Ecology of freshwater and estuarine wetlands

Batzer, Darold P. (Added Author). Sharitz, Rebecca R. (Added Author).

Summary: Designed as a textbook, this volume is an important, up-to-date, authoritative, and accessible survey in ecology of freshwater and estuarine wetlands.

Record details

ISBN: 0520247779
ISBN: 9780520247772
Physical Description: print
xiii, 568 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 27 cm
Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2006.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 463-559) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Ecology of freshwater and estuarine wetlands: an introduction --Wetland geomorphology, soils, and formative processes -- Wetland hydrology -- Abiotic constraints for wetland plants and animals -- Biogeochemistry and bacterial ecology of hydrologically dynamic wetlands -- Development of wetland plant communities -- Wetland animal ecology -- Wetland ecosystem processes -- United States wetland regulation and policy -- Wetland restoration -- Flood pulsing and the development and maintenance of biodiversity in floodplains -- Consequences for wetlands of a changing global environment.