Wetlands filter water, store carbon, buffer floods and support rich biodiversity.
Types: marshes, swamps, bogs, fens. Waterlogged soils are anoxic; hydrophytes have aerenchyma. Wetlands mitigate floods and filter nutrients but release methane. About 35 percent lost since 1970.
Hydrology is the master variable. Peatlands store carbon over millennia. Draining wetlands releases CO2 and degrades water filtering.
Remember: wetlands can be both carbon sinks and methane sources.
Wetlands filter water, store carbon, buffer floods and support rich biodiversity.
Wetland Ecology is one of the 54 topics in Marine & Environmental Biology. It is rated Advanced, so it suits learners who want specialist depth. Related topics in this area include Blue Carbon, Carbon Sequestration, Deforestation.
The Ramsar Convention protects wetlands of international importance.
Work through the Beginner topics in Marine & Environmental Biology first, such as Oceans, Ocean Zones, Plankton, then return to Wetland Ecology. Advanced topics assume the Intermediate vocabulary.
The closest topics to Wetland Ecology are Blue Carbon, Carbon Sequestration, Deforestation, Recycling and Waste. Comparing them side by side is a good way to see how the ideas connect.
Read the summary and the in-depth section, then use the quick check on the interactive lesson for Wetland Ecology. To practise the whole of Marine & Environmental Biology, use the Marine & Environmental Biology quiz.
Wetland Ecology: Wetlands filter water, store carbon, buffer floods and support rich biodiversity. Blue Carbon: Carbon stored in coastal ecosystems such as mangroves, salt marshes and seagrass. Read both side by side and note what each one explains.
First, read the summary and write the definition in your own words. Second, read the in-depth section and note any example. Third, compare it with Blue Carbon and explain the difference aloud. Finally, take the Marine & Environmental Biology quiz and come back to this page for any question you miss.
Carbon stored in coastal ecosystems such as mangroves, salt marshes and seagrass.
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