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Drosera rotundifolia
Drosera rotundifolia, the round-leaved or common sundew, is a carnivorous Droseraceae perennial of Northern Hemisphere bogs, with sticky round flypaper leaves, 2n=20, studied by Darwin, parent of D. anglica.
Dyke Marsh
Dyke Marsh (Dyke Marsh Wildlife Preserve) is a 485-acre freshwater tidal wetland on the Potomac River in Fairfax County, Virginia, part of George Washington Memorial Parkway, degraded by 1940-1972 gravel dredging and now slated for restoration.
Eastern Congolian swamp forests
Eastern Congolian swamp forests (Forêts marécageuses de l'est du Congo): tropical swamp forest ecoregion on the left bank of the Congo River in DRC and Republic of Congo, 9.29 million ha, bonobo habitat, part of the world's largest tropical peatland complex.
Eastern Habitat Joint Venture
Eastern Habitat Joint Venture (EHJV), Plan conjoint des habitats de l'Est, is a Canadian waterfowl habitat partnership founded in 1989 under NAWMP, covering Ontario through Newfoundland and Labrador, 315 million hectares, 30% of Canada's wetlands.
El Charco de Bristol
El Charco de Bristol (Charca de Brístol) is a small 100 m coastal lagoon and salt marsh in Corralejo, La Oliva, Fuerteventura, Canary Islands; the island's only Sarcocornia perennis site, an IBA wading-bird wetland, and a dog-friendly beach.
Emergency Wetlands Resources Act
Emergency Wetlands Resources Act of 1986, Pub. L. 99-645 (16 U.S.C. ch. 59), a US wetland conservation law: defines wetlands by hydric soils, hydrophytic vegetation and hydrology, opens Land and Water Conservation Fund money for wetland acquisition, and creates the National Wetlands Priority Conservation Plan.
Eucalyptus camaldulensis
Eucalyptus camaldulensis, the river red gum or Murray red gum, is an Australian Myrtaceae tree of watercourses and floodplains, the most widely distributed eucalypt with seven subspecies, flood- and groundwater-dependent, and widely planted and invasive abroad.
European eel
European eel (Anguilla anguilla), a catadromous fish spawning in the Sargasso Sea; critically endangered with 90-95% recruitment decline since the 1980s, subject to EU closures and ICES zero-catch advice.
Fagne
Fagne is a French and Walloon word for a small boggy marsh on high ground in the Ardennes, fitting peat bogs so well it became their standard local name.
Fen
A fen is a peat-forming wetland fed by groundwater and mineral soil drainage rather than rain, making it less acidic and more nutrient-rich than a bog.
Filipendula ulmaria
Filipendula ulmaria, known as meadowsweet or queen-of-the-meadow, is a perennial herb of the rose family native to Europe and western Asia, growing in wet meadows, fens, and riverbanks with fragrant white flowers.
Floating treatment wetland
A floating treatment wetland is a buoyant, vegetated system in which plants on a floating frame remove nutrients and pollutants from ponds, lakes, and reservoirs.
Greenhouse gas emissions from wetlands
Greenhouse gas emissions from wetlands: methane, CO2, and N2O fluxes from waterlogged soils. Wetlands emit ~159 Tg CH4/yr, the largest natural methane source, controlled by water table, temperature, and substrates.
Hoplobatrachus tigerinus
Hoplobatrachus tigerinus, the Indian bullfrog (formerly Rana tigerina), is a large dicroglossid frog native to South Asian wetlands, Least Concern by IUCN, CITES Appendix II since 1985, and invasive in the Andamans, Madagascar, and Maldives.
Hydrogeomorphic approach to wetland classification and assessment
The hydrogeomorphic (HGM) approach is a US method for classifying wetlands and scoring their ecological functions, developed by the Army Corps of Engineers in the early 1990s.
