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Preferred term

wetland

Is replaced by

wetland

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

Scope note

US LTER controlled vocabularybr /MAES Working Group

Contributor

0000-0003-0631-8231

Creator

herbert.schentz@umweltbundesamt.at

URI

http://vocabs.lter-europe.net/EnvThes/USLterCV_630

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Created 3/31/16, last modified 1/13/23

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