The understanding of inland wetlands’ distribution and their level of vulnerability is important to enhance management and conservation efforts. The aim of the study was to map inland wetlands and assess their distribution pattern and vulnerability to natural and human disturbances such as climate change (temperature increase) and human activities by the year 2080. Inland wetland types i.e. for...

Wetland is a unique ecosystem, rich in biodiversity. It is not only a valuable land resource, it also protects rare animals and plants, therefore it is of high economic value and scientific significance. This paper studies the present situation and development trends of wetland in Guangdong Province, China, with remote sensing technology. The total wetland area of Guangdong Province is 1 864 10...

Despite to its importance for retaining biodiversity and human health, urban wetlands have received much less attention than other wetland types in northern Iran. This study deals with the floristic characteristics of one of the largest urban wetlands in Central Mazandaran, Roshanabad wetland in Babol.  All vascular plants were collected during two growing seasons of 2014 and 2015 and water sam...

wetland functions is the monitoring of newly restored wetland sites to determine how quickly wetland functions develop and whether function-based mitigation objectives are being met. This technical note presents a case study of the application of the Western Kentucky Low-Gradient Riverine Guidebook to monitoring the development of wetland functions on a number of bottomland hardwood forest site...

Nitrate (NO3−) dissimilatory reduction processes (denitrification, anammox and NO3− to ammonium (DNRA)) in estuarine coastal ecosystems play a crucial role regulating reactive nitrogen loadings. However, nitrate process rates relative proportions along the salinity gradient remain poorly understood. Here, denitrification, DNRA were explored simultaneously Yangtze Estuary based on isotope-tracin...

Wetland ecosystems are one of the three great ecosystems on Earth. With a deepening of research on wetland ecosystems, researchers have paid more and more attention to wetland ecosystem services such as flood mitigation, climate control, pollution prevention, soil-erosion prevention, biodiversity maintenance, and bio-productivity protection. This study focuses on a lakeside wetland ecosystem in...

Aiming at the treatment of large volume oil produced wastewater, combined technology based on constructed wetland was applied for water in a costal field. During stable operation period, system maintained removal efficiency 50.2% chemical oxygen demand (COD), 100% and 85.1% ammonium nitrogen (NH3-N) under gradient increase salinity along process. Meanwhile, this has good ability to adapt influe...

Wetland is a multifunctional ecosystem in the earth, wetlands possess irreplaceable and enormous ecological functions and serve as an essential life supporting system. how to apply the new and high technology to the study of wetland has become the key point in wetland study area in our country. RS, GIS and GPS technology provide a new method for resource and ecological environment monitor. In t...

Sea Level Rise (SLR) caused by climate change is impacting coastal wetlands around the globe. Due to their distinctive biophysical characteristics and unique plant communities, freshwater tidal wetlands are expected to exhibit a different response to SLR as compared with the better studied salt marshes. In this study we employed the Sea Level Affecting Marshes Model (SLAMM), which simulates reg...