How To Use Wetland In A Sentence

The aircraft descended into a wetland area and had since been forgotten about as it sank below the surface. Times, Sunday Times
As the wetlands falls away, pipelines are exposed to the vagaries of open water.
The birds occupy a range of wetland habitats: lakes, rivers, reedbeds, sedge fens, marsh dykes, ponds, flooded gravel pits and meres.
Unhealthy waterways and wetlands mean more midges and mozzies; another reason to keep our Hearns Lake foreshores safe from human occupation.
Alpine tundra, alpine grassland, subirrigated meadows, and wetlands occur above timberline. Ecoregions of Idaho (EPA)

The wetland park, which will soon be the animal's permanent home, will cover 64 hectares of land and include tropical marshland.
The Squamscott River Wetlands Component boasts four rare plants: the marsh elder, the stout bulrush, the small spike-rush and the exserted knotweed. Great Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, New Hampshire
The Yalu River Wetlands Nature Reserve is an important stopover for migrant birds in Northeast Asia.
Extensive wetlands in Sonora have been decimated by irrigated agriculture and urbanization.
A wetland habitat with reed beds, a boardwalk, bridges and an outdoor classroom will also transform the park encouraging wildlife and the public.
Coastal wetlands are also characteristic of this ecoregion, and near the first foothills of the western range there are some arid, rocky scrublands with abrupt relief, where columnar, candelabra and opuntia cacti typically grow. Sechura desert
At the root of the problem are illegal logging and the loss of wetlands to farming.
He said Alexkor recently "armoured" a particular slimes dam with coarse overburden to stop a windblown "plume" of fine material that was threatening the proclaimed Ramsar wetland site at the mouth of the Orange River. ANC Daily News Briefing
To study these reclusive animals, he wades barefoot through the swamps of Venezuela's llanos wetlands ecosystem in search of his water-dwelling subjects.
Not named were probably those animals which live exclusively in forest, jungles, mountains, wetlands, deserts, etc.
The park is simultaneously an incredible wetland and one of the best examples of tropical dry forest remaining anywhere. Times, Sunday Times
There are tracts of wetland all over Europe, all over the world, but they are not named fens, fen is an English word, it will not migrate. Nobel Lecture - Literature 2003
The first was the incumbent wetland flora with origins in the early Carboniferous.
Approximately 20 million acres of rivers, lakes, streams and wetlands could be at risk.
Subsequently, a wetland near the Southern-most point was named after the Zoetendal and it is envisaged that this vlei will be incorporated into the proposed national park. ANC Daily News Briefing
The zoo hosts a large number of water fowl, cranes and storks - species that are sensitive to changes in wetland systems.
Where data does exist it may fail to consider current risks such as increased rainfall due to climate change or increased run-off of water from land due to deforestation or the drainage of wetlands.
Enormous subsequent engineering projects have modified the river still further, depriving it of huge wetland areas.
On August 5 a boat collided with the oil tanker causing more than 85 tons of oil to spill into the river and coastal wetlands.
They require a mosaic of heath, blanket bog and wetland, with rough grazing, shrubs and trees for cover.
The Pacific silverweed prefers sunny coastal dunes to marsh edges, sandy bluffs, wetland meadows and mudflats.
Wetlands were being drained so the land could be developed, estuaries were being reclaimed and forests were being cut down.
The western and northern boundaries and are delineated by mangroves and the Atlantic Ocean, while the eastern boundary occurs along a precipitation gradient - bordering xeric scrub and scrublands in the north, llanos and wetlands in the central portions, and moist forests in the south. Orinoco Delta swamp forests
Coral reefs provide protection to coastal areas and protect delicate coastal wetlands and mangrove swamps from storms.
Wetlands are the storehouses of groundwater and play a key role in maintaining the water table.
A spokesman for the Wetland Centre said there are already signs that this will be an excellent breeding year for amphibians with large clumps of frogspawn evident in shallow pools throughout the reserve.
