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Wetland and Wetland Plants

2021
Wetlands are a portion of land that changes into wet areas either seasonally or permanently after a rainfall. Many wetlands are intermediate areas among aquatic ecosystems and uplands, though some are dispersed throughout the landscape in highland depressions that assemble water or in areas where ground water approaches the top surface.
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Wetlands

Land Use Policy, 1994
Contained within the Atlas of Canada Poster Map Series, is a poster which outlines the nature of wetlands, using photos and text to describe various types. A further set of photos and text describes the importance of wetlands, and the pressures on wetlands from human activities. The central map on the poster, a map of Canada at a scale of approximately
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Wetland history

Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 1998
Wetlands of the American Midwest: A Historical Geography of Changing Attitudes by Hugh Prince The University of Chicago Press (University of Chicago Geography Research Papers), 1997. $21.00/£16.75 pbk (xiii+395 pages) ISBN 0 226 68283 8.
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Netherlands-Wetlands

Hydrobiologia, 1993
The Netherlands occupy 41,864 km2 of which about 6,600 km2 (16%) have been classified as internationally important wetlands. About 3000 km2 (7%) have been included in the Ramsar Convention list of internationally important wetlands.
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Wetland gloom and wetland glory

Philosophy & Geography, 2003
Mountains were once no less feared and loathed than wetlands. Mountains, however, were aesthetically rehabilitated (in part by modern landscape painting), but wetlands remain aesthetically reviled. The three giants of American environmental philosophy--Thoreau, Muir, and Leopold--all expressed aesthetic appreciation of wetlands.
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