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Designed as a textbook, this volume is an important, up-to-date, authoritative, and accessible survey in ecology of freshwater and estuarine wetlands. Prominent wetland scholars address the physical environment, geomorphology, biogeochemistry, soils, and hydrology of both freshwater and estuarine wetlands. Careful syntheses review how hydrology and chemistry constrain wetlands plants and animals. In addition, contributors document the strategies employed by plants, animals, and bacteria to cope with stress. Focusing on the ecology of key organisms, each chapter is relevant to wetland regulation and assessment, wetland restoration, how flood pulses control the ecology of most wetland complexes, and how human regulation of flood pulses threatens wetland biotic integrity. Ideal for the classroom, this book is a fundamental resource for anyone interested in the current state of our wetlands.

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The editors are to be highly commended for ... the straightforward and honest writing style that continually weaves its way throughout this text. --Ecology Provides a comprehensive introduction to the great ecological breadth and complexity that wetlands exhibit ranging from microbial process to biogeography and global climate. --Wetlands A comprehensive and timely introduction to wetlands ecology, including well written chapters on wetland formation processes... An excellent textbook for classes focusing on wetlands. --Botanical Rsrch Inst. of Txs (Jbrit)

The editors are to be highly commended for ... the straightforward and honest writing style that continually weaves its way throughout this text. --Ecology Provides a comprehensive introduction to the great ecological breadth and complexity that wetlands exhibit ranging from microbial process to biogeography and global climate. --Wetlands A comprehensive and timely introduction to wetlands ecology, including well written chapters on wetland formation processes... An excellent textbook for classes focusing on wetlands. --Botanical Rsrch Inst. of Txs (Jbrit)

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Darold Batzer is Professor of Entomology at the University of Georgia. He is the coeditor of Invertebrates in Freshwater Wetlands of North America and Bioassessment and Management of North American Freshwater Wetlands and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Wetlands. Rebecca Sharitz is Professor of Plant Biology at the University of Georgia and Senior Ecologist at the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory. She is the coeditor of Freshwater Wetlands and Wildlife.

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