Wetlands, by William J. Mitsch, James G. Gosselink
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The single most important book on wetlands, newly expanded and updated
Wetlands is the definitive guide to this fragile ecosystem, providing the most comprehensive coverage and in-depth information available in print. Recently updated and expanded, this latest edition contains brand new information on Wetland Ecosystem Services and an updated discussion on Wetland, Carbon, and Climate Change and Wetland Creation and Restoration. Due to popular demand, the authors have brought back five streamlined chapters on wetland ecosystems that had been removed from previous editions, and provided more robust ancillary materials including an online color photo gallery, PowerPoint slides, and several video case studies.
As nature's kidneys, wetland ecosystems help the environment process toxins and excess fertilizers and maintain the relative health of our aquatic ecosystems. As the understanding of their importance grows, their management and ecology have gained increased attention and have become an area of professional specialization over the past two decades. This book gives readers a solid understanding of wetlands, how they work, what they do, and why the Earth can't live without them.
- Understand wetlands' role in the ecosystem, from local to global scales
- Appreciate the fact that wetlands may be the most logical and economical way to sequester carbon from the atmosphere
- Discover the unique characteristics that make wetlands critically important for improving water quality, reducing storm and flood damage, and providing habitat to support biodiversity
- Learn how wetlands are being managed or destroyed around the globe but also how we can create and restore them
- Examine the ways in which climate change is affecting wetland ecosystems and wetland ecosystems affect climate change
Wetlands are crucial to the health of the planet, and we've only begun to realize the magnitude of the damage that has already been done as we scramble to save them. A generation of ecologists, ecological engineers, land use planners, and water resource managers worldwide owe their knowledge of the wetlands to this book – for the next generation to follow in their footsteps, Wetlands 5th edition is the quintessential guide to these critical systems.
Wetlands, by William J. Mitsch, James G. Gosselink- Amazon Sales Rank: #17271 in Books
- Published on: 2015-03-09
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.45" h x 1.70" w x 7.90" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 456 pages
From the Back Cover
THE CLASSIC WETLANDS TEXTBOOK, UPDATED TO EMBRACE KEY CHANGES IN THE FIELD
For nearly three decades, Wetlands has been the premier text on wetlands for students and professionals worldwide. This comprehensive volume represents the current state of knowledge in wetland science, management, and restoration. In this Fifth Edition, substantial revisions and updates bring the book into alignment with the way wetland science and management is practiced today.
New to this edition:
- Five streamlined chapters on wetland ecosystems: tidal marshes, mangroves, freshwater marshes and swamps, and northern peatlands
- Four heavily updated chapters on ecosystem services covering the interrelations among wetlands, society, and climate change
- Updates on the world's most important wetlands, including new photos and case studies from North America, Europe, Asia, and beyond
- Current list of key publications and references drawn from recent international wetland conferences
With this edition, Wetlands secures its place as the authoritative reference on the full range of issues that impact the world's fragile wetland environments.
About the Author
WILLIAM J. MITSCH is Professor and Eminent Scholar at Florida Gulf Coast University and the Director of its Everglades Wetland Research Park, as well as Juliet C. Sproul Chair for Southwest Florida Habitat Restoration and Management. With Sven Jorgensen of Denmark, Mitsch was the 2004 winner of the Stockholm Water Prize.
