WRC’s completed studies

  Wetland Management Series

Wetlands are fascinating and dynamic ecosystems that provide indispensable services. Unfortunately up to 60% of South Africa’s wetlands have been lost to degradation. To safeguard the remaining wetlands of the country, the WRC has published a new set of integrated tools for wetland monitoring and management. The WET Management Series of handbooks stems from the National Wetlands Research Programme, an initiative of the WRC. The series of booklets offer a sound scientific base for planning, implementing and evaluating wetland rehabilitation, providing guidelines to develop an overall planning framework; assessing the condition of catchments and individual wetlands; assessing the functions and value of individual wetlands; evaluating the need for rehabilitation; identifying why wetlands degrade and what rehabilitation interventions are appropriate; guiding the selection and implementation of rehabilitation methods; and monitoring the success of rehabilitation projects.

TT321/07 Wet – Roadmap: A Guide to the Wetland Management Series,

TT334/09 Wet- Origins: Controls on the distribution and dynamics of wetlands in South Africa

TT335/09 Wet-Management Review: The impact of natural resource management programmes on wetlands in South Africa (Donovan Kotze; Charles Breen; Innocent Nxele and   John Kareko)

 TT336/09 Wet-RehabPlan: Guidelines for planning wetland rehabilitation is South Africa (Donovan Kotze; William Ellery; Mark Routentree; Micheal Grenfell; Gary Marneweck; Innocent Nxele; Charles Breen; John Dini; Allan Batchelor and Erwin Sieben)

TT337/09 Wet-Priorities: Guidelines for prioritising wetlands at national, regional and local scales (Mark Rountree; Mark Thompson; Donovan Kotze, Allan Batchelor and Gary Marneweck)

TT338/09 Wet-Legal Wetland rehabilitation and the law in South Africa (Aldin Armstrong)

TT339/09 Wet-EcoServices: A technique for rapidly assessing ecosystem services supplied by wetlands (Donovan Kotze; Gary Marneweck; Allan Batchelor; David Lindley; and Nacelle Collins)

TT340/09 Wet-Health: A technique for rapidly assessing wetland health (Erwin Sieben)  

TT341/09 Wet-RehabMethods: National guidelines and methods for wetland rehabilitation (William Russell)

TT342/09 Wet-RehabEvaluate: Guidelines for monitoring and evaluating wetland rehabilitation projects (Craig Cowden and Donovan Kotze)

TT343/09 Wet-OutcomeEvaluate: An evaluation of the rehabilitation outcomes at six wetland sites in South Africa (Donovan Kotze and William Ellery)

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Hlengiwe Cele  Tel:012 330 9006 hlengiwec@wrc.org.za