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"A thoroughly updated and accessible textbook featuring topical issues such as sea level rise, eutrophication, facilitation, restoration and conservation. This third edition is richly illustrated in colour, packed with examples from every major continent and wetland type, and features end-of-chapter questions to review and extend students' learning"--

Chapter 1. Introduction to Wetlands -- Chapter 2. The Causal Factor Approach to Wetland Ecology -- Chapter 3. Duration of Flooding is the Most Important Causal Factor -- Chapter 4. Flood Pulses -- Chapter 5. Fertility -- Chapter 6. Natural Disturbance -- Chapter 7. Competition -- Chapter 8. Herbivory -- Chapter 9. Burial -- Chapter 10. Salinity -- Chapter 11. Roads -- Chapter 12. Coarse Woody Debris -- Chapter 13. Invasive Species are an Emerging Causal Factor -- Chapter 14. Human Population Size -- Chapter 15. The Global Context for Wetland Protection and Restoration -- Chapter 16. Some Review Questions for Managers.

This book addresses an important problem in ecology: how are communities assembled from species pools? This pressing question underlies a broad array of practical problems in ecology and environmental science, including restoration of damaged landscapes, management of protected areas, and protection of threatened species. This book presents a simple logical structure for ecological assembly and addresses key areas including species pools, traits, environmental filters, and functional groups. It demonstrates the use of two predictive models (CATS and Traitspace) and consists of many wide-ranging examples including plants in deserts, wetlands, and forests, and communities of fish, amphibians, birds, mammals, and fungi. Global in scope, this volume ranges from the arid lands of North Africa, to forests in the Himalayas, to Amazonian floodplains. There is a strong focus on applications, particularly the twin challenges of conserving biodiversity and understanding community responses to climate change.

Introduction: big is beautiful / P.A. Keddy, L.H. Fraser -- The West Siberian lowland / A.I. Solomeshch -- The Amazon River basin / W.J. Junk, M.T.F. Piedade -- The Hudson Bay lowland / K.F. Abraham, C.J. Keddy -- The Congo River basin / D. Campbell -- The Mackenzie River basin / D.H. Vitt, L.A. Halsey, B.J. Nicholson -- The Pantanal / C.J.R. Alho -- The Mississippi River alluvial plain / G.P. Shaffer, J.G. Gosselink, S.S. Hoeppner -- The Lake Chad basin / J. Lemoalle -- The River Nile basin / I. Springuel, O. Ali -- The prairie potholes of North America / A.G. van der Valk -- The Magellanic moorland / M.T.K. Arroyo, M. Mihoc, P. Pliscoff, M. Arroyo-Kalin -- The future of large wetlands: a global perspective / L.H. Fraser, P.A. Keddy.