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Borneo peat swamp forests
Borneo peat swamp forests, also called Borneo peatlands, are tropical rainforests on waterlogged peat in Borneo's lowlands. Key facts: about 69 Gt regional carbon store, under 1 million ha intact left, orangutan habitat, severe fire, and drainage degradation.
Chao Phraya freshwater swamp forests
Chao Phraya freshwater swamp forests: a tropical moist broadleaf ecoregion (WWF ID 224) in central Thailand's Chao Phraya lowlands, about 38,858 km², now almost entirely converted to rice paddies and Bangkok, with relict swamp habitat in Khao Sam Roi Yot National Park.
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.
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.
Orinoco Delta & Coastal Drainages
Orinoco Delta & Coastal Drainages, FEOW freshwater ecoregion 309, covers the Orinoco Delta in Venezuela plus coastal rivers of northwestern Guyana; a 22,000 km2 tidal wetland with four endemic fishes, the Warao people, and the Delta del Orinoco Biosphere Reserve.
Peninsular Malaysian peat swamp forests
Peninsular Malaysian peat swamp forests are waterlogged, peat-forming coastal forests of the Malay Peninsula, part of Southeast Asia's tropical peat swamp ecoregion, now reduced by drainage, fire, and oil palm conversion to fragmented reserves such as North Selangor and Southeast Pahang.
Sumatran peat swamp forests
Sumatran peat swamp forests are ombrogenous tropical rainforests on peat soils, originally about 7 million ha, rich in carbon and endemic wildlife, now heavily logged, drained, burned, and converted to oil palm and pulp plantations.
Tonle Sap freshwater swamp forests
Tonle Sap freshwater swamp forests: seasonally flooded forest and shrubland ecoregion around Tonle Sap lake, Cambodia, inundated 6–8 months yearly by the Mekong flood pulse; fish nursery habitat, heavily cleared, with Prek Toal the best remaining stand.
Tonle Sap–Mekong peat swamp forests
Tonle Sap–Mekong peat swamp forests: a Cambodian freshwater swamp-forest ecoregion of permanently shallow-inundated land around Tonle Sap, marked by flood-pulse adaptation, severe fire and rice-conversion losses, and UNESCO Biosphere Reserve protection.
Várzea forest
Várzea forest, Amazonian whitewater floodplain forest (contrasted with igapó), flooded by nutrient-rich Andean sediment rivers; covers 60,000–100,000 km², floods up to 230 days yearly, hosts about one sixth of Amazonian tree diversity.
Western Congolian swamp forests
Western Congolian swamp forests (Forêts marécageuses de l'ouest du Congo): tropical freshwater swamp forest ecoregion on the right bank of the Congo River in ROC, DRC, and CAR, part of the world's largest swamp forest complex with Raphia palm stands and carbon-rich peat.