Mississippi River hydrology could protect wetlands from oil

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The impact of wetland isolation and adjacent land use on bird communities

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Comparing created vs. natural wetlands in carbon sequestration

A new study by researchers at Ohio State University compares created versus natural wetlands in terms of soil characteristics. Using a model, the researchers predict that it would take the created wetlands 300 years to accumulate the soil organic carbon of natural wetlands...

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Canadian prairie wetlands undergoing widespread degradation

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Constructing wetlands to sanitize rivers and produce green energy

A new study from researchers in the Netherlands demonstrates that wetlands can be constructed in strategic locations to clean up rivers while producing enough biomass to serve as a clean energy source...

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Predicting the performance of plant restoration

To help address some of the uncertainty with ecological restoration, researchers have developed a model for predicting restoration performance based on genetic and geographic distance between a plant source location and the project site...

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An innovative approach for monitoring tidal wetland restoration success

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Study finds post-restoration wetland succession highly variable

A new study from researchers at the University of Illinois has looked at wetland restoration projects across the state and found that successional trends vary substantially from one site to another. The study findings have implications for the Clean Water Act and its ability to meet its mandate of enforcing no net-loss of wetland area or function in the United States...

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The impact of tidal flow restrictions on arid marshes

What happens to a wetland when you construct a dyke and cut off tidal flow for over two decades? Silvia Ibarra-Obando and fellow researchers looked at the effects of 22 years worth of tidal exclusion on Estero de Punta Banda, an arid estuary 120 km south of the U.S.-Mexico border...

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The value of 'ignorance' in restoration

We interview Dr. Eugene Turner, a leading wetland scientist at Louisiana State University. He argues that restoration practitioners need to abandon a knowledge-based world view and start embracing ignorance...

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