BIOL333 Chapter 3: Chapter 3 - Wetlands of the World
4 Oct 2018
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Finlay and davidson (1999): 12. 8 million km^2, which inclues all freshwater lakes, reservoirs and rivers and near-shore marine ecosystems up to 6 m depth in the world: millennium ecosystem assessment (2005) said this was an underestimate. Lehner and doll (2004): geographic information system (gis) - based global lakes and wetlands. Database (glwd) system focuses on 3 coordinated levels: large lakes and reservoirs, smaller water bodies, wetlands, greatest proportion of wetlands found in northern boreal regions and another peak at equator. Regional wetlands of the world: north america, florida everglades, everglades, dominated by sawgrass, deeper water sloughs and tree islands, big cypress swamp, big because of its relative expanse, cypress, coastal mangroves/florida bay. Saline waters on coastline: one of the largest restoration efforts in the us. St. mary"s ri(cid:448)er: 6 major wetland communities, pond cypress forest, emergent and aquatic bed prairie, broad-leaved evergreen forest, broad-leaved shrub wetland, mixed cypress forest, black gum forest.
