The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) administers the National Wetland Plant List (NWPL) for the United States (U.S.) and its territories. Responsibility for the NWPL was transferred to the Corps from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) in 2006. The list was updated in 201...
Department of Defense to declare the availability of the final 2012 National Wetland Plant List (NWPL) which is intended to determine whether the hydrophytic vegetation parameter is met while conducting the wetland determinations. The NWPL has been prepared in accordance with the U.S. Clean Water...
with the highest elevation of 5600 m. Qinghai Province has the largest area of wetland in China, and 90% of the wetlands are located in Three-River-Source area (Fig. 10). According to the List of Important Wetlands of China, numerous major wetlands are distributed in this area, which mai...
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Also, we have pointed out the parameters that are responsible for the bad health of wetland ecosystem and suggested enhancing the water supply, decontamination and optimizing the land use structure for sustaining ecological balance and socio-economic stability of a region....
the wetland inventory shall be stabilized at 800 million mu (over 53 million ha); and nature reserves shall remain steady at 17 percent of the country's total land area, in addition to another 10 million ha of improved desert land and another 270,000 sq km of land of which soil erosion...
Enhancing the connectivity of protected areas is a global consensus for conserving biodiversity. Yet, it is unclear whether habitats are sufficiently connected within protected areas to efficiently protect wildlife populations for long-term survival. Her
The Pantanal, being a wetland, is a favorable environment for the development of many aquatic plants. This list of aquatic macrophytes of the Pantanal was ... VJ Pott,A Pott - 《Acta Botanica Brasilica》 被引量: 82发表: 1997年 The Utricularia-Cyanophyta association and its nitrogen-fixing ca...
1 Altai Mts Xinjiang Vulnerable, unique Forest, wetland Provincial-level nature reserve 2 Tarbagatai Mts Xinjiang Vulnerable Forest, grassland Unprotected 3 Borohoro Mts Xinjiang Vulnerable, unique Forest, grassland Provincial-level nature reserve 4 Kalamely Xinjiang Vulnerable Desert Kalamely National Par...
officials, and we further subdivided forested and field and categorized land use in more detail into 12 types: arbor forest land, bamboo forest land, shrubland, other forest land, irrigated field, non-irrigated field, garden plot, grassland, wetland, water, building land and bare land (Figure ...