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Restoration and Management of Healthy Wetland Ecosystems Scientifica Restoration and Management of Healthy Wetland Ecosystems Guest Editors: Dong Xie, Qiang Wang, Zhongqiang Li, Rogar P. Mormul, and Liandong Zhu Restoration and Management of Healthy Wetland Ecosystems Scientifica Restoration and Management of Healthy Wetland Ecosystems Guest Editors: Dong Xie, Qiang Wang, Zhongqiang Li, Rogar P. Mormul, and Liandong Zhu Copyright © 2017 Hindawi Publishing Corporation. All rights reserved. This is a special issue published in “Scientifica.” All articles are open access articles distributed under the Creative Commons Attribu- tion License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Contents Restoration and Management of Healthy Wetland Ecosystems Dong Xie, Qiang Wang, Zhongqiang Li, Roger Paulo Mormul, and Liangdong Zhu Volume 2017, Article ID 1874604, 2 pages Winter Waterbird Community Composition and Use at Created Wetlands in West Virginia, USA Hannah L. Clipp, Michael L. Peters, and James T. Anderson Volume 2017, Article ID 1730130, 13 pages Improving Urban Water Environment in Eastern China by Blending Traditional with Modern Landscape Planning Jiajie Cao, Junjun Yu, Yuan Tian, Cai Zhao, and Hao Wang Volume 2017, Article ID 6967145, 12 pages The Effect of Artificial Mowing on the Competition of Phragmites australis and Spartina alterniflora in the Yangtze Estuary Yue Yuan, Chao Zhang, and Dezhi Li Volume 2017, Article ID 7853491, 8 pages Simulation of the Effect of Artificial Water Transfer on Carbon Stock of Phragmites australis in the Baiyangdian Wetland, China Xinyong Chen, Fengyi Wang, Jianjian Lu, Hongbo Li, Jing Zhu, and Xiaotong Lv Volume 2017, Article ID 7905710, 11 pages Phragmites australis + Typha latifolia Community Enhanced the Enrichment of Nitrogen and Phosphorus in the Soil of Qin Lake Wetland Zhiwei Ge, Ran An, Shuiyuan Fang, Pengpeng Lin, Chuan Li, Jianhui Xue, and Shuiqiang Yu Volume 2017, Article ID 8539093, 9 pages A Carbon Cycle Model for the Social-Ecological Process in Coastal Wetland: A Case Study on Gouqi Island, East China Yanxia Li, Lihu Xiong, and Wenjia Zhu Volume 2017, Article ID 5194970, 11 pages Composition and Biomass of Aquatic Vegetation in the Poyang Lake, China Wei Du, Ziqi Li, Zengxin Zhang, Qiu Jin, Xi Chen, and Shanshan Jiang Volume 2017, Article ID 8742480, 10 pages Long-Term Study of the Relationship between Precipitation and Aquatic Vegetation Succession in East Taihu Lake, China Yehui Zhang, Na Yang, Jiawei Xu, and Yixing Yin Volume 2017, Article ID 6345138, 8 pages Physicochemical Process, Crustacean, and Microcystis Biomass Changes In Situ Enclosure after Introduction of Silver Carp at Meiliang Bay, Lake Taihu Chengjie Yin, Longgen Guo, Chunlong Yi, Congqiang Luo, and Leyi Ni Volume 2017, Article ID 9643234, 9 pages Effect of Hydrologic Alteration on the Community Succession of Macrophytes at Xiangyang Site, Hanjiang River, China Na Yang, Yehui Zhang, and Kai Duan Volume 2017, Article ID 4083696, 10 pages Numerical Response of Migratory Shorebirds to Prey Distribution in a Large Temperate Arid Wetland, China Yamian Zhang, Yi Zhu, Aojie Zuo, Li Wen, and Guangchun Lei Volume 2016, Article ID 1297603, 9 pages Hindawi Scientifica Volume 2017, Article ID 1874604, 2 pages https://doi.org/10.1155/2017/1874604 Editorial Restoration and Management of Healthy Wetland Ecosystems Dong Xie,1 Qiang Wang,2 Zhongqiang Li,3 Roger Paulo Mormul,4 and Liangdong Zhu5 1 Co-Innovation Center for Sustainable Forestry in Southern China, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, China 2School of Ecological and Environmental Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China 3School of Resources and Environment, Hubei University, Wuhan 430062, China 4Biology Department, State University of Maringa,´ 87020-900 Maringa,´ PR, Brazil 5Vaasa Energy Institute, Vaasa University, 65101 Vaasa, Finland Correspondence should be addressed to Dong Xie; [email protected] Received 12 April 2017; Accepted 12 April 2017; Published 19 April 2017 Copyright © 2017 Dong Xie et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Wetland ecosystem is one of the most important ecosystems equip wetland managers for the challenge of addressing the in the world. However, with the large-scale urbanization drivers of ecosystem change as described above, the societal and rapid economic development, the wetland ecosystem processes that produce the need for more food and more is facing increasing ecological and environmental issues water and land use change. including eutrophication, water pollution, biodiversity loss, In