Wetlands - Science topic

Aghanashini Estuary, Kumta Taluk, Uttara Kannada district, Karnataka is designated as RAMSAR wetland of International Significance, 31 January 2024

This study is the first examination of the phytoplankton component in Imili Sebkhat and its relationship to environmental parameters. This Sebkhat is a Moroccan wetland known for its flat, sandy terrain and often hypersaline water. It features around 100 permanent water holes in its northern part and is home to some macroinvertebrates and one speci...

In the latter half of the 20th century is it estimated that the United Kingdom lost up to 50% of its remaining reedbed. This had a hugely detrimental effect on the species who rely on this habitat, with some being pushed to the point of extinction. The 1996 UK Biodiversity Action Plan (UK BAP) introduced interventions to promote the recovery of num...

Section -1- Introduction and Advancement: Measuring Ecosystem services: scope, prospective and importance  Section-2- Terrestrial Ecosystem: monitoring and assessment (Forest, grassland and agro-ecosystems)  Section-3- Wetlands & Aquatic Ecosystem services: monitoring, assessment, Provisioning & Supporting Ecosystem services (Riverine, coastal, w...

Abdulkadir A, Manne IZ, Sani S. 2025. Impact of distance from the water body on the point of zero charge of Dutsin-Ma Dam floodplain soils, Katsina State, Nigeria. Intl J Bonorowo Wetlands 15: 1-6. This study investigates the point of zero charge (ZPC) and its influence on soil chemical properties in the floodplain around the Dutsin-Ma Dam. The rep...

In frame of the project 'Status improvement of wetland of Klátov branch National Nature Reserve (NNR)', financed from the Norwegian financial mechanism, was the task of the Department of Hydraulic Engineering as co-researcher partner to find a solution for possible revitalisation of the water regime of the more than 30 km long Klátov branch. The Kl...

Urban wetland ecosystems deliver numerous ecological, social, and economic benefits but are profoundly affected by urbanization and other human-induced activities. So, this study aimed to investigate the influence of the buildup of surface temperature and green cover on the surface in the Muthurajawela wetland, an urban wetland in Sri Lanka that pr...

In recent decades, wetlands have played a significant role in the global carbon cycle, making it essential to quantify their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions at regional, national, and international levels. This study examines three dammed water bodies (Dalpatsagar, Gangamunda, and Dudhawa lake-wetland complexes) in Chhattisgarh, In-dia, to estimate...

Land use and land cover in cities experience complicated changes in response to rapid urbanization, requiring significant impact on ecosystem service value. However, traditional valuation methods tend to ignore artificial ecosystem. This study develops a novel Unit Value (UV) method to evaluate urban ecosystem service values with both natural and a...

Systematic human intervention in wetlands has been taking place in central Europe for several centuries. The Donaumoos fen in Upper Bavaria, Germany, has been cultivated since 1788, resulting in the permanent loss of its natural state. The adjacent Danube River was straightened during the same period. This study presents a quantitative reconstructi...

Most previous works on aboveground biomass (AGB) estimation provide a single estimate of AGB rather than the probability distribution of the predicted values. However, the NGBoost algorithm provides a probabilistic regression and uncertainty estimation solution. In this study, we validate NGBoost for estimating AGB in mangrove forests in northeaste...

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Wetlands encompass a diverse array of unique ecosystems, including marshes, rivers, lakes, estuaries, man-made waterscapes and shallow coastal waters. Despite occupying <9% of the Earth’s surface, these habitats play a disproportionately large role in supporting global biodiversity and human livelihoods through the provision of ecosystem services,...

An inventory of the entomofauna of the Machais peat bog in 2020-21 revealed 8 species of Scatopsidae. One of them, Thripomorpha cooki (Hutson, 1970) is recorded for the first time from France, while another species belonging to the Anapausis soluta group is new to science, but will be described only after the discovery of male specimens.

Context While wetland degradation has caused declines in many species, the Eurasian spoonbill (Platalea leucorodia), a colonial waterbird, is increasing along the East Atlantic Flyway, currently (re)colonising its former breeding range over the past two decades. Objectives Evaluate the environmental parameters determining the species distribution...