Forest and wetlands dot the acres of public and private dunes that curl around Saugatuck city, a crosshatch of boutiques and inns. A Billionaire's Dune Duel
More rhodora blooming in the wetlands, Canada mayflower actually flowering in May, even if not in Canada, some trout lily and trilliums. Tuesday roadkill report
Forested wetlands on and around the property slow the water and soak it up.
The arctic soil and wetland microflora is composed mainly of species from Cyanobacteria, Chrysophyceae, Xanthophyceae, Bacillariophyceae, Chlorophyceae, Charophyceae, Ulvophyceae, and Zygnemaphyceae. Implications of current species distributions for future biotic change in the Arctic
Rare wetland plants growing in the path of the £47.9 million three-mile road, which is due to be completed by autumn, were transported to other areas of the bog before work began.
The western side of the lake is a nature reserve with ancient and plantation woodlands, grasslands and wetland habitats. Times, Sunday Times
Some farmers cleared papyrus from the lower wetlands to cultivate rice, not realising that by releasing an oil on the water's surface, the papyrus had acted as a barrier against certain mosquitoes.
He said declaring the area a national park would ensure the rejuvenation of the wetlands.
Most of the existing wetlands are freshwater, coniferous scrub/shrub wetlands, with small palustrine forested wetland complexes as well as Atlantic White Cedar wetland complexes. 2009 March « Beachwood Historical Alliance
Most of the remainder comes from wetlands, gas hydrates, permafrost, and termites.
That's how residents of this area near the tip of Southern Illinois (about two hours southwest of Evansville) describe the Cache River State Natural Area with its wetlands, ancient cypress trees and a yellow songbird known as a prothonotary warbler. Courierpress.com Stories
It plays along estuary wetlands and across small ponds. Globe and Mail
The recent warm but wet weather has caused a mass migration of frogs, newts and toads to the Barnes Wetland Centre.
All three of the wetlands fit the description of southern mountain fens.
The terrain here is flat, and the poor drainage encourages the creation of wetlands and bogs.
“Filling in this large vernal pool/wetland will result in the direct loss of 0.69 ha of amphibian breeding habitat, fragmentation of the habitat and the probable displacement of area-sensitive, pollution intolerant herpetofauna as well as other potential wildlife species,” the report states. Archive 2009-11-01
Cormorants and anhingas live in freshwater wetlands, swamps, lakes, rivers, and estuaries (wet areas near the ocean where freshwater and saltwater mix).
And stay offa my wetlands, snake-infested ankle-deep morassy-swamp lawn!!! Gator Update (Free Bill Warner! Edition)
It had the hydric soil characteristic of former wetlands.
No net loss" is a term borrowed from the vocabulary of wetland conservation, and allows for replacement of lost assets with equivalent resources. Charles R. Wolfe: Assuring Sustainable Third Places in the City
The lodge will eventually have two ‘constructed wetlands’ to purify septic waste naturally.
By 1930, no wetland and few trees were left in the region, and in many counties, cotton stretched from horizon to horizon.
Northern wetlands, especially peatlands, play a major role in global carbon cycles and climate change because they fix carbon from atmosphere in the biomass of the living vegetation.
The recent warm but wet weather has caused a mass migration of frogs, newts and toads to the Barnes Wetland Centre.
Wetlands are a lure for geese, swans, ducks, egrets, storks, herons and the icon of the Camargue, the pink flamingo.
The lake has two small rivers, which drain wetland areas into the southern and northern parts of the lake.
Mill Creek foraging parties may have opportunistically harvested a number of resources from these wetlands including nesting waterfowl, muskrats, and arrowhead tubers.
Although population increases substantially in both Order from Strength and Adapting Mosaic, short-term wetland loss could occur slowly in these two scenarios, for different reasons. Ecosystems and Human Well-being~ Wetlands and Water~ Wetlands and Water~ Ecosystems and Human Well-being
A southward depression of the treeline in favour of wet heaths, bogs and wetland tundra communities is also observed in northern oceanic environments.