this special issue, we focused on restoration and man- and ecological function decreases. Therefore, improving and agement of healthy wetlands. There are 3 aspects and 11 papers restoring wetlands and creating healthy wetland ecosystem on biodiversity protection, hydrology management, and habi- are the pressing issues these days. tat restoration in the current special issue. For biodiversity Healthy ecosystem means not only ecological health itself, protection, W. Du et al. monitored the composition and but also the long-term maintenance of healthy human pop- biomass of aquatic vegetation in the Poyang lake; H. L. Clipp ulation and the sustainable promotion of social-economic et al. surveyed winter water bird community composition in development. Healthy wetland ecosystem would provide West Virginia, USA; C. Yin et al. monitored the Microcystis notonlysuitablehabitatsforwildlifebutalsoimportant biomass changes at Meiliang Bay, Lake Taihu, China; Y. Yuan ecosystem functions for local sustainable development. To et al. researched the effect of mowing on the competition of create healthy wetland, two aspects are mainly included: Phragmites australis and Spartina alterniflora in the Yangtze one is restoration and remediation of degraded wetland Estuary; Y. Zhang et al. monitored migratory shorebird ecosystems and the other is protection and management of responses to prey distribution in a large temperate arid wetland ecosystems which have not yet been disturbed, so wetland, China; Z. Ge et al. studied that emerged community that these wetlands can undergo benign development. enhanced the enrichment of nitrogen and phosphorus in The restoration and remediation of the degraded wetlands the wetland. For hydrology management, Y. Zhang et al. are the most important issues of wetland researches and studied the long-term relationship between precipitation and have developed rapidly with the development of wetland aquatic vegetation succession in east Taihu Lake, China. X. restoration theories in recent years. Our understanding of Chen et al. simulated the effect of artificial water transfer how wetland ecosystem changes is becoming more deeper on carbon stock of Phragmites australis in the Baiyangdian than any time in human history, but descriptions of the wetland, China; N. Yang et al. studied the effect of hydrologic variety and severity of changes have been repeatedly stated alteration on the community succession of macrophytes at for decades now, yet the alarming trends continue. Similarly, Hanjiang River, China. For habitat restoration, J. Cao et al. wetland management traditionally derives its knowledge studied improvement of urban water environment in Eastern base from the fields such as aquatic chemistry and biology China; Y. Li et al. studied a carbon cycle model for the social- and hydrology. However, this disciplinary training does not ecological process in coastal wetland, East China. 2 Scientifica The restoration and management of healthy wetland ecosystem mainly adopt biological, ecological, and engineer- ing technology, gradually restore the structure and function of degraded wetland ecosystem, and finally reach the self- sustaining state of wetland ecosystem. The core messages and directions of this special issue would ameliorate the ecological and environmental effects on wetlands; at least, they might reflect some questions or problems, which grabbed the researches and managers attention. Dong Xie Qiang Wang Zhongqiang Li Roger Paulo Mormul Liangdong Zhu Hindawi Scientifica Volume 2017, Article ID 1730130, 13 pages https://doi.org/10.1155/2017/1730130 Research Article Winter Waterbird Community Composition and Use at Created Wetlands in West Virginia, USA Hannah L. Clipp,1 Michael L. Peters,2 and James T. Anderson1 1 School of Natural Resources, West Virginia University, P.O. Box 6125, Morgantown, WV 26505, USA 2West Virginia Division of Natural Resources, P.O. Box 99, Farmington, WV 26571, USA Correspondence should be addressed to Hannah L. Clipp; [email protected] Received 9 November 2016; Revised 14 February 2017; Accepted 19 February 2017; Published 12 March 2017 Academic Editor: Dong Xie Copyright © 2017 Hannah L. Clipp et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Information on nonbreeding waterbirds using created wetlands in the Central Appalachian region of the United States is limited. We compared waterbird communities of two managed wetlands, created in 2013 and 2001, in West Virginia. We observed 27 species of waterbirds. Species richness and diversity were generally similar between the wetlands, but species
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