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Synopsis: Waterways & watercourses: Waterways: Wetland:

and reuse its wastewater using a simulated tidal wetland. Windy city parkin Finland, Heiki Setã ¤lã ¤of the University of Helsinki has monitored the urban environment to measure pollutant concentrations near tree canopies and in waterways.

scientists are developing multiple mixing ponds as wetlands to reduce the toxicity of the brine as well as to cultivate habitat.

In Shanghai, in a project known as Houtan Park, artificial wetlands have been used to treat polluted waters along the city's Huangpu riverfront.

the design team Koetter Kim suggested cooling towers could be replaced by recirculating water through green space such as wetlands, walls of vegetation, agriculture and fountains.

In the UK, the London Wetland Centre functions as such a working landscape; its habitats are built into clay-lined pools

lakes and wetlands where we can get at it. An even tinier proportion hangs in the atmosphere as clouds and rain.

Downstream of a dam, the seasonal floods that revitalize wetlands and fertilise paddy fields cease. The flow may be reduced

Both migratory and endemic species that rely on Turkeys wetlands face the most immediate threats the Turkish newspaper Todays Zaman reported:

Dams And Agriculture Pose Big Threat Inefficient agricultural irrigation and draw offs for the increasing number of hydroelectric dams in the country are among the factors drying up important wetlands in Turkey.

and walking trails behind one of our library branches#so we have partnered with the local Audubon Society and another nature group, Jackson Bottom Wetlands,

The site also happened to be beside a globally important wetland but the parrot copped the blame

In China's Yangtze basin wetland ambassadors''promote conservation as part of a rapidly emerging movement to protect a river system that supplies water to more than 400 million people.

Instead the farming hotspots seemed to reside in the deep soil zones near the wetlands called bajos.

but rather along the borders of the low-lying wetlands called bajos BYU soil scientist Richard Terry said in a statement.

#IPCC Green-Lights Kyoto Protocol, Wetlands Reports Countries tallying their total greenhouse gas emissions can now get a better estimate thanks to two new reports adopted this week by the Intergovernmental

and absorbed by wetlands. The reports will help countries improve their greenhouse gas emissions inventories Jean-Pascal van Ypersele vice chair of the IPCC said today (Oct 18) at a news conference announcing the final reports.

The new wetlands report fills in a substantive knowledge gap Thelma Krug co-chair of the IPCC's Task force on National Greenhouse Gas Inventories said during the news conference.

Wetlands draining and rewetting is a new elective activity for reporting under the Kyoto Protocol Krug said.

and the creation (or maintenance) of wetlands and buffer strips which filter runoff before it can reach streams

because we know there are nice wetlands with herbivores on the other side. We know that

and eventually changing the landscape from wetlands to deeply incised quickly flowing streams. Before Europeans arrived American beech red oak

Leaves from swamp plants also appear in the mud confirming that the forested spot was on the upslope edge of a nearby wetland.

Plants in Danger We had a valley margin forest growing right next to the valley bottom in conjunction with all these wetlands Elliott said.

Yosemite s peaceful meadows and wetlands are the best place to spot the park s unique flora and fauna.

The blended family was foraging in wetlands at the Eden Landing Ecological Reserve part of the massive South Bay Salt Ponds Restoration Project.

The tallest of the world's four avocet species growing up to 20 inches (51 centimeters) tall the avocet is equipped with spindly gray legs designed for wading in fresh or saltwater wetlands.

The enormous 30-year effort one of the country's largest wetlands rebuilding projects will add much-needed wetlands habitat in the San francisco bay

#Man-made Flood Could Help Revive Colorado river Wetlands An artificial flood could surge down a dry riverbed from the United states into Mexico either this spring

Before the 1930s about 4. 9 trillion gallons (18.5 trillion liters) streamed from the U s.-Mexico border to the Gulf of california each year supporting numerous wetlands and a major estuary.