While, in suburb Wetland Park planning, the top-drawer ecosystem services are water quality and water supply reservoirs, and biodiversity conservation.
Global warming could devastate lakes, streams, rivers and wetlands throughout the United States.
The study provides enough alarming data to warrant emergency measures by State Governments to reclassify wetlands as protected areas.
There is also an asphalt road to the small wetland Bolata north of the cape.
Similarly, of the 39 juveniles that departed, 35% departed to a wetland unit not in their natal region.
However, instead of building the fort on a hill, the impassable wetlands were used to create an impregnable site, the biggest marshland in England.
Indeed, there seems to be an unnatural attraction be tween wetlands and development similar to that between trailer parks and tornados.
However emergent palustrine wetlands within this ecoregion are the most threatened type along the Gulf Coast. Western Gulf coastal grasslands
That sure as hell didn't stop PETA from having a very large HQ in the tidewater right there where a wetland could be. Steel Shot or Counseling for "Murderous" Swans?
Next day I join a flat-bottomed boat that cruises the Yellow Waters wetlands.
No, these wetlands were not developed, they eroded away.
They live on moors and wetlands, while the tower is surrounded by bustling streets made of concrete.
After dinner and some fly casting tuition from Barry, Dan and I take a canoe out for a paddle on the wetland.
They typically nest in sedge meadows, muskeg bogs, or coastal wetlands.
Situated on the Tees estuary, the area is already an internationally-famous Ramscar class wetland refuge for birds, waders and wildfowl.
The downstream discharge at the Shabelle river is decreasing rapidly due to losses from seepage, evaporation, overbank spillage due to a low channel capacity, and water abstractions before the flow usually ends in the wetlands beyond Sablaale. Water profile of Somalia
Important breeding wetland species include marbled teal Marmaronetta angustirostris (VU,35), white-headed duck Oxyura leucocephala (EN,400, which nest mainly in artificial ponds in surrounding areas), white-eyed pochard Aythya niroca (VU), purple gallinule Porphyrio porphyrio and crested coot Fulica cristata. Doñana National Park, Spain
There are possibilities of wetland restoration here and elsewhere in the country, which could see an expanding crane population. Times, Sunday Times
The area beside the canal is popular with walkers and birdwatchers, who use hides overlooking a wetlands area close to the lake.
Known for its wetlands and salt deposits (Yangcheng literally translates as “salt city”), the city received over US$2 million in funding from the central government and Asian Development Bank in 2007 to restore and protect its wetlands. Toxic Chemical Spill in Chinese City Leaves Residents without Water
Wetlands are a lure for geese, swans, ducks, egrets, storks, herons and the icon of the Camargue, the pink flamingo.
A wetland also studied in the perspective of greenhouse gas emission.
There are also azonal saline wetlands, wetlands, gypsum and limestone containing soil types in low altitude zones.
The mangrove forest of the Rufiji Delta is any important site for migratory wetland birds, such as curlew sandpiper (Calidris ferruginea), little stint (Calidris minuta), crab plover (Dromas ardeola), roseate tern (Sterna dougallii) and Caspian tern (Hydroprogne caspia). East African mangroves
In the ACE Basin study area, 457,681.1 ha (185,296 ac) are classified as upland planted pine based on the 1997 National Wetlands Inventory. Ashepoo-Combahee-Edisto (ACE) Basin National Estuarine Research Reserve, South Carolina
Some of this stems from a poor understanding of wetland geology and what wetland landforms are.
There are possibilities of wetland restoration here and elsewhere in the country, which could see an expanding crane population. Times, Sunday Times
Algal communities in shallow flowing or static wetlands produce mats or mucilaginous clusters that float in the water but are attached to rocks underneath [57]. Implications of current species distributions for future biotic change in the Arctic
Tab Benoit was in the middle of a short speech on the wetlands, and aswe settled in, he finished up and introduced the next speaker, who turned out to be, to my surprise and delight, none other than Walter Williams, creator of that famous pop culture icon, Saturday Night Live's Mr. Bill. Voice of the Wetlands Festival 2008, Part 1: Mr Bill and the Gulf Restoration Network
The Orinoco wetlands are flooded grassland occurring in seven distinct patches, which are embedded in a mosaic of mangroves, swamp forest, moist forest, and llanos. Orinoco wetlands
They can be found in a rich assemblage of habitats from rivers to caves, savannas, wetlands, prairies, lakeshores, and forests.
