Creating and Restoring Wetlands

From Theory to Practice
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-0-12-407232-9
Verlag: Elsevier Science

Buch, Englisch, 358 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 726 g

Creating and Restoring Wetlands: From Theory to Practice describes the challenges and opportunities relating to the restoration of freshwater and estuarine wetlands in natural, agricultural, and urban environments in the coming century.

The underpinnings of restoration, driven by ecological (disturbance, dispersal, succession) theory, are described and applied to various activities (restoring hydrology, soils, and biota) that are used to improve the short- and long-term success of wetland restoration projects.

Unforeseen problems that hinder restoration efforts and solutions to these problems are discussed in this comprehensive book that contains five sections and 13 chapters that include an introduction describing the defining characteristics of wetland - hydrology, soils, biota, the role of theory in guiding wetland succession, ecosystem development following restoration, and differentiating wetland reclamation, restoration, and creation, restoration of various estuarine and freshwater wetlands, case studies of estuarine and freshwater restoration and large-scale restoration, and finally, the future of wetland restoration.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Craft, Christopher

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Feuchtgebiete, Sümpfe, Moore
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Hydrologie, Hydrogeologie
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Deltas, Flussmündungen, Küstenregionen
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

I. Introduction

1. Background & History

2. Wetlands Defined

3. Ecological Theory & Restoration

4. Consideration of the Landscape

5. Reclamation, Restoration and Creation

II. Restoration of Freshwater Wetlands

6. Freshwater Marshes

7. Forested Wetlands

8. Bogs and Other Peatlands

III. Restoration of Estuarine Wetlands

9. Saline Tidal Marshes

10. Mangroves

11. Tidal Fresh Marshes

IV. From Theory to Practice

12. Case Studies

13. Restoration on a Grand Scale

V. The Future of Wetland Restoration

Über Autor(innen)

Craft, Christopher
Christopher Craft is the Janet Duey Professor of Rural Land Policy, O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, Bloomington and University of Georgia Marine Institute, where he teaches courses in Environmental Science, Applied Ecology, Wetlands Ecology and Restoration Ecology. His introduction to wetland science began in 1983 when, as a new Ph.D. student, he began studying the ecosystem development of tidal marshes that had been created and restored along the North Carolina coast in the 1960s and 1970s. Since that time, Professor Craft has worked on restoration projects in freshwater wetlands of the Florida Everglades, Upper Klamath Lake (Oregon) and the agricultural Midwest, and in estuarine wetlands of the southeast (Sapelo Island, GA), New England and New York-New Jersey harbor. Professor Craft served as President of the Society of Wetland Scientists from 2008-2009. In 2012, he received the National Wetlands Award for Science Research, given annually by the Environmental Law Institute and six U.S. governmental agencies