Wetland Books on Library Reserve

Cronk, J.K. and M.S. Fennessy. 2001.  Wetland Plants: biology and ecology.  Lewis Publishers, Inc

Keddy. P.A. 2000.  Wetland Ecology: priniples and conservation.  Cambridge Press, UK

Mitsch, W.J. and J.G. Gosselink. 2000. Wetlands, 3rd ed. Van Nostrand Reinhold, NY.

National Research Council. 1995.  Wetlands: boundaries and characteristics. National Academy Press, DC.

Payne, N.F. 1998.  Techniques for Wildlife Habitat Management of Wetlands. McGraw Hill, NY

Additional Readings in Wetland Ecology and Management

Wetland Types, Definitions and Classification Systems

Brinson, Mark M. 1993. A Hydrogeomorphic classification for wetlands. Technical Report WRP-DE-4. U.S. Army Engineers Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg, MS.

Cowardin, L.M., V. Carter, F.C. Golet and E.T. LaRoe. 1979. Classification of wetland and deepwater habitats of the United States. FWS/OBS-79/31. USFWS, Washington, D.C.

Dethier, M.N. 1990. A marine and estuarine habitat classification system for Washington State. Washington Natural Heritages Program, Department of Natural Resources, Olympia.

Kunze, L.M. 1993. Preliminary classification of low elevation, freshwater vegetation in Western Washington. Washington Natural Heritage Program, Division of Land and Water Conservation, Department of Natural Resources, Olympia.

Rieley, J.S. and Page. 1990. Ecology of plant communities: a phytosociological account of the British vegetation. Longman Scientific and Technical with John Wiley and Sons, New York.

World Wetland Distribution

Chapman, V.J. (ed.) 1977. Ecosystems of the world. 1: Wet coastal ecosystems. Elsevier Scientific Publishing Co., New York.

Dugan, P. (ed.) 1993. Wetlands in Danger: A World Conservation Atlas. Oxford University Press, New York, 187 pages.

Gore, A.J.P. (ed.) 1983. Ecosystems of the world. 4B: Mires: swamp, bog, fen and moor, regional studies. Elsevier Scientific Publishing Co., New York.

Lutgens, F.K. and E.J. Tarbuck. 1979. The Atmosphere. Prentice-Hall Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.

Walter, H. 1979. Vegetation of the Earth, 2nd ed. Springer-Verlag, New York.

U.S. Wetland Distribution

Gore, A.J.P. (ed.) 1983. Ecosystems of the world. 4B: Mires: swamp, bog, fen and moor, regional studies. Elsevier Scientific Publishing Co., New York.

Federal Delineation Method

Environmental Laboratory. 1987. Corps of Engineers Wetlands Delineation Manual. Technical Report Y-81-1. U.S. Army Engineers Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg, MS.

Federal Interagency Committee for Wetland Delineation. 1989. Federal manual for identifying and delineating jurisdictional wetlands. Cooperative technical publication, Washington, D.C.

Reed, P.B. 1988. National list of plants that occur in wetlands: National summary. USFWS Biological Report 88(24).

Hydrology

Adamus, P., E.J. Clairain, R.D. Smith, R.E. Young. 1987. Wetland evaluation technique, Vol II: Methodology, Operational draft. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Federal Highway Administration.

Reinelt, L.E. and R.R. Horner. 1990. Characterization of the hydrology and water quality of palustrine wetlands affected by urban stormwater. King County Resource Planning, Seattle.

Biological Adaptations

Armstrong, W. 1975. Waterlogged soils, Ch. 7. In J.R. Etherington, Environment and Plant Ecology. John Wiley and Sons, New York.

Meek, B.D. and L.H. Stolzy. 1978. Short-term flooding, Ch. 12. In D.D. Hook and R.M.M. Crawford (eds.) Plant Life in Anaerobic Environments. Ann Arbor Science, Michigan.

Wetland Plant Stress: Waterlogging

Broadfoot, W.M. and H.L. Williston. 1973. Flooding effects on southern forests. Journal of Forestry 71:584-587.

Teskey, R.O. and T. M. Hinckley. 1977. Impact of water level changes on woody riparian and wetland communities; Vol. 1, Plant and soil responses to flooding. FWS/OBS-77/58, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Pereira, J.S. and T.T. Kozlowski. 1977. Variations among woody angiosperms in response to flooding. Physiol. Plant. 41:184-192.

Pezeshki, S.R. and J.L. Chambers. 1985. Responses of Cherrybark Oak seedlings to short-term flooding. Forest Sci. 31:760-771.

Physiological and Morphological Responses to Flooding

Ernst, W.H.O. 1990. Ecophysiology of plants in waterlogged and flooded environments. Aquatic Botany 38:73-90.

Gowing, D.J.G., W.J. Davies, C.L. Trejo and H.G. Jones. 1993. Xylem-transported chemical signals and the regulation of plant growth and physiology. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B 341:41-47.

Jackson, M.B. and M.C. Drew. 1984, Effects of flooding on growth and metabolism of herbaceous plants. Ch 3. in T.T. Kozlowski (ed.). Flooding and Plant Growth. Academic Press, New York.

Jackson, M.B. 1990. Hormones and developmental change in plants subjected to submergence or soil waterlogging. Aquatic Botany 38:49-72.

