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"WETLANDS" is a plural of: wetland. |
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Agriculture | Areas of predominantly hydric soils that can support a prevalence of water-loving plants, know as hydrophitic vegetation. Transitional between terrestrial and aquatic systems are wetlands typified by a water table at or near the surface, or the land is covered by shallow water at least part of the year. Types of wetlands are distinguished by water patterns (the frequency and length of flooding) and location in relation to upland areas and water bodies. Wetlands perform many functions including wildlife and fish habitat, storage and conveyance of flood waters, sediment and pollution control, and recreation. Under the swampbuster program, landowners may produce crops in these areas, but only if the water patterns, or hydrology, in the wetland area is not altered and any woody vegetation is not removed. (references) |
Environment | An area that is saturated by surface or ground water with vegetation adapted for life under those soil conditions, as swamps, bogs, fens, marshes, and estuaries. (references) |
Weather | An area that is regularly saturated by surface water or groundwater and subsequently is characterized by a prevalence of vegetation that is adapted for life in saturated-soil conditions. (references) |
| Areas regularly saturated by surface or groundwater and subsequently characterized by a prevalence of vegetation adapted for life in saturated-soil conditions. (references) | |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The Ramsar Convention is an international treaty for the conservation and sustainable utilization of wetlands, i.e. to stem the progressive encroachment on and loss of wetlands now and in the future, recognizing the fundamental ecological functions of wetlands and their economic, cultural, scientific, and recreational value.The official title is The Convention on Wetlands of International Importance, especially as Waterfowl Habitat. The convention was developed and adopted by participating nations at a meeting in Ramsar, Iran on February 2, 1971 and came into force on December 21 1975.
The Ramsar List of Wetlands of International Importance now includes over 1,200 sites covering around 105 million hectares, up from 1,021 sites in 2000. The nation with the highest number of sites is the United Kingdom at 169; the nation with the greatest area of listed wetlands is Canada with over 13 million hectares, including the Queen Maud Gulf site at 6.28 million hectares.
Presently there are 138 contracting parties, up from 119 in 2000 and from 18 initial signatory nations in 1971. Signatories meet every three years as the Conference of the Contracting Parties (COP), the first held in Cagliari, Italy in 1980. Amendments to the original convention have been agreed to in Paris (in 1982) and Regina (in 1987)
There is a standing committee, a review panel and a secretariat. The headquarters is located in Gland, Switzerland shared with the IUCN.
List of contracting parties
(125 of the 138) Albania, Algeria, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, The Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Canada, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoros, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Costa Rica, Côte d'Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Estonia, Finland, France, Gabon, The Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, South Korea, Latvia, Lebanon, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) , Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Malta, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico, Monaco, Mongolia, Morocco, Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Norway, Pakistan, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Senegal, Serbia and Montenegro, Sierra Leone, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Tajikistan, Thailand, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Vietnam, Zambia
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see also environmental agreementsSource: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Ramsar Convention."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In physical geography, a wetland is an environment "at the interface between truly terrestrial ecosystems...and truly aquatic systems...making them different from each yet highly dependent on both" (Mitsch & Gosselink, 1986). In essence, wetlands are ecotones. Wetlands are found under a wide range of hydrological conditions, but at least some of the time water saturatess the soil. The result is a soil type (called hydric soil) that is unique to wetlands. The hydric soil supports plants (called hydrophytes) specifically adapted to these conditions and excludes species intolerant of them.
A subtropical wetland in Florida, USA, with an endangered American Crocodile
Types of Wetlands
- bog or moor or muskeg (peatlands}
- marsh or fen
- swamp
Functions of wetlands
By absorbing the force of strong winds and tides, wetlands protect terrestrial areas adjoining them from storms, floods, and tidal damage. Fresh water marshes are often on river floodplains.
A temperate wetland in Great Britain, with shallow open water and reedbedsWetlands are often filled in to be used for everything from agriculture to parking lots, in part because the economic value of wetlands has only been recognised recently: the shrimp and fish that breed in salt water marshes are generally harvested in deeper water, for example. Wetlands support a wide variety of wildlife (bird, plants, fish, mammals etc) and therefore the conservation of wetlands is of prime importance for the preservation of many species of wildlife. In 1962, the idea of wetlands conservation was born with a "List of Wetlands of International Importance". This was followed up in 1971 by the Ramsar Convention when conservationists from 23 countries met in the city of Ramsar, Iran on the shores of the Caspian Sea. There are now over 1,200 wetlands on the Ramsar List.
See also: United Nations Convention signatories, Wetlands International, The Broads National Park, Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust, Somerset Levels
References
- Mitsch, William J, and Jamnes G. Gosselink. (1986). Wetlands. Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York. 539 p.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Wetland."
