Wetlands of the Interior Southeastern United States

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Conference Summary Statement

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Wetlands of the Interior Southeastern United States: Conference Summary Statement

      • C. C. Trettin, W. M. Aust, M. M. Davis, A. S. Weakley, J. Wisniewski

      Pages 3-9

3. Wetland Resources

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11

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   2. Classification and Inventory of Wetlands in the Southern Appalachian Region

      • John M. Hefner, Charles G. Storrs

      Pages 13-20

   3. Identification of Wetlands in the Southern Appalachian Region and the Certification of Wetland Delineators

      • James S. Wakeley

      Pages 21-30

4. Biogeochemical Processes

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 31-31

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   2. Hillslope Nutrient Flux During Near-Stream Vegetation Removal I. A Multi-Scaled Modeling Design

      • J. A. Yeakley, J. L. Meyer, W. T. Swank

      Pages 33-50

   3. Plant Community Composition and Surface Water Chemistry of Fen Peatlands in West Virginia’s Appalachian Plateau

      • Mark R. Walbridge

      Pages 51-73

   4. Carbon Dynamics in Appalachian Peatlands of West Virginia and Western Maryland

      • J. B. Yavitt

      Pages 75-94

5. Vegetation Dynamics and Ecology

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 95-95

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   2. Hydrologic and Wetland Characteristics of a Piedmont Bottom in South Carolina

      • D. D. Hook, W. H. McKee Jr., T. M. Williams, S. Jones, D. Van Blaricom, J. Parsons

      Pages 97-124

   3. Landscape-Level Processes and Wetland Conservation in the Southern Appalachian Mountains

      • Scott M. Pearson

      Pages 125-136

   4. Vegetation of Three High Elevation Southern Appalachian Bogs and Implications of Their Vegetational History

      • J. Dan Pittillo

      Pages 137-152

   5. Wildlife Use of Southern Appalachian Wetlands in North Carolina

      • A. C. Boynton

      Pages 153-162

   6. Non-Alluvial Wetlands of the Southern Blue Ridge — Diversity in a Threatened Ecosystem

      • A. S. Weakley, M. P. Schafale

      Pages 163-187

   7. Rare and Endangered Plants and Animals of Southern Appalachian Wetlands

      • Nora A. Murdock

      Pages 189-209

6. Managed Wetlands

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 211-211

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   2. Riparian Forest Buffer System Research at the Coastal Plain Experiment Station, Tifton, GA

      • R. K. Hubbard, R. R. Lowrance

      Pages 213-236

   3. Rapid Wetland Functional Assessment: Its Role and Utility in the Regulatory Arena

      • William B. Ainslie

      Pages 237-248

The early 1990's marked an environmental watershed for our countly. Under two federal administrations significant environmental legislative, regulatOly and institutional changes took place which affected our Nation's wetland resources. Injust a few years, we have seen rapid evolution in the way in which we view wetlands with more emphasis on specific wetland types and the geographic provinces in which they occur. This Southern Appalachian Man and the Biosphere (SAMAB) conference on "Wetland Ecology, Management and Conservation" represents just one example of our desire to understand wetlands in non-coastal regions of the southern United States. The backdrop to this conference was one where the government, universities, and private sector have come together to create a broader and more sophisticated understanding of environmental stewardship for our water resources, especially wetlands. Although enforcement of environmental legislation by federal and state government agencies - limited by manpower shortages, budgetary constraints and undermined by weak enforcement - remains strong as measured by world standards; the realization that environmental degradation of wetlands is likely to get much worse necessitates a greater commitment and increased resource allocation for wetland protection and management. These contiIUled pressures on the wetland resource will create substantial opportunities for the application of environmentally-sound technologies and interdisciplinmy modeling teams to keep abreast of the factors influencing wetland integrity and function in the last half of the 1990's.

• Conservation
• ecology
• ecosystem
• research

• Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, USA

  C. C. Trettin

• Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, USA

  W. M. Aust

• Wisniewski & Associates, Inc., Falls Church, USA

  J. Wisniewski

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