Diversity of Inland Wetlands: Important Roles in Mitigation of Human Impacts

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue aims to emphasize the importance of different types of wetlands in our environment. It is a fact that wetlands helped ancient cultures like Egypt or Mesopotamia emerge, with their fertile land and high productivity. Over the centuries, these roles have been forgotten, and wetlands have been often treated as a wasteland. Nowadays, it has become apparent that climate changes and their consequences will continue to take their tax, and adaptation to these changes is urgent. Loss of biodiversity, eutrophication of aquatic ecosystems, extinction of rare species, increasing flood-risk, climatic conditions, are issues, which can be mitigated with proper management and maintenance of various wetlands, from marshes, swamps, bogs, fens, shallow lakes, and ponds to anthropogenic, which need human interventions like wet-meadows, storm-ponds and constructed wetlands.

We want to gather contributions on different types of inland wetlands, their biodiversity, chemistry, and functioning of these important but fragile ecosystems. Wetlands have an essential role at maintaining of surface and groundwater water quality, water retention, sediment stabilization, prevention of erosion and flooding, offering habitat for various organisms like plants, birds, amphibians, invertebrates, diatoms etc.   

Prof. Dr. Mateja Germ
Dr. Igor Zelnik
Dr. Matthew Simpson
Guest Editors

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