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Emergent plants of permanent and seasonally-flooded wetlands

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The ecology and management of African wetland vegetation

Part of the book series: Geobotany ((GEOB,volume 6))

Abstract

Emergents typically emerge from water (such as a lake margin); floodplain plants may also do so, but only on a seasonal basis. When drainage is impeded, swamps develop, and these may be either permanent or seasonal (see Chapter 6.). All aquatic and foodplain plants, therefore, grow on ‘wetlands’, and the I.U.C.N. definition given in Chapter 1 applies. However, because some floodplains are only inundated for perhaps two or three weeks in the year, it may be helpful to add a further definition of ‘wetland’ to those already offered: ‘Wetlands’ is a collective term for permanently or temporarily wet areas, shallow-water and land-water interfaces. The water may be fresh, brackish or saline, and wetlands are characterised, in their natural state, by plants and animals which are adapted to living in wet conditions (Environmental Council, 1984).

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