU - Hook D.D AU - Mckee W.H AU - Msith H.K AU - Gregory .J AU - Burrell TI - The Ecology and Management of wetlands T2 - WIT transactions on ecology and the environment, SN - 9781461598091 U1 - 333.91815 22 PY - 1988/// CY - London, Sydney PB - Timber press KW - Ecology KW - Wetlands N1 - Table of Content PART 1 THE WETLAND RESOURECE: THE CHALLENGE OF PROTECTING AND MANAGING IT 1. The Importance of rural communities in wetlands conservation and development 2. Watershed management and a wetlands conservation strategy: the need for a cross-sectoral approach. 3. Developments under the ramsar convention 4. Coastal management practices for prevenetion of future impacts of wetlands 5. Protection as a form of management for Estuarine wetlands: the section 404 regulatroy program and its impacts on estuarine wetlands 6. Functional status of the nation's wetlands PART II INVENTORY OF WETLANDS 7. Planting and organizing of large wetland resorce inventories 8. Sample-based inventories 9. Expanding ecoregions to a worldwide wetland 10. Use of hydric soils to assist in worldwide wetland inventories 11. Applications of mapping, monitring, and modelling for managing wetlands. PART III. EVALUATION METHODS FOR WETLANDS 12. Overview of economic assesement methods relevant to wetland evaluation 13. Visual-cultural assessement and wetland evaluation 14. The Ontario wetland evaluation system: replicability and bird habit selection 15. The FHWA / Adams (WET) methods for wetland functional assessment PART IV HYDROLOGIC IMPACTS OF SELECTED MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES 16. Hydraulic impacts of forest water management 17. Hydrologic impacts of agricultural water management 18. Hdrologic impacts of peat mining PART V MANAGING AND PROTECTING FORESTED AND ADJACENT WETLANDS 19. Wet site pine management in the southeastern united states 20. Management of eastern united states Bottomland 21. Management practices - Black spruce ecosystem 22. Use and management of forested hydric soils 23. Impact of drainage and site conversion of pocsin lands on water quality 24. The impact of rising water levels ont eh growth in Luisiana 25. Impact of urbanization on the staus of mangrove swamps madras 26. Preliminary water management plan for Jean Lafitte national park 27. The technology transfer process in the forest service PART VI. WATER MANGEMENT ON AGRICULTURAL LANDS NEAR WETLANDS 28. Agricultural water management by stream water level control 29. Water manegement background and perspective of resource problems 30. Hydrology of wetland buffer areas for pumped agriculture drainage water 31. Effects of pumped agriculture agricultural drainage water on wetland water quality 32. A computer-based plant/soil-aeration bibliograpghy PART VII. MANAGING WETLAND FOR AQUACULTURE 33. Use of dreged material containment areas for aquaculture 34. Aquaculture in mangrove wetlands: A perspective from southeast Asia 35. Status and prospects for shrimp mariculture in Ecuador 36. Management of existing salt-marsh impoundaments in south Carolina for shrimp aquaculture and its implications. 37. Potential for fish culture in coastal wetlands of the southern united states PART VIII RESTORATION AND REGULATION OF WETLANDS 38. Restoration and management of seagrass systems: 39. Criteria for created or restored wetlands 40. Wetlands ranking- an innovative apprach to wetland regulation 41. Recent developments in fedral wetland litigation; Includes Index: P ER -