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• Endangered • 6% of earths surface
• Each• wetland differs due to variations in soils, landscape,
climate, water regime and chemistry, vegetation, and human disturbance.
• There are four categories of wetlands in the United States: marshes, swamps, bogs, and fens.
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• Soil is saturated. With water on top.• Marshes are one of the more open to the world,
wetlands.• Most of the plants here are grass type.• ADAPTATIONS: Ducks-webbed feet, Birds-long legs,
and long narrow beaks• MARSHES are periodically saturated, flooded, or
ponded with water and characterized by herbaceous (non-woody) vegetation adapted to wet soil conditions. Marshes are further characterized as tidal marshes and non-tidal marshes.
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• SWAMPS are fed primarily by surface water inputs and are dominated by trees and shrubs.
• Swamps occur in either freshwater or saltwater floodplains.
• They are characterized by very wet soils during the growing season and standing water during certain times of the year.
• Well-known swamps include Georgia’s Okefenoke Swamp and Virginia’s Great Dismal Swamp.
• Swamps are classified as forested, shrub, or mangrove.
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Bogs
• BOGS are freshwater wetlands characterized by spongy deposits, many evergreen trees and shrubs, and a lot of thick carpet of sphagnum moss.
• These systems, Whose only water source is rainwater, are Usually found in glaciated areas of the northern
• United States. One type of bog, called a• Pocosin, is found only in the Southeastern
Coastal Plain.
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• Fens are ground water-fed pearforming wetlands
• They are covered by grasses, sedges, reeds, and wildflowers.
• Willow and birch are also common. Fens, like bogs, tend to occur in glaciated areas of the northern United States.
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Global warming
• The wetlands of earth are beginning • to see the affects of global warming• The water levels are lowering and the
wetlands are disappearing.