The values of wetlands are commonly known among the general population— waterfowl habitat, sport fisheries, timber, recreation, and so forth. More importantly, ecological wetland functions such as nutrient cycling and mitigation (filtering) of pollutants are becoming more widely recognized, especially in the agricultural community. So then what is the importance of agriculture and wetlands? Alt...

BACKGROUND Although the effect of water level on germination in soil seed banks has been documented in many ecosystems, the mechanism is not fully understood, and to date no empirical studies on this subject exist. Further, no work has been done on the effect of water level on seed banks of drying and saline-alkaline wetlands in alpine areas on the Tibetan Plateau. METHODOLOGY We examined the...

Ceratoides lanata (Pursh) J.T. Howell is a shrub with numerous annual branchlets from the family Chenopodiaceae and is widely distributed in brackish water playas of northern Utah. Seeds had no dormancy, and about 90% of the seeds germinated in nonsaline control. Seed germination decreased with the increase in salinity, and more than 10% of the seeds germinated at 900 mmol/L NaCl. Almost all se...

impacts of land use types on wetland functions were investigated in three surface water wetlands, located in west japan. nitrogen concentration was monthly sampled and measured in input, output and inside of the wetlands. findings of the present study revealed that function of the wetlands and its capabilities for reduction or remove of the nutrients from surface water are varied by change in t...

Turkey is a country rich in wetlands (250 wetlands, approximately one million hectares). As it is in many countries, the wetlands in Turkey are threatened by the agricultural activities, loss of habitats due to these activities and by pesticide contamination. After 1940, large quantities of pesticides, especially DDT were used intensively against mosquitoes and pests in most of the wetlands in ...

Wetlands are valuable ecosystems that provide many valuable services, yet many of these important ecosystems are at risk because of current trends in climate change. The Prairie Pothole Region (PPR) in the upper-midwest of the United States and south-central Canada, characterized by glacially sculpted landscapes and abundant wetlands, is one such vulnerable region. According to regional/global ...

Invasive species are a known and growing threat to native ecosystems and the services they provide, and it is widely accepted that human activities contribute substantially to their spread. In a study of fifty-two north Mississippi wetlands, approximately 10% of the vascular plant species encountered were non-native, and 60% of the wetlands surveyed contained at least one plant species consider...

Constructed subsurface flow (SSF) and free-surface flow (FSF) wetlands are being increasingly implemented worldwide into wastewater treatments in response to the growing need for microbiologically safe reclaimed waters, which is driven by an exponential increase in the human population and limited water resources. Wastewater samples from four SSF and FSF wetlands in northwestern Ireland were te...

Executive Summary This project sought to identify a number of Missouri River floodplain wetlands for monitoring and assessment of wetland condition using several assessment tools developed in this and a previous project entitled " Assessment of Floodplain Wetlands of the Lower Missouri River Using an EMAP Study Approach " (A number of randomly selected wetlands were identified using the probabi...