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WATER'S

past, present, and HOPEin Tablas de Daimiel

Ignacio Meco. Untitled. Oil on canvas. 1979

Leonardo Da Vinci

“Water is the driving force of all nature.”

Water is the main source of life, so wetlands are known to provide a variety of valuable functions:- Wildlife - Water purification - Flood protection - Prevent erosion - Human recreation -...

EUROPEAN NATIONAL PARKS

Tablas de Daimiel National Park, nature reserve and wetland ecosystem1973 4,633 acres (1,875 hectares) Confluence of the Guadiana and Cigüela rivers Serves as a migratory route for various bird species

Wetlands are among the ecosystems with the highest biodiversity and biological activity (Dudgeon et al., 2006). These ecosystems are considered to be important carbon sinks and they have a marked influence on climate change (Ward and Tockner, 2001). They also provide a number of local services, including maintaining water quality and supply, regulating atmospheric gases, sustaining unique indigenous biota, and providing cultural, recreational and educational resources, increasing the biodiversity of the whole region

FaunaWaterbirds - To hibernate, fleeing the rigours of Central and Northern Europe: shovelers, teals or grey herons - To place for nesting and breeding: herons, little egrets, cattle egrets, squacco herons, night herons, Eurasian bitterns and little bitterns, he great crested grebe, the little grebe and the black tern - Resting and feeding place on theirlong migratory journeys: ruffs, black terns and other waders - Sedentary species: mallards or western marsh harriers - Other 250 species of birds that inhabit the wetland: ides, the squealius albunoides and the cobitis paludica - Amphibians: the green frog, the European tree frog, the Iberian ribbed newt and the common parsley frog. - Reptiles: turtle, the Natrix maura and, the montpellier snake - Mammals: otter, foxes, wild boars, rabbits and badgers.

Flora- The blue sedge. - The common duckweed, underwater plants that cover the bottom of Las Tablas and are a first order food source for bird life linked to the aquatic environment. - The Tamarix, unique existing trees inside the Park, have reoccupied their primitive habitats, for its partial adaptation to water and for their degree of salinity. - The bulrush.

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Some measures to avoid the dreaded ending

The state of degradation and/or vulnerability of this ecosystem (with a series of socio-economic implications) have led the publication of numerous articles. The work reported here provides a description of the growing importance of this wetland within the rural landscapes of La Mancha and emphasizes its state of degradation, mainly since pedological point of view. In this way, particular attention is required to assure the conservation of the Tablas of Daimiel Wetland; thus, several measures are proposed to improve the conservation of this area as to control and prohibit any dumping of any type of waste in the park or in its vicinity.

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