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J.S. Aber, T. Eddy, F. Pavri, and R. Sleezer, Earth Science Department, Emporia State University, Kansas: Wetland Environments. An interdisciplinary overview of physical, biological and cultural aspects of wetlands. Definitions, classifications, origins, and natural processes of wetland environments. Wetlands in boreal, temperate, and tropical climatic settings.
American Meteorological Society (website supported by the National Science Foundation): Water in the Earth System Learning Files.
The Biomes Group, Museum of Paleontology (UCMP), University of California at Berkeley: The World's Biomes. This is an introduction to the major biomes on Earth.
Stephen P. Broker, Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute: Connecticut´s Freshwater Wetlands.
! W.A. DiMichele and T.L. Phillips (1996): Clades, ecological amplitudes, and ecomorphs: phylogenetic effects and persistence of primitive plant communities in the Pennsylvanian-age tropical wetlands. PDF file, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 127: 83-105.
N.C. Emery et al. (2001): Competition and salt-marsh plant zonation: stress tolerators may be dominant competitors. PDF file, Ecology, 82: 471-2485.
EnchantedLearning.com: All About Nature, Biomes - Habitats.
T.J. Flowers et al. (2010): Evolution of halophytes: multiple origins of salt tolerance in land plants. PDF file, Functional Plant Biology, 37: 604-612.
Friends of the Everglades, Miami, Florida: A selection of online resources for everglades information.
Robert A. Gastaldo and Timothy M. Demko (2011): The Relationship Between Continental Landscape Evolution and the Plant-Fossil Record: Long Term Hydrologic Controls on Preservation. PDF file, Topics in Geobiology, 32: 249-285. See also here (abstract).
R.A. Gastaldo et al. (2009): Ecological persistence in the Late Mississippian (Serpukhovian, Namurian A) megafloral record of the Upper Silesian Basin, Czech Republic. PDF file, Palaios, 24: 336-350.
Google Directory:
Science > Biology > Ecology >
Ecosystems.
Science > Biology > Ecology > Ecosystems >
Wetlands.
Viewing in Google PageRank order.
! S.F. Greb et al. (2006): Evolution and Importance of Wetlands in Earth History. PDF file, In: DiMichele, W.A., and Greb, S., eds., Wetlands Through Time: Geological Society of America, Special Publication, 399: 1-40.
International Lake Environment Committee Foundation (ILEC): World Lakes Database.
Irish Peatland Conservation Council: Peatland around the World. A virtual trip, sorted by continent and countries.
C. Martín-Closas (2003): The fossil record and evolution of freshwater plants: a review. PDF file, Geologica Acta, 1: 315-338.
Alexander R. Schmidt and David L. Dilcher (2007): Aquatic organisms as amber inclusions and examples from a modern swamp forest, PDF file, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A., 104: 16581-16585. See also here, and there. PDF file.
Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT) Open Courseware.
Free lecture notes, exams, and videos from MIT.
No registration required. Go to:
John Southard: Special Topics in Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences:
The Environment
of the Earth´s Surface. PDF files. The course combines aspects of geology, climatology,
hydrology, and soil science to present a coherent introduction to the surface of the
Earth. Go to:
Rivers
(PDF file), and
Lakes
(PDF file).
UniServity, UK: Oxbow Lake Formation. This Flash slide show renders a detailed five step analysis of oxbow lake formation.
Elizabeth Anne Viau, Charter College of Education, California State University, Los Angeles: World Builders, Session Eight, Terrestrial Botany, Plants on Land. Go to: Introduction to Biomes.
E. Weiher and P.A. Keddy (1995): The assembly of experimental wetland plant communities. PDF file, Oikos.
D.A. Willard and T.M. Cronin (2007): Paleoecology and ecosystem restoration: case studies from Chesapeake Bay and the Florida Everglades. PDF file, Front Ecol. Environ., 5: 491-498.
S.L. Wing (1984): Relation of paleovegetation to geometry and cyclicity of some fluvial carbonaceous deposits. PDF file.
S.L. Wing and W.A. DiMichele (1995):
Conflict
between Local and Global Changes in Plant Diversity through Geological Time.
PDF file, Palaios, 10: 551-564. See also
here (abstract).
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