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… accessible for wide use. Four key datasets A B C Map of ecosystem types Poor Good Fair Map of ecological condition … the ecological condition of the river is likely to be. ● Wetland condition can be assessed by using land cover data to … proportion of natural vegetation in, and surrounding, the wetland. ● Other proxies for pressures on inland water …

… have dwindled because large tracts of terrestrial and wetland ecosystems have been converted to farmland. The once … disruption to local communities, the economy and the ecosystem. Source: http://ramsar.org/key_montreux_record.htm … reefs continue to decline, threatening highly valuable ecosystem services, including the removal of significant …

… to coral reefs, but stories to changes across species and ecosystem scales, and across geographies and the world. It is … adam.langley@villanova.edu Summary • Tidal wetland responses to warming involve complex feedbacks … sea level rise and increasing salinity Decreased tidal wetland area due to conversion to open water. Highly …

… healthy concen- trations of biodiversity, livelihoods, ecosystem services, natural habitats, and food security can … relevant studies suggest high rates of decline for global wetland area.⁵⁶ �e total area of land remaining in natural or … loss and of damage to the ecosystems on which we depend. Wetland, coastal, marine and dryland areas are especially …

… poses a direct challenge to the resilience of the regional ecosystem. The serious effects of these activities are … increased concern about the ecological condition of wetland sites of international importance. 12. Important … targets can be found in the text box below. Table 1 Wetland sites of international importance designated by the …

… D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund, the Gordon and Betty Moore … Conference of Parties, one of these being Criterion 6: “A wetland should be considered interna- tionally important if … of the 1% threshold approach to certain non-avian wetland-dependent taxa for which the requisite data have been …

… of the value of this biodiversity and of its associated ecosystem services, a number of protected areas have 1 UNEP, … and coral reefs, resulting in the loss of valuable ecosystem services, such as sewage treatment by mangrove … K. and Hempel, G (Eds.) 2009. “The UNEP Large Marine Ecosystem Report: A perspective of chang- ing conditions in …

… Rights in Relation to Protected Areas • Jon Day, Director, Ecosystem Conservation and Sustainable Use, Great Barrier … they may be a Ramsar (Convention on Wetlands) recognized wetland, a Biosphere Reserve or have had a management … It is Europe’s largest and most important marine wetland and the scale of its tidal flats, gullies, salt …

… of the Bialowieza National Park (Poland); and a protected wetland in the Minorca Biosphere Reserve (Spain). Photos by … dead wood, show- ing the importance of that element in the ecosystem. Many are very immobile and so may well have died … or closing (and at what level) the connection between the wetland and the open sea in the Park of the Albufera del …

… areas - 2nd edition Ecological Socio-economic and cultural Ecosystem services/ functions Catchment management and water … small isolated coral cays where seabirds breed, and small wetland areas which are used by migratory birds. Many IUCN … Seychelles: Aldabra Atoll; South Africa: Greater St Lucia Wetland Park; Uganda: Bwindi Impenetrable National Park; …