This volume introduces the general concepts and processes used in wetlands and habitats. As an excellent resource for finding basic knowledge on fresh water bodies, new in this edition are discussions on lakes and wetlands remote sensing, their health status, restoration, sea level rises, vulnerability to human impacts and wetland vegetation.

Section I: Riparian Zone and Management 1. Floodplain Management 2. Floods: Riverine 3. Marshes: Salt and Brackish 4. Peatlands 5. Pollution: Nonpoint Source 6. Riparian Wetlands: Mapping 7. Riparian Zones: Groundwater Nitrate (NO3-) Cycling 8. River Delta Processes and Shapes 9. Streams: Perennial and Seasonal 10. Vernal Pool 11. GIS Analysis of Groundwater Salinity 12. Basic Evaluation Units and Physical Structural Integrality in Riparian Zone Evaluation 13. Riparian Zones Evaluation: Remote Sensing Section II: Wetland Ecosystem 14. Cooling Effects of Urban and Peri-Urban Wetlands: Remote Sensing 15. Ecosystem Service Decline in Response to Wetland Loss 16. Wetlands 17. Wetlands: Biodiversity 18. Wetlands: Classification 19. Wetlands: Ecosystems 20. Wetlands: Freshwater 21. Wetlands: Tidal Section III: Wetland Assessment and Monitoring 22. Wetlands: Economic Value 23. Wetlands: Indices of Biotic Integrity 24. Wetlands: Remote Sensing 25. Assessment of Health Status of Lake Wetland by Vegetation-Based Index of Biotic Integrity (V-IBI) 26. Remote Sensing for Wetland Indices 27. Wetland Mapping: Poyang Lake, Remote Sensing 28. Wetland Conservation Efforts and Policy Impacts in China 29. Water Dynamics of Floodpath Lakes and Wetlands: Remote Sensing 30. Water-Level Variation of Poyang Lake: Remote Sensing