Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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Authors
Jos Verhoeven
Willem Koerselman
Boudewijn Beltman
Resource Date:
January
1988
Species-rich quaking fens have become rare in Western Europe. In Great Britain, Germany and The Netherlands they have been drained and turned into agricultural land. In The Netherlands small fens have...
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Authors
Ingrid Visseren-Hamakers
Marcel Kok
Over fifty years of global conservation has failed to bend the curve of biodiversity loss, so we need to transform the ways we govern biodiversity. The UN Convention on Biological Diversity aims to...
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Seismic lines are slow to recover naturally, and many seismic lines need to be restored to contribute towards caribou recovery. Caribou predators use seismic lines to travel throughout caribou ranges...
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Authors
Roland Bobbink
Dennis Whigham
Boudewijn Beltman
Jos Verhoeven
Wetland ecosystems are a natural resource of global significance. Historically, their high level of plant and animal (especially bird) diversity is perhaps the major reason why wetland protection has...
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Wetlands: Nature's Natural Filter Fresh water is a vital resource for human society. We depend upon water for drinking, hydropower, irrigation, cooling, and cleaning; for products such as food, plants...