Includes bibliographical references and index.

v. 1. Biodiversity in wetlands: an introduction / Brij Gopal and W.J. Junk -- The importance of stream-wetland-systems for biodiversity: a tropical perspective / Karl Matthias Wantzen and Wolfgang Johannes Junk -- Riverine wetlands and biodiversity conservation in tropical Asia / David Dudgeon -- Fish biodiversity in floodplains and their associated rivers / R.L. Welcomme -- Biodiversity in the high Paraná River floodplain / A.A. Agostinho ... [et al.] -- Mechanisms for development and maintenance of biodiversity in neotropical floodplains / Wolfgang J. Junk -- Biodiversity of a Danubian floodplain: structural, functional, and compositional aspects / Klement Tockner ... [et al.] -- Determinants of avian diversity in neotropical mangrove forests / Gaëtan Lefebvre and Brigitte Poulin -- Biodiversity in wetlands of dry regions (drylands) / L. Brandon and A.D. Williams -- Floristic diversity in the Okavango Delta, Botswana as an endogenous product of biological activity / U.N. Keller, U.S. McCarthy and A.M. Bakersfield -- Karst wetlands biodiversity and continuity through major climatic change: an example from arid tropical Western Australia / W.J. Humphreys -- Biodiversity of Estonian wetlands / Viktor Masing, Jaanus Paal and Andres Kuresoo -- Bacterial biodiversity in wetlands / Paul I. Boon -- Restoration of biodiversity to coastal and inland wetlands / Joy B. Zedler -- International mechanisms for the conservation and sustainable use of wetlands / Devin M. Bartley.