BREE 533 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Hydrogen Sulfide, Palustrine Wetland, Wet Meadow

• School: McGill University
• Department: Bioresource Engineering
• Course: BREE 533
• Professor: Chandra A Madramootoo

Document Summary

There is no widely accepted definition for wetlands. The lands having water table at, near or above the land surface can be a wetland. Areas that are inundated or saturated by water and support vegetation which is adaptable to grow in such saturated lands. These are the soils which develop in limited oxygen when the soils are inundated for a long period of time. They have a thick layer of decomposed plant material and smell like rotten eggs due to the presence of hydrogen sulphide. When water logged or submerged conditions exist during the growing season. A thin layer of sediments gets deposited on leaves or the soil surface.