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OM DEFINITION OF TERMS WRITTEN BY SAMUEL VALENTINE. [6LEvIURI 436. 4 DEPARTIENT. OF URBAN ANO..REGIONAL PLANMING FACULTY OF ENVIRONMENTAL STUBLES UNIVERSITY OF UY VYO. eis UB MITTED 2 TD Reece epics ss et NR TORO. NALPAR oe A a “THE COURBE. LE LTUR ER ac, URE BIG WETLAND... PLAMNING. AND “MAVAGEMENT. DEPARTMENT _OF URBAN. AND. REGIONAL PLANNING _ FACULTY OF ENVIRONMENTAL SIUBLE 5 UNIVERSITY OF O10, OYO SS | MARCH 2019) Marsh i's a rack of Gow wet lond of ber treeless and periacicolly inundated, § entrelly Charerterized by a growth Of grasses, 2edges and rushes. Ié [san area of mudy w= Ging Cand which fe flooded cue Seasons er ab high 6:42 and bypleadly remains wabertogyed ab aU. bimes -It Can also be defined as 0. wetland thet! cominabed by lherbaceous rather then woody prank sped'es -Mlorehes Cour be found ap the edges of lahes and Sbreeumi,tarcfore, they ack ad 6rangition |ehween the a@quasic and berrestlal eweyster Trey provide babi b0b fey many Speues of plants and animas thab have aclepted to living Jo Flooded. ares these planks hey’ o€renchyno which ave the channels wolthin whlch the de moves from te (eaves bo te eet Bf trese plants These_are low -land Mat Ore whotly or party covered iol th water unless CrOiHatly dralved and hebe teuo-Lared howe peaky alkaline Sol: fe fonts Ont. OF themein types OF wetlend.ote wekands Include Grosey mer shes, reseed swamps andbogs: Fens ace Mminerotroph'e peablandsssrralt web (ncadews Surrounded by mined Coupe faresty usually fed by mineral- Ch Burface Weber or proud wate They are tally cemrbnabed by oasis And sedges and byptoally have brown moss esin-general ineluding Etec pilin Sr ee€panscladus Thy hove a chorasberlive set of porksper'es Hab Bemebln es. pouile the best Indieatars op eovleonmentat Gencltions : Pee ; F Lanticarea rith b. Fi Epongy ground Leptualy a Poorty drodmed ocriyourea hh hy cee EE eons frequently surcoundhng a baty oF open wubtr ands 10g Charosberlstle Haro: area Spetel hag: latludny Yrehland, Hc: = uae The only Gt Sam€ from rain ond Spow wober - ees Peat /s an aceumuletien of pertlally decayed yeg etation er Organic matey Ab |s fount In areas called peatland ygnires ord puréiceg 5: Boils (Consltting prima Of peabere knewn as hiscosets- Peat forms Jn Webland Cendi¢iens_ushere Keoding ebstruite the flew of oxygen from the obrtapere, Blowing the robe of Secemposttton - Pegs cre (ie primary source of peak, altheugh peat; swamp forest, pores! ns land ~ene aso depesi'k peat Feat toveed land6 ove hom bo Sor bind of plank Ineludiny ephegnum press, erleateous Shrubs one ehacte Peas 6 harvested a6 on tmpertan’ seurceep purl Jn (ecboin part bf the werld: Quer time the formatlon of peat: ofter the Flest atep In the Jeetegital formation of ote fosell Purl Such a8 {Goa Peak fs usedin Fresh woke aguacio, weber Filhatlen and balore tea bleh ts the use Of bethiny bo treat diseases A swamp iso wettend thet |e cdeminabed.by woody plants (brits ondtrees). Swamps art often near rivers.or Sreams~ Pe&se rivers und Streams mmetines Hood and the weber from the flood Carci'es nubrlents to re swamp-Comnon plants ond animals linseebs found tro swamp art Nor then white Cedar, cag unos d,weod ducts beau getin frog Spring pepe wood.turtle, deer Py ond mosqutto- Swamps are cherowbeized by mineral seis with poer_crolnage and by plont Uipe dominated by brees. the bres Char otten/ste dietinguishes cswamp trom a marshin whtch pint Wife Conttst meirry of geass ®3 Taty exclees Jn_arec’ wht peor drdiragé tind sufaitent waber Supply bo key tot ground wake Logged and thay hee o high. supply of miners In fhe waber 60 stimulate decay of organtems and prevent He acturud ation of organi maberiots: They ore_lmportant for So many reasons, vabhch ore. moderaking the tects of flooding, puci Fylr§ web, Source op fuel undtheyare econembeally bere pirial

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