The value of wetland rises more than thirtyfold once it is converted into farmland. When a Billion Chinese Jump
These wetlands are important breeding and migratory stopover sites for many North American waterbirds, including more than 30 species of shorebirds, 9 of which regularly breed in the region.
The sike is almost dry but erosion and wetland plants show its position in the dip.
The plant communities of southern Appalachian wetlands include endemics that exist in the unique microhabitats of the region.
Natural disturbance and human _ caused disturbance of estuary wetland ecosystem were identified.
Housing and industrial developments caused further fragmentation of wetlands. Times, Sunday Times
It is characterized by moraines of the Weichselian Pleniglacial with intercalated outwash sediments including kame deposits, dead-ice depressions with lakes, fens or wetlands, and Late Saalian moraines in the south.
Trillions of dollars would have to be spent constructing thousands of dams on every river basins in the world, and many trillions more integrating them into urban stormwater management systems; wetland restoration projects; concretized rivers and irrigation channels; fortified lagoons and estuaries; abandoned tunnels; flood control structures; and every faucets, sprinklers, buckets and rolling 'hippos' throughout the world. Hydrology vs. the Apocalypse
Nigeria has three main environmental regions: savanna, tropical forests, and coastal wetlands.
Testing of samples of deposited sediments in the riparian zone determined that agricultural activity in the watershed has caused increased sediment deposition to the wetland.
The wetlands dense foliage has the ability to handle heavy metals, like mercury, zinc, nickel and copper.
One who does not know the topography of mountains and forests, ravines and defiles, wetlands and marshes cannot maneuver the army.
Conservation measures of this kind help to explain the enormous cost of both wetland and underwater archaeology.
They can be found in a rich assemblage of habitats from rivers to caves, savannas, wetlands, prairies, lakeshores, and forests.
Skylarks sang over the wetlands, carnivorous butterworts were in violet flower and cotton grass fluffed up the land.
The earth's remaining wilderness would be in even greater danger if the opening of northern markets were to create a financial incentive for developing nations to replace forests, savannas and wetlands with land-wasting peasant farms.
Tolerance to anoxia is relevant to wetland species, rice cultivation and transient waterlogging of agricultural crops.
This migratory species is especially vulnerable to flooding because of its ground foraging ecology, but little is known about patterns of habitat occupancy at wetland ecotones.
Global warming could devastate lakes, streams, rivers and wetlands throughout the United States.
The key habitats hosting threatened species (which, therefore need the maximum protection) are wetlands, followed by forests, grassland and scrubland.
Willow will be planted to shore up the banks of the River Devon and wetland created to soak up water on neighbouring hilltops.
Shrubs and bushes will be used to create the hilltop wetlands by blocking drainage ditches dug by sheep farmers.
A further third will be turned into wet pasture land and a third to wetland and reed beds in line with a plan approved by the Environmental Agency.
The youthful morainal landscape has significant surface irregularity and high concentrations of wetlands. Ecoregions of North Dakota and South Dakota (EPA)
The wetland areas of the region support numerous waterfowl and native fish including the endemic brown mudfish (Neochanna apoda), which is considered a lower risk globally threatened species. Northland temperate forests
Willow will be planted to shore up the banks of the River Devon and wetland created to soak up water on neighbouring hilltops.
This 55-acre park has a network of boardwalks and walkways that allows species such as the common snipe and the tree swallow to be observed without harming the lush grasses and wetland they thrive in.
Ski areas are certainly more natural than cityscapes, but they still create significant environmental impacts through logging, erosion and damage to wetlands.
