Fundamentals of Tropical Freshwater Wetlands. From Ecology to Conservation Management

Table of Contents

1. Freshwater wetlands: An introduction

ABIOTIC PROPERTIES AND PROCESSES 2. Factors controlling wetland formation 3. Hydrology, geomorphology and soils: An overview 4. Physico-chemical environment wetlands 5. Carbon sequestration and fluxes 6. Nutrient cycling

BIOTA AND BIOTIC PROCESSES 7. Vegetation 8. Phytoplankton dynamics 9. Zooplankton 10. Large branchiopods 11. Macroinvertebrates 12. Fish 13. Amphibians and squamates in Amazonian flooded habitats, with a study on the variation of amphibian assemblages along the Solimoes River 14. Management of waterbirds in a Kalahari pan ecosystem 15. A snapshot of parasites in tropical and subtropical freshwater wetlands: Modest attention for major player 16. Impacts of alien invasive species on large wetlands 17. Food webs 18. Metacommunity structure and dynamics

MONITORING, CONSERVATION AND MANAGEMENT 19. Vegetated wetlands: From ecology to conservation management 20. Introduction to wetland monitoring 21. GIS and remote sensing analytics: Assessment and monitoring 22. Institutional, policy and legal nexus and implications 23. Indigenous people's participation and the management of wetlands in Africa:�A review of the Ramsar Convention

Authors

Tatenda Dalu University of Mpumalanga, Nelspruit, South Africa; South African Institute for Biodiversity, Makhanda, South Africa. Dr Tatenda Dalu is a Lecturer in the School of Biology and Environmental Sciences at University of Mpumalanga and Research Associate at the South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity. He is a TWAS Young Affiliate, Iso Lomso and South Africa Young Academy of Science Fellow and also an Associate Editor for Aquatic Invasions, BioInvasions Records and Frontiers in Water - Environmental Water Quality, Ecology and Evolution, and Editorial Board Member for Environmental Advances. He is interested in the emerging freshwater pollutants, limnology, trophic ecology and plankton dynamics of wetlands, reservoirs and rivers/estuaries. He also has a strong interest in invasion ecology, biodiversity and conservation. Ryan J. Wasserman Rhodes University and South African Institute for Biodiversity, South Africa. Prof Ryan J. Wasserman is an Associate Professor of Zoology in the Department of Zoology and Entomology at Rhodes University, an Adjunct Research Fellow at Monash University Malaysia and a Research Associate at South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity. His research interests lie in interactions among aquatic organisms and how these interactions drive distribution and abundance. He is particularly interested in trophic dynamics, invasion and climate change ecology within the context of intra and interspecific interactions.