- Title
- Editorial : Understanding change in the ecological character of wetlands
- Creator
- Gell, Peter; Finlayson, C. Max
- Date
- 2016
- Type
- Text; Journal article; Editorial
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/101711
- Identifier
- vital:10679
- Identifier
- ISSN:13231650
- Abstract
- The world’s wetlands of international importance are overseen by host nations under processes established through the intergovernmental Convention on Wetlands, commonly known as the Ramsar Convention. Signatory nations to the Convention are required to list at least one wetland as internationally important (known as Ramsar sites) and describe and maintain their ecological character (Gardner and Davidson 2011). Wetlands that satisfy one of a suite of ecological criteria, many of which relate to wetland biodiversity, may be listed as internationally important; the list of internationally important wetlands currently contains 2231 sites covering 214 936 005 ha (17 March 2016). The signatories are also required to report on any likely and actual variations in the ecological character of the wetland that may bring it to a state where it may be considered degraded (Finlayson 1996). They are then required to mitigate this degradation or follow prescriptions to delist and offset, with the former being potentially biophysically complex (Alexander et al. 2011) and the latter potentially bedevilled by complex processes (Pittock et al. 2010).
- Publisher
- CSIRO
- Relation
- Marine and Freshwater Research Vol. 67, no. 6 (2016), p. 683-684
- Rights
- Copyright © Journal compilation CSIRO 2016
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- MD Multidisciplinary; Wetland change; Ecology
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