wetland: Media
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Learn about the emission of methane, a greenhouse gas, by trees in wetland ecosystems.
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Stately bald cypresses (Taxodium distichum) thriving in a Louisiana swamp.
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Lesser flamingos (Phoeniconaias minor) at a breeding colony on Lake Natron,...
Owen Newman/Nature Picture Library
A marsh deer (Blastocerus dichotomus) grazing in Iberá National Park in...
Melissa Petruzzello
Two people navigating canoes in a natural stand of manoomin, or annual wild...
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Major wetland areas and worldwide distribution of salt marshes and mangrove swamps.
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Silver baitfish in a mangrove channel on South Bimini Island, Bahamas.
© Matthew Potenski
Salt marsh at Tom's Cove, Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge (within Assateague...
Assateague Island, National Seashore/National Park Service
Intertidal flat on Stewart Island/Rakiura, New Zealand.
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A freshwater marsh, dominated by sawgrass and dotted by palms and cypresses, in the...
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Adult yacaré caiman (Caiman yacare) in the freshwater marshes of Iberá National...
Melissa Petruzzello
The carnivorous Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) is native to pocosin wetlands...
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A man kayaking among cypress trees in the Okefenokee Swamp, in southeastern Georgia.
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A strip of riparian woodlands along Medano Creek in Great Sand Dunes National Park...
U.S. National Park Servicw, photograph, Patrick Myers
An aerial view of prairie potholes in the northern United States. Prairie potholes...
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Aerial view of a bog landscape with established natural elements and areas destroyed...
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A Burmese python (Python bivittatus) haunting the waters of the Florida...
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An elephant drinking at a waterhole in Quicama National Park, Angola.
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Two workers harvesting cranberries in a commercial cranberry bog in Massachusetts.
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Both water and wildlife conservation benefit from the protection of seasonal wetlands...
Thomas M. Luhring/SREL
Wetlands area in the Atchafalaya River basin, southern Louisiana, U.S., part of the...
U.S. Army Corp of Engineers
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