• ISBN13: 9780471352341
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: Bio-Science and Agriculture
• Publisher: Wiley
• Publisher Imprint: Wiley
• Publication Date: January 1, 2001
• Pages: 480
• Original Price: USD 149.95
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 781 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Environmental Science and Environmental / General

The first resource of its kind-essential practical guidance on wetlands bioassessment and management

Although bioassessment has become a vital tool in the successful management of many aquatic ecosystems, to date there has been no single book that covers the application of bioassessment principles to wetland ecosystems. This contributed volume fills this important gap in the literature, with a multifaceted look at the issues and techniques involved in the successful bioassessment and management of freshwater wetlands.

The book is divided into two parts-bioassessment and wildlife management. After a review of general bioassessment principles, Part I discusses the statistical issues related to sampling numerous sites, as well as the application of multivariate procedures and invertebrate functional groups to wetland bioassessment. A series of case studies examines bioassessment results using various organismal groups, followed by several chapters that trace the relationship between bioassessment and wetland restoration. Coverage also explores how to use and sample bacteria, algae, macrophytes, and invertebrates.

Part II covers key management topics, including many that are frequently overlooked in other treatments of the subject. Separate chapters discuss how to manage fish, waterbirds, and mosquitoes in wetlands. Other chapters address timber harvest strategies and impact assessment, as well as the biological control of an invasive wetland plant.

As wetland managers work to strike a vital balance between resource exploitation and resource protection, this book offers an important repository of practical information to use in meeting this formidable challenge. It will be welcomed by wetland managers and scientists, environmental engineers, ecologists, civil engineers, and others whose work involves wetlands study and management.

RUSSELL B. RADER, PHD, is Associate Professor of Freshwater Ecology in the Zoology Department at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah.

DAROLD P. BATZER, PHD, is Associate Professor of Entomology in the Entomology Department at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia.

SCOTT A. WISSINGER, PHD, is Professor of Biology and Environmental Science in the Biology and Environmental Science Department at Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania.