The Ecology and Management of wetlands Management, Use and Value of wetlands/

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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

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