Only about 10 percent of the Colorado river Delta's original wetland and riverbank areas now remain with less than 3 percent of the native cottonwood

when upstream reservoirs were enlarged full significantly its wetland areas. Then in the 1990s floods in both the Colorado river and Gila river (a tributary of the Colorado river) delivered more than 2. 4 trillion gallons (9. 3 trillion liters) of water into the delta in multiple pulses breathing

Because the floods rejuvenated these riverbank zones conservationists were hopeful that the wetlands could be restored.

A vast expanse of common reed grass may be choking out a local wetland but the feathery heads of the plants catch the wind with such grace it's hard not to be captivated.

Wild rabbits can be found in woods forests meadows grasslands deserts tundra and wetlands. Wild rabbits create their own homes by tunneling into the ground.

Today the flock has about 95 birds that spend their spring and summer in wetlands at Necedah National Wildlife Refuge and elsewhere in central Wisconsin.

</p><p>A new levee proposed by the Army Corps of Engineers would change all that cutting off water from 75000 acres of wetlands.

Methane gas comes from natural sources such as decomposing plants in wetlands and from human activities including oil and gas production and animals and manure on farms.

The seawater ran north through the Rio Hardy a series of swampy wetlands and mudflats that drains 15 miles (24 km) downstream into Gulf waters.

cottonwood and willow forests along with wetlands thick with cattail marshes. The flood was timed for the spring seed release from these trees to provide moist ground for seedlings.

Early tetrapods probably evolved from Lobe-finned fishes able to use their muscular fins to take advantage of the predator-free and food-rich environment of the new wetland ecosystems.

and subsequent drop in industrial pollution) then resumed its strong rise in 2007 likely due to increased tropical wetlands emissions.

Methane-producing bacteria in wetlands thrive when there's more water. Greenhouse Gases: The Biggest Emitters (Infographic) One mystery in the global methane record is why Asia's strong economic growth

and a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve and it contains several globally important wetlands. Yet with the exception of serious birders attracted to its rare and abundant bird life most people have heard never of it.

and drain wetlands to expand their grassland area. Deforestation causes erosion alters water balance eliminates the food

) Canadell says that cutting down forests sometimes results in the drying out of wetlands and peat bogs and the release of their huge carbon stores

Mayans converted wetlands to farmland: Nature Newsthe ancient Maya civilization is recognized widely for its awe-inspiring pyramids, sophisticated mathematics and advanced written language.

researchers have found that the Maya coped with tough environmental conditions by developing ingenious methods to grow crops in wetland areas.

or wetlands. So one of historians'biggest questions about the Maya civilization is managed how they to feed their huge populations.

In the 1970s, researchers began characterizing the remains of elaborate irrigation canals found in wetland areas.

or whether the use of wetlands for farming was an important part of the Maya agricultural system.

Working in low-lying wetlands, which are difficult to access and navigate, the team dug trenches some 3 metres deep and 10-20 metres long to study soil and water chemistry.

Their research suggests that the Maya built canals between wetlands to divert water and create new farmland,

and remote sensing techniques suggest that this wetland system was probably around 100 kilometres across.

the idea that the Maya farmed wetland areas extensively has been controversial among archaeologists. But the new work is very suggestive that the Maya were modifying these swamps intensively to make a living,

One of the reasons some scholars dismissed the idea that wetlands were fundamentally important to the Maya is that they are often far from famous sites such as Tikal and Chichen Itza.

But there must have been dense populations living in rural areas near wetlands, far from the glitzy urban centres, says Beach.

When a Westerner goes into a wetland today, they see nothing but trouble. It's difficult to tame,

Nature Newsan international effort to protect coastal wetlands by assigning them carbon credits kicked off last week in Paris. The aim is to do for some wetland plants mangroves, seagrasses and salt marshes

Wetland plants and forests act as carbon sinks, locking away substantial amounts of carbon absorbed from the atmosphere.

Yet the world's coastal wetlands have been in continuous decline over the past century and now cover just 2%of the seabed1.

When coastal wetlands are drained, the soil is oxidized and carbon dioxide is released into the air, contributing to climate change.

