The Wetlands Component of the USDA’s Conservation Effects Assessment Project (CEAP-Wetlands) is a multi-agency effort advancing science related to quantifying and interpreting effects and effectiveness of conservation practices and programs on ecosystem services provided by wetlands in agricultural landscapes. This special section originated from a symposium held at the 73rd Soil and Water Conservation Society’s International Annual Conference in Albuquerque New Mexico, July 29 to August 1, 2018. The symposium was jointly organized by the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service and the US Geological Survey. To facilitate CEAP-Wetlands efforts, several regional assessments were conducted across the United States. These regional assessments were designed to address science gaps hindering wetland conservation and to develop tools facilitating conservation assessments. Conservation decisions affect not just agricultural wetlands, but also the services that these complex ecosystems provide to society. Papers in this special section of the Journal of Soil and Water Conservation present key findings and recent advances from several CEAP-Wetlands regional assessments and discuss the significant contributions of each assessment to an ever-increasing understanding of wetland ecosystems and their provisioning of ecosystem services. Modeling efforts using the Agricultural Policy and Environmental eXtender (APEX) and other process-based models are an integral component of CEAP-Wetlands. Results of these modeling efforts are also presented, and conservation implications are discussed.

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农业景观中的湿地——CEAP-Wetlands 的重要发现和最新进展

美国农业部保护效果评估项目 (CEAP-Wetlands) 的湿地部分是一项多机构努力，旨在推进与量化和解释保护实践和计划对农业景观中湿地提供的生态系统服务的影响和有效性相关的科学。本专题源于2018年7月29日至8月1日在新墨西哥州阿尔伯克基举行的第73届水土保持学会国际年会上的一次座谈会。 该座谈会由美国农业部自然资源保护局和美国地质调查局联合举办。为了促进 CEAP-Wetlands 的努力，在美国进行了多项区域评估。这些区域评估旨在解决阻碍湿地保护的科学差距，并开发促进保护评估的工具。保护决策不仅影响农业湿地，还影响这些复杂的生态系统为社会提供的服务。《水土保持杂志》这一特刊中的论文介绍了若干 CEAP-湿地区域评估的主要发现和最新进展，并讨论了每次评估对不断加深对湿地生态系统及其提供的生态系统服务的了解的重要贡献。使用农业政策和环境扩展器 (APEX) 和其他基于过程的模型进行建模是 CEAP-湿地的一个组成部分。还介绍了这些建模工作的结果，