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Carp River - WEPP, 2011
Viewing wetlands from a biota perspective creates an understanding on how well nature can create and control its own environment. Biota with minimal human interference can maintain the environment in a stable state optimal for life and can even compensate in many instances for deviations from the optimum condition. Living things capable of performing biotic regulation are ecological communities of organisms functioning in a co-ordinated manner. In wetland ecosystems the local ecological community is likely to have bulrushes with their own particular biota of smaller plants, fungi, bacteria, insects etc. One of the end results is that cattails for instance can be effective in removing pollutants from water, cleaning the air and supporting a variety of wildlife.
Types of Flora
A variety of seeds, shrubs and trees from outside sources have been used to re-naturalize areas of construction related to the re-channelized banks and the various ponds and wet meadows. These seedings and plantings need to be monitored for survival and for any invasive tendencies since there is no evidence that any flora from the existing wetland has been used - not even "sticks" from the numerous willows and dogwoods.
RIPARIAN CHANNEL SEEDS FLOOD PLAIN SEEDS WETLAND SEEDS
WET MEADOW SEEDS MEADOW TRANSITION SEEDS MEADOW FRINGE SEEDS
Fauna
Questions
Determine wetland impact caused by urban development
Identify and document the most significant threats to wetland functioning
Identify specific and unique habitat values of the wetland
Assess the impacts to wildlife habitat values of connectivity and isolation as a result of road building, recreational pathways and urbanization
Document the appropriate riparian flora for different wildlife species
Investigate the ecological importance of the various wetland restoriation features
Develop a better understanding of the ecological importance of conneccting with rural Carp River
Determine appropriate special management considerations for supporting rare wetland species
Determine the importance of wetland for groundwater recharge
Develop a science-based policy for conservation of the wetland
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