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A Study on Health Assessment Indicators of Artificial Wetlands: Zo-Zai Wetland Park in Kaohsiung, Taiwan as the Case

The disappearance of the wetlands of Taiwan have reflected all kinds of
biological drifting about aimlessly. We have to take action for protecting the wetlands,
due to there are less than before. In the face of the wetlands that there are not much
left, we must treasure and offer protection. The action that a lot of wetlands protection
at present is going on. We need to invest more research and monitoring, and should
investigate the state of wetland health that file, expect that can utilize limited
resources more effectively during the process of protecting. This research expects to
build the index system constructing out a set of Taiwan wetlands and assessing to the
characteristic of the wetland of Taiwan.
After consulting the domestic and international relevant index system, this
research drafts preliminary wetland health assessment system. Through Delphi
method, gathering opinions and suggestions from experts and scholars this research
could set up the health assessment indicators of Taiwan artificial wetlands.
Index system is divided into environment and management two general parts,
and is categorized into six major indexes groups, including organism, water, soil,
environment, management and social economy, amounts to 18 indexes.
In the case of Zo-Zai Wetland Park, in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, we applied this
index system to inspect the health degree of Zo-Zai Wetland Park and its index results.
Assessing the result for being 'good' in health, and cause the unhealthy projects of
wetland include restoration species grow up degree, the distribution of the invasive
species, the water quality situation, the hydrology situation and the maintenance funds
of the wetland .
The whole but the speech, the continent Zo-Zai Wetland Park still belongs the
health, but influence the wetland healthy factors still need to monitor continuously in
order to maintain wetland health quality.
This research hopes to diagnose the health state of the wetlands, through health
assessment indicators system and regular wetland monitoring, Then designing the
wetland follow-up planning and management strategies to result the wetlands¡¦
problems earlier. Finally, it hopes to help restoring the wetlands in Taiwan.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0908105-014422
Date08 September 2005
CreatorsChen, Cheng-ying
ContributorsLei Yang, Wen-chien Kuo, Wen-yan Chiau
PublisherNSYSU
Source SetsNSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive
LanguageCholon
Detected LanguageEnglish
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Sourcehttp://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0908105-014422
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