This paper examines the industrial harvesting of turf and its use in electricity generation in Ireland from 1945 to 2000. It explores the commercial exploitation of Irish bogs which had been neglected for centuries. Exploitation achieved impetus when some revolutionaries such as Todd Andrews advocated economic self-sufficiency. With Government appr...

This study is based on 686 Pipunculidae specimens collected in the Machais peat bog National Nature Reserve (La Bresse), of which 543 were identified at species level. Of these, three species are recorded for the first time in France: Chalarus holosericeus (Meigen, 1824); Dorylomorpha anderssoni Albrecht, 1979 and Eudorylas kowarzi (Becker, 1897)....

The continuously more frequently threatening disasters are triggered mainly by climate change, next to further natural and cultural drivers. Continuously increasing global temperature and climate change represent current threats for rural and urban areas of the world, as well as Germany. Therefore, the high risks and spatially exposed situations of...

Since 1949, wetland protection in China has gone through five stages: illumination of wetland protection consciousness, investigation of wetland resources, rescue protection, comprehensive protection, and final establishment of legal protection; however, since 1992, the legislation of wetland protection in China has gone through three stages: explo...

The Painted Stork Mycteria leucocephala is a widespread resident wetland bird of the Indian Subcontinent (Ali & Ripley 1987). Painted Storks are largely piscivorous, and occupy a high trophic level in aquatic food chains (Kalam & Urfi 2008). Here we report on the nesting ecology and fledging success of a colony of Painted Storks.

Indicator species are typically used to infer the presence of other biota or specific environmental conditions. Here we use indicator species to quantify the hydrological niche of their corresponding vegetation communities within Coastal Upland Swamps of the Sydney Basin Bioregion, Australia. Swamp vegetation organizes naturally into five recognise...

Degradation of crop productivity and soil fertility and fails to meet the demands of it is growing population in the study area. The image was enhanced using ENVI 5.1 software from Landsat ETM+ soil fertility and productivity assessment using remote sensing and GIS. Soil productivity and fertility assessment are important for to a sustainable ecosy...

The principal aim of this study is to ascertain the suitability of Main Outfall Drain water for Al Hammar Marsh by calculating the Comprehensive Pollution Index (CPI). Twenty physicochemical parameters, including Turbidity, PH, DO, EC, TDS, PO4, Cl, Ca, Mg, K, NH4, Na, SO4, NO2, Cr, Pb, Mn, Ni, Ba, and Zn were considered. This investigation was ado...

Remote satellite observations have played a crucial role in monitoring vegetation since the 1970s, starting with the development of the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) by Rouse (1974) and Tucker (1979). Despite advances in satellite technology, validation with in situ measurements, which are often locally sparse, remains essential. Ar...

Lowlands such as peat swamps have specific, limited conditions that play a role in storing the world's main carbon, one of the plants that adapts is Nepenthes. This is important considering that peatlands in Indonesia face the threat of deforestation, while Nepenthes is a protected plant. So it is important to know the type and characteristics of N...

Countries and regions worldwide face varying degrees of wetland degradation risks due to economic development and climate changes. As a coastal megacity and economic powerhouse in northern China, Tianjin once boasted abundant wetland resources but has experienced significant ecosystem alteration. This study systematically investigated spatiotempora...

El trabajo analiza las lagunas urbanas de Villahermosa, Tabasco, México, estas lagunas, que suman 356 hectáreas, tienen un gran potencial para el turismo, la recreación y la educación. Se investiga la percepción de la población local sobre su valor cultural y se identifican oportunidades para el marketing turístico sostenible. Para la metodología s...

Sea level rise is an escalating threat to saltmarsh ecosystems as increased inundation can lead to decreased biomass, lowered productivity, and plant death. Another potential stressor is elevated nitrogen often brought into coastal regions via freshwater diversions. Nitrogen has a controversial impact on belowground biomass, potentially affecting s...