The'blue carbon'concept aims to protect some of the most endangered wetlands by assigning credits to their stored carbon2.

For starters, no one knows how much carbon is stored by wetlands around the world-largely because no one knows exactly how many seagrass beds

That means there is no good estimate of how much wetlands destruction contributes to global emissions. Stephen Crooks, climate change programme manager at the environmental consultancy ESA PWA in San francisco, California, estimates that emissions from drained mangroves and salt marshes total half a billion tonnes

protecting wetlands may not make a huge difference to anthropogenic greenhouse-gas emissions. Oceanographer Christoph Heinze at the University of Bergen, Norway, points out that the carbon sequestration abilities of wetland plants are

quite literally, a drop in the ocean compared with Earth's other carbon sinks. But Crooks points out that marine carbon circulation models have tended to consider wetlands'current carbon sequestration abilities,

yet ignore the impact of releasing thousands of years of stored carbon when the lands are dried out.

in parallel with further efforts to quantify the scale of Earth's wetlands and how much carbon they hold.

and manure damage sensitive wetland ecosystems. Coleman says that the cattle do stop fires, by eating the vegetation that forms potential fuel,

A previous attempt at quantifying peat-forest conversion to oil-palm planting was made by the nonprofit organization Wetlands International for the Malaysian state of Sarawak on Borneo.

Although carbon reserves in other types of tropical wetland forest have been assessed, the amount of carbon in mangroves has been ignored largely,

Forests, rangelands and wetlands. The land rush is very much jeopardizing the existence of these resources.

algal blooms and damage to important wetlands, eucalyptus forests and wildlife. To address these problems,

destroying 6, 600 Â hectares of wetlands and primary tropical forest. And they predicted that the trend will only get worse.

who is flyways programme manager for conservation group Wetlands International in The netherlands. He also co-convenes the Asia-Pacific Working group on Migratory Waterbirds and Avian influenza with the Food and agriculture organization of the united nations (FAO.

home on its eastern end to the 24,000-hectare Shanghai Chongming Dongtan National Nature Reserve declared a region of international ecological importance by the Ramsar Convention, a global wetland-conservation treaty.

so far consuming more than 10%of the wetland. It colonizes an area by forming dense bundles with deeply penetrating roots squeezing out native plants

eating mudflats and drying up wetlands. At Dongtan,"this has had devastating consequences for many bird species,

says Wang Tianhou, a wetlands ecologist at East China Normal University in Shanghai.""It s unrealistic to conserve habitats without any compromise.

peatlands and wetlands rich in sequestered carbon causing large emissions of carbon dioxide.""It s kind of obvious if you think about it,

what was once 800,000 Â hectares of lush wetlands, as well as a rare opportunity for ecologists worldwide to watch what happens.

vast delta wetlands shrivelled to patches of vegetation clinging to sandy plains. In 2012, officials drew up an addendum to the original water treaty.

When beavers build a dam impeding the natural flow of water the river begins to overflow more often creating a sediment-rich wetland area known as a beaver meadow.

and other wetland creatures and live longer healthier lives just by adopting a vegetarian diet.

They can also suck dry springs wetlands and other surface water features Konikow wrote in a report the survey published yesterday.

The U s. took over the project in 1904 and implemented some sanitation practices--including draining wetlands

and farmers grow crops (such as rice) more appropriate to a wetland environment. Many residents water bills will remain disconnected from their actual usage eliminating any financial incentive to conserve until a new state law goes into effect in 2025.

and wetlands are required certainly simply to ensure healthy populations of birds like the stone curlew as well as to sustain a wide range of endangered plants.

It is recommended that protected areas will be established for remaining old-growth forests and wetlands. Five valuable natural areas in northwest Russia have been designated pilot sites for the BPAN project.

which produce vast wetlands and emit methane into the atmosphere. Yet some 5000 years ago atmospheric methane began rising

On the natural side changes in the Earth's orbit could have been responsible for increasing methane emissions from tropical wetlands.