Hydrosere
Hydrosere: the seral sequence of ecological succession beginning in open water (pond, lake, swamp), also called hydrarch succession, running from phytoplankton through marsh stages toward a terrestrial climax; counterpart of the xerosere.
Impatiens capensis
Impatiens capensis (orange jewelweed, spotted touch-me-not; synonym I. biflora) is a North American annual wetland herb with orange spurred flowers, explosive 4.2 ms seed pod dehiscence, cleistogamous flowers, and introduced populations in Europe and western North America.
Interdunal wetland
Interdunal wetland, also called dune slack, is a wetland in depressions between dunes or beach ridges with a fluctuating water table; Great Lakes, European, Californian, and desert variants are imperiled, hydrologically sensitive habitats.
Juncaceae
Juncaceae, the rush family (Juncaceae Juss., 1789), is a Poales family of grass-like herbs with six tepals, six stamens, and loculicidal capsules; about 485 species in seven accepted genera including Juncus and Luzula, sister to Cyperaceae.
Juncus effusus
Juncus effusus, soft rush or common rush, a tufted Juncaceae wetland perennial to 120 cm with leafless stems and side-appearing inflorescences; widespread, weedy in grasslands, used for mats, restoration, and phytoremediation.
Kissimmee River
Kissimmee River, central Florida river flowing to Lake Okeechobee; channelized 1962-1971 into the C-38 canal, then restored 1999-2021 by backfilling 22 miles of canal and reconnecting 44 miles of historic channel.
Kratie - Stung Treng (Mekong)
Kratie - Stung Treng (Mekong), FEOW freshwater ecoregion 728, covers the Mekong from Prek Chhlong to Khone Falls in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam, with nearly 30 endemic fishes, deep pools, Irrawaddy dolphins, and a threatened Stung Treng flooded forest.
La Tembladera
La Tembladera, a 200-hectare Ramsar wetland lagoon in Santa Rosa canton, El Oro, Ecuador, fed by the Arenillas river; also a Peruvian district center, a Veracruz railway station, and a Spanish word for trembling.
List of wetland plants
List of wetland plants: the U.S. National Wetland Plant List (NWPL), successor to the 1976 and 1988 Fish and Wildlife Service hydrophyte lists, assigning OBL, FACW, FAC, FACU, and UPL wetland indicator statuses by region for wetland delineation.
Long Lake (Indiana)
Long Lake (Indiana Dunes, near Gary, Indiana): East and West Long Lake, large shallow interdunal lakes in Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, formed from glacial Lake Chicago remnants; seeps into groundwater; distinct from Long Lakes in Noble and Steuben Counties.
Lythrum salicaria
Lythrum salicaria (purple loosestrife) is a Eurasian wetland perennial, invasive in North America since the early 1800s, tristylous, producing up to 2.5 million seeds per plant and forming dense stands; its ecological impacts are debated.
Mangrove
Mangroves are about 80 species of salt-tolerant trees and shrubs of the tropical and subtropical intertidal zone, forming forests that store over 6.23 gigatonnes of carbon, protect coastlines, and support fisheries; global extent was 147,283.64 km² in 2025.
Mangrove swamp
Mangrove swamp: a tropical and subtropical intertidal coastal wetland dominated by salt-tolerant mangrove trees, about 80 species, 14.8 million hectares globally, defined by tidal flooding, salt adaptations, blue carbon storage, and coastal protection.
Marsh
Marsh: a wetland frequently or continually inundated with water, dominated by emergent soft-stemmed vegetation such as cattails and cordgrass; distinct from swamps (woody), bogs (acidic peat), and fens (groundwater-fed), with neutral pH, high nutrients, and flood- and storm-buffering functions.
Melaleuca quinquenervia
Melaleuca quinquenervia (broad-leaved paperbark, punk tree, niaouli) is an Australian Myrtaceae tree yielding niaouli essential oil, and a notorious Everglades invader introduced to Florida from 1886, now controlled by Oxyops vitiosa and Boreioglycaspis melaleucae.