Wetlands of the World I: Inventory, Ecology and Management

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xx

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2. Wetlands of Africa

   1. Wetland of Africa: Introduction

      • P. Denny

      Pages 1-31

   2. Eastern Africa

      • P. Denny

      Pages 32-46

   3. Western Africa

      • D. M. John, C. Lévêque, L. E. Newton

      Pages 47-78

   4. South Africa

      • C. M. Breen, J. Heeg, M. Seaman

      Pages 79-110

   5. Wetland use and conservation

      • P. Denny

      Pages 111-128

3. Wetlands of southern Europe and North Africa: Mediterranean wetlands

   1. Wetlands of southern Europe and North Africa: Mediterranean wetlands

      • R. H. Britton, A. J. Crivelli

      Pages 129-194

4. Wetlands of Australia

   1. Wetlands of Australia: Northern (tropical) Australia

      • C. Max Finlayson, Isabell von Oertzen

      Pages 195-243

   2. Wetlands of Australia: Southern (temperate) Australia

      • S. W. L. Jacobs, Margaret A. Brock

      Pages 244-304

5. Wetlands of Papua New Guinea

   1. Wetlands of Papua New Guinea

      • P. L. Osborne

      Pages 305-344

6. Wetlands of South Asia

   1. Wetlands of South Asia

      • Brij Gopal, K. Krishnamurthy

      Pages 345-414

7. Wetlands of Canada and Greenland

   1. Wetlands of Canada and Greenland

      • W. A. Glooschenko, C. Tarnocai, S. Zoltai, V. Glooschenko

      Pages 415-514

8. Wetlands of the United States

   1. Wetlands of the United States

      • Bill O. Wilen, Ralph W. Tiner

      Pages 515-636

9. Wetlands of Mexico

   1. Wetlands of Mexico

      • Ingrid Olmsted

      Pages 637-677

10. Wetlands of tropical South America

    1. Wetlands of tropical South America

       • Wolfgang J. Junk

       Pages 679-739

11. Back Matter

    Pages 741-768

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The impetus for this volume was the 2nd International Wetlands Conference which was held in June, 1984 at Trebon, Czechoslovakia. An overview of the worlds wetlands was one of the themes of the conference and it was decided that a useful follow-up would be a publication on the same topic. The initial goal was to cover as many of the worlds wetlands as possible in one volume and to have an emphasis on wetland ecology, biota, classification, and management. Individuals who made presentations at the Trebon confer­ ence were asked to prepare chapters and the editors also solicited other contributions. For a variety of reasons, the initial goal has been difficult to reach, especially coverage of the entire globe, and it has been necessary to publish the contributions in more than one volume. Volume 1 represents the com­ pletion of the first phase of the project and it covers most of the Western Hemisphere, Australia, most of Africa, the Indian subcontinent, the Mediter­ ranean region, and Papua New Guinea. Volume 2 will contain chapters on Western Europe, Northern Europe, Central Europe, most of northern and It is our hope that Volume western Asia, the Middle East, and Indonesia. 2 will appear in the near future and, if possible, a third volume will be published if authors can be secured to cover areas such as the Far East, other parts of the Indo-Pacific region, and New Zealand.

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` ... recommended without reservation for public library acquisition and for the specialist. All wetland scientists interested in broad perspectives will benefit from reading it. '
Trends in Ecology & Evolution, Vol.9, No.3

• Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, USA

  Dennis F. Whigham

• Department of Hydrobotany, Institute of Botany, Czechoslovak Academy of Science, Tr̂ebon̂, Czechoslovakia

  Dagmar Dykyjová

• Institute of Botany, Czechoslovak Academy of Science, Průhonice, Czechoslovakia

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