Arrow indicates dark paleo-wetland soil layer containing fossil leaf deposits with four plus meters of historical sediment buildup on top.

Instead we found that most of the valley bottoms at the time of European contact were dominated by wetland ecosystems with numerous small stable'anastomosing'streams.

constructed wetlands; buffer strips; and conversion of row crops to CRP or perennial crops. David said that unfortunately few of these methods are used on tile-drained fields

For example end-of-pipe practices such as tile bioreactors or constructed wetlands have substantial construction costs require land to be taken out of production

Most former floodplain wetlands are inundated now only during major floods. The report said access to floodplain habitats

--and specialized wetland systems also reduce nutrient export. Helmers admits the challenges are more complex than changing the inputs to our crops such as corn and soybean.

#Wetland restoration in the northern Everglades: Watershed potential and nutrient legaciesto most people restoration of Florida's Everglades means recovering

and protecting the wetlands of south Florida including Everglades national park. But what many don't realize is how intimately the fortunes of the southern Everglades are tied to central Florida's Lake Okeechobee and lands even further north.

On Nov 4 Bohlen will present Wetland Restoration in the Northern Everglades: Watershed Potential and Nutrient Legacies.

So one restoration practice is to pay ranchers to restore wetlands or create ponds to hold water on their lands.

Restored wetlands are generally very good in fact at removing nitrogen from the system. Phosphorus is trickier.

Dr. Beth Middleton of the U s. Geological Survey National Wetlands Research center and Evelyn Anemaet of Five Rivers Services Inc. discovered a way to simplify the construction of dendrometer bands.

Given the biomass of crocodiles in many subtropical and tropical wetlands and their capacity for ingesting large numbers of fruits we consider it likely that crocodilians function as significant seed dispersal agents in many freshwater ecosystems.

Preliminary analysis of these win-win areas suggests that factors like flat topography a deep water table less field runoff soil with high water-holding capacity more adjoining wetlands

Study reveals potent carbon-storage potential of human-made wetlandsafter being drained by the millions of acres to make way for agriculture wetlands are staging a small comeback these days on farms.

or construct wetlands alongside their fields to trap nitrogen and phosphorus runoff and research shows these systems can also retain pesticides antibiotics and other agricultural pollutants.

Important as these storage functions of wetlands are however another critical one is being overlooked says Bill Mitsch director of the Everglades Wetland Research Park at Florida Gulf Coast University and an emeritus professor at Ohio State university:

Wetlands also excel at pulling carbon dioxide out of the air and holding it long-term in soil.

Writing in the July-August issue of the Journal of Environmental Quality Mitsch and co-author Blanca Bernal report that two 15-year-old constructed marshes in Ohio accumulated soil carbon at an average annual rate of 2150 pounds per acre--or just over one ton of carbon per acre

The rate was 70%faster than a natural control wetland in the area and 26%faster than the two were adding soil carbon five years ago.

And by year 15 each wetland had a soil carbon pool of more than 30000 pounds per acre an amount equaling

and human-made wetlands as they look for places to store or sequester carbon long-term. For more than a decade for example scientists have been studying the potential of no-tillage planting of pastures and other farm practices to store carbon in agricultural lands

Yet when created wetlands are discussed in agricultural circles it's almost always in the context of water quality.

If you happen to build a wetland to remove nitrogen for example then once you have it it's probably accumulating carbon too.

In fact wetlands in agricultural landscapes may sequester carbon very quickly because high-nutrient conditions promote the growth of cattail reeds

and other wetland big boys that produce a lot of plant biomass and carbon Mitsch says. Once carbon ends up in wetland soil it can also remain there for hundreds to thousands of years because of waterlogged conditions that inhibit microbial decomposition.

And carbon is a big deal--any carbon sinks that we find we should be protecting Mitsch says.

