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Monitoring of Wetlands: Overview

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Wetland monitoring provides the key to understanding how wetlands function and how they respond to environmental change. Monitoring programmes can be designed for a range of purposes such as ensuring that wetlands are managed in accordance with best practice or quantifying how effective a habitat management strategy has been. Proper planning is required to support robust statistical data analysis and to see that monitoring activities complement existing work. Technological advances are improving the temporal and spatial scales over which monitoring can be carried out and schemes to involve volunteers in making observations are both generating useful data and raising awareness of the importance of wetland habitats.

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  1. Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Maclean Building, Crowmarsh Gifford, OX10 8BB, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK

    Charlie J. Stratford

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  1. Dept. of Ecology and Biodiversity, Charles Sturt University Inst. for Land, Water and Society, Albury, New South Wales, Australia

    C. Max Finlayson

  2. Great Somerford, Wiltshire, United Kingdom

    Mark Everard

  3. Chair of Aquatic Ecosystems, UNESCO-IHE Chair of Aquatic Ecosystems, Delft, The Netherlands

    Kenneth Irvine

  4. RM Wetland & Environment Ltd. , Littleworth, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

    Robert J. McInnes

  5. USGS National Wetlands Research Center , Lafayette, Louisiana, USA

    Beth A. Middleton

  6. Dept. of Water Science and Engineering, UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education Dept. of Water Science and Engineering, Delft, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands

    Anne A. van Dam

  7. Charles Sturt University , Albury, New South Wales, Australia

    Nick C. Davidson

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Stratford, C.J. (2016). Monitoring of Wetlands: Overview. In: Finlayson, C., et al. The Wetland Book. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6172-8_289-1

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