Wetland Functioning in Relation to Biodiversity Conservation and Restoration

摘要: Wetland ecosystems are a natural resource of global significance. Historically, their high level plant and animal (especially bird) diversity is perhaps the major reason why wetland protection has become priority worldwide, supported by international agreements such as Ramsar Convention International Biological Diversity. More recently, number goods services provided specifically have been identified that may even outweigh biodiversity in terms importance for human welfare sustainable management worldwide. Wetlands, transitional zones between land water, provide pro- tection against extreme floods storm surges. They also store fresh- water to be used drinking preparation or irrigation. Wetlands bordering streams, rivers lakes quality enhancement func- tion increasingly recognized. Because riverine lacustrine wetlands often spawning habitat, source juvenile fish adjacent aquatic should not underestimated. In addition these local regional benefits, net sink carbon dioxide.The world’s peatlands only type terrestrial ecosystem with long-term storage function. However, large amounts accumulated historically released result degradation, drainage, excavation, fertiliza- tion.