摘要: This book combines a broad scientific and sociopolitical view of US wetlands, for wide audience students professionals concerned with basic or applied ecology, environmental conservation policy. Wetland science is new rapidly evolving branch ecosystem science, wetland regulation increasingly central to Regulatory initiatives frequently raise unanswered questions, while study supports calls into question regulatory practice, which occurs in an environment intense public scrutiny. primer lays out the policy considerations format accessible useful all who would be involved his also serve as supplementary text courses on biology, wetlands