JAMES G. GOSSELINK is Professor Emeritus at the Center for Coast and Environment at Louisiana State University. He was awarded the Society of Wetland Scientists Lifetime Achievement Award in 1998.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Here, in this book, is the ammunition necessary to continue the fight to hang on to our wetlands--worldwide By I Do The Speed Limit This is a textbook that is used by professors and instructors to teach the science and management of wetlands. This is not a cocktail table book—although by the looks of its attractive cover, you might get that impression. No, this is serious reading here: Water and wetland management begins with the facts. And this book is loaded with them. Here is the ammunition—the proven facts—to keep our wetlands safe....And to rescue the wetlands that are on the verge of disappearing....I am not a professor, nor a teacher, nor a student looking for a degree. I am part of a family of bird-watchers and duck/goose hunters. We live near the Colorado River in Texas. We have interests along several Texas rivers and along the Gulf coast where some of these rivers empty into its bays. We are concerned and worried by what we’ve been witnessing, river-water-wise. And in our neck of the woods, the majority of wetlands are tied to our rivers. Things: They are a’ changin’. And they are changing—very quickly—for the worse. Few ducks land in our area anymore, there is no water for them. Rice farmers are switching to other crops. Bird migrations are way different than they were even ten years ago. The Colorado River in Texas does not exist in some places. Down in Big Bend National Park, there are times I can step—it’s not even a leap—across the Rio Grande. If the rivers are being abused, imagine what is happening to the wetlands that feed off them. This is why I wanted this book: I wanted to see what this book has to say about all that. I want to be educated about our wetlands, and, although I can only play a small—almost invisible—role in making changes, I still want to be able to talk intelligently about it all. I can’t do that from a book that I borrow from the library every once in a while. Got to have it on hand—on the end table.All these water issues: Does this book bring them to the forefront? This book makes no enemies. It works very hard to not lay blame. This book presents facts. After all, it is a textbook…. It does not reprimand politicians, it gives no dire warnings. But, armed with the facts available in this book, I would hope that dedicated individuals will make it their life’s work to give the wetlands back to nature.If you are familiar with past editions and would like to understand what is different in this one, open up the “Look Inside” feature on this product page and check out the back cover: It lists what’s new to this edition.Even though this book is jammed-packed with facts, the writing is hardly dry. Working through the first several chapters was pleasant and very interesting. This is a book that will reside in a prominent place in our family room, and two of us have already declared our intent to read it from cover-to-cover.There are plenty of graphs and charts, but just because you see several pictures in the “Look Inside” feature, don’t think this book is loaded with pictures. There are some, not many. And this book is strictly black, white and gray-scale.At the end of each chapter are pages and pages of references. There is a wealth of information in those pages. It’s almost like striking gold. Because if you are really interested, and want to learn more about a particular topic, those reference pages are a gold mine. There is a very helpful 13-page glossary. I was a bit disappointed with the index. For instance, Texas is mentioned here and there, even in the first several chapters, but “Texas” is not in the index. (Florida is listed.) But with all the info in this book, there are only 15-16 pages of indexed topics.While discussing the different types of wetlands, the authors bring in examples from all over the world, not just the US.This is truly an all-encompassing book, extremely impressive in its facts and coverage. I will learn a lot from it.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Wetlands from A to Z. Defining, Understanding, Managing, and Creating Them. By mirasreviews "Wetlands" by William J. Mitsch and James G. Gosselink seems to be the standard textbook in wetland science, bringing together all aspects of wetlands studies and applications in one text: definitions, components of the wetland environment, studies of different types of wetland ecosystems, wetland management, creation and restoration, ecosystem services provided by wetlands, and waste water treatment wetlands. This fifth edition re-incorporates "Wetlands" and "Wetland Ecosystems", which were separated into two texts in 2007, into one book. The descriptions of wetland ecosystems constitute Part 3 of this book, chapters 8-12. Most chapters have been updated, new chapters added to some sections, and the section on "Ecosystem Services" heavily revised. Co-author James Gosselink died in 2015 and was unable to work on this edition due to illness, but his name remains in recognition of his work on the first four editions that have been published since 1986.The authors explain that "because wetlands have properties that are not adequately covered by current terrestrial and aquatic ecology paradigms, a case can be made for wetland science as a unique discipline encompassing many fields, including terrestrial and aquatic ecology, chemistry, hydrology, and engineering." Hence the need for a textbook dedicated to all aspects of wetland science. Though this text is very technical in places, it is intended for a relatively broad audience: scientists, engineers, lawyers, and regulators who need wetland expertise to deal with the current regulatory environment and the increasing desire to preserve and reconstruct wetlands, as well as "for those who would like to know more about the structure and function of these unique ecosystems." I am sometimes involved in a volunteer capacity in planning and zoning, and, though there are no major wetlands in my area, I thought it would be helpful to understand the small ones.The book is organized into 5 parts with several chapters in each. A list of recommended reading and references are included at the end of each chapter. New terms are italicized and defined in a glossary at the back of the book for easy reference, in addition to being explained in the text. There are black and white photographs, graphs, and tables throughout. The first part, the Introduction, provides a brief history of the human relationship with wetlands, including the policies in Western nations that drained wetlands prior to the 1970s. That is followed by the ways in which wetlands are defined, tables of wetland loss, and descriptions of major wetlands by region: the