Wetlands and Urbanization

Implications for the Future

Amanda Azous, Richard R. Horner

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2000
• Print ISBN:
  9781566703864
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781040209851
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Ecology
• Index: Biological Sciences

Urbanization affects wetlands in direct and indirect ways. Over the past several decades it has become increasingly apparent that unmanaged runoff is the primary threat to the country's watershed resources. Wetlands and Urbanization: Implications for the Future is the result of a ten year research project focused on the understanding and ma

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Halftitle Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Preface
• About the Puget Sound Wetlands and Stormwater Management Program Team
• Contributors
• Acknowledgments
• Table of Contents
• Section I Overview ofthePuget Sound Wetlands and Stormwater Management Research Program
• Introduction
• Section II Descriptive Ecology of Freshwater Wetlands in the Central Puget Sound Basin
• 1 Morphology and Hydrology
• 2 Water Quality and Soils
• 3 Characterization of Central Puget Sound Basin Palustrine Wetland Vegetation
• 4 A Macroinvertebrate Distribution, Abundance, and Habitat Use
• 5 Amphibian Distribution, Abundance, and Habitat Use
• 6 Bird Distribution, Abundance, and Habitat Use
• 7 Terrestrial Small Mammal Distribution, Abundance, and Habitat Use
• Section III WatershedDevelopment Effects on Freshwater Wetlands in the Central Puget Sound Basin
• 8 Effects of Watershed Development on Hydrology
• 9 Effects of Watershed Development on Water Quality and Soils
• 10 Wetland Plant Communities in Relation to Watershed Development
• 11 Emergent Macro invertebrate Communities in Relation to Watershed Development
• 12 Bird Communities in Relation to Watershed Development
• Section IV ManagementofFreshwater Wetlands in the Central Puget Sound Basin
• 13 Managing Wetland Hydroperiod: Issues and Concerns
• 14 Wetlands and Stormwater Management Guidelines