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"A thoroughly updated and accessible textbook featuring topical issues such as sea level rise, eutrophication, facilitation, restoration and conservation. This third edition is richly illustrated in colour, packed with examples from every major continent and wetland type, and features end-of-chapter questions to review and extend students' learning"--
List of contents
Preface; 1. Wetlands: an introduction; 2. Flooding; 3. Fertility; 4. Natural disturbance; 5. Competition; 6. Herbivory; 7. Burial; 8. Other factors; 9. Diversity; 10. Zonation; 11. Services and functions; 12. Research: paths forward; 13. Restoration; 14. Conservation and management; References; Index.
About the author
Paul A. Keddy is an independent researcher who was a full professor at the University of Ottawa and then the first holder of the Schlieder Endowed Chair for Environmental Studies at Southeastern Louisiana University. He has published more than 100 scholarly papers on plant ecology and wetlands, as well as serving organizations such as NSF, NSERC, World Wildlife Fund and The Nature Conservancy. His first edition of Wetland Ecology: Principles and Conservation won the Society of Wetland Scientists' Merit Award. He has won multiple other prizes, most recently a Meritorious Service Medal from the Governor General of Canada. His other Cambridge University Press publications include The World's Largest Wetlands (2005), Plants and Vegetation (2007), Plant Ecology (2017), and A Framework for Community Ecology (2021).
