Implementing a simple or detailed inventory of wetland sites and their catchments.

Inventory

> Implementing a simple or detailed inventory of wetland sites and their catchments.

This section assists the user to record the relevant information for a simple or detailed inventory of wetland sites and their catchments through manuals and data forms.

An inventory method specific for wetlands was first developed during the MedWet 1 project (1993-1996) and tested with positive results in a number of countries and more locally, at certain sites. These first MedWet Inventory tools were published in 1996 in five volumes of guidance, data entry forms, the habitat description system and an electronic database.

Over the last decade increased effort has been made to promote the MedWet inventory method and tools and carry out inventory activities through big or small projects led by MedWet partners including MedWet 2, MedWetCoast, Albanian Wetland Inventory, MedWet/Regions, MedWet/SUDOE, MedWet/ CODDE. Particularly over the last decade, some ten countries (Portugal, Greece, Albania, Slovenia, FYROM, Morocco, Croatia, Serbia, some regions of Italy, Spain and France) have applied the MedWet inventory method and used the successive versions of the MedWet Database (MWD) for storing their national data on wetlands.

The reference manual

Provides a thorough presentation of the inventory process and gives useful guidance and advices to users who are going to organize a wetland inventory project.