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| Name: | wetland |
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| Description: | A wetland is an area where the soil is completely saturated with water. This class includes swamps, bogs, peatlands and marshes. Wetland pants can grow in saturated soils. Often wetlands are linked with the water table which is near or at the earth-s surface. Wetlands can be permanent or ephemeral depending on their structure.Wetlands are an important source of food and habitat for waterfowl and many amphibians and mammals, and they can provide vegetation with high concentrations of chemicals that have been recovered from the environment. The permanently saturated and oxygen free soil is a filter which allows only certain types of plants to flourish. Wetlands are sustained by precipitation, the emergence of groundwater and the surface water flow into the wetland. Wetlands filter out sediment and pollutants as water passes through. |
| Type: | Noun |
| Term is: | Glossary, Variable | | Term has: | Unit | | Term unit: | m2 | |
