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wetland
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[Henderson's] n. area habitually saturated with water. It may be partly or wholly covered permanently, occasionally or periodically, by fresh or salt water up to a depth of 6 metres. Wetlands include bogs, fens, flood meadows, marshland and salt marshes, shallow ponds, river estuaries, and inter­tidal mud flats, but exclude rivers, streams, lakes and oceans.
ID

http://vocabs.lter-europe.net/EnvThes/USLterCV_630
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true
broader

http://vocabs.lter-europe.net/EnvThes/1
contributor

0000-0003-0631-8231
created

2016-03-31
creator

herbert.schentz@umweltbundesamt.at
definition

[Henderson's] n. area habitually saturated with water. It may be partly or wholly covered permanently, occasionally or periodically, by fresh or salt water up to a depth of 6 metres. Wetlands include bogs, fens, flood meadows, marshland and salt marshes, shallow ponds, river estuaries, and inter­tidal mud flats, but exclude rivers, streams, lakes and oceans.
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true
exactMatch

http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_8371

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/wetlands
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http://vocabs.lter-europe.net/EnvThes/
isReplacedBy

http://vocabs.lter-europe.net/EnvThes/21797
modified

2023-01-13
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wetland
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US LTER controlled vocabularybr /MAES Working Group
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