Wetlands provide many benefits but also face threats. They help reduce damage from storms by absorbing flood waters and buffering coasts. Their soils filter out pollutants and sediments to improve water quality. However, wetlands are being destroyed by development which paves over the absorbent soils and degradation from pollution, which can still harm these habitats despite their filtering abilities. Proper conservation, including protection, restoration, and management of wetlands is needed to maintain biodiversity, water quality, flood control, and groundwater supplies.
Wetlands provide many benefits but also face threats. They help reduce damage from storms by absorbing flood waters and buffering coasts. Their soils filter out pollutants and sediments to improve water quality. However, wetlands are being destroyed by development which paves over the absorbent soils and degradation from pollution, which can still harm these habitats despite their filtering abilities. Proper conservation, including protection, restoration, and management of wetlands is needed to maintain biodiversity, water quality, flood control, and groundwater supplies.
Wetlands provide many benefits but also face threats. They help reduce damage from storms by absorbing flood waters and buffering coasts. Their soils filter out pollutants and sediments to improve water quality. However, wetlands are being destroyed by development which paves over the absorbent soils and degradation from pollution, which can still harm these habitats despite their filtering abilities. Proper conservation, including protection, restoration, and management of wetlands is needed to maintain biodiversity, water quality, flood control, and groundwater supplies.
Wetlands provide many benefits but also face threats. They help reduce damage from storms by absorbing flood waters and buffering coasts. Their soils filter out pollutants and sediments to improve water quality. However, wetlands are being destroyed by development which paves over the absorbent soils and degradation from pollution, which can still harm these habitats despite their filtering abilities. Proper conservation, including protection, restoration, and management of wetlands is needed to maintain biodiversity, water quality, flood control, and groundwater supplies.
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W Introduction to Wetlands O 1. Though devastation was widespread, evidence showed mangroves, trees which R flourish in _____________ wetlands, protected the coast, but areas where K wetlands were altered experienced severe damage. S H 2. The soils in wetlands are either permanently or temporarily flooded and are E E referred to as _____________ soils. T 3. Most non-tidal marshes are freshwater, though some may be _____________, or lightly salty, particularly when the marsh is fed through groundwater.
4. _____________ plants, such as the Northern Pitcher Plant, have adapted well to life in the bog because they receive nutrients from insect life they prey on rather than getting nutrients from the soil or water.
5. Fens are very similar to bogs, they are also filled with peat, but because they receive water from groundwater and runoff, they are less acidic and have more _____________.
6. Wetlands improve the water quality by _____________ out pollutants and
sediments.
7. Wetlands also reduce the impact of floods by _____________ flood waters or
preventing storm surge.
Threats to Wetlands 1. There are two main threats to wetlands: _____________ and degradation.
2. When the absorbent soil found in wetlands is _____________ over or covered by
development, water has no place to go and flooding increases.
3. The other main impact on wetlands is degradation. This results from
_____________, water quality, pollution from agricultural runoff and soil running off from commercial and developmental areas.
4. Though wetlands can act as _____________ systems to absorb pollution,
pollutants can still damage these habitats.
5. Nutria can completely destroy marshes and river banks, they cause erosion and bring many parasites and _____________ to an ecosystem harming other mammalian populations in the wetland.
S T Wetlands: Conservation & Management U D E Conservation & Management of Wetlands N 1. Wetlands are critical for maintaining biodiversity, protecting freshwater quality, T controlling floods and _____________ groundwater. W O 2. There are _____________ incentives for donating conservation easements on R land. K S 3. There are three main wetland conservation practices: protection, _____________ H and management. E E T 4. Typically, wetlands have been converted to agricultural land, restoration is effective once crops and domestic animals are _____________ from the area.
5. People can also can be involved in _____________ efforts to help enact laws that continue to strengthen our wetland conservation programs.
