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Ecological Assessment of Wetlands
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Ecological Assessment of Wetlands

A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Water Quality and Contamination".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2019) | Viewed by 10378

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Kenneth Irvine

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Aquatic Ecosystems Group, IHE Delft Institute of Water Education, POB 3015, NL-2601 DA Delft, The Netherlands
Interests: aquatic ecosystems; wetland; ecology; freshwaters; policy; development
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Dr. Frank Masese

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Department of Ecohydrology, Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), Müggelseedamm 310, D-12587 Berlin, Germany
Interests: bioindication; ecology; freshwaters; watershed management
Mr. Ian Bredin

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Institute of Natural Resources NPC, 67 St Patricks Road, PO Box 100396, Scottsville, 3209, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
Interests: wetlands; ecology; nature-based solutions
Dr. Gwendolin Porst

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Faculty VI Planning Building Environment, Department of Civil Engineering, Technische Universität Berlin, Sekr. TIB1-B14, Gustav-Meyer-Allee 25, 13355 Berlin, Germany
Interests: aquatic ecology; wetlands; invertebrates; biodiversity; assessment; biotic indicators

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Compared with open waters and rivers, ecological assessment of vegetation-dominated wetlands is globally more limited. While expertise exists in many parts of the world, the development of methods has generally been in response to a variety of policy drivers serving different needs. With the advent of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) it is timely to bring together a collection of experiences and open opportunities for new approaches to the ecological assessment of wetlands, including how these relate to national and international policy and practice. Papers are invited on wetland assessments that span biophysical, social and policy dimensions, and the connection among them. Submissions on new developments and modes of assessment are welcome, including those at the catchment or regional scale. This can include field measurements, remote sensing and use of citizen science, and outlining the opportunities and challenges inherent within them. Papers are encouraged that consider how baselines are set across wetland types, and the quantitative and qualitative evaluation of pressures. We invites submissions that report primary research as well as more conceptual papers that address cultural, regulating and provisioning ecosystem services and how these can be assessed. This makes submissions reporting traditional use and tacit assessment especially welcome.

Prof. Dr. Kenneth Irvine
Dr. Frank Masese
Dr. Ian Bredin
Dr. Gwendolin Porst
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • wetlands
  • ecological assessment
  • hydrology
  • biotic assessment
  • remote sensing
  • citizen science
  • sustainable development goals
  • wise use
  • adaptive management
  • ecosystem services
  • wetlands and catchments
  • policy

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Assessing the Changes of Ecosystem Services in the Nansi Lake Wetland, China
by Fan Wang, Shaoliang Zhang, Huping Hou, Yongjun Yang and Yunlong Gong
Water 2019, 11(4), 788; https://doi.org/10.3390/w11040788 - 16 Apr 2019
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Wetlands provide many essential ecosystem services for human well-being. The ecological assessment of wetland ecosystem services is problematic and thus is an important focus in the field of ecological research. In this study, an ecological assessment system containing the ecosystem product value, ecosystem [...] Read more.
Wetlands provide many essential ecosystem services for human well-being. The ecological assessment of wetland ecosystem services is problematic and thus is an important focus in the field of ecological research. In this study, an ecological assessment system containing the ecosystem product value, ecosystem regulation service value, and ecosystem cultural service value was established to calculate the gross ecosystem product in the Nansi Lake Wetland, China. Based on remote sensing images, field studies, and literature reviews, the gross ecosystem product was estimated for the years 1985, 1992, 2005, 2011, and 2017. The results showed that the gross ecosystem product of the Nansi Lake Wetland increased from 40.91 × 108 USD in 1985 to 46.28 × 108 USD in 2017. The gross ecosystem product of the altered wetlands increased by about 8.5 times with a rising linear relationship, while natural wetlands presented a nonlinear relationship. Furthermore, except for the changes in climatic condition, anthropogenic interference factors such as coal mining activities, farming practices, and government policies have promoted significant services in the Nansi Lake Wetland over the past 30 years. This study could provide important insight into the ecological assessment of wetland ecosystems and thus inform policy for the protection and better use of wetland resources. Full article
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Quantification of the Evaporation Rates from Six Types of Wetland Cover in Palo Verde National Park, Costa Rica
by César Dionisio Jiménez-Rodríguez, Catalina Esquivel-Vargas, Miriam Coenders-Gerrits and Mahmood Sasa-Marín
Water 2019, 11(4), 674; https://doi.org/10.3390/w11040674 - 1 Apr 2019
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The hydrology of tropical seasonal wetlands is affected by changes in the land cover. Changes from open water towards a vegetated cover imply an increase in the total evaporation flux, which includes the evaporation from open water bodies and the transpiration from vegetated [...] Read more.
The hydrology of tropical seasonal wetlands is affected by changes in the land cover. Changes from open water towards a vegetated cover imply an increase in the total evaporation flux, which includes the evaporation from open water bodies and the transpiration from vegetated surfaces. This study quantified the total evaporation flux of six covers of the Palo Verde wetland during dry season. The selected wetland covers were dominated by Neptunia natans (L.f.) Druce, Thalia geniculata L., Typha dominguensis Pers., Eichhornia crassipes (Mart.) Solms, a mixture of these species, and open water conditions. The plants were collected from the wetland and placed in lysimeters (59.1 L) built from plastic containers. The lysimeters were located in an open area near the meteorological station of the Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS). The evaporated water volume and meteorological data were collected between December 2012–January 2013. A completely randomized design was applied to determine the total evaporation (E), reference evaporation ( E ref , Penman-Monteith method) and crop coefficient ( K c ) for all the covers. T. geniculata (E: 17.0 mm d − 1 , K c : 3.43) and open water (E: 8.2 mm d − 1 , K c : 1.65) showed the highest and lowest values respectively, for daily evaporation and crop coefficient. Results from the ANOVA indicate that E. crassipes and N. natans were statistically different (p = 0.05) from T. dominguensis and the species mixture, while the water and T. geniculata showed significant differences with regard to other plant covers. These results indicate that the presence of emergent macrophytes as T. geniculata and T. dominguensis will increase the evaporation flux during dry season more than the floating macrophytes or open water surfaces. Full article
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