| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
Creating and restoring wetlands/ Christopher Craft. |
| Reminder of title: |
from theory to practice / |
| Author: |
Craft, Christopher B. |
| Published: |
Amsterdam :Elsevier, : 2022., |
| Description: |
1 online resource (vii, 453 p.) :ill. |
| Notes: |
Includes index. |
| [NT 15003449]: |
Front Cover -- Creating and Restoring Wetlands -- Creating and Restoring Wetlands From Theory to Practice -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 -- Introduction -- Why restore wetlands? -- Fundamental characteristics of wetlands -- Setting realistic goals -- Theory and practice -- Disturbance: identifying and ameliorating stressors -- Understanding ecosystem dynamics -- Accelerating restoration: succession and ecosystem development -- Reestablishing a self-supporting system -- The role of traditional ecological knowledge in wetland restoration -- References -- 2 -- Definitions |
| [NT 15003449]: |
Introduction -- Wetland characteristics -- Hydrology -- Vegetation -- Soils -- Definitions -- Classification systems -- Legal frameworks -- United States -- State wetland programs -- Canada -- European Union -- China -- Other countries -- International -- Wetland ecosystem services -- Blue carbon -- Valuation of ecosystem services -- Created, restored, and constructed wetlands -- References -- 3 -- Ecological theory and restoration -- Introduction -- Disturbance -- Dispersal and colonization -- Succession -- The organismic view-facilitation -- Nurse plants -- Mycorrhizae -- Bioaugmentation |
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The individualistic view-tolerance and inhibition -- Other Gleasonian models -- Ecosystem development -- Biological invasions -- Community susceptibility to invasion -- Life history traits of invaders -- Allelopathy -- Invasive species and restoration -- References -- 4 -- Consideration of the landscape -- Introduction -- The importance of connectivity -- Stressors of natural, agricultural, and urban landscapes -- Wetland functions and placement on the landscape -- The need for a watershed approach -- Selecting and prioritizing sites for restoration |
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Watershed and wetland characteristics to identify suitable sites -- Prioritizing sites for restoration -- References -- 5 -- Inland marshes -- Introduction -- Prairie potholes -- Sedge meadows -- Playas -- Great Lakes marshes -- Karst wetlands -- Vernal pools -- Wet grasslands -- Theory -- Practice -- Restoring hydrology -- Reestablishing vegetation -- Restoring and recreating soils -- Amendments -- Ecosystem development -- Keys to ensure success -- References -- 6 --Forested wetlands -- Introduction -- Riparian forests -- Floodplain forests |
| [NT 15003449]: |
Mississippi Alluvial Valley bottomland hardwood forests -- Cypress domes-pine flatwoods -- Carolina and Delmarva Bays -- Forested wetlands as habitat -- Loss of forested wetlands -- Theory -- Practice -- Riparian forest -- Floodplain forest -- Cypress domes and Carolina Bays -- Importance of microtopography -- Amendments -- Ecosystem development -- Keys to ensure success -- References -- 7 -- Peatlands -- Introduction -- Peat-origin, composition, and geographic distribution -- Peatland succession -- Theory -- Practice -- Bog restoration -- Fen restoration -- Rewetting of fens |
| Subject: |
Wetlands. - |
| Online resource: |
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780128239810 |
| ISBN: |
9780128239827 |