Environmental role of wetlands in headwaters
Internationally, the wetlands of headwater and upland regions provide many valuable environmental services. This book moves towards a more comprehensive inventory of the benefits and costs of headwater wetlands. It evaluates the research that tries to understand the tolerances, exchanges, checks and...
| Corporate Authors: | NATO Advanced Research Workshop on the Environmental Role of Wetlands Marienbad, Czech Republic) |
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| Other Authors: | NATO Advanced Research Workshop on the Environmental Role of Wetlands, Křeček, Josef., Haigh, Martin J., 1950-, North Atlantic Treaty Organization. |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Dordrecht :
Springer,
©2006.
Dordrecht : [2006] |
| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (ix, 354 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Series: |
NATO science series. Earth and environmental sciences ;
v. 63. |
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Headwater Wetlands
- Mapping Wetlands in European Headwater Areas
- The Role of Forest on the Hydrology of Headwater Wetlands
- Role of Grassland Ecosystems in Protection of Forested Wetlands
- The Effect of Peat Land Drainage and Afforestation on Runoff Dynamics
- Impact of Herbaceous Vegetation on Recovery of a Harvested Headwater Catchment
- Leaching of Nitrogen from Upland Forest-Regeneration Sites into Wetland Areas
- Hydrology of Disturbed Peat-Land, Heads of The Valleys, Wales
- Estimation of Water Budget in the Forested Peat-Lands of Western Ireland
- Role of the Planktonic Communities in the Regulation and Indication of Eutrofication Processes in Shallow Mountain Wetlands
- New Wetland Formation in Subsidence Hollows of Western Dondass, Ukraine
- Integrating Wetlands into Watershed Management: Effectiveness of Constructed Wetlands to Reduce Impacts from Urban Stormwater
- Disasters and Climate Change
- Their Relation with Wetland Headwaters
- The Alleghe Lake (Dolomites, Italy): Environmental Role and Sediment Management
- Alpine Wetlands from Ecological Network to Land-Based Risk Prevention
- Headwater Resources and Headwater Hazards: Perspectives from Environmental Education
- Hydrology of Wetlands in the Headwaters of Great African Rivers
- Headwater Wetlands in Eastern and Southern Africa
- Economic Contribution of Headwater Wetlands
- The Lake Kinneret Drainage Basin
- Environmental Change in Headwater Peat Wetlands, UK
- Environmental Problems of Headwater Wetlands in Hungary
- Headwater Wetlands in the Czech Republic
- Analysis of the Water Balance of Small Páramo Catchments in South Ecuador
- Summary Reports
- Headwater and Wetland Protection
- Next Generation of Watershed Management Programmes
- Conclusion
- Wetlands in Context
- Erratum.