We've lost half of our wetlands in the United states so let's not only protect the wetlands we have remaining

but also build some more. At the same time he acknowledges that wetlands emit the powerful greenhouse gas (GHG) methane leading some to argue that wetlands shouldn't be created as a means to sequester carbon

and mitigate climate change. But in a new analysis that modeled carbon fluxes over 100 years from the two constructed Ohio marshes

and 19 other wetlands worldwide Mitsch Bernal and others demonstrated that most wetlands are net carbon sinks even

And among the best sinks were the wetlands in Ohio possibly due to flow-through conditions that promoted rapid carbon storage

It's easy to undervalue wetlands if we become too focused on just one of their aspects--such as

Instead people should remember everything wetlands do. We know they're great for critters and for habitat that's always been true.

forests peatlands and wetlands. The C-23 won't win any beauty contests--its pilots refer to it as a UPS truck with a bad nose job.

It lives in aquatic habitats like freshwater wetlands and has developed corresponding highly specialized hunting methods.

These buyers insist that swathes of bare ground wider than a football field is long separate the leafy greens from rivers wetlands and other wildlife habitat.

They measured changes in wetlands and riverside habitat in the Salinas Valley between 2005 and 2009 finding 13.3 percent converted to bare ground crops or otherwise diminished.

Wetlands and buffers of trees grasses and shrubs help to keep runoff from fields out of the waterways slowing erosion of soil and blooms of algae downstream.

Boreal ecosystems encircle the planet's high latitudes covering swaths of Canada Europe and Russia in coniferous trees and wetlands.

The images of fish consumption by white-lipped peccaries were taken by Douglas Fernandes in the Brazilian Pantanal wetlands one morning back in 2011.

On that day Fernandes a researcher for the Instituto Arara Azul a partner organization observed a group of approximately 30 white-lipped peccaries at Caiman Lodge near the town of Miranda in the Pantanal one of the world's largest tropical wetlands.

The white-lipped peccary is sized a medium animal that occurs in both humid tropical forests as well as open savanna and wetland habitats throughout Central and South america.

of wetlands across the greater Amazon river basin including Pacaya-Samiria National park in Peru. Pacaya-Samiria contains large expanses of flooded palm swamps Mcdonald said.

and wetlands and terrestrial ecosystems including forests and soils negatively impacting ecological health. Researchers have used now publicly accessible data collected weekly

#Losing wetlands to grow cropsgetting enough to eat is a basic human need--but at what cost to the environment?

& Food security demonstrates that as their crops on higher ground fail due to unreliable rainfall people in countries like Uganda are increasingly relocating to wetland areas.

Unless the needs of these people are addressed in a more sustainable way overuse of wetland resources through farming fishing

In 2009 it was estimated that about a third of Uganda's wetlands had been lost to growing crops and grazing.

While the environmental significance of wetland loss is important so are National Food security targets and the Millennium Development Goal of halving the number of people who suffer from hunger by 2015.

In order to evaluate how people are using the wetlands researchers from Makerere University Uganda with financial support from IDRC surveyed residents living in either Lake victoria crescent Kyoga plains and South Western farmlands.

The survey revealed that more than 80%of people in these areas use wetland resources including collecting water catching fish hunting bush meat (Sitatunga a type of antelope

Over half admitted to growing crops in the nutrient rich soil wetlands with its ready water supply.

The families who were most likely to use the wetlands in this way were the ones who had the least access to other sources of food.

Large families were also at high risk of not having enough to Eat in these cases use of wetlands allows families to survive.

In designing sustainable use policies for wetlands the needs of humans also needs to be considered.

#Wetland trees a significant overlooked source of methanewetland trees are overlooked a significant source of the potent greenhouse gas methane according to a new study by researchers at The Open University and the Universities of Bristol and Oxford.

Wetlands are established a well and prolific source of atmospheric methane. Yet despite an abundance of seething swamps and flooded forests in the tropics ground-based measurements of methane have fallen well short of the quantities detected in tropical air by satellites.

Pangala and colleagues have shown that these common adaptations in wetland trees are two-way conduits that also allow soil gas to escape to the atmosphere.

