EnvThes
type: ConceptScheme

deprecated concept
type: Concept

wetlands
in scheme: EnvThes
type: Concept
contributor: 0000-0003-0631-8231
note: [controlled by ] Leca Stefan 14.06.2013
scope note: MAES Working Group
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: deprecated concept
deprecated: true
creator: 0000-0003-0631-8231