The spring ephemerals were abundant; he could see primroses, violets, lungwort, and even the delicate blue forget-me-nots as he approached the wetland.
Many dances mimic the movements and behaviors of animals such as the brolga crane of the northern wetlands.
Soggy peatlands, wetlands, or increased agriculture could all lead to increases in the carbon levels.
Pammel Creek originally drained into one of these wetlands but was channelized between 1914 and 1927 to join Bluff Slough, a backwater of the Mississippi River just to the southwest of the site.
It is contiguous to a scrub shrub/emergent wetland and bordered to the east by an evergreen forested wetland complex.
There are a number of major wetland issues in the world that geologists need to be aware of because it is probably only a matter of time before Canadians may be confronted with similar problems.
The Brule and Paint Rivers Drumlins (50j) ecoregion has extensive eskers and drumlinized ground moraines, pitted and unpitted outwash, wetlands, large glacial lakes, and a lower density of lakes than in adjacent ecoregion 50i. Ecoregions of Wisconsin (EPA)
As such, some peatlands are relict landforms, no longer actively accumulating peat, while other peatlands may even be slowly degrading, some even back to their mineral wetland origins.
Years ago, kirri isso (a white hued shrimp) used to grow in the lagoon in the season when the lagoon opens to the sea," recalls Tissakuttiarachchige Ariyadasa, a villager who still herds buffaloes in the wetland. LBO-Lanka Business Online
When the prairie droughts of the late 80s and early 90s ended and rains came to the Midwest, wetland basins in idled grass fields made excellent waterfowl nesting habitat and duck populations came back as well. Uncategorized Blog Posts
Although some wetland types may not have standing surface water at all times, they are considered lentic ecosystems for the purposes of this chapter. Freshwater ecosystems in the Arctic
Without such diversions, the Mississippi, leveed by the Corps, will continue to dump its sediment deep into the Gulf of Mexico, and the coastal wetlands of Louisiana -- which historically have acted as a buffer against the severity of hurricanes -- will continue their recent erosion at the rate of a football field each hour. Harry Shearer: Is It too Late for a Sense of Urgency?
The river is lined with low bluffs alternating with wetlands, the latter either lightly wooded swamps or open marshes often locally dominated by a single plant species.
Typha spp. are highly productive aquatic plants that grow in a variety of habitats throughout wetlands worldwide.
A limited amount of palustrine forested wetlands occur at the head of the numerous tidal creek tributaries to the St. Jones River. Delaware National Estuarine Research Reserve
New to southern Florida's cypress domes is wetland nightshade, also known as aquatic soda apple.
It is a very attractive park of rolling hills, open grassy valleys, interspersed with thickets, woodlands and rich wetlands.
The notion that the root cortex of flowering plants that grow in aquatic or wetland environments under hypoxic conditions is comprised primarily of enlarged air spaces, or lacunae, has been considered for at least 150 years.
Southern California's done its best to compound the damage by turning historic wildfire corridors into housing tracts, wetlands into marinas, flood plains into slurbs and deserts into parking lots.
Cindy Brown, who runs the Gulf of Mexico program for The Nature Conservancy (and, I am proud to say, is a Nicholas School alum), applauds projects like this but believes they will eventually fall short without addressing the root causes of the wetlands problem -- the mess we have made of the Mississippi River with the dams and the levees and the channelization and the canals crisscrossing the delta. Bill Chameides: Working on the Wetlands: One Blade of Grass at a Time
Students rotated from one scientist to another, assisting with data collection, and gained insight into each scientist's particular area (wetland ecology, cryptogams, syntaxonomy, floristics, or natural history).
Bird species such as Tadorna ferrugine and Anas platyrhynchos occur in wetlands, Dendrocopos major in the forests while Parus major, Motacilla cinerea, Alaudia arvensis, Anthus hodgsoni, Lanius cristatus, Milvus migrans, and Corvus corax occur everywhere else in this area. Altai montane forest and forest steppe
Water is stored the way nature stores it in regenerated wetlands, recharged aquifers, and along recovered flood plains that are also refuges for wildlife.
