Wetland Ecology

This course has been designed for the 3rd year students in Soil science and the nodule aims to:

• Acquaint students with the current concept of wetlands and its  methods for the delimitation (identification, delineation, and classification, etc.) and assessment.
• Understand  and evaluate the factors that  affect  pedogenesis phenomena
•  Identify  the various ways  that cause the wetland  degradations  in order to make a plan  for  exploitation agricultural potential  with reducing any harmful environmental incidence
•  Be familiarized  with the fundamental aspects of wetlands ecology
• Learning outcomes:
• After completion this course  student should have to 
• Understand the concept of wetland, the intrinsic qualities and ecological services provided by wetlands and its value to human
• Be able to identify the hydric soil indicators in the field to delineate wetlands
• Know the fundamental processes and the descriptive or analytical characteristic of  specific  soil covered under wetlands area, then  wetland soil taxonomy( wetland suborder)
• Understand the criteria and indicators used for hydric soils