Washington State Department of Ecology

Publication Summary

Title	Freshwater Wetlands in Washington State - Vol. 1: A Synthesis of the Science
Month-Year Published	August 2003
Online Availability	View this publication in Acrobat PDF format 4519 kilobytes, requires version 4.0 or later of Adobe Acrobat Reader Software get Acrobat Reader Note: This is a large file. See "web related content" below to download individual chapters.
Short Description	This is the first part of a two-part document. This volume contains a summary and synthesis of the recent literature relevant to the science and management of freshwater wetlands. Volume 1 describes what the scientific literature says about: How environmental factors control the functions of wetlands across the landscape and at individual sites, how freshwater wetlands are classified according to these controls, and what functions are performed by different classes of wetlands in the state How human activities and land uses affect the environmental factors that control wetland functions How disturbances caused by human activities and land uses impact the performance of functions by freshwater wetlands How wetlands are protected and managed using common tools such as buffers and compensatory mitigation How cumulative effects result from the current use of these tools
Publication Number	03-06-016
Author(s)	Dyanne Sheldon, Tom Hruby Ph.D., Patricia Johnson, Kim Harper, Andy McMillan, Stephen Stanley, and Erik Stockdale
Print Availability	Not available as a printed document Currently under revision. Only available as download or on cd.
Number of pages	446
Keywords	BAS, best available science, freshwater wetlands, wetlands
Related Web Content	Download individual chapters
Related Publications	Title	Relationship
	Wetlands in Washington State - Volume 1: A Synthesis of the Science	current version

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