The Becher Wetlands – A Ramsar Site Evolution of Wetland Habitats and Vegetation Associations /

• Main Author: Semeniuk, Christine (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2007.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Geology.; Geography.; Aquatic ecology.; Nature conservation.; Soil science.; Soil conservation.; Life Sciences.; Freshwater & Marine Ecology.; Geography, general.; Nature Conservation.; Soil Science & Conservation.

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 be...

Table of Contents:

• Methods Andterminology
• Regional Setting
• Wetland Descriptions
• Development of Wetland Proto-Type: Geomorphology, Basal Sheet, Hydrology
• Wetland Sedimentologyandstratigraphy
• Linkage Between Stratigraphyand Hydrology
• Wetland Hydrology
• Wetland Hydrochemistry
• Vegetation
• Vegetationhistory
• Synthesis.