Estuarine navigation channels have long been recognized as conduits for saltwater intrusion into coastal wetlands. Salt flux decomposition and time series measurements of velocity and salinity were used to examine salt flux components and drivers of baroclinic and barotropic exchange in the Houma Navigation Channel, an estuarine channel located in the Mississippi River delta plain that receives...

One consequence of human-driven habitat degradation in general, and habitat fragmentation in particular, is loss of biodiversity. An often-underappreciated aspect of habitat fragmentation relates to changes in the ecology of species that persist in altered habitats. In Bahamian wetlands, ecosystem fragmentation causes disruption of hydrological connectivity between inland fragmented wetlands an...

The Andalusian International University held a workshop entitled Temporary wetlands’ future in drylands under the projected global change scenario March 2020 Baeza, Spain, with 26 participants from 10 countries. objectives were to promote international cooperation and scientific exchange on conservation protection of temporary wetlands. highlighted extreme conditions that permanent wetlands, po...

Migratory shorebirds show strong dichotomies in habitat choice during both the breeding and nonbreeding season. Whereas High Arctic breeding species are restricted to coastal marine and saline habitats during the nonbreeding season, more southerly breeding species tend to use freshwater habitats away from coasts. It has been proposed that this co-variation in habitat use is a consequence of a s...

Wetlands are broadly defined as a variety of shallow water bodies and high ground water environments that are characterized by permanent or temporary inundation or, in other words, a terrestrial ecosystem which hydraulic condition is that of water saturated soils with plants and animals adapted to life in such an environment (Lewis, W.M., 1995). From a hydrological point of view, the Ibera wetl...

This paper presents students’ word associations with terms regarding the Wadden Sea. A continuous free word-association method was used in which students from secondary schools (n = 3119, average age: 13.54 years) reported their stimulus words Sea, mudflat hiking tour, and tides written form. Data were collected living close to Sea inland. We performed a quantitative content analysis including ...

Coastal wetlands form an important element of the coastal zone natural environment. This paper presents the use of GIS for detecting changes in salt water inflow and for studying the flooding risk due to sea level rise in a micro tidal Beka brackish marsh on the Polish Baltic Coast. Creating a geodatabase within a GIS makes it possible to carry out broad analyses of complex systems, to which co...

Plastic intake by marine vertebrates has been widely reported, but information about its presence in continental waterfowl is scarce. Here we analyzed faeces of waterbirds species (European coot, Fulica atra, mallard, Anas platyrhynchos and shelduck, Tadorna tadorna) for plastic debris in five wetlands in Central Spain. We collected 89 faeces of shelduck distributed in four lakes, 43.8% of them...

The Chilean Patagonia has numerous kinds of inland water ecosystems such as lakes, ponds, wetlands and rivers that have been poorly studied due to access difficulties. This study was carried out in Aysen region, in southern Chile, and it included different kinds of water bodies such as rivers, streams, ponds, lagoons and lakes distributed along an altitudinal gradient at 46° S. It was found a l...

This paper summarizes the findings of a pre-design feasibility analysis assessing the restoration of significant portions of wetlands in southeast Louisiana by providing nutrients through the introduction of treated municipal wastewater effluent. Wetlands assimilation is a process whereby properly treated and disinfected municipal wastewater treatment plant effluent is used to provide a source ...