[HTML][HTML] Status of wetlands in India: A review of extent, ecosystem benefits, threats and management strategies

N Bassi, MD Kumar, A Sharma… - Journal of Hydrology …, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract Study region India. Study focus India has a wealth of wetland ecosystems that
support diverse and unique habitats. These wetlands provide numerous ecological goods …

Status, potential, prospects, and issues of floodplain wetland fisheries in India: synthesis and review for sustainable management

UK Sarkar, P Mishal, S Borah, G Karnatak… - Reviews in Fisheries …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
India is blessed with vast floodplain wetland resources of 0.5 million ha that are distributed
in the Eastern and North Eastern States. They possess varying morphometry, ecological …

Integrated Constructed Wetlands (ICW) for livestock wastewater management

R Harrington, R McInnes - Bioresource Technology, 2009 - Elsevier
Social, economic and environmental coherence is sought in the management of livestock
wastewater. Wetlands facilitate the biogeochemical processes that exploit livestock …

The status of current knowledge, distribution, and conservation challenges of wetland ecosystems in Kashmir Himalaya, India

SA Dar, SU Bhat, I Rashid - Wetlands conservation: current …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Summary In the Kashmir Valley, the wetland ecosystems cover an area of 42 663 ha
comprising nearly 2.67% of the entire geographical area. These wetland ecosystems form …

Comparing soil carbon sequestration in coastal freshwater wetlands with various geomorphic features and plant communities in Veracruz, Mexico

JL Marín-Muñiz, ME Hernández, P Moreno-Casasola - Plant and Soil, 2014 - Springer
Background and aims Wetlands are important carbon sinks across the planet. However, soil
carbon sequestration in tropical freshwater wetlands has been studied less than its …

Threats to inland wetlands and uncertainty around global soil carbon stocks and sequestration rates

AJ Nath, GW Sileshi, JK Bania, A Nath - Science of The Total Environment, 2024 - Elsevier
Wetlands are vital in climate change mitigation, carbon and nutrient cycling, water quality
improvement, flood regulation, wildlife habitat provision, and biodiversity maintenance …

Greenhouse gas emissions from coastal freshwater wetlands in Veracruz Mexico: Effect of plant community and seasonal dynamics

JL Marín-Muñiz, ME Hernandez… - Atmospheric …, 2015 - Elsevier
Wetlands play an important role in modulating atmospheric concentrations of Greenhouse
Gases (GHGs), such as methane (CH 4), nitrous oxide (N 2 O) and carbon dioxide (CO 2) …

Comparative assessment of carbon sequestration potential of different types of wetlands in lower Gangetic basin of West Bengal, India

SK Nag, B Das Ghosh, S Nandy, M Aftabuddin… - Environmental …, 2023 - Springer
Wetlands provide a great ecological service by accumulating and sequestering carbon in
their soils and thus help in mitigating climate change caused due to global warming …

Storage of organic carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus in the soil–plant system of Phragmites australis stands from a eutrophicated Mediterranean salt marsh

MN González-Alcaraz, C Egea, FJ Jiménez-Cárceles… - Geoderma, 2012 - Elsevier
In this study we quantified the different forms of nitrogen, organic carbon and phosphorus in
two eutrophicated watercourses flowing into a coastal salt marsh of the Mar Menor lagoon …

[HTML][HTML] The high organic carbon accumulation in estuarine wetlands necessarily does not represent a high CO2 sequestration capacity

M Xie, L Qian, H Dong, W Mei, X Fu, Y Hu, J Yan… - Environment …, 2023 - Elsevier
Estuarine wetlands with high organic carbon (OC) accumulation rates due to their high plant
biomass and interception of tide-derived OC are generally considered as large CO 2 sinks …