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Author:   Donal D. Hook ,  W. H. Mckee Jr ,  H. K. Smith ,  J. Gregory
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1988
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.640kg
ISBN:  

9781461598091

ISBN 10:   1461598095
Pages:   394
Publication Date:   28 January 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

I. The Wetland Resource: 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 Prevention of Future Impacts on Wetlands.- 5. Protection as a Form of Management for Estuarine Wetlands: The Section 404 Regulatory Program and its Impacts on Estuarine Wetlands.- 6. Functional Status of the Nation’s Wetlands.- II. Inventory of Wetlands.- 7. Planning and Organizing for Large Wetland Resource Inventories.- 8. Sample-based Wetland Inventories.- 9. Expanding Ecoregions to a Worldwide Basis.- 10. Use of Hydric Soils to Assist in Worldwide Wetland Inventories.- 11. Applications of Mapping, Monitoring, and Modeling for Managing Wetlands.- III. Evaluation Methods for Wetlands.- 12. Overview of Economic Assessment Methods Relevant to Wetland Evaluation.- 13. Visual-cultural Assessment and Wetland Evaluation.- 14. The Ontario Wetland Evaluation System: Replicability and Bird Habitat Selection.- 15. The FHWA/Adamus (WET) Method for Wetland Functional Assessment.- IV. Hydrologic Impacts of Selected Management Activities.- 16. Hydrologic Impacts of Forest Water Management.- 17. Hydrologic Impacts of Agricultural Water Management.- 18. Hydrologie Impacts of Peat Mining.- 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 Hardwood Forests.- 21. Management Practices — Black Spruce Ecosystem.- 22. Use and Management of Forested Hydric Soils.- 23. Impact of Drainage and Site Conversion of Pocosin Lands on WaterQuality.- 24. The Impact of Rising Water Levels on Tree Growth in Louisiana.- 25. Impact of Urbanization on the Status of Mangrove Swamps of Madras.- 26. Preliminary Water Management Plan for Jean Lafitte National Park.- 27. The Technology Transfer Process in the Forest Service.- VI. Water Management on Agricultural Lands Near Wetlands.- 28. Agricultural Water Management by Stream Water Level Control.- 29. Water Management Background and Perspective of Resource Problems.- 30. Hydrology of Wetland Buffer Areas for Pumped Agricultural Drainage Water.- 31. Effects of Pumped Agricultural Drainage Water on Wetland Water Quality.- 32. A Computer-based Plant/Soil-aeration Bibliography.- VII. Managing Wetlands for Aquaculture.- 33. Use of Dredged 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 Impoundments in South Carolina for Shrimp Aquaculture and its Implications.- 37. Potential for Fish Culture in Coastal Wetlands of the Southern United States.- VIII. Restoration and Regulation of Wetlands.- 38. Restoration and Management of Seagrass Systems: A Review.- 39. Criteria for Created or Restored Wetlands.- 40. Wetlands Ranking — An Innovative Approach to Wetland Regulation?.- 41. Recent Developments in Federal Wetlands Litigation.

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