wetland

A wetland is a transitional ecosystem between terrestrial and aquatic environments characterized by saturated soils, standing or slow-moving water, and vegetation adapted to waterlogged conditions.

Aliases (21)

• Ramsar site ×10
• salt marsh ×5
• floodplain ×4
• wetland region ×3
• coastal wetland ×2
• swamp ×2
• estuarine sand and tidal flat area ×1
• freshwater slough ×1
• freshwater tidal wetland ×1
• inland delta ×1
• intertidal coastal wetland ×1
• mangrove forest ×1
• marshland ×1
• marshy island ×1
• peat bog ×1
• seasonally inundated grassland ×1
• subtropical wetland system ×1
• tidal wetland area ×1
• tropical wetland ×1
• washland ×1
• wetland area ×1

Instances (74)

• Camargue
• Pantanal ("tropical wetland")
• Back Bay Fens ("salt marsh")
• Lincolnshire Fens
• Ichkeul National Park
• Biesbosch ("freshwater tidal wetland")
• Porbandar Bird Sanctuary
• Darién Gap ("swamp")
• Greater Everglades ecosystem ("subtropical wetland system")
• Point Pelee National Park ("Ramsar site")
• iSimangaliso Wetland Park
• Sundarbans ("mangrove forest")
• Nauset Marsh ("salt marsh")
• The Broads
• Taylor Slough
• Wadden Sea ("intertidal coastal wetland")
• Indus River delta
• Yukon–Kuskokwim Delta ("wetland area")
• Chat Moss ("peat bog")
• Rann of Kutch ("salt marsh")
• Ria Formosa Natural Park
• South Sudan
• Ría Lagartos Biosphere Reserve
• Celestún Biosphere Reserve ("Ramsar site")
• Whittlesey ("washland")
• Volga Delta
• Canarsie Pol ("marshland")
• Rulers Bar Hassock ("marshy island")
• Polesia ("wetland region")
• Grassy Bay ("coastal wetland")
• Orinoco Llanos floodplains ("floodplain")
• Orinoco Delta
• Great Dismal Swamp ("swamp")
• Traeth Mawr ("estuarine sand and tidal flat area")
• Murrumbidgee floodplain ("floodplain")
• Syvash ("salt marsh")
• Doñana National Park
• Barotse Floodplain ("floodplain")
• Reserva Natural do Sapal de Castro Marim e Vila Real de Santo António
• Castro Marim Nature Reserve
• Danube Delta
• Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge ("Ramsar site")
• Okavango Delta ("inland delta")
• Wapusk National Park ("Ramsar site")
• Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge
• Kolkheti National Park (partly) ("Ramsar site")
• Ebro Delta
• Po Delta
• Okeechobee Plain ("wetland region")
• Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge (partial)
• Lake of Tunis
• Lake Neusiedl ("Ramsar site")
• Sandwich Harbour
• Rumney Marsh Reservation ("salt marsh")
• Zapata Peninsula ("wetland region")
• Ciénaga de Zapata
• Santay Island ("Ramsar site")
• Lake Dojran
• Lake Ichkeul
• Weerribben-Wieden National Park
• Lena River Delta
• Val d'Allier National Nature Reserve
• Lena Delta Nature Reserve ("Ramsar site")