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Bald cypress trees with wide, flared trunks stand in still, shallow water in a Louisiana swamp, their green foliage creating a dense canopy.

Manoomin harvest

Mangrove habitat

Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge

Stewart Island/Rakiura, New Zealand

Everglades marsh

Understand the processes of production and emission of methane gas in wetlands

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banto faros Bog Swamp Marsh hawr raised bog salt swamp mangrove forest Salt marsh Fen river lake canals and inland waterways Tundra Desert Grassland lagoon ocean gulf Rainforest

Chutes d'Ekom - a waterfall on the Nkam river in the rainforest near Melong, in the western highlands of Cameroon in Africa.

Ecosystems