wetlands as a situ for the growth of native plants, as a habitat for certain species of fish and aquatic birds, and because of their potential economic, cultural and recreational services, are valuable heritage so their protection and conservation is very essential. mostly due to the absence of wetlands services’ valuation, lack of special regulations, and lack of guarantee for these properties...

Migratory Shorebirds in a Newly Formed Wetland, Yangtze River Estuary, China Zhen-Ming Ge1,2,*, Xiao Zhou1,2, Tian-Hou Wang1, Kai-Yun Wang1, Enle Pei3,4, and Xiao Yuan3,4 1School of Life Sciences, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Urbanization and Ecological Restoration, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China 2Faculty of Forest Sciences, University of Joensuu, P.O. Box 111, FI-80101 Joen...

In order to guide the management, protection and utilization of wetlands in Shaanxi Province, this paper analyzes summarizes current situation existing problems wetland resources puts forward suggestions accordingly. There are 4 12 types 308,500 hectares. The area proportion various 257,600 hectares river wetlands, 83.50%; 32,300 artificial 10.46%; 7,600 lake 2.46%; 11,000 swamp 3.58%. 77 famil...

Reservoir ecological operation has become an important means of protection and restoration. The reservoirs on sediment-laden rivers with water supply, sediment transport, flood control, wetland protection, power generation as the primary objectives is a challenge in resources management. Currently, most studies reservoir models involve single objective, inadequacy corresponding constraint condi...

Threats from man-made radionuclides include waste issues, increasing number of power plants, underground bomb testing, nuclear weapons, and “dirty bombs”. Until recently the ionizing radiation protection system focused on protecting humans with an implied protection of biota. However, goals of sustainable development and precautionary principles for human activity are leading to an inclusion of...