Jackson, M.B. 1993. Are plant hormones involved in root to shoot communication? Advances in Botanical Research 19:103-187.

Smit, B. 1988. Effects of hypoxia and elevated carbon dioxide concentration on water flux through Populus roots. Tree Physiology 4:153-165.

Smit, B., M. Stachowiak and E. van Volkenburgh. 1989. Cellular processes limiting leaf growth in plants under hypoxic root stress. Journal of Experimental Botany, 40:89-94.

Wetland Plant Stress: Salinity

Briens, M. and F. Larher. 1982. Osmoregulation in halophytic higher plants: A comparitive study of soluble carbohydrates, polyols, betaines and free proline. Plant Cell Environ. 5:287-292.

Chapman, V.J. 1976. Coastal Vegetation. Pergamon Press, New York.

Hellebust, J.A. 1976. Osmoregulation. Ann. Rev. Plant Physiol. 27:485-505.

Jefferies, R.L. 1981. Osmotic adjustment and the response of halophytic plants to salinity. BioScience 31:42-46.

Jefferies, R.L. and T. Rudmik. 1984. The responses of halophytes to salinity: an ecological perspective. In R.C. Staples (ed.). Salinity tolerance in plants: strategies for crop improvement. John Wiley and Sons.

Poljakoff-Mayber, A. and J. Gale. 1975. Plants in saline environments. Springer-Verlag, New York.

Ranwell, D.S. 1972. Ecology of salt marshes and sand dunes. Chapman and Hall, London.

Rozema, J. 1978. On the ecology of some halophytes from a beach plain in the Netherlands. Vrije Universiteit te Amsterdam.

Waisel, Y. 1972. Biology of halophytes. Academic Press, New York.

Wetland Plant Stress: Nutrients

Epstein, E. 1972. Mineral nutrition of plants: Principles and perspectives. John Wiley and Sons, New York.

Etherington, J.R. 1983. Wetland Ecology. The Institute of Biology's Studies in Biology No. 154. Edward Arnold, London.

Gambrell, R.P. and W.H. Patrick. 1978. Chemical and microbiological properties of anaerobic soils and sediments. In D.D. Hook and R.M.M. Crawford (eds.) Plant Life in Anaerobic Environments. Ann Arbor Science, Michigan.

Mendelssohn, I.A. and K.L. McKee. 1985. The effect of nutrients on adenine nucleotide levels and the adenylate charge ratio in Spartina alterniflora and Spartina patens. Plant, Cell and Environment 8:213-218.

Mendelssohn, I.A. and D.M.Burdick. 1988. The relationship of soil parameters and root metabolism to primary production in periodically inundated soils. In D.D. Hook (ed.) The Ecology and Management of Wetlands. Timber Press, Portland, Oregon.

Ponnamperuma, F.N. 1972. The chemistry of submerged soils. Advances in Agronomy 24:29-96.

Protocols for Stress Detection

Adenine nucleotidesMendelssohn, I.A. and K.L. McKee. 1981. Determination of adenine nucleotide levels and adenylate energy charge in two Spartina spp. Aquatic Bot. 11:37-55.

Leaf spectral reflectance

Gausman, H.W. 1985. Plant leaf optical properties in visible and near-infrared light. Graduate Studies, Texas Tech University, No. 29. Texas Tech Press, Lubbock.

CO2 Exchange

von Cammerer, S. and G.D. Farquahar. 1981. Some relationships between the biochemistry of photosynthesis and the gas exchange of leaves. Planta 153:376-387.

Alcohol dehydrogenase activity

McKee, K.L. and I.A. Mendelssohn. 1987. Root metabolic response of Spartina alterniflora to hypoxia. pp. 239-353. In Plant Life in Aquatic and Amphibious Habitats. R.M.M. Crawford (ed.) Special Publications No. 5. British Ecological Society Special Symposium.

Proline

Bates, L.S., R.P. Waldren and I.D.Teare. 1973. Rapid determination of free proline for water-stress studies. Plant Soil 39:205-207.

Wetland Functional Attributes

Adamus, P.R., E.J. Clairain, R.D. Smith and R.E. Young. 1987. Wetland Evaluaton Technique: Vol.II, Methodology, Operational draft. Department of the Army, Waterways Experiment Station, Corps of Engineers, Vicksburg, Mississippi.

Carter, V. 1986. An overview of the hydrologic concerns related to wetlands in the United States. Can.J.Bot. 64:364-374.

Marble, A.D. 1992. A guide to wetland functional design. Lewis Publishers, Ann Arbor.

Office of Technology Management, U.S. Congress. 1984. Wetlands: Their use and regulation. OTA-0-206. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington.

Strickland, R. (ed.) 1986. Wetland functions, rehabilitation and creation in the Pacific Northwest: The state of our understanding. Washington State Department of Ecology, Olympia.

Tiner, R.W. 1984. Wetlands of the U.S.: Current status and recent trends. National Wetlands Inventory, U.S. Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service.

Wetland Creation and Restoration

Hruby, T., and C. Brower. 1994. Guidelines for developing freshwater wetlands mitigation plans and proposals. Publication #94-29, Washington State Department of Ecology, Olympia.

Stevens, M., and Vanbianchi, R. 1993. Restoring wetlands in Washington. Publication #93-17, Washington State Department of Ecology, Olympia.