The Functional Assessment of Wetland Ecosystems: Towards Evaluation of Ecosystem Services

✍ Scribed by E Maltby, U Digby, C Baker

Publisher: CRC Press\ Woodhead
Year: 2009
Tongue: English
Leaves: 269
Edition: Har/Cdr
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Exploring wetland ecosystem management, this book/CD-ROM package supplies a management tool for their effective evaluation. Delineating a user-friendly and practical methodology for carrying out ecosystem evaluations, the book introduces wetlands, describing their diversity and outlining the threats they face. It explains wetland evaluation and introduces the evaluation tool, covers the data collection and storage element of the evaluation tool, and provides step-by-step instructions for carrying out the evaluation. The book demonstrates how to evaluate the data collected and examine the functions being performed by a particular wetland area. The CD provides a model for storing and analyzing the data.

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