They form one of the largest and oldest wetlands on the planet. Times, Sunday Times
Mr Deacon says that far from damaging wildlife, the lake and wetlands already attract kingfishers, mallards, woodpeckers, coots, waterhens, curlews, plovers, deer and foxes.
The Central Science Laboratory is also collaborating in another project with the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust which is exploring whether greylags seen in Britain are migrants from Greenland or belong to a population resident in the UK.
He hatched and hand-reared 22 chicks at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust in Slimbridge, which is home to the largest colony of breeding flamingoes in the county.
Furthermore, the invasion of Spartina alterniflora may affect progenitive birds when it decreased insect diversity in Jiuduansha wetlands.
A total of 53 species of wetland and wetland-oriented birds were reported at the jheels until recently, he said.
Though considered a pest because of the culvert-clogging dams it builds on streams, the beaver is an ally in conserving valuable wetland habitat for declining amphibian populations, a University of Alberta study shows. Archive 2007-01-01
The plant associates are common widespread wetland species in the southeastern United States, and none were determined to be indicator species.
But there are quiet corners, such as a wetlands area, where athletes can escape the general buzz. Times, Sunday Times
The pair of gay drakes - named Ben and Jerry - resisted the advances of female Cherry at Arundel Wetland Centre in West Sussex and came out of the avine closet to form a close partnership. The Register
Avery Island is actually a small hill, created in the deltaic wetlands by the upwelling of ancient salt deposits that exist beneath the Mississippi Delta.
The addition of these features would make the books more useful to wetland delineators.
It's been known for years that, as the Corps keeps the Mississippi River channel clear for navigation, it dumps what it dredges in the Gulf of Mexico -- at the same time that the state's coastal wetlands, deprived of sediment from the leveed-off river (and damaged by thousands of miles of pipelines and canals serving the oil industry), continue to disappear at an alarming rate. Harry Shearer: Why Obama Needs to Weigh In With the Corps of Engineers
The film captures monkeys in the Nariva wetlands, golden tree frogs housed in bromeliad plants and blue-backed manakins in Tobago.
The wetlands, which consist of riverbeds, alluvial flats, flood-plains, tributary debouchments and lakes, are home to rich vegetation and wildlife, including 228 species of birds.
Nutria, called Myocastor coypus, have added to the destruction by devouring wetlands.
In the East African wetlands, you are definitely bound to come across one or two species of ibises.
Wooded areas of the Bluff Hills (74a) are near enough to the streams and wetlands of the Mississippi Alluvial Plain (73) to provide suitable habitat for the Louisiana waterthrush. Ecoregions of Arkansas (EPA)
Wetlands are the storehouses of groundwater and play a key role in maintaining the water table.
One of the highlights will be the creation of a community wetland art sculpture of two dancing brolgas, each 3m high.
The terrestrial ecology of Pennsylvanian tropical wetlands is understood in detail, but coeval dryland ecosystems remain highly enigmatic.
World Wetlands Day on 2 February marks the occasion of the signing of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands of International Importance in 1971.
Irrigation, of course, not only depletes groundwater but reduces surface flow too, with dams and diversions that cause downstream desertification and the loss of productive wetlands and freshwater fish stocks.
Outstanding natural havens, as well as rivers, forests, wetlands, deserts and endangered species, all demand immediate regeneration and protection.
Isolation of acidophilic methane-oxidizing bacteria from northern peat wetlands. Implications of current species distributions for future biotic change in the Arctic
Wild turkeys can be spotted in the Poconos' open fields, bobolinks and grasshopper sparrows breed in the area's grasslands, and waterfowl, shorebirds, and herons wade in its wetlands.
Exempt certain businesses and coastal communities from complying with wetlands regulations.
In the New World, it generally occurs in wet habitats that have been recently disturbed, such as rice or other agricultural fields, river flood plains, drainage ditches, roadside ditches and swales, and wetland mitigation ponds.
