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Preferred term

wetlands

Definition

[Henderson's] n. area habitually saturated with water. It may be partly or wholly covered permanently, occasionally or periodically, by fresh or salt water up to a depth of 6 metres. Wetlands include bogs, fens, ﬂood meadows, marshland and salt marshes, shallow ponds, river estuaries, and intertidal mud ﬂats, but exclude rivers, streams, lakes and oceans.

Broader concept

deprecated concept

Note

[controlled by ] Leca Stefan 14.06.2013

Scope note

MAES Working Group

Contributor

0000-0003-0631-8231

Creator

0000-0003-0631-8231

URI

http://vocabs.lter-europe.net/EnvThes/56

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Created 2/21/13, last modified 6/18/18

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