An assessment on tree stand structure and mangrove plant diversity was conducted in Pulau Semut, Pulau Busung, and Pulau Tok Haji of Setiu Lagoon, Terengganu. Three 100 m×20 m plots were randomly set up at study sites. The trees were enumerated, identified and measured for their stem diameter in each plot. 18 species representing 11 families, inclu...

Rosa palustris | Swamp Rose | 林沼薔薇 | Rosier Palustre | Rosa de Pantano

Flora surveys of the Fortescue Marsh (known as Martuyitha to the Nyiyaparli People and Manggurdu to the Banjima People) in the Pilbara region, Western Australia, identified a taxon of Samolus L. with an unusually divaricate and tangled habit which was subsequently assigned the interim name of Samolus sp. Fortescue Marsh (A. Markey & R. Coppen FM 97...

Blue carbon ecosystems (BCEs) exhibit remarkable capacities for organic carbon (C) storage, making them a promising nature‐based climate solution. However, the lack of robust, spatially explicit estimates of C stocks in BCEs presents a major challenge to incorporating them into national and global C accounting and climate mitigation strategies. For...

Introduction: Understanding the factors underlying the interactions among closely related species continue to be an important issue in ecology and evolution. Warblers have been the group model for studying niche partitioning through interspecific competition, without considering other possible factors. A more recent approach includes species-specif...

Crop change detection plays a pivotal role in ensuring agricultural sustainability and environmental monitoring. Leveraging the high spectral resolution of hyperspectral imagery and bi-temporal analysis, this study presents a Fast Hyperspectral Change Detection algorithm based on Spatial Reconstruction (FHCDSR) designed to identify subtle agricultu...

Lake Niassa was declared by the Mozambican Government on April 26, 2011, as a wetland of international importance under the Ramsar Convention and designated a partial reserve through Decree No. 59/2011 of November 17. The objective of this study was to analyse the role of social actors (civil society and communities) and governmental institutions i...

Carbon monoxide (CO) is an important trace gas in the atmosphere. However, its sinks and sources in terrestrial ecosystems remain poorly quantified. Understanding the terrestrial sink and source dynamics is crucial for better assessing the global CO budget. In this study, we investigated CO exchange in an Arctic peatland in northern Sweden to quant...

Six decades of temporal changes in the abundance of sugar maple (Acer saccharum Marsh.) were investigated using a network of multi‐agency ground plots (MAGPlots) located across Ontario, Québec, and New Brunswick, Canada. Based on a composite dataset of nearly 400 plots mainly composed of sugar maple trees (≥ 50% basal area, m² ha⁻¹), results showed...

The aim of this study was to assess the horizontal structure and floristic composition of the mangrove forest on Vamizi Island, located in the Quirimbas Archipelago, in Cabo Delgado Province, northern Mozambique. To this end, dendrometric data were collected to evaluate species richness, floristic composition, phytosociological parameters, diameter...

La investigación evaluó la eficiencia de un sistema de humedal artificial de flujo subsuperficial, para el tratamiento de aguas residuales domésticas, utilizando la especie vegetal Guadua angustifolia. Se analizaron parámetros físico-químicos y microbiológicos, como la demanda bioquímica de oxígeno (DBO), coliformes fecales, pH, sólidos disueltos,...

Recent efforts have compiled distribution data on Iberian Peninsula peatlands, however, the criteria used to characterise these ecosystems have often been derived from regions where peatlands are more extensive and typically occur under wetter climatic conditions. As a result, many peat-accumulating wetlands in this region were overlooked. Identify...

Merauke City is the capital of South Papua Province which is located in the easternmost part of Indonesia and was inaugurated by President Joko Widodo in 2022. The area of Merauke City is 45,013.35 km2 and borders directly with the State of Papua New Guinea. In line with its status as the Provincial Capital, the Merauke City Region is the center of...

Niniejsze rozważania mają nieco inny charakter, aniżeli standardowy tekst naukowy. Jakiekolwiek bowiem próby rzetelnego i wszechstronnego odwzorowania indywidualnego stosunku danej postaci do imponderabiliów, takich jak religia, Bóg i Kościół pojmowany szerzej aniżeli instytucja religijna i ogół duchowieństwa, a raczej jako wspólnota ludzi wierzący...

