Wetland assessment tools are being developed and employed in wetland monitoring and conservation based on physical, chemical and biological characterization. In wetland biological assessment, various ecological functions have been described by biological traits of an entire species pool that adapts to different types of wetland environments. Since microorganisms play a key role in wetland bioge...

1. Introduction The wetland is mostly distributed in the moist low temperature area at high latitudes. The wetland has the peat bog, which forms the accumulation of undecomposed plants. The important thing to notice is that the peat bog is similar to the aerial part of biomass in accumulating carbon. Since the amount of carbon cannot be ignored in the wetland, there is an urgent need to monitor...

Drawing heavily upon the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), an SDG–pressure–state–response (PSR)–ecological–economic–social (EES) model and index system for wetland ecosystem health assessment were constructed from three dimensions of environment, economy, society. By using Yinchuan Plain urban wetlands in Yellow River Basin China as a case study, their ecological status 2000 to 2020 was sys...

Although quarrying is often cited as a potential threat to wetland systems, there is a lack of relevant, quantitative case studies in the literature. The impact of pumped groundwater discharged from a quarry into a wetland area was assessed relative to reference conditions in an adjacent fen wetland that receives only natural runoff. Analysis of vegetation patterns at the quarry wetland site, u...

Hydrological connectivity is an essential indicator of wetland pattern and functional stability. The reduction usually means the degradation ecological function, internal energy flow, nutrient cycle disturbance. Taking Hanshiqiao as a case, we used Morphological Spatial Pattern Analysis (MSPA) with Connectivity Index (IIC, Integral Connectivity; PC, Probability Connectivity) to analyze change i...