Fish Use of Wetlands in Northwestern Ontario
Author: Jean Hall-Armstrong
Publisher: Thunder Bay, Ont. : Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, Northwest Science & Technology
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 68
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Jean Hall-Armstrong
Publisher: Thunder Bay, Ont. : Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, Northwest Science & Technology
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 68
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: G. D. Racey
Publisher: Thunder Bay : Northwest Science & Technology, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 6
ISBN-13: 9780777869710
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Darold P. Batzer
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2012-05-22
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 0520271645
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →“Wetland Habitats of North America is essential reading for everyone who studies, manages, or visits North American wetlands. It fills an important void in the wetland literature, providing accessible and succinct descriptions of all of the continent’s major wetland types.” Arnold van der Valk, Iowa State University “Batzer and Baldwin have compiled the most comprehensive compendium of North American wetland habitats and their ecology that is presently available—a must for wetland scientists and managers.” Irving A. Mendelssohn, Louisiana State University "If you want to gain a broad understanding of the ecology of North America’s diverse wetlands, Wetland Habitats of North America is the book for you. Darold Batzer and Andrew Baldwin have assembled an impressive group of regional wetland scientists who have produced a virtual encyclopedia to the continent’s wetlands. Reading the book is like a road trip across the Americas with guided tours of major wetland types by local experts. Your first stop will be to coastal wetlands with eight chapters covering tidal wetlands along the Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific coasts. Then you’ll travel inland where you can visit any or all of 18 types ranging from bottomland swamps of the Southeast to pothole marshes of the Northern Prairies to montane wetlands of the Rockies to tropical swamps of Central America and desert springs wetlands. All in one book—I’m impressed! Every wetlander should add this book to her or his swampland library. Ralph Tiner, University of Massachusetts–Amherst
Author: Allan G. Harris
Publisher: Lone Pine Pub
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781551050591
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Wetlands--lakes, rivers, marshes, swamps, bogs and fens--are an integral part of the Ontario landscape. They slow and sustain local water flow, and they contribute significantly to the diversity of life and ecosystems by providing habitat for plants, mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish and countless invertebrates. This handy field guide features detailed plant species descriptiosn combined with precise drawings and excellent colour photographs. Most of the more than 475 species of wetland plants described in this book grow in wetlands across eastern North America, and the ranges of many extend west to British Columbia and Alaska. WETLAND PLANTS OF ONTARIO includes edible plants, native uses of plants, a colour photo guide to flowers, ovber 450 colour photographs and 300 line drawings.
Author: North American Wetlands Conservation Council
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Published: 1992
Total Pages: 60
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Ron Reid
Publisher:
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 28
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This report summarizes the current status of habitats on the Canadian side of Lake Ontario & its watershed, and recent trends affecting those habitats. It discusses factors that adversely affect the watershed, such as increases in land use & population, loss of forests & wetlands, and water pollution; habitat conditions in tributaries, valleys, nearshore areas, and offshore waters; pollution control measures & remedial action plans; aquatic ecosystems; and habitat rehabilitation & conservation projects & programs.
Author: Committee on Characterization of Wetlands
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 1995-09-20
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 0309587220
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Wetlands" has become a hot word in the current environmental debate. But what does it signify? In 1991, proposed changes in the legal definities of wetlands stirred controversy and focused attention on the scientific and economic aspects of their management. This volume explores how to define wetlands. The committee--whose members were drawn from academia, government, business, and the environmental community--builds a rational, scientific basis for delineating wetlands in the landscape and offers recommendations for further action. Wetlands also discusses the diverse hydrological and ecological functions of wetlands, and makes recommendations concerning so-called controversial areas such as permafrost wetlands, riparian ecosystems, irregularly flooded sites, and agricultural wetlands. It presents criteria for identifying wetlands and explores the problems of applying those criteria when there are seasonal changes in water levels. This comprehensive and practical volume will be of interest to environmental scientists and advocates, hydrologists, policymakers, regulators, faculty, researchers, and students of environmental studies.
Author: Richard Smardon
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2009-06-13
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 0387494294
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Wetlands throughout the world, including those described in this book are among the most sensitive and vulnerable ecosystems. They are critical habitats to the world’s migratory birds and a broad range of endangered mammal, reptile, amphibian, and plant species. They provide a broad range of flood storage, pollution control, water supply, ecotourism functions to indigenous peoples and country populations as a whole. They are also at the center of severe land and water use conflicts. These are conflicts between counties where wetland resources or the water supplies required for such resources involve more than one country. These are conflicts in use such as conflicts between habitat protection and charcoal production in mangroves. These are conflicts between groups of peoples such as indigenous peoples and hydropower advocates. Many wetlands have already been destroyed by water extractions, dams, levees, channelization, and fills. Others have been degraded by water pollution, overfishing and overhunting, timber harvest, and a host of other activities. This book describes these conflicts and international policies and institutions developed to protect and manage wetland resources. Most of the broader literature and other books on wetlands focuses on wildlife. Wildlife is described in the case studies, which follow. But, Richard Smardon provides us with more. He traces the history of conflicts and the development of policies and insti- tions to protect and manage wetland resources.