Environmental Role of Wetlands in Headwaters - Krecek, Josef; Haigh, Martin; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2006)
Headwater Wetlands -- Mapping Wetlands in European Headwater Areas -- The Role of Forest on the Hydrology of Headwater Wetlands -- Role of Grassland Ecosystems in Protection of Forested Wetlands -- The Effect of Peat Land Drainage and Afforestation on Runoff Dynamics -- Impact of Herbaceous Vegetation on Recovery of a Harvested Headwater Catchment -- Leaching of Nitrogen from Upland Forest-Regeneration Sites into Wetland Areas -- Hydrology of Disturbed Peat-Land, Heads of The Valleys, Wales -- Estimation of Water Budget in the Forested Peat-Lands of Western Ireland -- Role of the Planktonic Communities in the Regulation and Indication of Eutrofication Processes in Shallow Mountain Wetlands -- New Wetland Formation in Subsidence Hollows of Western Dondass, Ukraine -- Integrating Wetlands into Watershed Management: Effectiveness of Constructed Wetlands to Reduce Impacts from Urban Stormwater -- Disasters and Climate Change - Their Relation with Wetland Headwaters -- The Alleghe Lake (Dolomites, Italy): Environmental Role and Sediment Management -- Alpine Wetlands from Ecological Network to Land-Based Risk Prevention -- Headwater Resources and Headwater Hazards: Perspectives from Environmental Education -- Hydrology of Wetlands in the Headwaters of Great African Rivers -- Headwater Wetlands in Eastern and Southern Africa -- Economic Contribution of Headwater Wetlands -- The Lake Kinneret Drainage Basin -- Environmental Change in Headwater Peat Wetlands, UK -- Environmental Problems of Headwater Wetlands in Hungary -- Headwater Wetlands in the Czech Republic -- Analysis of the Water Balance of Small Páramo Catchments in South Ecuador -- Summary Reports -- Headwater and Wetland Protection -- Next Generation of Watershed Management Programmes -- Conclusion - Wetlands in Context -- Erratum.
Keywords: Earth sciences; Environmental management; Landscape ecology; Forestry management; Geoecology; Environmental geology; Earth Sciences, general; Environmental Management; Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management; Landscape Ecology; Forestry Management; Geoecology/Natural Processes