Significant efforts are underway to restore the ecosystem services of peatlands. In this study, map tiles (1:25,000) from the 1930s in Northern Germany were analysed to determine how the release of GHG emissions and the ecological state of peatlands have changed over the past century. In the 1930s, species-rich, moderately used grassland ecosystems...

At the end of a journey spanning over 2,840 kilometers, the Danube River, after collecting waters from an impressive river basin covering more than 8% of Europe's surface, creates one of the world's most special wetland areas at its confluence with the Black Sea. Danube Delta comprises three main branches: the Chilia Branch in the north, the Sulina...

Permafrost thawing of northern peatlands can cause the local collapse of peat plateaus into much wetter thermokarst bogs and fens, dominated by Sphagnum mosses and graminoids, respectively. However, permafrost thaw can also improve landscape drainage and, thus, lead to the regional drying of peatlands. How gradual drying of these thawing permafrost...

Los humedales de alta montaña de los Andes de Sudamérica son ecosistemas únicos, caracterizados por su hiperhumedad y su estrecha conexión con descargas de agua subterránea o deshielo. Estos ambientes presentan aguas relativamente estancadas o con poca circulación, favoreciendo la proliferación de vegetación que puede ser monitoreada a través de im...

Flower size plays a crucial role in the reproduction of animal‐pollinated plants. Larger flowers usually increase pollinator visitation and reproductive success, but they are also associated with higher water investment for production and maintenance. Thus, water availability is a relevant factor in determining flower size, which may be consequentl...

Land cover changes significantly affect mangrove forests, driven by both anthropogenic activities and natural processes. The Banlaem mangrove in Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand, supports numerous mangrove plantation projects but lacks comprehensive assessments and monitoring related to land cover changes. This study aimed to (1) investigate land cove...

Wetlands are among the world’s most vulnerable ecosystems. Particularly in the Mediterranean region, farmland ponds are strongly influenced by the agricultural land use in their surroundings, though supporting unique biodiversity. This study aimed to highlight the patterns of farmland pond plant diversity across different pondscapes—networks of int...

Microplastics are one of the most widespread problems that have drawn serious attention from researchers, policymakers and the public due to the potential ecological, environmental and human health implications. The objective was to verify the relationships between urbanization areas and microplastic contamination in selected freshwater locations....

The area of primary boreal forest continues to decline due to anthropogenic disturbance, often targeting forests that provide the highest economic returns. This selective use of forests raises the question of whether the remaining primary forests occur within a subset of the environmental conditions present in their region of occurrence. We investi...

The analysis of pollen preservation data to support the interpretation of palynological records has been recognised since the 1960s, but the method, which incurs no additional resources, has rarely been adopted in Patagonia. This paper presents a synthesis of records of palaeovegetation and pollen preservation from six peat bogs, along a latitudina...

African butterflies play vital ecological roles but face numerous threats. Their protection requires aligning biodiversity conventions with butterfly-specific conservation goals. This review examines how to optimize regional and international conventions for enhanced African butterfly conservation. Through systematic assessment of relevant conventi...

Розглянуто сучасний стан лісогосподарського землекористування в межах Жовтанецької територіальної громади. У громаді властиве інтенсивне використання земель сільськогосподарського призначення і значно менше лісів і водно-болотних ресурсів. Лише 11,38 % земель громади становлять ліси та інші лісовкриті площі, які в основному представлені в північній...

The Huai He floodplain in Anhui and Jiangsu Province, an important component of the East Asian-Australasian Flyway (EAAF), sustains critical wetland habitats for migratory waterbirds, including critically endangered species in the IUCN Red List, such as Aythya baeri (Radde, 1863) and Pelecanus crispus Bruch, 1832. Despite its biogeographic signific...

Methane (CH4) is a predominant climate-forcing agent and has become a focal point of global climate discussions, owing to its significant contribution to atmospheric warming. The ambiguity surrounding the relative contributions of various natural and anthropogenic sources, coupled with associated uncertainties, poses significant challenges to asses...

