Current Science

Open Access Open Access  Restricted Access Subscription Access

Tropical Mountain Wetlands


Affiliations
1 Care Earth Trust, No. 3/2, 6th Street, Thillaiganga Nagar, Chennai 600 061, India
 

Water scarcity is an alarming problem in densely populated tropics and subtropics that are located in hydrologically sensitive zones. Mountains will play an increasingly important role in these regions, particularly in sustaining water availability in the future. They are often termed as 'water towers', important for water cycling, and many major rivers of the world originate here. Mountains also support a number of distinctive wetlands such as riparian areas, marshes, peatlands and wet meadows, over short distances as the hydrological characteristics change at small spatial scales. Additionally, varied landforms, biogeochemical environment, slope, elevation and climate gradient also influence mountain wetland characteristics.
User
Notifications
Font Size

  • Messerli, B., Viviroli, D. and Weingartner, R., Ambio, 2004, 13, 29–34.

  • Viviroli, D., Dürr, H. H., Messerli, B., Meybeck, M. and Weingartner, R., Water Resour. Res., 2007, 43, W07447.

  • Cooper, D. J., Chimner, R. A. and Merritt, D. M., In Wetland Habitats of North America: Ecology and Conservation Concerns (eds Batzer, D. P. and Baldwin, A. H.), University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, USA, 2012, pp. 313–328.

  • Chimner, R. A., Lemly, J. M. and Cooper, D. J., Wetlands, 2010, 30(4), 763–771.

  • Hoy, C., A hydrologic characterization of three headwater mountain wetlands in eastern Kentucky, USA. Theses and dissertations – forestry, paper 5, 2012; http://uknowledge.uky.edu/forestry_etds/5.

  • Chatterjee, A. et al., Mt. Res. Dev., 2010, 30(1), 42–52.

  • Cooper, D. J., Biol. Rep., 1990, 90(15), 1–45.

  • Winters, D. et al., Conceptual framework and protocols for conducting broad scale aquatic, riparian, and wetland ecological assessments. US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Region, Lakewood, USA, 2003, p. 147.

  • Champion, H. G. and Seth, S. K., A Revised Survey of Forest Types of India, Government of India Press, New Delhi, 1968, p. 404.

  • Bhat, P. R. and Kaveriappa, K. M., Trop. Ecol., 2009, 50(2), 329–337.

  • Roa-Garcia, C., Ph D thesis, Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, University of British Columbia, Canada, 2009.

  • Robin, V. V., and Nandini, R., Curr. Sci., 2012, 103(12), 1427–1437.

  • Ritter, N. P. and Crow, G. E., Rhodora, 2005, 107(929), 1–33.

  • Pascal, J. P., XX Trav. Sec. Sci. Tech., Inst. Francise, Pondicherry, 1988, p. 345.

  • Posa, M. R. C., Wijedasa, L. S. and Corlett, R. T., BioScience, 2011, 61(1), 49–57.

  • Page, S. E., Rieley, J. O. and Banks, C. J., Global Change Biol., 2011, 17(2), 798–818.

  • Rajagopalan, G., Sukumar, R., Ramesh, R. and Pant, R. K., Curr. Sci., 1997, 73(3), 60–63.

  • Thomas, P. K., Venkataramanan, C. and Vasu, K., Proc. Indian Natl. Sci. Acad., 1974, 40(6), 608-612.

  • Mohandass, D., Puyravaud, J. P, Hughes, A. C., Davidar, P., Ganesh, P. S. and Campbell, M., Appl. Ecol. Environ. Res., 2014, 12(4), 909–929.

  • Mohandass, D., Int. J. Ecol. Environ. Sci., 2008, 34(1), 55–62.

  • Puyravaud, J. P., Mohandass, D. and Davidar, P., Trop. Ecol., 2012, 53(1), 25–32.

  • Bera, S. K. and Farooqui, A., J. Paleontol. Soc. India, 2000, 45, 49–56.

  • Havens, K. J., O’Brien, D., Stanhope, D., Angstadt, K., Schatt, D. and Hershner, C., Initiating development of a forested headwater wetland HGM model for wetlands management in Virginia. The US Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, USA, 2004.

  • Brand, R. F., Du Preez, P. J. and Brown, L. R., S. Afr. J. Bot., 2013, 88, 223–236.

  • Jansky, L., Haigh, M. J. and Prasad, H., In Sustainable Management of Headwater Resources: Research from Africa and India (eds Jansky, L., Haigh, M. J. and Prasad, H.), United Nations University Press, 2005, pp. 1–14.

  • Lee, S. Y., Ryan, M. E., Hamlet, A. F., Palen, W. J., Lawler, J. J. and Halabisky, M., PLOS ONE, 2015, 10(9), e0136385.

  • Murdock, N. A., In Wetlands of the Interior Southeastern United States (eds Trettin, C. C., Aust, W. M. and Wisniewski, J.), Springer, The Netherlands, 1994, pp. 189–209.

  • Wantzen, K. M., Yule, C. M., Tockner, K. and Junk, W. J., In Tropical Stream Ecology (ed. Dudgeon, D.), Elsevier, London, 2008, pp. 199–217.

  • Achouri, M., In Environmental Role of Wetlands in Headwaters (eds Krecek, J. and Haigh, M.), Springer Science and Business Media, 2006, vol. 63, pp. 301–312.


Abstract Views: 479

PDF Views: 150




  • Tropical Mountain Wetlands

Abstract Views: 479  |  PDF Views: 150

Authors

Avantika Bhaskar
Care Earth Trust, No. 3/2, 6th Street, Thillaiganga Nagar, Chennai 600 061, India
Tamanna Kalam
Care Earth Trust, No. 3/2, 6th Street, Thillaiganga Nagar, Chennai 600 061, India

Abstract


Water scarcity is an alarming problem in densely populated tropics and subtropics that are located in hydrologically sensitive zones. Mountains will play an increasingly important role in these regions, particularly in sustaining water availability in the future. They are often termed as 'water towers', important for water cycling, and many major rivers of the world originate here. Mountains also support a number of distinctive wetlands such as riparian areas, marshes, peatlands and wet meadows, over short distances as the hydrological characteristics change at small spatial scales. Additionally, varied landforms, biogeochemical environment, slope, elevation and climate gradient also influence mountain wetland characteristics.

References





DOI: https://doi.org/10.18520/cs%2Fv111%2Fi9%2F1446-1447