**Meet the editor**

Dr. Didem Gökçe is an associate professor of biology at Inonu University in Turkey. She graduated with a BSc in Biology at Hacettepe University, Ankara. She obtained her MSc and PhD degrees in Hydrobiology and Limnology at Hacettepe University. Her research focuses on water quality, limnology, and ecosystem ecology. Also, she combines experimental and field studies on qualita-

tive and quantitative populations and community structures of plankton and benthic macroinvertebrate ecology.

Contents

**Preface VII**

**Management 3** Didem Gokce

Chapter 1 **Introductory Chapter: Wetland Importance and**

**Section 2 Water Quality and Diversity in Wetlands 11**

Olaleye Adesola Olutayo

**Applications 59**

**Aperture Radar 61**

Chapter 3 **Metals Pollution in Tropical Wetlands 29**

Ong Meng Chuan and Kamaruzzaman Yunus

Chapter 4 **Macroalgae Species as Zonal Indicators of Coral Reef: A Case Study from Bet Shankhodhar Reef, India 45**

**Section 3 Geographic Information System (GIS) and Remote Sensing**

Chapter 6 **Mapping and Monitoring Wetland Dynamics Using Thermal, Optical, and SAR Remote Sensing Data 87** Gordana Kaplan, Zehra Yigit Avdan and Ugur Avdan

Chapter 5 **Wetland Monitoring and Mapping Using Synthetic**

Mohammed Dabboor and Brian Brisco

Nandini Ray Chaudhury, Dimpal Sanghvi and Bhanukumar Jain

Chapter 2 **Isotopic Signatures (δ13C and δ15N) and Characteristics of Two Wetland Soils in Lesotho, Southern Africa 13**

**Section 1 Introduction 1**