Plain Language Summary Microorganisms in aquatic ecosystems can form biofilms that connect sediment grains. This reduces the pore spaces at the bed‐water interface, which impacts the deposition and retention of particles, such as microplastics. When particles settled onto a non‐cohesive bed without biofilm, small particles can fit in between grains...

El lago de Cuitzeo es el segundo lago más grande de México, y debido a su poca profundidad se reconoce como uno de los humedales más importantes del país para la conservación de la biodiversidad. El lago se ha visto afectado por las actividades antropogénicas que se realizan en los centros urbanos localizados dentro de la cuenca y se pueden observa...

Mangroves in Eastern Leyte play an important role in the environment by offering various ecological benefits like protecting shorelines, storing carbon and serving as homes for a variety of marine creatures. It is crucial to map and monitor mangrove forests to properly conserve and manage them. This research study specifically looks at how to ident...

In today's conditions of the country's development, cities and suburban areas are being built up at a rapid pace, which causes its shortage, especially in cities with a large population. In such conditions, one of the possible solutions for the development of the city is the development of previously unsuitable areas that can be used for constructi...

Los impulsores del cambio de uso del suelo a diversas escalas ponen en riesgo la estabilidad de los ecosistemas tropicales, que afecta tanto a la biodiversidad como a los servicios ecosistémicos esenciales. Estos cambios son particularmente críticos en áreas como la Cuenca Baja del Río Usumacinta (CBRU), una región de valor ecológico y cultural. En...

Plain Language Summary Water levels are critical to the overall function of wetlands. Measuring water level changes, therefore, is important for wetland management and for tracking the global water and carbon cycles. The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite mission was launched to measure water levels of the Earth's surface waters, i...

This study investigated the spatial variations in DOM sources and composition, and their influence on DOC dynamics in 12 river wetlands across China's second-largest inland river basin, the Heihe River Basin.

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The stored carbon in the above and below ground biomass of Porteresia coarctata was monitored for 12 consecutive years (March 2011-March 2022) along the Hooghly estuary in the maritime State of West Bengal, India. The stored carbon in the Above Ground Biomass (AGB) ranged between 60.42 gm m-2 to 118.46 gm m-2 and in the Below Ground Biomass (BGB) t...

Peanut farming is a promising agricultural business to develop because it can provide significant profits for farmers. Although the production costs are relatively high, it still yields business profits. Hulu Sungai Utara Regency is one of the regencies that cultivate peanuts, with one of the subdistricts having potential for peanut cultivation dev...

East Taihu Lake watershed has complex water functional areas; though it is small, human activities on the East Taihu Lake watershed environment interference are relatively strong. In this study, we investigated the diversity of macrobenthic communities and analyzed the pivotal environmental factors affecting alterations in the macrobenthic communit...

Genus Clenchiella, including six species, is mainly distributed in mangrove swamps or estuarine areas. To date, only Clenchiella minutissima (Wattebled, 1884) has been recorded in Vietnam water. Our paper is the first report Clenchiella victoriae Abbott, 1948 from Vietnam based on 12 specimens collected in Phu Quoc islands in March 2024. C. victori...

Water buffalo is a cornerstone livestock species in many low- and middle-income countries, yet major gaps persist in its genomic characterization—complicated by the divergent karyotypes of its two sub-species (swamp and river). Such genomic complexity makes water buffalo a particularly good candidate for the use of graph genomics, which can capture...

Adjusting relative allocation between sexual and clonal reproduction is part of how plants respond to a variable environment, but we know little about how the allocation strategies of plant populations vary over time as abiotic conditions change. We studied correlations between sexual and clonal reproduction using 23 years of data on the clonal sal...

As human‐modified landscape and climate changes proliferate, maintaining biodiversity and understanding the function and quality of available habitat is imperative. As anurans (frogs/toads) such as Pseudacris crucifer, can be an indicator species of habitat quality and ecosystem productivity, studying the anuran community in a mixed‐land use region...

We analyse data from a rescue database collected at the Innsbruck Alpenzoo (Tyrol, Austria). The sample covers 33 years (1988–2020), and more than 5250 wild birds from 145 species originating from Innsbruck and the surrounding Inn Valley, one of the most densely populated areas in Europe. Both, the total number of birds as well as the number of bir...

