Subject: Wetlands and Ecotones


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   Wetlands and Ecotones : Studies on Land-Water Interactions : Papers
   presented at an International Conference on Wetlands and Ecotones held
   at New Delhi in December 1991/edited by Brij Gopal, Anna
   Hillbricht--Ilkowska and Robert G. Wetzel. 1993, 301 p., figs., $40.00
   (less library discount 30%).
   
   Contents: Preface. 1. Wetlands are ecotones: reality or myth/Ralph W.
   Tiner, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, USA. 2. Temperate freshwater
   ecotones: problem with seasonal instability/Anna Hillbricht-Ilkowska,
   Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland. 3. Wetlands as nutrient buffers
   between continental and marine waters: some reflections and
   experimental results of research in the camargue (Southern
   France)/H.L. Golterman, Station Biologique de la Tour du Valat,
   France. 4. Pattern of air circulation between shallow waters and
   surrounding grounds in the temperate zone/Maria Anna Szumiec, Polish
   Academy of Sciences, Poland. 5. Transport of dissolved forms of
   nitrogen derived from arable land along the river-lake system in a
   postglacial landscape/Anna Hillbricht Ilkowska and Iwona
   Kostrzewska-Szlakowska, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland. 6. A
   laboratory perfusion system for the study of biogeochemical responses
   of wetlands to climatic change/C. Freeman, J. Hawkins, M.A. Lock and
   B. Reynolds, University of Wales, Britain. 7. A continuous overland
   flow model considering rainfall infiltration/M.S. Ahluwalia, Punjab
   Agricultural University; Subhash Chandar and P.N. Kapoor, Indian
   Institute of Technology; and S.R. Singh, Water Technology Centre for
   Eastern Region, India. 8. Effects of natural and man-made events on
   the land-water interfaces of large river basins/Nani G. Bhowmik,
   Illinois State Water Survey, USA. 9. Structure and functioning of
   large river floodplains of neotropical America: the parana-paraguay
   system/Argentino A. Bonetto, CONICET-MACB e Instituto Nacional de
   Investigacion de las Ciencias Naturales, Argentina. 10. River
   floodplain and delta wetlands in the developing world: a world
   wetlands partnership international video project/Wayne Roth-Nelson,
   World Wetlands Partnership, USA; and Le Van Khoa, Hanoi State
   University, Viet Nam.
   
   11. Vegetation changes and biomass on an Australian monsoonal
   floodplain/C. Max Finlayson, International Waterfowl and Wetlands
   Research Bureau, Britain. 12. Vesicular arbuscular mycorrhizae (VAM)
   in aquatic trees of New South Wales, Australia, and their importance
   at land-water interface/Abdul G. Khan, University of Western Sydney,
   Australia. 13. Nutrient enrichment experiment using small
   microcosms/Masayuki Yasuno, Noriko Takamura and Takayiki Hanazato,
   National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan. 14. Pollutants in
   precipitation feeding fish ponds/Maria A. Szumiec, Stanislaw Lewkowicz
   and Danuta Augustyn, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland. 15.
   Vertebrate diversity of the marshy habitats of Sri Lanka and the
   impact of human activities on such habitats/P.K. de Silva and K.H.G.M.
   de Silva, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. 16. The otter in the
   wetland ecosystems of south and south-east Asia and the impact of
   human activities on its survival/P. Kumari de Silva, University of
   Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. 17. The wetland soils of Nigeria: properties,
   classification and traditional land-use practices/E.T. Eshett, Federal
   University of Technology, Nigeria. 18. Fish ponds: a way of better
   utilization, creation and management of wetlands/Maria Anna Szumiec
   and Jan Szumiec, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland. 19.
   Spatio-temporal patterns in the physico-chemical and biotic components
   in an Eutrophic, Lemna dominated, drainage channel in reclaimed
   wetland/J. Subramaniam and J.D. Thomas, University of Sussex, Britain.
   20. Preliminary observations on some cosmopolitan algae in ephemeral
   water bodies of the Pantanal, Mato Grosso, Brazil/Charles W. Heckman
   and Axel U. Kretzschmar, Max-Planck-Institut fur Limnologie, Germany;
   Edna Lopes Hardoim and Soraia A. Ferreira, Universidade Federal de
   Mato Grosso/CCBS, Brazil. 21. Peak growth of the Asplanchna sieboldi
   (Leydig 1854) rotifer aggregation in relation to the seasonal wet and
   dry cycle in the Pantnal, Mato Grosso, Brazil/Axel U. Kretzschmar and
   Charles W. Heckman, Max-Planck-Institut fur Limnologie, Germany;
   Soraia A. Ferreira & Edna Lopes Hardoim, Universidade Federal de Mato
   Grosso/CCBS, Brazil. No. 8399
   
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