United States, Canada, Mexico, Central and South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Middle East, Australia and New Zealand.Part 2, The Wetland Environment, explains wetland hydrology, its relationship with the physiochemical environment and the biota, how water budget, precipitation, surface flow, and groundwater interact, the effects of hydrology on wetland function. It addresses wetland soils and wetland biogeochemistry, which is the transport and transformation of chemicals in the ecosystem and intrasystem cycling with the surrounding environment. "Wetlands can be sources, sinks, and transformers of chemicals or nutrients." The authors take us through the cycles of sulfur, carbon, and phosphorous in the wetland ecosystem, then the water chemistry and nutrient budgets of wetlands. The unique properties of wetland vegetation and plant strategies are discussed, and the debate over allogenic (individualistic) and autogenic (community) theories of plant succession are explained. As there are many different types of wetlands, there is a lot of explaining to do in Part 2.Part 3 re-incorporates the information on Wetland Ecosystems. It discusses how various types of wetlands develop, locations and characteristics, soil and salinity, vegetation, consumers, hydrology, biogeochemistry, and ecosystem function, including nutrient budgets, for each type: Tidal Marshes (both salt and freshwater), Mangrove Swamps, Freshwater Marshes, Freshwater Swamps and Riparian Ecosystems, and Peatlands. Part 4 addresses Traditional Wetland Management, first by presenting the classification systems that may be used to identify wetlands, then the history of wetland management in the United States, the reasons behind the policies, and current wetland management by objective and method. It takes us through the laws, executive orders, and Supreme Court decisions that affect wetlands, the current "no net loss" policy, the conflicts between protecting private property and protecting wetlands, and international conservation efforts.Part 5 analyzes Ecosystem Services, the services and commodities that wetlands provide: products obtained from wetlands (plants and animals), regulatory benefits to the environment, and cultural benefits -and the "problems and paradoxes" in quantifying them. As 20-25% of global methane emissions come from wetlands, but wetlands have an excellent capacity to sequester carbon, there is a chapter on Wetlands and Climate Change. For anyone attempting to create or restore a wetland, chapter 18 lays out 7 restoration case studies and one of wetland creation. It offers advice on how to define your goals, select a site, create and maintain proper hydrology, take soils into account, introduce vegetation. You'll need to consult earlier chapters for more detail, but this is a straightforward guide. The book concludes with a chapter on wastewater treatment wetlands, including advice on how to manage them. Some chapters are laden with formulae that I will probably never use, but overall I found "Wetlands" to be more readable than I expected.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Once upon a time they were "swamps"... By John P. Jones III ...and the rain forests were "jungles." And that "once upon a time" was when I was in university. Much besides the labels has changed since my school days in those days of yore; in particular, our understanding of these topographical features, and their importance. The authors essential say the same thing in the first paragraph of their introduction: "Although many cultures have lived among and even depended on wetlands for centuries, the modern history of wetlands until the 1970s is fraught with misunderstanding and fear, as described in much of our Western literature. Wetlands have been destroyed at alarming rates throughout the developed and developing world. Now, as their many benefits are being recognized, wetland conservation has become the norm. In many parts of the world, wetlands are now revered, protected, and restored; in other parts, they are still being drained for human development."So when the Vine program offered me this textbook to review I did have to think about it (do I REALLY want to read a textbook?), but ultimately decided what better way of filling in some gaping lacuna in my knowledge. The publisher is a venerable one in the textbook field, Wiley, whose history pre-dates my own "days of yore" in university. The first edition was published in 1986. They have been updating the text at what I would consider appropriate intervals: every seven years. In this edition one of the authors, William Mitsch, is dedicating it to the other, James Gooselink, who recently died in January, 2015, at the age of 83.I was pleasantly surprised to find the first four pictures in chapter one all resonating with my experience: the first picture is of the Marsh Arabs of southern Iraq, the next of the Camargue in southern France, then one of a Cajun lumberjack camp in the Atachafalaya swamp of Louisiana, and the fourth is "harvesting" wild rice in Northern Minnesota. A few pictures further on, there are the rice paddies of Vietnam, and the author says that "half of the world's population is fed by rice paddy systems." Three of the aforementioned five I have personally experienced, and the other two I have read books about. The textbook does take a global perspective of wetland, and the entire third chapter is dedicated to this survey.Subsequent chapters are replete with graphs and graphics, some chemical equations, the importance of wetland for flora and fauna, the legal protections which have evolved for wetlands, and various case studies, such as the efforts to restore mangroves after the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami. It is both readable, and a ready reference.A number of years back I read Wilfred Thesiger' The Marsh Arabs (Penguin Classics). He had lived among them for a couple of years in the early 1950's. Thesiger's book contains excellent photographs. Though the coverage of the marsh Arabs in this textbook, of necessity, could not be as extensive, they did note that the marshes were extensively reduced during the reign of Saddam Hussein. They omitted stating that it was a deliberate political act, as retaliation against the Shia portion of the Iraqi population that had tried to assassinate him.So, if you are not a "paying" student, and this is not an assignment, how does one approach such a textbook? Obviously for this review I have not read it, only skimming portions. I thought I'd read a chapter every other week or so, and thus could complete the 20 chapters in around a year. It is highly unlikely I will know enough about any aspect to find an error. So, for now, from the skim, the layout, the graphics and the brief sections read, PLUS, it being on a recently evolved topic, I will give it 5-stars.
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