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A wetland inventory and assessment was made as a basis for development of a national wetlands policy for Colombia (CMWP). Major wetlands were identified from a 1:1 500 000 scale national hydrological map. Of 57 major wetlands in 27 catchments or wetland complexes, wetlands in 16 of these were selected for assessment. Wetland type, ecological status and wetland value for each wetland was scored ...

Wetlands play important ecological, economic, and cultural roles in societies around the world. However, wetland degradation has become a serious ecological issue, raising the global sustainability concern. An accurate wetland map is essential for wetland management. Here we used a fuzzy method to create a hybrid wetland map for China through the combination of five existing wetlands datasets, ...

Long-term intensive land use/cover changes (LUCCs) of the Yellow River Delta (YRD) have been happening since the 1960s. The land use patterns of the LUCCs are crucial for bio-diversity conservation and/or sustainable development. This study quantified patterns of the LUCCs, explored the systematic transitions, and identified wetland change trajectory for the period 1976–2014 in the YRD. Landsat...

Wetland assessment tools are being developed and employed in wetland monitoring and conservation based on physical, chemical and biological characterization. In wetland biological assessment, various ecological functions have been described by biological traits of an entire species pool that adapts to different types of wetland environments. Since microorganisms play a key role in wetland bioge...

1. Introduction The wetland is mostly distributed in the moist low temperature area at high latitudes. The wetland has the peat bog, which forms the accumulation of undecomposed plants. The important thing to notice is that the peat bog is similar to the aerial part of biomass in accumulating carbon. Since the amount of carbon cannot be ignored in the wetland, there is an urgent need to monitor...

In-Vitro Antioxidant potentials in leaves of Coleus aromaticus Benth and rhizomes Zingiber zerumbet (L.) SM.Om Prakash Rout, Rabinarayan Acharya, Sagar Kumar Mishra

Although quarrying is often cited as a potential threat to wetland systems, there is a lack of relevant, quantitative case studies in the literature. The impact of pumped groundwater discharged from a quarry into a wetland area was assessed relative to reference conditions in an adjacent fen wetland that receives only natural runoff. Analysis of vegetation patterns at the quarry wetland site, u...

Manish Naja*, Piyush Bhardwaj, Narendra Singh, Phani Kumar, Rajesh Kumar, N. Ojha, Ram Sagar, S. K. Satheesh, K. Krishna Moorthy and V. R. Kotamarthi Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences, Nainital 263 002, India National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bengaluru 560 034, India Centre for Atmospheric and Oceanic Science...