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Wetland ecosystems maintain a fragile balance of soil, water, plant, and atmospheric components in order to regulate water flow, flooding, and water quality. Marginally covered in traditional texts on biogeochemistry or on wetland soils, Biogeochemistry of Wetlands is the first to focus entirely on the biological, geological, physical, and chemical processes that affect these critical habitats. Integrates concepts from soil and plant sciences, chemistry, biology, ecology, and environmental engineering This book offers an in-depth look at the chemical and biological cycling of nutrients, trace elements, and toxic organic compounds in wetland soil and water column as related to water quality, carbon sequestration, and greenhouse gases. It details the electrochemistry, biochemical processes, and transformation mechanisms for the elemental cycling of carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, phosphorus, and sulfur. Additional chapters examine the fate and chemistry of heavy metals and toxic organic compounds in wetland environments. The authors emphasize the role of redox-pH conditions, organic matter, microbial-mediated processes that drive transformation in wetlands, plant responses and adaptation to wetland soil conditions. They also analyze how excess water, sediment water, and atmospheric change relate to elemental biogeochemical cycling. Provides an ideal teaching text or professional reference for those involved in ecological restoration, water quality, ecological engineering, and global climate change Delivering an in-depth scientific examinination of the natural processes that occur in wetland ecosystems, Biogeochemistry of Wetlands comprises a key perspective on the environmental impact of pollutants and the role freshwater and coastal wetlands play in global climate change.
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Biogeochemistry, Biogeochemical cycles, Wetlands, Nature, NonfictionShowing 2 featured editions. View all 2 editions?
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Biogeochemistry of Wetlands
2008, Taylor and Francis
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0203491459 9780203491454
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Biogeochemistry of wetlands: science and applications
2008, Taylor & Francis
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1566706785 9781566706780
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