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27 Cards in this Set
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Marine |
Subtidal, intertidal |
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Estuarine |
Subtidal, intertidal |
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Riverine |
Tidal, lower perennial, upper perennial, intermittent |
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Lacustrine |
Limnetic, Littoral |
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Facultative plant |
Cardinal flower |
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Alder |
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Pitcher Plant |
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Sedges |
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Quaking Bog Rosemary |
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Stagnum Moss |
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Leather leaf |
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Cottonwood |
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Water budget |
The inflows and outflows of water |
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Evapotranspiration |
The water that vaporizes from water or something in a wetland |
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Groundwater |
A heavy influence in some WETLANDS |
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Hydrology |
The study of water, it's movement and disturbance and QUALITY |
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Cobblestone streambed |
Fast moving |
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Mucky STREAMBED |
Slow moving |
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Biotic control of WETLANDS |
Beavers - ecosystem engineers Muskrats - borrow through WETLANDS nests look like submerged thatched grass Gator holes - created by Gators that submerge and resurface |
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Hydroperiod |
The seasonal pattern of the water level is a wetland |
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Wetlands with pulsing or flowing hydrology... |
Have more species than waterlogged Wetland |
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Polistream Wetland |
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Rivering channel |
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No oxidation |
No decay |
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Bog |
PEAT accumulating Wetland that is no significant inflows and outflows |
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Delta |
A Wetland-River-upland complex located where a river crates disturbances as it flows into the seas |
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Fen |
PEAT accumulating Wetland that receives some drainage from surrounding mineral soil and usually supports marshlike vegetation |
