Background: The most important factors and problems threatening the Anzali Wetland are the contaminant load and sediments entering the wetland, as well as lack of an integrated management plan for this wetland. The main objectives of the current research were to explore whether there are significant differences in concentrations of Zn, Cd, and Pb in surface sediments among different sites (base...

background: sediments are inseparable fractions of wetland ecosystems that work as a his-torical archive in the process of recording heavy metal aggregation changes. this study was carried out for assessing co, ni, and zn in sediment samples of mighan wetland using geo-accumulation index in 2013. methods:the sediment samples were taken from 11 stations. the samples were subjected to bulk digest...

For studying vegetation cover in Choghakhor wetland located in Chaharmahal-o-Bakhtiari province (W Iran), some zones of vegetation life forms were determined and also digitized in order to produce the primary map of plant cover by using LISS-IV sensor of IRS satellite with the spatial resolution of 5.8 m. As aquatic plants in Choghakhor wetland were fully grown, homogeneity or heterogeneity of ...

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...

Wetlands are one of the world’s three major ecosystems. They not only maintain regional ecological balance but also provide an important guarantee for human survival. Wetland ecosystem health assessment serves as foundation wetland protection, management, and restoration. In this study, method proposed by United States Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) was selected improved to systematic...

ghourighol international wetland which is located at bostan-abad conuty in east azerbaijan province is known as one of the important tourism and promenade zone of iran due to its special natural gravities. therefore, studying tourism value of this place could express the importance of its protection, predicting needs, removing scarcities and the development of tourism. the aim of this research ...

because of national and international importance of the anzali international wetland, this study attempts to determine the preservation value and estimate willingness to pay (wtp) by iranian households for preserving this wetland, using contingent valuation method. a logit model was employed with maximum likelihood estimation procedure. results showed, education level of householder, informativ...

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...

Coastal ecosystems are exposed to saltwater intrusion but differential effects on biogeochemical cycling uncertain. We tested how elevated salinity and phosphorus (P) individually interactively affect microbial activities in freshwater brackish wetland soils. In experimental mesocosms, we added crossed gradients of concentrations soluble reactive P (SRP) (0, 20, 40, 60, 80 μg/L) 4, 7, 12, 16 pp...