Wetlands are most important and valuable ecosystem for maintaining biodiversity on the planet. In present scenario wetlands are vulnerable to climate change and land conversion activities like agriculture and urbanization. Due to their important fine temporal scale monitoring of sensitive wetlands are required. For this purpose few tools are specified to monitor the wetland at landscape scale. ...

This paper presents a scenario-based approach to strategic environmental assessment (SEA) for wetland trend analysis and land use and land cover (LUC) modeling in an urban environment. The application is focused on the Saskatoon urban environment, a rapidly growing urban municipality in Canada’s prairie pothole region. Alternative future LUC was simulated using remote sensing data and city spat...

A utility-theoretic model indicates that mitigation prices for wetland ecosystems depend on preferences and technical knowledge. Empirical analysis found gaps in respondents’ knowledge about such ecosystems. Valuing wetland types requires dealing with respondents’ possible misinformation, by developing tools for informing respondents or by combining service-based valuations with valid technical...

Mechanisms of natural attenuation of arsenic (As) by wetland plants may be classified by plant uptake and adsorption and/or co-precipitation by iron (oxy)hydroxide formed on the root surface of plants or in rhizosediment. A natural Cattail (Typha spp.) wetland impacted by tailings containing high levels of As from the Myungbong abandoned Au Mine, South Korea was selected, and the practical capa...

PURPOSE: One of many potential uses of the hydrogeomorphic (HGM) approach for assessing wetland functions is the monitoring of newly restored wetland sites to determine how quickly wetland functions develop and whether function-based mitigation objectives are being met. This technical note presents a case study of the application of the Western Kentucky Low-Gradient Riverine Guidebook to monito...

We present data of the time-evolution of a remediation approach on a marine shore tailings deposit by the implementation of an artificial wetland. Two remediation cells were constructed: one in the northern area at sea-level and one in the central delta area (above sea-level) of the tailings. At the beginning, the “sea-level” remediation cell had a low pH (3.1), with high concentrations of diss...

Wetland, as one of the weakest ecosystems in the world, is deteriorating rapidly in many regions. Longfeng wetland is the biggest urban wetland in China, located in the inner of Daqing city, Heilongjiang Province. It is divided into two areas by Wolong road, the east is provincial natural reserve and the west is unprotected. This paper describes a remote sensing change detection approach used t...

Designing a bifunctional catalyst for hydrogen oxidation reaction (HOR) and evolution (HER) is significant toward developing sustainable hydrogen-electric conversion systems. Herein, cost-effective catalyst, Ru/N-doped Carbon@WO3-W2C (Ru/NC@WOC), was developed via co-precipitation polyol reduction. Ru/NC@WOC showed superior HOR/HER activity in alkaline solution comparison with commercial Pt/C. ...

A five meter sediment core was taken from Old Woman Creek National Estuarine Research Reserve and State Natural Area and Preserve along the western basin of Lake Erie, U.S.A., to determine the historical biogeochemistry of the wetland. Analysis of pollen and sediment chemistry revealed that the area has remained a wetland since ca. 5,500 yr BP, despite changing lake levels. Pollen stratigraphy ...

Table 2, " Total GPP, R eco , and NEE for different ecosystems during the observation period (June 10—September 14, and, in wetland, June 26—September 14) " , incorrectly appears as identical to Table 3. Please see the corrected Table 2 here. Copyright: © 2015 Zhang et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unres...