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Ecology of Threatened Semi-Arid Wetlands - Long-Term Research in Las Tablas de Daimiel (Paperback, 2010 ed.)
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Ecology of Threatened Semi-Arid Wetlands - Long-Term Research in Las Tablas de Daimiel (Paperback, 2010 ed.)
Series: Wetlands: Ecology, Conservation and Management, 2
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Playing a critical role in both influencing climate change and
mitigating its impacts, the world's diverse wetlands have become
one of the world's most threatened ecosystems as unsustainable
land-use practices coupled with irrational use of water have
already resulted in large-scale wetlands loss and degradation. To
develop sound management and conservation schemes to assure
wetlands sustainability in the long term requires long-term
understanding of wetlands ecology. Yet until now, long-term
interdisciplinary research into these systems has been limited to
only a few systems from tropical or temperate climates (such as the
Florida Everglades, and Czech biosphere reserve). This new book
adds to the existing wetlands literature, providing a unique
reference in basic and applied Mediterranean wetland ecology, based
on results from long-term interdisciplinary research at the RAMSAR
and UNESCO Biosphere site, of Las Tablas de Daimiel, Spain. Dating
back to the early 1990s the research highlights changes in the
biotic and abiotic environment in response to cumulative
anthropogenic stressors, and provide guidance on applying this
understand to sound management and conservation. With particular
relevance to researchers dealing with semi-arid wetlands in the
Mediterranean and elsewhere, as well as to resource managers, the
book discusses the complexity of the interacting abiotic and biotic
environment across different spatial and temporal scales and across
various levels of biological hierarchy is highlighted, and reveals
how management based on poor knowledge causes more damage than
repair. The book will be of interest to researchers interested in
freshwater ecology, hydrobotany, hydrology, geology,
biogeochemistry, landscape ecology and environmental management.
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