Swamps and Marshes

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Swamps and Marshes
by Mary Price, Corey Stacy, and
Tresha Patel
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marshes
swamps
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Swamps

• Completely or partially wooded with trees and
  shrubs.
• Soil is black muck in standing water
• 1-1 or more deep
• Slow moving or still water, muddy, not very deep
• Fill up with decaying plants

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Types of Swamps

• Cypress swamps- found in the south
• Shrub swamps- forested regions
• Red Maple swamps- found in north
• Southern Bottomland Hardwood swamps- are river
  swamps

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Marshes

• Full of reeds, rushes and cattails
• Generally treeless and open
• Found along streams, borders or lakes, ponds and
  rivers
• Examples are the Florida Everglades
• Marshes form once trees grow in swamps
• Salt marshes are found near oceans and they help
  reduce erosion of shores, oceans, and bays

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physical features

• Occur on permanently flooded or periodically
  flooded land
• Waterlogged conditions develop special soils
• Wetlands are impermanent

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Animals

• There are a lot of different types of reptiles
  and amphibian species in the wetlands
• Waterfowls and shorebirds nest around or in
  wetlands during migration
• Wetlands also have endangered species that
  inhabit them

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• Cattails
• Water lilies
• Elodea
• Duckweed
• Mangrove trees are found in saltwater marshes

Plants
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Florida Everglades

• High 77 F (25 C)
• Low 53 F (12 C)
• 90 F (32 C) humid, over 90 humidity
• Abundance of mosquitoes
• Afternoon t-storms common
• 60 in. rain per year
• June October are rainy months
• Rare endangered species inhabit area ( American
  croc, Florida panther, West Indian manatee)

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Conservation Efforts

• CERP- Comprehensive, Everglades Restoration, Plan
• U.S. Army corps of engineers is partnering with
  South Florida water management district have
  developed plan to save everglades
• WRDA- water resources development act, will make
  improvements and modification to restore
  ecosystems

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• http//plants.ifas.ufl.edu/guide/marshes.html
• www.nps.gov/ever
• www.evergladesplan.org
• www.birtnature.com/marshes.html
• www.chesterfield.k12.va.us
• http//oasis.secna.ru/ftp/grafx/Web/ClipArt/backgr
  ounds/Raindrp2.jpg
• http//www.scu.edu.au/schools/edu/student_pages/xm
  as2003/mlawrance/animals.html