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Creating and restoring wetlands : from theory to practice / Christopher Craft, Janet Duey Professor of Rural Land Policy, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. by Craft, Christopher B., author. Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier, [2016] Description:  vii, 348 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Contents:  pt. I. Foundations -- 1. Introduction -- Why restore wetlands? -- Fundamental characteristics of wetlands -- Setting realistic goals -- Theory and practice -- 2. Definitions -- Wetland characteristics -- Definitions -- Classification systems -- Legal frameworks -- Wetland ecosystem services -- 3. Ecological theory and restoration -- Disturbance -- Dispersal and colonization -- Succession -- Ecosystem development -- Biological invasions -- 4. Consideration of the landscape -- Stressors of natural, agricultural, and urban landscapes -- The need for a watershed approach -- Selecting and prioritizing sites for restoration -- pt. II. Restoration of freshwater wetlands -- 5. Inland marshes -- 6. Forested woodlands -- 7. Peatlands -- Peat : origin, composition, and geographic distribution -- Peatland succession -- pt. III. Restoration of estuarine wetlands -- 8. Tidal marshes -- 9. Mangroves -- pt. IV. From theory to practice -- 10. Measuring success : performance standards and trajectories of ecosystem development -- Trajectories of ecosystem development -- 11. Case studies -- Saline tidal marshes -- Freshwater marshes -- Peat bogs -- Forested wetlands -- Urban wetlands -- 12. Restoration on a grand scale -- Saline tidal marshes (Delaware Bay, USA) -- Mesopotamian marshes (Iraq) -- Freshwater marshes (Yellow River Delta, China) -- Coastal marshes (Mississippi River Delta, Louisiana) -- Mangrove restoration (Mekong River Delta, Vietnam) -- 13. Future of wetland restoration -- Population growth and global food demand -- Eutrophication -- Restoration in an urban world -- Climate change -- Wetland restoration in the twenty-first century. Summary:  This book summarizes the state of our understanding of the field of wetland restoration, both coastal and inland, in the context of ecological theory, with discussions of hydrology, soils, biota, wetland succession, ecosystem development following restoration, along with a variety of case studies that illustrate estuarine and freshwater large-scale restoration. --   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Copy Status   Peosta Library Circulation Stacks 333.91 Cra 2016 Checked In Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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