Wetlands are valuable ecosystems because they harbor a huge biodiversity and provide key services to societies. When natural or human factors degrade wetlands, ecological restoration is often carried out to recover biodiversity and ecosystem services (ES). Although such restorations are routinely performed, we lack systematic, evidence-based assessments of their effectiveness on the recovery of...

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Together with water vapour and carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) is an important contributor to the warming of the atmosphere. The atmospheric mixing ratios of so-called greenhouse gases, CO2, and nitrous oxide (N2O) have increased about 31%, and 17%, respectively, above pre-industrial values, whereas CH4 has increased 151 ± 25%, (Watson et al., 2001). The CH4 concentration in 2005 of about 1...

BACKGROUND Gastric cancer is considered as the second most prevalent cancer in Iran. The present research sought to identify high risk clusters of gastric cancer with mapping using space-time scan statistics. MATERIALS AND METHODS The present research is of descriptive type. The required data were gathered from the registered cancer reports of Cancer Control Office in the Center for Non Commu...

Numerous surveys have demonstrated that diffuse pollution from urban-residential run-off and industrial discharges can adversely impact salt marsh and tidal creek sediment quality (Barrett & McBrien, 2006; Fox et al., 2001; Iannuzzi et al., 1995; Long et al., 1995; Sanger et al., 2004; White et al., 2005). The impact of shipping activities, including major discharge of fuel oil onto salt marshe...

there are 61 species in 14 families of fish-eating birds in iran. the fish-eating birds of the north of iran belong to 41 species in 10 families which include 67.2 percent of total fish eating bird species and 71% of fish-eating bird’s family of iran. resident birds constitute 13% of the fisheating birds of the caspian sea coasts and the rest are migratory in autumn and winter. there exist 3 ...

The waters of the Murray Darling Basin, Australia, have endured multiple stressors for more than a century. Detectable salinization impacts are evident from 1880 CE and elevated fluxes of sediments and nutrients are now widespread. Most wetlands examined paleolimnologically have shown increased sedimentation rates or have lost aquatic plant communities due to the shading effect of increased tur...

Water reclamation and reuse is being actively promoted in Australia. In Queensland, surface-flow constructed wetlands with a diversity of macrophyte types offer the greatest potential for effluent polishing. Constructed wetlands in subtropical climates in coastal regions and arid climates in inland western regions are conducive to high macrophyte growth rates and nutrient removal, in particular...

this paper gives an account of the implementation of geomorphological, hydrogeological, hydrochemical and isotopic techniques to understand groundwater-surface water interactions in a multiple use area, los padres-la brava corridor (se of buenos aires province, argentina). the isophreatic map reveals a regional flow from the sw to ne sector, and allowed us to define the effluent-influent behav...

A country-wide inventory of important wetlands was undertaken in Lithuania in 1996–1999, covering more than 80 wetlands with a total area of about 130 000 ha. Intensive field surveys (land-based, aerialand boat-surveys) were performed at all sites. The Ramsar Information Sheet and data recording methodology was used as the basis for the structure of the inventory. Results of the field surveys r...