EnvThes
deprecated concept
[controlled by ] Leca Stefan 14.06.2013
MAES Working Group
[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.
wetlands