In the Boreal region, extreme seasonal variations in day–night length expose communities to dynamic light and temperature fluctuations. Freshwater bacterioplankton, representing key ecosystem components, faces climate‐driven shifts; yet the fixed day‐length patterns determined by latitude underscore the importance of studying light's role in predic...

High-latitude mires store a considerable part of the global soil carbon. Current understanding suggests that wetter conditions promote carbon accumulation. This paradigm is based primarily on temperate ombrogenic bogs and overlooks the influence of minerogenic water from the catchment area, despite most northern mires being minerogenic fens. Here w...

Owing to its diverse geology, geography and climate, Japan is a country rich in biodiversity. However, as a result of accelerated development over the last century, and particularly the post-war decades, Japan's natural environments and the wildlife which inhabit them have come under increased pressure. Now, much of Japan's natural forest, wetlands...

Methane is an important greenhouse gas¹ and its atmospheric concentration has almost tripled since pre-industrial times2, 3–4. Atmospheric methane mixing ratios vary seasonally, with the seasonal cycle amplitude (SCA) having decreased in northern high latitudes and increased in the subtropics and tropics since the 1980s5,6. These opposing SCA trend...

The present study was conducted to analyze the contents of various macronutrients, micronutrients and potentially toxic metals (PTMs) in wheat and rice shoot samples collected from villages around Harike wetland, India. In wheat shoots, levels of most macronutrients and in rice shoots levels of Na, S and P were found to be below the normal requirem...

While a handful of the wealthy routinely drink expensive, high function mineral water, “boutique water”, as it is called, one out of five people in the world cannot count on getting any safe drinking water at all. One in three of the world’s population lives in an environment lacking such basic sanitary facilities as toilets and sewers and where un...

Most media attention to Okinawa concentrates on the bases, and rightly so since they do indeed affect everything. Here, however, author Urashima shifts the primary focus to development politics and nature, in the context of a plan conceived at the height of Japan's “bubble” in the mid- 1980s to “landfill” one of Japan's most fertile, bio-diverse an...

The extensive use of antibiotics as essential medications in contemporary healthcare has resulted in significant amounts of these drugs entering the environment, both in original and metabolic forms, which presents serious ecological and health hazards. This paper examines the natural processes that break down antibiotics in water, including photol...

Many ecosystems have been invaded by more than one non-native species, but research evaluating the combined effects of multiple invasive species has been limited. In the southwest USA, many aquatic systems have been invaded by multiple species such as non-native crayfish and non-native fishes. We document the rapid decline of a population of the en...

Owing to its diverse geology, geography and climate, Japan is a country rich in biodiversity. However, as a result of accelerated development over the last century, and particularly the post-war decades, Japan's natural environments and the wildlife which inhabit them have come under increased pressure. Now, much of Japan's natural forest, wetlands...

The Hutovo blato Nature Park is a small, shallow Mediterranean type wetland of the Neretva River Basin located in the SE of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Due to its natural characteristics, the Mediterranean wetland area is one of the most important parts of the Neretva River and as such was declared as a Nature Park in 1995 and included in the Ramsar Co...

Wetlands are large reservoirs of soil organic carbon (SOC), storing one‐third of global SOC within 6% of the land surface. However, the feedback direction and magnitude of wetland SOC storage to climate warming remain unclear. Here we present results from an 8‐year (2014–2022) wetland warming experiment in the Yellow River Delta, revealing that wet...

This assessment aims to quantify the SOC stock across major forest types in Malaysia, taking into account different environmental conditions such as soil type, climate, and land use practices. The objectives of the study include measuring and quantifying the SOC stock in major forest types across Malaysia, such as lowland dipterocarp forests, peat...

Alteration of flooding regimes due to global change may have cascading effects on plant community composition and associated ecosystem services. Here, we experimentally investigated the effects of six flooding regimes with contrasting combinations of flooding duration (5.5, 6 and 6.5 months) and submergence rate (from 3.3 to 17.5 cm/day) on the gro...