This work challenges current models of how forested wetlands exchange methane with the atmosphere. Ground-based estimates of methane flux in the tropics may be coming up short

Establishing whether tree-mediated emissions of methane are ubiquitous in tropical wetlands is now the focus of a new three-year Natural Environment Research Council grant to Dr Gauci

River lake and wetland ecosystems--encompassing approximately one-fifth of the Amazon basin area--are being degraded increasingly by deforestation pollution construction of dams

Furthermore constructed wetlands should be furnished with plants which according to previous studies of the Institute of Environmental sciences in Landau are capable of reducing pesticide exposure up to 70 per cent.

While the trees previously were kept in check by natural annual flooding they can now be found thriving in wetlands swamps and marshes.

That change has caused carbon-rich wetlands to increase 140 percent while carbon-poor agricultural land decreased about 20 percent according to the study.

Among land-use types researchers also found sugarcane in the soils of the Everglades Agricultural area near Lake Okeechobee and wetlands stored the most soil carbon

Phragmites australis or the common reed is a rapid colonizer that has overrun many coastal wetlands from New england to the Southeast.

These chicks will join a flock of about 95 cranes that inhabit wetlands on the refuge and elsewhere in central Wisconsin during the spring and summer.

in order to establish a migratory flock of whooping cranes in the eastern United states. The Eastern Migratory Flock flies south to wetlands in the Southeast United states for the winter.

The USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research center also raises chicks for release into a newly established nonmigratory flock in the wetlands of Southwest Louisiana.

grasslands forests wetlands ocean aridlands islands and coasts. This year's report is also a five-year check in on the indicators presented in the inaugural 2009 State of the Birds report.

Wetlands are one of the habitats to benefit most from conservation. The North american Wetlands Conservation Act has enabled strategic conservation projects covering a collective area larger than Tennessee.

While wetland loss continues in some regions the Act has helped protect and restore wetlands through public-private partnerships across the United states thereby reversing declines in waterfowl populations such as the mallard

and blue-winged teal. In addition to assessing population trends in the seven key habitats the North american Bird Conservation Initiative members created a State of the Birds Watch List.

The 230 species on the list are endangered currently or at risk of becoming endangered without significant conservation.

Approximately 40%of methane is emitted into the atmosphere by natural sources (e g. wetlands and termites) and about 60%comes from human activities like cattle breeding rice agriculture fossil fuel exploitation landfills and biomass burning.

#Ecologist stresses importance of wetlands, grasslands in midwestwetlands may be understood the least ecosystem but their value Is distinguished immense according to Professor W. Carter Johnson of the South dakota State university Department of Natural resource Management.

For more than 40 years the ecologist has studied wetlands along rivers and in the prairie pothole region that extends from Canada through the Dakotas to Iowa.

In recognition of his contributions to wetlands conservation Johnson received the National Wetlands Award for Science Research from the Environmental law Institute.

Since 1989 the National Wetlands Awards program has honored individuals who have demonstrated extraordinary commitment to our nation's wetlands.

Understanding importance of wetlands Through his wetlands research Johnson has sought to help people understand their importance.

and importance to the health of the landscape he noted citing wetlands teaming with birds amphibians and beneficial insects.

In addition wetlands retain floodwaters and filter water naturally. South dakota has a unique legacy in its mixture of lakes wetlands and grasslands.

It's an incredibly beautiful and productive landscape and we haven't treated it very well Johnson said.

Most of the river or riparian wetlands along the Missouri river were lost when the reservoirs were established according to Johnson.

He estimated that 80 percent of the riparian wetlands have been destroyed. The only sizable remnants in South dakota occur below Gavins Point and Fort Randall Dams.

Restoring tall prairie grasses Seven years ago Johnson became one of the founders of the Ecosun Prairie Farms to demonstrate the viability of a working grass farm as a means of restoring tall grass prairie and pothole wetlands.

and the highest income levels came from wetland acres. It's a different way of farming Johnson admitted

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