Conservation management of wetland-dependent species generally focuses on preserving or increasing wetland habitat. However, the quality of the landscape matrix (the intervening non-wetland portion of the landscape) has been shown to be more important than wetland availability for some wetland-dependent species. We used meta-analysis to compare the effects of wetland amount (measured as the are...

Spring-fed wetlands within arid systems host unique species of plants, many which are threatened due to the vulnerability these ecosystems. Increased salinity and drier hydrologic regimes anthropogenic activities threaten systems. Furthermore, limited knowledge regarding key life history traits jeopardize restoration management their rare plants. Here, we evaluated aspects seed ecophysiology th...

Saltwater intrusion driven by water extraction, coastal modifications, and climate change may alter the biogeochemical cycling of freshwater coastal wetlands. Anaerobic respiration in freshwater wetlands is typically dominated by methanogenesis, leading to a high methane (CH 4 ) flux, but the availability of sulfate (SO4 2— ) in seawater may shift the dominant pathway to SO4 2— reduction, decre...

background: investigating the performance of naturally operated treatment plants may be due to the fact that they cannot be operated as desired, or that they should be modified to achieve good performance e.g. for nutrients removal. the advantage of kinetic coefficient determination is that the model can be adjusted to fit data and then used for analyzing alternatives to improve the process. th...

Catfish of Anzali wetland has been focused economically and commercially. It also meets the religious Minorities needs to fish meat. So, investigation of its health in the wetland is important. This study aimed to investigate the concentration of heavy metals such as cadmium, Nickle, Zinc and lead in muscle tissues of Catfish in three stations (west, central and east) of Anzali wetland in 2012....

Examining society’s preferences for any change in the status of wetlands, can translate their direct and indirect benefits into monetary values and provide useful information for the policy makers and planners. Hoor-al-Azim Wetland (also Hoor-al-Hoveizeh) is one of the four large wetlands with an area of over 125 thousand hectares located in Khuzestan province located in southwestern Iran on it...