Choices in Monitoring Wetlands

Adamus, Paul R.

doi:10.1007/978-1-4615-4659-7_32

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“…Indicators provide an instrument panel for wetland management (Adamus 1992, There is difficulty in choosing indicators precisely because ecology is not well enough developed as a science to specify what the essential properties of wetlands are. There is a great deal of activity in this area, always with the attendant risk that these problems will be tackled in an isolated manner, ignoring the many similarities across systems.…”

Section: Step 2: Monitoring Success and Failurementioning

confidence: 99%

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Wetland restoration: The potential for assembly rules in the service of conservation

Keddy

1999

Wetlands

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One of the pressing problems for applied ecologists is the efficient restoration of structure and function to degraded ecosystems. Where some other conservation activities, such as protection of existing wilderness, continue to require making the best of increasingly bad situations, the goal of restoration raises the pleasing prospect of measurable improvement in landscapes. Restoration simultaneously provides the ultimate test for the discipline of community ecology: ecologists should be able to build an ecosystem in the same way an engineer builds a bridge, with a list of parts connected in specified ways leading to certain reliable outcomes. Failures would reveal that scientists do not adequately understand the system. Practical considerations suggest the application of tools that already exist rather than the invention of new ones. The objective of this paper is to suggest that two valuable tools may already exist, tools that provide an intellectual foundation for restoration ecology. Such a foundation is necessary because there has been a tendency for restoration ecology to represent a haphazard collection of individual cases rather than a well-defined discipline with repeatable methods. One possible scheme for unifying studies of restoration is that provided by assembly rules, where predictions are based upon key environmental factors and the responses of species to those factors. The potential of such assembly rules is introduced using three examples: fish in wetlands, plants in salt marshes, and plants in prairie potholes. I then describe an experiment where a standard species pool of wetland plants was sown into twenty-four different sets of environmental conditions, illustrating how landscapes can select communities out of larger pools. A second possible tool is indicators of ecosystem integrity. These can measure whether a project actually works. Clear discrimination between success and failure can improve restoration procedures by accelerating the evolution of management principles and techniques; Holling has called this process 'adaptive environmental assessment.' I conclude with the optimistic view that restoration already has the tools for continued progress; what is needed is primarily their intelligent application. That is, rather than ending with a typically academic plea for more research, I suggest (for a change) that what is needed is only the discriminating application of procedures and principles that already exist.

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Section: Step 2: Monitoring Success and Failurementioning

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“…Indicators would therefore evolve to reflect our constantly improving knowledge. It is therefore essential to monitor as projects occur and then to use the information from monitoring to revise criteria for future projects (e.g., Holling 1978, Beanlands and Duinker 1983, Keddy 1991, Adamus 1992.…”

Section: Monitoringmentioning

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Wetland restoration: The potential for assembly rules in the service of conservation

Keddy

1999

Wetlands

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“…Bioindication by revealed species of Cosmarium can characterize the studied lake as shallow with a well-developed coastal community of algae, low saline, neutral or low alkaline waters and mesotrophic condition during the studied sediment deposition. The present of such a large number of desmid species can also characterize the studied lake as a wetland (Adamus and Brandt, 1990) where desmids can find the best environments for flourishing.…”

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Palynological Analysis of Surface Sediments in a High Arctic Pond, Revealing Desmids as Indicators of Wetlands and Climate Change

Singh¹,

Barınova

2022

Transylvanian Review of Systematical and Ecological Research

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This is a first attempt to study the palynological remains from the surface sediments of a pond near the Kongsfjorden coast in Ny-Alesund, Svalbard, Norway. The palynomorphs display a high relative abundance of desmids, Cladocera, thecamoebians, chironomids, and fungal remains inherent to the inland aquatic ecosystem. The Cosmarium indicators characterize water as neutral pH, fresh, mesotrophic, without organic pollution, Class 2 of Water Quality as in wetlands with coastal vegetation. The single procedure of palynological analysis excluding the acetolysis step, and bioindicators allows us to perceive the basic framework of the ecosystem, consisting of in-situ and transported remains. This approach could be effectively used for paleoenvironmental reconstructions in High Arctic Regions.

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“…Combining multiple indicators is useful because it encompasses sensitivity of the system to a wider range of disturbances. (Adamus 1992, Denny 1994). Disturbance is defined as events that cause the functions or values of a wetland or a system of wetlands to vary outside of a normal, natural range (Detenbeck et al 1999).…”

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A review of indicators of wetland health and function in Alberta's prairie, aspen parkland and boreal dry mixedwood regions

Wray¹,

Bayley²,

Alberta.³

2006

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While there are little data available in the three regions of Alberta, based on our review of the broader literature, we expect that a useful initial approach would focus on determining an index of biotic integrity (IBI) using macrophytic vegetation (abundance and diversity), macroinvertebrates, and nutrients in marshes, the dominant wetland class in much of the white zone of Alberta. A Review of indicators of wetland health and function in Alberta's prairie, aspen parkland and boreal iii dry mixed wood regions

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Choices in Monitoring Wetlands

Cited by 27 publications

References 26 publications

Wetland restoration: The potential for assembly rules in the service of conservation

Wetland restoration: The potential for assembly rules in the service of conservation

Palynological Analysis of Surface Sediments in a High Arctic Pond, Revealing Desmids as Indicators of Wetlands and Climate Change

A review of indicators of wetland health and function in Alberta's prairie, aspen parkland and boreal dry mixedwood regions

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