wetland

C4013
concept

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.

All labels observed (123)

Label Occurrences
wetland canonical 408
coastal wetland 105
Ramsar site 70

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: wetland
Generated description
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.

Instances (908)

Instance Via concept surface
Sundarbans mangrove forest
Swale estuary
Cuvette Centrale peatland complex
Salinas y Aguada Blanca National Reserve Ramsar site
Leschenault Inlet
Nauset Marsh salt marsh
Ajan Bund man-made wetland
Réserve naturelle nationale du Marais de Lavours
Everglades Wildlife Management Area wetland area
Dongting Lake Plain floodplain
Kushiro
surface form: Kushiro Wetlands
hortillonnages of Amiens
surface form: Hortillonnages of Amiens
wetland area
Orange River Mouth
Accabonac Harbor
Sicao Green Tunnel mangrove forest
Grand Pass National Wildlife Refuge (part) wetland area
The Broads
Victoria Nile Delta wetlands freshwater wetland
Sand Lake National Wildlife Refuge
Alligator Bayou
Sanquianga National Natural Park Ramsar site
Booby Pond Nature Reserve
Wilderness lagoons wetland system
Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge
Lake Ellesmere / Te Waihora
Dysynni Valley floodplain floodplain
Alsea Bay salt marshes salt marsh
Coos Bay tidal flats intertidal mudflat
Rogue River estuarine wetlands estuarine wetland complex
South Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve
Apalachicola–Chattahoochee–Flint River Basin wetlands wetland complex
Tillamook Bay tidal wetlands tidal wetland complex
Struma River delta coastal wetland
Siletz Bay salt marshes salt marsh
Umpqua River tidal flats tidal flat
Great Cumbung Swamp
Nestucca Bay tidal marshes tidal marsh
Leineaue floodplain
Cors Caron National Nature Reserve raised bog
Taylor Slough
Xixi National Wetland Park urban wetland
Blackwater Estuary National Nature Reserve
Coquille River tidal wetlands tidal wetland complex
Suffolk Levels wetland landscape
Central Marshes marshland
Pontine Marshes
Bool Lagoon Game Reserve
Laguna Cartagena National Wildlife Refuge
Hammar Marshes marsh
Hawizeh Marshes wetland complex