What are wetlands?

Title
What are wetlands?

Personal Author EPSB
Bobbie. Kalman

Summary
Investigates some types of wetlands, including swamps, salt marshes, bogs, and flood plains; the many plants and animals that live in wetlands; and the threats to these ecosystems.

Year Published
2003

Series
The science of living things

Physical Description
32 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.

Note
Includes index.

Contents
What are wetlands? -- Water on land -- Wetland plants -- Animal life -- Wetland communities -- Marshes -- Swamps -- Fens -- Bogs -- Salt marshes -- Mangrove swamps -- Dangers to wetlands -- Saving the "glades" -- The world needs wetlands -- Glossary and index.

Program Information
Accelerated Reader MG 6.4 1.0 64356

Subject
Wetland ecology.
 
Wetlands.
 
Ecology.

Added Author
Bishop, Amanda.

Summary
Investigates some types of wetlands, including swamps, salt marshes, bogs, and flood plains; the many plants and animals that live in wetlands; and the threats to these ecosystems.

ISBN
9780865059931
 
9780865059702

Publisher
New York, NY : Crabtree Pub. Co., ©2003.


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