Tropical Wetlands

PP SLIDE: Okavango Delta, Botswana (2001)

PP SLIDE: Development of wetlands; http://envstudies.brown.edu/thesis/2001/shepherd/maps/finalquonset11.gif

PP SLIDE: Ramsar, Iran; www.darwantour.com/landscapes.htm

PP SLIDE: Racoon Point, Big Cypress, Feb. 2006

PP SLIDE: Wetlands:

1. presence of water

2. unique soil type in catchment area

3. plant community of hydrophytes

PP SLIDE: World’s Wetlands

www.wwtlearn.org.uk/.../tropical_peat_swamp.gif

PP SLIDE: Wetland Types:

1. bogs - 30%

2. fens - 26%

3. swamps - 20%

4. floodplains - 15%

5. lakes - 2%

PP SLIDE: Wetland Distributions:

1. South America: 1,200,000 sq. km

2. Asia: 350,000 sq. km

3. Africa: 340,000 sq. km

4. Australia: 2,000 sq km

PP SLIDE - wetland types: sudd community, herbaceous wetland, swamp

PP SLIDE - wetland zonation, herbaceous wetland (marsh); http://www.countrysideinfo.co.uk/wetland_survey/_derived/zones.htm_txt_zones.6.gif

PP SLIDE - FLOODED SWAMP FOREST

PP SLIDE - Sumatran rhino; earthhopenetwork.net/Sumatran_Rhinos_Borneo_D...

PP SLIDE - Sudd Community; Sirinumu reservoir - suddification; www.fao.org/DOCREP/006/X7580E/X7580E08.htm

PP SLIDE - Sudd Wetland

http://www.utdallas.edu/geosciences/remsens/Nile/Sudd.gif

PP SLIDE - wetland; http://www.wwtlearn.org.uk/factfile/images/tropical_peat_swamp.gif

PP SLIDE - Wetland Definition - RAMSAR:

areas of marsh, fen, peatland or water, natural or artificial, permanent or temporary, with water that is static, flowing, brackish, or salt, and shallow marine systems.

PP SLIDE - Hydrological cycle; http://eesc.columbia.edu/courses/ees/slides/climate/hydro_cycle.gif

PP SLIDE - oligotrophic and eutropic wetlands

PP SLIDE - RAMSAR Wetland Associations

lacustrine -- lakes

riverine -- rivers; floodplains

palustrine -- marshes, bog, swamps

marine -- mangroves, coral reefs, coastal systems

esturaine -- deltas, estuaries, mangroves

artificial -- fish ponds, reservoirs, lakes

PP SLIDE - Reeds; http://www.biopix.eu/Temp/JCS%20Eleocharis%20uniglumis%2017874.jpg

PP SLIDE - Productivity of ecosystems; http://www.mawpt.org/images/interior/PlantProductivitysource.gif

PP SLIDE - Primary Production in FW wetlands (Big Cypress, Feb. 2006)

PP SLIDE - Herbaceous vegetation, El Refugio, Bolivia

PP SLIDE - Fire in wetland; www.fire.uni-freiburg.de/.../everglades.htm

PP SLIDE - Biodiversity; cats of the Rupununi wetland

PP SLIDE - Collage of tropical freshwater fish

PP SLIDE - Collage of waterfowl

PP SLIDE - bird migration corridors; http://whyfiles.org/175west_nile/images/migration_corridors.gif

PP SLIDE - wetland plants used as food; rice, watercress, water chestnut, lotus, taro.

PP SLIDE - cattle and ducks grazing rice; http://www.fao.org/ag/tsunami/foto/cattle-grazing.jpg;

http://static.flickr.com/49/165642944_d7f9fe8e81.jpg

PP SLIDE - wet rice cultivation; Myanmar; http://www.geogr.uni-goettingen.de/kus/pics/www-myanmar/www-myan4/myanmar2002-air-wet-rice-cultivation1.jpg

PP SLIDE - wild rice; http://res2.agr.ca/winnipeg/storage/images/hi-res/crops/hi-wldrc.jpg

PP SLIDE - reed boats; http://img1.travelblog.org/Photos/12183/67424/t/404144-Reed-Boats-0.jpg

PP SLIDE - Guri Dam, Venezuela; http://www.gekkotours-venezuela.de/Pix/guri_01.jpg

PP SLIDE - aquatic pests; Pistia, Eichhornia, Azolla

PP SLIDE - Pantanal from space; http://www.gaudiyadiscussions.com/uploads/post-31-1085013634.jpg

PP SLIDE - Pantanal region; http://ibdb.conservation.org/expeditions/pantanal/images/pantanal_rivers.jpg

PP SLIDE - varantes; http://www.demene.cnpm.embrapa.br/fotos/a2_9.jpg corixo - http://www.pousadabelavista.com/_img_/vista%20verde.jpg; baía - http://www.fazendabarrancoalto.com.br/images/baias.jpg

PP SLIDE - map of Pantanal; http://www.amazondiscover.com/images/map_pantanal.gif

PP SLIDE - Pantanal during wet and dry seasons

PP SLIDE - Endangered Panatal wildlife (hyacinth macaws, jaguars)

PP SLIDE - Wetland associated Pantanal species (stork, caiman, giant river otter, capybara)

PP SLIDE - Rio Paraguay; http://www.travelblog.org/Photos/304121.html

PP SLIDE - Pantanal; http://www.cpap.embrapa.br/imagens/pbaias.jpg

PP SLIDE - Anthropogenic Threats to Pantanal:

burning and deforestation of the watershed

exploitation of fauna through poaching and overfishing

discharge of untreated sewage

agrochemical contaimination

discharge of chemical pollutants

poorly planned roads

dam and dike construction