TY - BOOK ID - 213731 TI - The Becher wetlands, a Ramsar site : evolution of wetlands habitats and vegetation associations on a Holocene coastal plain, South-Western Australia PY - 2007 SN - 1280745010 9786610745012 1402046723 1402046715 PB - Dordrecht, The Netherlands : Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Wetland ecology KW - Wetlands KW - Becher Point Wetlands (W.A.) KW - Becher Wetlands (W.A.) KW - Aquatic resources KW - Landforms KW - Wetlands ecology KW - Ecology KW - Aquatic biology. KW - Geology. KW - Geography. KW - Nature Conservation. KW - Soil conservation. KW - Freshwater & Marine Ecology. KW - Geography, general. KW - Soil Science & Conservation. KW - Conservation of soil KW - Erosion control, Soil KW - Soil erosion KW - Soil erosion control KW - Soils KW - Agricultural conservation KW - Soil management KW - Conservation of nature KW - Nature KW - Nature protection KW - Protection of nature KW - Conservation of natural resources KW - Applied ecology KW - Conservation biology KW - Endangered ecosystems KW - Natural areas KW - Cosmography KW - Earth sciences KW - World history KW - Geognosy KW - Geoscience KW - Natural history KW - Hydrobiology KW - Water biology KW - Aquatic sciences KW - Biology KW - Control KW - Prevention KW - Conservation KW - Aquatic ecology . KW - Nature conservation. KW - Soil science. KW - Pedology (Soil science) KW - Agriculture KW - Aquatic biology UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:213731 AB - This book is a landmark study of the Holocene evolution and functioning of a suite of seasonal wetland basins in the temperate coastal zone of Western Australia. In 2001, a series of discrete small scale wetlands on the Becher cuspate foreland in Western Australia, were nominated as a Ramsar site because of their scientific values. These values pertained to their setting, their method of formation and deepening, their history of infilling, their complex hydrological mechanisms, and their dynamic hydrochemical and vegetation responses. The wetlands were the subjects of intense curiosity, observation, measurement, and experiment, for over 10 years. The results of this interest and passion are presented here in order to demonstrate the considerable importance of what lay beneath the ordinary surface. Amongst the new ideas presented in the book are the importance of stratigraphy in understanding wetland development, the significance of physiographic setting in determining wetland development, and the unravelling of several different evolutionary pathways in wetlands of the same basic origin. The book would be of interest to a great variety of readers such as university researchers/students in the fields of geography, ecology, environmental science/engineering, botany and biology, and also would be of benefit to water/soil resource managers, land management planners, conservation agencies and environmental management/protection agencies. ER -