The Wetland Book

1. Alien Plants and Wetland Biotic Dysfunction

   • C. M. Finlayson

2. Amazon River Basin

   • Florian Wittmann, Wolfgang J. Junk

3. Amur-Heilong River Basin: Overview of Wetland Resources

   • Evgeny Egidarev, Eugene Simonov, Yury Darman

4. Anzali Mordab complex (Islamic Republic of Iran)

   • Masoud Bagherzadeh Karimi

5. Arctic Peatlands

   • Tatiana Minayeva, Andrey Sirin, Peter Kershaw, Olivia Bragg

6. Atolls of the Tropical Pacific Ocean: Wetlands Under Threat

   • R. R. Thaman

7. Australia’s Wet Tropics Streams, Rivers, and Floodplain Wetlands

   • Richard G. Pearson

8. Axios, Aliakmon, and Gallikos Delta Complex (Northern Greece)

   • D. Vokou, U. Giannakou, Ch. Kontaxi, S. Vareltzidou

9. Bahía Lomas, Ramsar Site (Chile)

   • Carmen Espoz, Ricardo Matus, Diego Luna-Quevedo

10. Bahr el Ghazal: Nile River Basin (Sudan and South Sudan)

    • A. I. el Moghraby

11. Banc d’Arguin (Mauritania)

    • Antonio Araujo, Pierre Campredon

12. Baro-Akobo River Basin Wetlands: Livelihoods and Sustainable Regional Land Management (Ethiopia)

    • Adrian Wood, J. Peter Sutcliffe, Alan Dixon

13. Bijagos Archipelago (Guinea-Bissau)

    • Pierre Campredon, Paulo Catry

14. Blanket Bogs

    • Richard Lindsay

15. Blanket Mire

    • Richard Lindsay

16. Blanket Mires of Caithness and Sutherland, Scotland’s Great Flow Country (UK)

    • Richard Lindsay, Roxane Andersen

17. Boreal Wetlands of Canada and the United States of America

    • Beverly Gingras, Stuart Slattery, Kevin Smith, Marcel Darveau

18. Bujagh National Park (Islamic Republic of Iran)

    • Sadegh Sadeghi Zadegan

19. Ciénaga Grande de Santa Marta: The Largest Lagoon-Delta Ecosystem in the Colombian Caribbean

    • Jenny Alexandra Rodríguez-Rodríguez, José Ernesto Mancera Pineda, Laura Victoria Perdomo Trujillo, Mario Rueda, Karen Patricia Ibarra-Gutiérrez

20. Coastal Sabkha (Salt Flats) of the Southern and Western Arabian Gulf

    • Ronald A. Loughland, Ali M. Qasem, Bruce Burwell, Perdana K. Prihartato

The Wetland Book is a comprehensive resource aimed at supporting the trans- and multidisciplinary research and practice which is inherent to this field. Aware both that wetlands research is on the rise and that researchers and students are often working or learning across several disciplines, The Wetland Book is a readily accessible online and print reference which will be the first port of call on key concepts in wetlands science and management. This easy-to-follow reference will allow multidisciplinary teams and transdisciplinary individuals to look up terms, access further details, read overviews on key issues and navigate to key articles selected by experts

• Dept. of Ecology and Biodiversity, Charles Sturt University Inst. for Land, Water and Society, Albury, Australia

  C. Max Finlayson

• Dept. of Natural Resources, Wildlife Resources, Kentville, Canada

  G. Randy Milton

• Nature Management Services, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia

  R. Crawford Prentice

• Charles Sturt University, Albury, Australia

  Nick C. Davidson

C. Max Finlayson (Editor-in-Chief): is an internationally renowned wetland ecologist with extensive experience internationally in water pollution, agricultural impacts, invasive species, climate change, and human well-being and wetlands. He has participated in global assessments such as those conducted by the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change, the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, and the Global Environment Outlook 4 & 5 (UNEP). Since the early 1990s he has been a technical adviser to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands and has written extensively on wetland ecology and management. He has also been actively involved in environmental NGOs and from 2002-07 was President of the governing council of global NGO Wetlands International.

Professor Finlayson has worked extensively on the inventory, assessment and monitoring of wetlands, in particular in wet tropical, wet-dry tropical and sub-tropical climatic regimes covering pollution, invasive species and climate change. His current research interests/projects including the following:

• Interactions between human well-being and wetland health in the face of anthropogenic change, including global change and the onset of the Anthropocenic era
• Vulnerability and adaptation of wetlands/rivers to climate change, including changing values and trade-offs between uses and users, considering uncertainty and complexity
• Integration of ecologic, economic and social requirements and trade-offs between users of wetlands with an emphasis on developing policy guidance and institutional changes
• Environment and agriculture interactions and policy responses/outcomes, and collaboration between stakeholders and policy-makers
• Wetland restoration and construction, including the use of artificial wetlands for waste water treatment and the generation of multiple values
• Landscape change involving wetlands/rivers and land use (agriculture and mining) and implications for wetland ecosystem services and benefits for local people.