Synonyms: WETLANDSSynonyms: Bogs, Coastal marshes, Fens, Marshes, Mud flats, Swamps, Tidal flats, Tidal marshes. (additional references) |
Crosswords: WETLANDS |
| English words defined with "WETLANDS": Calla palustris ♦ Florida water rat ♦ Hyla crucifer ♦ Neofiber alleni ♦ round-tailed muskrat ♦ spring peeper ♦ undrained ♦ water arum, wild calla. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "WETLANDS": Bottom Land Hardwoods ♦ Clean Water Act, Conservation Farm Option Program, constructed wetland, Converted wetland ♦ Emergency Wetlands Reserve Program, Esturine waters, Esturine Zone ♦ Farmed wetlands, Flood Prevention, Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990, FW ♦ Inland freshwater wetlands ♦ Mitigation bank, wetlands ♦ National Wetland Inventory, No net loss wetlands policy, North American Waterfowl Management Plan ♦ Partners for Wildlife, Prior converted wetland ♦ Sacrificing one to the golf gods, Section 404, Surface water, Swampbuster ♦ Water Bank Program, Wetlands Reserve Program, WRP. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Last Stand: The Struggle for the Ballona Wetlands (1998) Rainwoman 9: Wetlands (1995) | |
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 | Extensive wetlands lie near the town of Yellowknife, near the Great Slave Lake in Northwest Territories, Canada. The shallow lakes seen in this image have formed in grooves in the landscape that were carved by glaciers during the last Ice Age. Credit: NASA. |  | Wetlands with tidal streams. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Wetlands in the vicinity of Charleston. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | This image at Cockroach Bay shows the area to be planted in the upper left hand of the image. Previously planted wetlands are seen in the middle and lower regions of the image. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | Army Creek proper is a sixty-acre site, the creek is approximately 3.9 miles long and is a tributary of the Delaware River, there are 225 acres of emergent wetlands adjacent to the creek. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | ACE Basin National Estuarine Research Reserve. A magnificent view of wetlands and tidal streams in the Ashe Island area. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |
 | Weeks Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. An boardwalk over wetlands on an interpretive trail at Weeks Bay NERR. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |  | Although not a Weather Bureau satellite being launched, the wetlands and seabirds of Cape Canaveral provide a wonderful forefront for observing this launch. Credit: NOAA in Space. |
 | This restored wetland was once a rice field. Area was restored to wetland under the Wetlands Reserve Program. Credit: Gary Kramer. |  | Wetlands provide habitat for hundreds of species of plants and animals. Credit: Unknown. |
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 | Wetlands foul. |
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Business | Furthermore, the increase in tourism developments in the St. Lucia Wetlands is indicative of the rising popularity of eco-tourism in South Africa. (references) | |
Economic History | Chad | Lake Chad is the second-largest lake in west Africa and is one of the most important wetlands on the continent. (references) |
Eritrea | It is an integrated project designed to grow shrimp, tilapia, and salicornia (a succulent that can be irrigated with seawater), and to foster the growth of mangrove wetlands. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Burma | Authorities in Irrawaddy Division ordered residents of a village both to clear over 100 acres of land as part of a wetlands reclamation project, and to pay for equipment needed to clear the land. (references) |
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| "WETLANDS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 81.93% of the time. "WETLANDS" is used about 238 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 81.93% | 195 | 21,939 |
| Noun (proper) | 18.07% | 43 | 52,181 |
| Total | 100.00% | 238 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "WETLANDS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Japanese Kanji | 湿原 (marshy grassland). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しつ'" (marshy grassland, using improper words, verbal slip). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | etlandsway.(various references) | |
Portuguese | pantanal (bogieland, swamp). (various references) | |
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"WETLANDS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: washlands, weland, wetlans, Weyland, Witland. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "WETLANDS" (pronounced we"tla'ndz) |
| 5 | -l a' n d z | Badlands, farmlands, grasslands, hinterlands, homelands, lowlands, marshlands, Midlands, moorlands, Timberlands, woodlands. |
| 4 | -a' n d z | armbands, farmhands, Firebrands, forehands, handstands, headbands, newsstands, quicksands, reprimands, spacebands, stagehands. |
| 3 | -n d z | abounds, almonds, amends, ands, ascends, astounds, attends, contends, corresponds, backgrounds, bands, battlegrounds, befriends, behinds, bends, binds, blends, blinds, blondes, blonds, bloodhounds, bonds, bookends, bounds, boyfriends, brands, bunds, campgrounds, commands, commends, compounds, confounds, defends, demands, depends, descends, diamonds, dividends, Docklands, ends, errands, expands, expounds, extends, fairgrounds, fends, fiends, finds, flatlands, friends, fronds, funds, girlfriends, glands, grands, grinds, grounds, hands, Highlands, hinds, Hollands, hounds, husbands, intends, islands, kinds, lands, legends, lends, ligands, masterminds, Meadowlands, milliseconds, minds, misunderstands, mounds, nanoseconds, offends, overspends, playgrounds, ponds, portends, pounds, pretends, rands, rebounds, recommends, refunds, reminds, responds, rinds, rounds, sands, seconds, sends, sounds, spends, stands, stipends, strands, surrounds, suspends, tends, thousands, transcends, trends, turnarounds, understands, uplands, vagabonds, wands, weekends, wends, winds, withstands, woodwinds, wounds. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-l-n-s-t-w" | |
-1 letter: dentals, slanted, wetland. | |
-2 letters: deltas, dental, desalt, dewans, elands, ladens, lasted, latens, naleds, salted, sendal, slated, snawed, staled, staned, tawsed, wadset, wandle, wanted, wasted, wealds. | |
-3 letters: anted, antes, awned, dales, dates, dawen, dawns, dawts, deals, dealt, deans, delta, delts, dents, dewan, dwelt, eland, elans, etnas, laden, lades, lands, lanes, lased, lated, laten, lawed. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-l-n-s-t-w" | |
+1 letter: wasteland. | |
+2 letters: wanderlust, wastelands. | |
+3 letters: stonewalled, wanderlusts, windlestraw. | |
+4 letters: towardliness, windlestraws. | |
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