Causal factors for wetland management and restoration / Paul A. Keddy.
Keddy, Paul A.
2023
QH541.5.M3
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Title Causal factors for wetland management and restoration / Paul A. Keddy.
Author Keddy, Paul A.
ISBN 9783031217883 (electronic bk.)
3031217888 (electronic bk.)
303121787X
9783031217876
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21788-3
Publication Details Cham : Springer, 2023.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (163 p.).
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-031-21788-3 doi
Call Number QH541.5.M3
Dewey Decimal Classification 333.91/816
Summary This book presents 12 effective methods to manage wetlands for conservation. It offers a tool box of causal factors that can be used to protect and restore wetlands to enhance biological diversity and other functions. Each causal factor is introduced, briefly explained, and then illuminated with selected examples from around the world. The book provides a prioritized shopping list of methods for protecting and restoring wetlands. The three first and most important causal factors are flooding, fertility, and natural disturbance. Then nine other causal factors are introduced, including herbivory, sedimentation, roads, invasive species, and coarse woody debris. Each causal factor is carefully linked to the scientific literature and explained using the authors own experience. The same list of 12 causal factors applies around the worldwhether you are managing a temperate zone floodplain, a tropical peatland, a freshwater marsh, or a coastal mangrove swamp. Instead of hiring an expensive team of consultants, or pouring through hundreds of scientific papers, here is one concise guide to methods that can be immediately applied to benefit any wetland. Professor Paul Keddy has spent more than 50 years studying wetlands, and writing and lecturing about the environmental factors that control them. He has published more than 150 scholarly papers, and won multiple scientific prizes. His book Wetland Ecology is widely used to teach the principles of wetland science. Causal Factors for Wetland Management: A Concise Guide has a much simpler message: how to protect and enhance wetlands. In this concise guide, he has condensed a lifetime of experience into just 12 principles. The book is aimed at all people who protect or restore wetlands: park managers, wildlife biologists, landscape architects, engineers, environmental consultants, environmental agencies, conservation authorities, and NGOsas well as landowners and concerned citizens. Causal Factors for Wetland Management: A Concise Guide is essential reading for anyone who cares for wetlands and wild places.
Note 8.7 Managing Herbivores May Require Case-by-Case Strategies
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access Note Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed February 14, 2023).
Series Wetlands ecology, conservation and management ; v. 8.
Available in Other Form Causal Factors for Wetland Management and Restoration: a Concise Guide
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Intro
Preface
Acknowledgments
Contents
About the Author
Chapter 1: Introduction to Wetlands
1.1 What Is a Wetland?
1.2 Where Do Wetlands Occur?
1.3 The Six Basic Types of Wetlands
1.4 Three Other Approaches to Wetland Classification
1.4.1 A Global View
1.4.2 A Hydrogeomorphic View
1.4.3 A View Based on Water Sources
1.5 Ecoregions and Wetland Classification
References
Chapter 2: The Causal Factor Approach to Wetland Ecology
2.1 Causal Factors Are a Simplifying Tool for Wetland Ecology
2.2 The Importance of Multiple Working Hypotheses

2.3 Revisiting Protection and Restoration
References
Chapter 3: Duration of Flooding Is the Most Important Causal Factor
3.1 Flood Duration Controls Wetlands
3.2 Flooding Changes Wetland Soils
3.3 Flooding Is a Stress
3.4 How Plants Cope with Flooding
3.5 Flooding Has Secondary Effects
3.5.1 Secondary Effects in Swamps
3.5.2 Secondary Effects in Marshes
3.5.3 Secondary Effects in Peatlands
3.5.4 Secondary Effects in Aquatic Wetlands
3.6 Flooding Is the Main Causal Factor
References
Chapter 4: Flood Pulses

4.1 Changes in Water Level Are Natural in Lakes, Rivers, and Wetlands
4.2 Flood Pulses Are a Natural-And Necessary-Occurrence
4.3 Humans Are Interfering with Natural Flood Pulses
4.4 Flood Pulses Increase Marsh Area and Diversity: The Twin Limit Model
4.5 Flood Pulses Have Other Important Effects in Watersheds
4.6 Vernal Pools: A Special Case of a General Principle
References
Chapter 5: Fertility
5.1 Nitrogen and Phosphorus Control Fertility
5.2 Peatlands Have Relatively Low Fertility
5.3 The Everglades Have Extremely Low Fertility

5.4 Fertilization Threatens a Globally Imperiled Plant Species
5.5 Increased Fertility Causes Many Other Changes in Wetlands
References
Chapter 6: Natural Disturbance
6.1 Natural Disturbances Remove Biomass
6.1.1 Duration
6.1.2 Intensity
6.1.3 Frequency
6.1.4 Area
6.2 Fire Has Many Effects upon Wetlands
6.3 Natural Disturbance Is Common along Rivers
6.4 Animals Create Natural Disturbance
6.5 Wetlands Recover from Disturbance by Seeds and Rhizomes
6.6 Humans Have Big Effects When They Alter Natural Disturbances in Landscapes
References

Chapter 7: Competition
7.1 Competition Is a Biological Causal Factor
7.2 Large Clonal Plants Tend to Exclude Weaker Competitors
7.3 Competition Among Plants Drives Plant Succession
7.4 Competition Among Plants Changes Animal Habitat
References
Chapter 8: Herbivory
8.1 Herbivory Is a Biological Causal Factor
8.2 Hippopotamus in Tropical Wetlands
8.3 Snow Geese in Northern Marshes
8.4 Selective Grazing Can Increase or Decrease Diversity
8.5 Bottom-Up or Top-Down? The Biological Control of Herbivores
8.6 Large Herbivores Are Declining

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