Understanding wetlands: fen, bog, and marsh
"Understanding Wetlands explains how these unique habitats are created naturally and how they sustain themselves. It describes how the flora and fauna of wetlands are ideally adapted to their environment and how the ecosystem copes with pollutants and climatic change. The impact of human activi...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "Understanding Wetlands explains how these unique habitats are created naturally and how they sustain themselves. It describes how the flora and fauna of wetlands are ideally adapted to their environment and how the ecosystem copes with pollutants and climatic change. The impact of human activity such as farming, building and recreation is also assessed. The book concludes with a look at the need for conservation." "This integrated and holistic account of wetlands is a valuable reference for students of ecology, biology and environmental science. Its beautiful illustrations and accessible style also make it ideal for the general reader interested in the natural world."--BOOK JACKET. |
| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [248]-258) and index |
| Beschreibung: | IX, 296 S. Ill., g raph. Darst. 26 cm |
| ISBN: | 0415257948 |
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| adam_text | Understanding Wetlands
Fen, bog and marsh
S M Haslam
LONDON AND NEW YORK © Tina Bone amp; SM Haslam
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction
Wetland basics 6
Ideas on wetlands: fact and fable 8
The creations of the waters 15
2 Wetlands matter
Introduction, and the World Charter for Nature 22
Values 24
Considerations of values 27
Wetland to dryland: the changing from jish and fowl to grain
and vegetable 28
Wetland products 31
3 How wetlands work
Introduction 42
Integrating wetland processes 43
Wetland landscapes 50
Biodiversity 52
4 In wetland wilds
Continuities and discontinuities 57
Geomorphological} hydromorphic, and similar classifications 59
Vegetation classification 60
Wetlands in the landscape 76
Bog 77
Marsh 86
Reedswamp 92
Fens 93
viii Contents
Tall herb and short herb communities 98
Grassland 102
Woodland 102
5 The animals 103
Introduction 103
Invertebrates 104
Fish 110
Birds 110
Mammals 115
Reptiles 118
Amphibia 118
Microorganisms and fungi 118
6 The waters of the wetlands 121
Water in the landscape 121
Soils and drainage 124
Vertical fluctuations 125
Sideways movement 132
Vegetation as an indicator of water regime 132
Case studies 133
Discussion 149
7 Chemical types and vegetation types 150
Introduction 150
Chemical types in the landscape 152
Plants as indicators of nutrient regime 155
Case studies 156
Chemical impact 164
8 The power to purify 166
Principles and definitions 166
How fens, marshes and reedswamps (natural and constructed wetland)
act chemically 168
Purification 169
Buffer strips 172
9 Phragmites: a study in plant behaviour and human use 178
The plant unit 182
The seasonal cycle 184
The seedling and young plant 192
The advancing plant 194
Contents ix
Chemistry and competition 194
The water 196
The thatching reed 197
The maintaining of the stand 199
Conclusion 202
10 The silent battlefield: vegetation changes 203
Vegetation develops 203
Sallow (Salix cinerea) carr invasion 204
Carex paniculata and Phragmites australis 205
Galium aparine (goosegrass) in tall-herb fen vegetation 209
The Schoenus nigricans community 211
Schoenus nigricans and Molinia caerulea 215
Schoenus nigricans and Cladium mariscus 215
Phragmites made sparse in three other vegetation types 217
Reedswamp invasion of open water 220
A native and an introduced grass in the Camargue, France 221
Phalaris arundinacea and Urtica dioica in flood meadows,
River Luznice, Czech Republic 222
Typha spp in North America 222
Cladium mariscoides and Typha jamaicense in the Everglades, Florida 222
Myrica gale, Cladium mariscus and the Keeper 222
Combined ills 223
Conclusions 223
11 Threats and losses, past and present 226
The major dangers 226
Management and loss of Broadland over time in East Anglia 236
Deterioration of waterfowl and wet grassland 241
Reedswamp dieback 241
12 Conservation 243
Introduction 243
Principles of conservation 246
References 248
Basic Figures 259
Basic Charts 272
Index 285
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