- Title
- What’s happening to the world’s wetlands?
- Creator
- Davidson, Nick; Finlayson, C.; McInnes, Rob; Rostron, Chris; Simpson, Matthew; Gell, Peter
- Date
- 2023
- Type
- Text; Book chapter
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/197055
- Identifier
- vital:18776
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-817803-4.00019-X
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780128178034 (ISBN); 9780128178041 (ISBN)
- Abstract
- Wetlands worldwide are in trouble. Their area and condition have been, and are, in continuing decline. Through drainage and conversion to other land uses, the area of natural wetlands is decreasing, although the extent of losses is uncertain: since 1700 AD loss is likely to be less than 87% but more than 21%-36%. Although more wetlands are currently reported to be in good than poor ecological character state, more are deteriorating than improving in state, and deterioration is becoming increasingly widespread. There continue to be challenges in making quantitative assessments of wetland state and trends in state, including in defining baseline and reference conditions. Longer-term palaeoecological records can help separate change from variation, and inform establishing appropriate baselines for wetland assessment and management. © 2023 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Relation
- Ramsar Wetlands: Values, Assessment, Management Chapter 9 p. 219-235
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- Copyright © 2023 Elsevier Inc.
- Subject
- Baselines; Monitoring; Palaeoecology; Wetland assessment; Wetland loss; Wetland state; Wetland trends
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