In summer, nesting habitat is small wetlands with emergent vegetation in boreal forests and parklands.
And off to the right, you can see all the wetlands and marshlands that lead to the Lakes.
Contained within the wetland basin are 264 species of freshwater fish.
The LIttle Grassbird is found in swamps and marshes, preferring thick reed beds, and will occur in temporary wetlands after rains.
The project threatens the integrity of one of the world's most important wetlands.
Technology was to transform not only the actual level of the land, but also the fine details of the wetland landscapes.
Lake systems across the ecoregion are regarded as significant refugia by Morton et al. The wetland edges and grasslands of this ecoregion provide critically significant habitats for many migratory shorebirds, most notably the little curlew (Numenius minutus) and oriental pratincole (Glareola maldivarum), for which a large proportion of the total world population aggregates during the non-breeding season. Mitchell grass downs
The book traces the metamorphosis of this endangered ecosystem from rich wetlands to prosperous agricultural area, from saw grass and sloughs to sugar cane, winter vegetables and cattle.
The wetland area, created on land owned by Campden and Chorleywood Food Research Association, will provide a home for a wide range of wildlife including native trees and shrubs, wildflower-rich grassland and native aquatics.
Coastal wetland bird sanctuaries will come under threat from salinisation due to rising sea levels and storm surges. ANC Daily News Briefing
Oak and hazel were probably dominant, but with an intermixture of other species, including birch, alder - a tree of wetlands - ash and elm, which varied regionally.
The role of starch reserves in tolerance to anaerobiosis has also been demonstrated in experiments on rhizomes of some wetland species.
The Jacanas are totally adapted to wetland habitats with floating vegetation like lotus, lily, hydrilla and wetland rushes.
Ms. Louden proposed creating a landscape that would mimic the natural wetlands that border Yahoo's campus, but with a high-tech twist.
Each island has a museum, walking and hiking trails, wetland boardwalks, and viewing platforms.
His cows (he milks 35 Dutch belted, Jerseys, and milking shorthorns) are wintered outdoors on 265 acres of highly erodible land and prior converted wetlands.
Another provision, discussed in chapter 6, addressed the problem of wetland protection.
The bittern is a secretive bird and its subtle colouring makes it hard to spot in its wetland surroundings – although its mating call, which can be heard several miles away, testifies to its presence. Bitterns: the endangered birds whose population is booming at last
Meanwhile, Strachan views the water vole as an indicator of wetland habitat quality, and he looks forward with little optimism.
Well, the lagoons are shallow basins of water planted up with aquatic plant species that naturally occur in low-lying wetland areas.
Wetland communities include, in addition to stands of soft-stem bulrush, very marshy areas with water plantain and broad-leaved arrowhead, two closely related species whose flowers have three white petals.
In addition, there are two intra-zonal/azonal types: flood plain (riparian) forest along the rivers and wetlands. Azerbaijan shrub desert and steppe
One would expect that dragonflies are already flagship species of wetlands and freshwater, with which they are closely associated.
It comes from the wetlands of central eastern Madagascar, where it lives apparently on small mammals and fish. Times, Sunday Times
Many wetland birds thrive here, including the Australsian bittern (Botaurus stellaris poiciloptilus) and the magnificent white heron or kotuku (Egretta intermedia). Westland temperate forests
Muddy floodwaters rise and spread over deltaic wetlands from main and so-called distributary channels, transporting mass and energy laterally across the delta, in essence nourishing the landscape. Web Edition | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Marsh plant has very important function in constructed wetlands system. It has not only adsorption and application nutrient in sewage, adsorption and enrichment heavy metal of sewage.
The refuge's north unit contains the 8,700-acre Medicine Lake, eight smaller lakes, and numerous pothole wetlands.
Once this happens, the wetland would also be restored - the soil has been compacted due to lack of water and heavy grazing - and the original swamp species could be reintroduced.
The coastal wetland, as a typical transitional zone between land and ocean, is a multifunctional and complex ecosystem with special ecological values and potential resources.

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