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Bookmark or Share- What is a wetland? - NOAA's National Ocean ServiceThere are many different kinds of wetlands and many ways to categorize them. NOAA classifies wetlands into five general types: marine (ocean), estuarine (estuary), riverine (river), lacustrine (lake), and palustrine (marsh).
- Why are Wetlands Important? | US EPA - U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyAn immense variety of species of microbes, plants, insects, amphibians, reptiles, birds, fish and mammals can be part of a wetland ecosystem. Climate, landscape shape (topology), geology and the movement and abundance of water help to determine the plants and animals that inhabit each wetland.
- Wetland - WikipediaA wetland is a distinct semi-aquatic ecosystem whose groundcovers are flooded or saturated in water, either permanently, for years or decades, or only seasonally. Flooding results in oxygen-poor processes taking place, especially in the soils. [1]
- Wetlands Mapper | U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service - U.S. Fish and Wildlife ...The Wetlands mapper is designed to deliver easy-to-use, map like views of America’s Wetland resources. It integrates digital map data along with other resource information to produce current information on the status, extent, characteristics and functions of wetlands, riparian.
- What is a Wetland? | US EPA - U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyDefinition of a Wetland. Wetlands are areas where water covers the soil, or is present either at or near the surface of the soil all year or for varying periods of time during the year, including during the growing season.
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