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Surface Water and the Maintenance of Hydrological Regimes

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Wetlands provide essential ecosystem functions and services which are mostly influenced by the specifics of its hydrological regime. Reflecting the spatio-temporal pattern of inflow, storage and outflow of water of a specific wetland, the wetland regime varies with the specific wetland type and the given, often interacting, environmental conditions. In order to remediate, mitigate and prevent human and climate change impacts, the majority of efforts to maintain or restore the hydrological regime focus on the stabilization of water flow dynamics.

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  1. SASSCAL Regional Secretariat, Directorate of Science and Technology and Capacity Development, Southern African Science Service Centre for Climate Change and Adaptive Land Management (SASSCAL), 28 Robert Mugabe Avenue, 87292, Eros Windhoek, Namibia

    Jörg Helmschrot

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Institute for Land, Water and Society, Charles Sturt University, Albury, NSW, Australia

    C. Max Finlayson

  2. International Water Security Network, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK

    Mark Everard

  3. UNESCO-IHE, Institute for Water Education, Delft, The Netherlands

    Kenneth Irvine

  4. RM Wetlands and Environment Ltd., Littleworth, Oxfordshire, UK

    Robert J. McInnes

  5. U.S. Geological Survey, Wetland and Aquatic Research Center, Lafayette, LA, USA

    Beth A. Middleton

  6. Aquatic Ecosystems Group, Department of Water Science and Engineering, UNESCO-IHE, Institute for Water Education, Delft, The Netherlands

    Anne A. van Dam

  7. Institute for Land, Water and Society, Charles Sturt University, Albury, NSW, Australia

    Nick C. Davidson

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Helmschrot, J. (2018). Surface Water and the Maintenance of Hydrological Regimes. In: Finlayson, C.M., et al. The Wetland Book. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9659-3_233

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