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Dennis F. Whigham
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Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, USA
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Dagmar Dykyjová
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Department of Hydrobotany, Institute of Botany, Czechoslovak Academy of Science, Tr̂ebon̂, Czechoslovakia
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Slavomil Hejný
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Institute of Botany, Czechoslovak Academy of Science, Průhonice, Czechoslovakia
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The impetus for this volume was the 2nd International Wetlands Conference which was held in June, 1984 at Trebon, Czechoslovakia. An overview of the worlds wetlands was one of the themes of the conference and it was decided that a useful follow-up would be a publication on the same topic. The initial goal was to cover as many of the worlds wetlands as possible in one volume and to have an emphasis on wetland ecology, biota, classification, and management. Individuals who made presentations at the Trebon confer ence were asked to prepare chapters and the editors also solicited other contributions. For a variety of reasons, the initial goal has been difficult to reach, especially coverage of the entire globe, and it has been necessary to publish the contributions in more than one volume. Volume 1 represents the com pletion of the first phase of the project and it covers most of the Western Hemisphere, Australia, most of Africa, the Indian subcontinent, the Mediter ranean region, and Papua New Guinea. Volume 2 will contain chapters on Western Europe, Northern Europe, Central Europe, most of northern and It is our hope that Volume western Asia, the Middle East, and Indonesia. 2 will appear in the near future and, if possible, a third volume will be published if authors can be secured to cover areas such as the Far East, other parts of the Indo-Pacific region, and New Zealand.
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Wetlands of Africa
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- D. M. John, C. Lévêque, L. E. Newton
Pages 47-78
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- C. M. Breen, J. Heeg, M. Seaman
Pages 79-110
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Wetlands of southern Europe and North Africa: Mediterranean wetlands
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- R. H. Britton, A. J. Crivelli
Pages 129-194
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Wetlands of Australia
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- C. Max Finlayson, Isabell von Oertzen
Pages 195-243
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- S. W. L. Jacobs, Margaret A. Brock
Pages 244-304
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Wetlands of Papua New Guinea
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Wetlands of South Asia
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- Brij Gopal, K. Krishnamurthy
Pages 345-414
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Wetlands of Canada and Greenland
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- W. A. Glooschenko, C. Tarnocai, S. Zoltai, V. Glooschenko
Pages 415-514
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Wetlands of the United States
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- Bill O. Wilen, Ralph W. Tiner
Pages 515-636
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Wetlands of tropical South America
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Back Matter
Pages 741-768
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` ... recommended without reservation for public library acquisition and for the specialist. All wetland scientists interested in broad perspectives will benefit from reading it. '
Trends in Ecology & Evolution, Vol.9, No.3
Editors and Affiliations
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Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, USA
Dennis F. Whigham
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Department of Hydrobotany, Institute of Botany, Czechoslovak Academy of Science, Tr̂ebon̂, Czechoslovakia
Dagmar Dykyjová
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Institute of Botany, Czechoslovak Academy of Science, Průhonice, Czechoslovakia
Slavomil Hejný