Natural wetlands constitute a major source of methane emission to the atmosphere, accounting for approximately 32 ± 9.4% of the total methane emission. Estimation of methane emission from wetlands at both local and national scale using process-based models would improve our understanding of their contribution to global methane emission. The aim of the study is to estimate the amount of methane ...

Low-head dams in arid regions restrict fish movement and create novel habitats that have complex effects on fish assemblages. The influence of low-head dams and artificial wetlands on fishes in Muddy Creek, a tributary of the Colorado River system in the USA was examined. Upstream, fish assemblages were dominated by native species including two species of conservation concern, bluehead sucker, ...

Understanding wetland changes under urbanization is important for wetland management. In this study, net transition intensity (NTI) and total transition intensity (TTI) are presented to characterize wetland transitions based on spatial data obtained from Landsat satellite images of Pearl River estuary in South China. NTI is commonly used to represent changes in absolute amounts for each class o...

Discharge from former uranium mining and milling areas is world wide a source of elevated uranium contents in wetlands. The efficiency of organic rich wetland environments for entrapment and accumulation of uranium was assessed in this work using hydrogeochemical field studies of natural small-sized wetlands in Thuringia and Saxony, Eastern Germany. The objective was to estimate, if artificial ...

Wetland soils contain some of the highest stores of soil carbon in the biosphere. However, there is little understanding of the quantity and distribution of carbon stored in our remaining wetlands or of the potential effects of human disturbance on these stocks. Here we use field data from the 2011 National Wetland Condition Assessment to provide unbiased estimates of soil carbon stocks for wet...

Many regulatory authorities set water quality objectives or thresholds based on nutrient concentrations to safeguard aquatic ecosystem health. But do these criteria adequately assess the biological and ecological status? Our research has been focussing on the performance of constructed wetlands for water quality improvement and ecosystem health. In this paper we present data on macroinvertebrat...

The use of constructed wetlands for treatment of wastewater has steadily increased in the last decades. Besides the direct benefits of water purification, these systems are also associated with high ancillary benefits deriving from the creation of a natural habitat that is aesthetically pleasant, supports local wildlife and is suitable for recreational and cultural activities. This paper aims a...

Wetlands present an important opportunity for carbon sequestration and greenhouse gas offsets by virtue of their potential for restoration using known and innovative land management methods, because inherently they are highly productive and accumulate large below-ground stocks of organic carbon. Wetlands are major carbon sinks. While vegetation traps atmospheric CO2 in wetlands and other ecosys...

DE STEVEN, D. (USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station, Center for Bottomland Hardwoods Research, Stoneville, MS 38776) AND J. M. GRAMLING (Department of Biology, The Citadel, Charleston, SC 29409). Multiple factors influence the vegetation composition of Southeast U.S. wetlands restored in the Wetlands Reserve Program. J. Torr. Bot. Soc. 140: 453–464. 2013.—Degradation of wetlands on ag...

Temporary wetlands dominate the wet season landscape of temperate, semi-arid and arid regions, yet, other than their direct loss to development and agriculture, little information exists on how remaining wetlands have been altered by anthropogenic conversion of surrounding landscapes. This study investigates relationships between the extent and type of habitat transformation around temporary we...