Ecology of Threatened Semi-Arid Wetlands
Sánchez-Carrillo, Salvador / Angeler, David G. Playing a critical role in both influencing climate change and mitigating its impacts, the world’s diverse wetlands have become one of the world’s most threatened ecosystems as unsustainable land-use practices coupled with irrational use of water have already resulted in large-scale wetlands loss and degradation.
To develop sound management and conservation schemes to assure wetlands sustainability in the long term requires long-term understa...