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(usually in the plural) Land that is covered mostly with water, with occasional marshy and soggy areas.
Examples of wetland in a Sentence
It is Britain's largest protected wetland, having similar status to a national park.
Corbally also provides valuable habitat for wetland birds and invertebrates including a number of notable water beetles.
The bog area has wetland plants including hemp agrimony, purple loosestrife, bullrush and yellow flag.
To ensure wetlands are not lost or destroyed, regulations stipulate that any wetland drained or filled in must be replaced in kind.
The chart clearly illustrates the plant zonation patterns in the wetland.
Changes in zooplankton populations in a wetland ecosystem due to drought.
Several types of lowland wetland are Priority Habitats under the UK Biodiversity Action Plan.
Situated in an inter-drumlin wetland this small mesotrophic lake is fringed by a mosaic of notable vegetation communities.
This had a huge impact on wetland wildlife and today what remains is only a small vestige of its past glory.
Starting our tour in the southern marshes of the Great Morass, we encountered scores of wetland birds and American wood warblers.
Pollard Willows Old pollard willows are one of the most characteristic features of Cambridgeshire 's wetland landscape.
The Rydal Wetland has much alder, willow and birch which produce their own special fungi, with oak around the drier edges.
They are important, often dominant elements of many wetland ecosystems, which today are severely threatened by the human activity.
There are rare wetland species and the reserve is good for birds including spotted flycatcher, kingfishers and reed bunting.
See, feed and learn about wetland birds, and help the WWT conserve wetland habitats.
The Trust has recently received several grants toward the restoration of wetland habitats across the reserve.
Landscape Key Characteristics Rolling drumlins with broad areas of wetland and bog in inter-drumlin hollows; small rounded loughs are fringed by moss.
Students and researchers can discover how the observatory monitors wetland hydrology for various places.
Description, pictures and plant species list for area c2 in the wetland survey. leaved pondweed.
This morning we'll take a short drive to a wetland reserve just outside the capital on the coast.
Bundala National Park This park is a mixture of wetland habitat, open scrubland with some forest and saltpan workings.
Many grassland, heathland and wetland species declined over this period, with habitat loss as the main driver.
The wetland is the home of the endemic lechwe antelopes and the rare shoebill stork.
One particular area already has some nature conservation interest as relatively unimproved grassland, with a network of small hedgerows and some wetland habitat.
A wonderful wetland habitat full of rare species, including water voles, has been created.
In 1998 a gift from Miss Gwen Finch enabled Worcestershire Wildlife Trust to restore a wetland on the banks of the Avon.
This tour explores the best of these habitats and also the excellent coastal wetland and steppe areas in the southeast part of the country.
It is Britain 's largest protected wetland, having similar status to a national park.
In any event they cannot begin to replace the traditional wetland habitats being lost at such an alarming rate.
Two watercourses make their way to the sea within the area covered by the park creating ribbons of wetland vegetation along their course.
Donald also monitors wetland bird stocks in the area on behalf of the British Trust for Ornithology.
Art and nautical around the world trails wetland boardwalks.
The wetland area revealed a pair of Black-headed Wagtails and two Black-headed buntings feeding in the grasses.
The heathlands are home to a rich variety of wetland plants and animals, including the rare yellow centaury.
A mixture of water chemistry, wetland ecology and dynamics, environmental economics and agri-environmental policy!
Butterflies frequent an area of wetland which includes abundant bog myrtle.
Using the interactive map of Canada the user can view the distribution of the different wetland regions including boreal, mountain and arctic.
Select a site for your home that is not environmentally sensitive, such as farmland or wetland.
Coastal Indian tribes often gathered the local cranberries that lived in the wetland areas and cooked them for food.
These bog farms are large beds or wetland areas that can easily be flooded manually.