He holds the following associated positions 

• Scientific Expert on the Scientific and Technical Review Panel, Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, Triennium 2016-2018
• Ramsar Chair for the Wise use of Wetlands, UNESCO-IHE, Delft, The Netherlands (2014-18)
• Visiting Professor, Institute for Wetland Research, China Academy of Forestry, Beijing, China
• Editor-in-Chief, Marine and Freshwater Research, CSIRO Publishing
• Chair, Environmental Strategy Advisory Panel, Winton Wetlands Restoration (Australia)

Professor Finlayson has contributed to over 300 journal articles, reports, guidelines, proceedings and book chapters on wetland ecology and management. He has contributed to the development of concepts and methods for wetland inventory, assessment and monitoring, and undertaken many site-based assessments in many countries.

 

 

 

Nicholas C. Davidson (Lead Advisor): Nick Davidson was the Deputy Secretary General of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands from 2000 to 2014, with overall responsibility for the Convention's global development and delivery of scientific, technical and policy guidance and advice and communications as the Convention Secretariat’s senior advisor on these matters. He has long-standing experience in, and a strong commitment to, environmental sustainability supported through the transfer of environmental science into policy-relevance and decision-making at national and international scales. Nick currently works as an independent expert consultant on wetland conservation and wise use.

Nick has over 40 years’ experience of research on the ecology, assessment and conservation of coastal and inland wetlands and the ecophysiology and flyway conservation of migratory waterbirds, with a 1981 PhD from the University of Durham (UK) on this topic, and continues to publish on these issues. Prior to his Ramsar Convention post he worked for the UK's national government conservation agencies on coastal wetland inventory, assessment, information systems and communications, and as International Science Coordinator for the global NGO Wetlands International.

He is an Adjunct Professor at the Institute of Land, Water and Society, Charles Sturt University, Australia; was presented with the Society of Wetland Scientist’s (SWS) International Fellow Award 2010 for his long-term contributions to global wetland science and policy; chairs the SWS’s Ramsar Section; is an Associate Editor of the peer-reviewed journal Marine & Freshwater Research; is a member of several IUCN Commissions and their task forces (World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA), Species Survival Commission (SSC) and Commission on Ecosystem Management (CEM)); and is an Honorary Fellow of the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM).

 

Volume Editors:

 

Randy Milton: is the Manager for the Ecosystems and Habitats Program with Nova Scotia’s Department of Natural Resources in Canada. Randy is an ecologist and Certified Wildlife Biologist® with 35 years’ experience in public and industry conservation and environmental management, especially with freshwater and coastal wetlands and forest ecosystems. He has maintained an involvement in regional and national wetland conservation efforts since the early 1990s, as well as internationally first as a volunteer with WWF (Indonesia) in the mid-1980s and subsequently as a technical advisor to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands (2000-2015), a contributing author to the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, and a member (2005-2014) of the International Plan Committee for the North American Waterfowl Management Plan. Randy has a M.Sc. from Acadia University (Canada) where he is an Adjunct Professor, and an Adjunct Research Associate at the Institute for Land, Water and Society, Charles Sturt University, Australia.

Crawford Prentice: Crawford Prentice is an independent consulting ecologist based in Cambridge, England. He has some 30 years of biodiversity conservation experience and has led global, regional and national programmes and projects mainly in Asia, the CIS countries and Europe. He studied Zoology at the University of Aberdeen and subsequently completed his M.Sc. in Aquatic Resource Management at Kings College, University of London.

Much of his professional life has concerned the conservation and management of wetlands and migratory waterbirds, with early beginnings at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust and the International Waterfowl and Wetlands Research Bureau (IWRB) analysing International Waterfowl Census data, evolving to conservation programme management at the Asian Wetland Bureauand IWRB, and leading a bilateral aid project for the integrated management of Malaysia’s first Ramsar site in the 1990s. During the next decade, he worked with the International Crane Foundation on the design and implementation of the UNEP/GEF Siberian Crane Wetland Project, helping to strengthen management of seven million hectares across sixteen wetland sites in four countries for this flagship species and other biodiversity. He remains a project associate with ICF, contributing to climate change adaptation planning for key wetland nature reserves in north-eastern China and wider efforts for crane conservation. Currently, Crawford conducts consultancy assignments for the preparation, implementation and evaluation of GEF projects on integrated ecosystem management of wetlands, mountains and tropical forests.

 

 

 

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