The main landscape feature is endless peatbog, surrounded by marsh, leading into morasses, sloughs and quagmires. |
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One evening we labored, stung by nettles and mosquitoes, to set up Sewell's camera blind on Otter Pond in the great marsh. |
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Spring flowers which can be spotted in the wood at this time of year include the yellow celandine, marsh marigold and wood anemone. |
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The marsh supports American toads, midland painted turtles, Blanding's turtles, snapping turtles, and Lake Erie water snakes. |
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They analyse for example how marsh beds, pond and agrestal plants develop, they experiment and document the results of the latest research. |
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Others climbed high, silhouetted against the sky, before returning to the marsh. |
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Wood anemones, wild garlic and marsh marigolds flourish, and at the moment the floor of much of the wood is carpeted with bluebells. |
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The cages were covered with wet marsh grass to minimize mortality from desiccation and heat stress during the lowtide period. |
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While one half of the marsh receives saline water, the other half is filled with natural rainwater. |
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When heron's leave the marsh and fly above the clouds they announce the coming of a storm. |
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The country is different from Patagonia, lush and flat, a mixture of water meadow and marsh, with occasional weird trees. |
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Another group of children searched the marsh grasses for millipedes, ground beetles and woodlice. |
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Summer wildflowers include meadow-beauty, marsh pink, wild pea, and round-leaved rattlebox. |
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One of the first things we did was to dig a large pond and plant a marsh garden and a wildflower meadow. |
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I have often regarded the rail as the premier bird of a freshwater marsh, so a marsh without one is to my mind severely lacking. |
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The principal game birds of Britain are grouse, partridge, pheasant, plus woodcock, pigeon, quail, and various wild duck and marsh fowl. |
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A lone pair of marsh warblers, an extremely rare and tiny bird, has also bred at the centre. |
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Fieldwork was planned to coincide with high tides, which allowed the johnboat to travel closer to the marsh edge and further up tributary creeks. |
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Or perhaps she is a pale Cleopatra, fleeing armor-clad Roman soldiers, finding her way to a reedy marsh and then captured by her own slim reflection. |
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Alongside miles of rivers and streams its dense growth is overshadowing native wild flowers such as ragged robin, purple loosestrife, marsh woundwart and meadow cranesbill. |
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She pointed out damselfly larva, water beetles, tadpoles, backswimmers, dragon fly larva and snails as they circled around in our tiny sample of the marsh. |
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Among the reed beds red herons and marsh falcons can be seen. |
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At higher elevations in the upper marsh zone, there is much less tidal inflow, resulting in lower salinity levels. |
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Soil salinity in the lower marsh zone is fairly constant due to everyday annual tidal flow. |
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However, in the upper marsh, variability in salinity is shown as a result of less frequent flooding and climate variations. |
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The flora of a salt marsh is differentiated into levels according to the plants' individual tolerance of salinity and water table levels. |
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The New England salt marsh is subject to strong tidal influences and shows distinct patterns of zonation. |
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These species all have different tolerances that make the different zones along the marsh best suited for each individual. |
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They are often the first plants to take hold in a mudflat and begin its ecological succession into a salt marsh. |
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The factors and processes that influence the rate and spatial distribution of sediment accretion within the salt marsh are numerous. |
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Salt marsh species also facilitate sediment accretion by decreasing current velocities and encouraging sediment to settle out of suspension. |
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Inundation and sediment deposition on the marsh surface is also assisted by tidal creeks which are a common feature of salt marshes. |
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The indirect effects of human activities such as nitrogen loading also play a major role in the salt marsh area. |
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For centuries, livestock such as sheep and cattle grazed on the highly fertile salt marsh land. |
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As a result, marsh surfaces in this regime may have an extensive cliff at their seaward edge. |
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These zones cause erosion along their edges, further eroding the marsh into open water until the whole marsh disintegrates. |
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This example highlights that considerable time and effort is needed to effectively restore salt marsh systems. |
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By physically seeing the marsh, people are more likely to take notice and be more aware of the environment around them. |
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Volta collected the gas rising from the marsh, and by 1778 had isolated the pure gas. |
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Methane was discovered and isolated by Alessandro Volta between 1776 and 1778 when studying marsh gas from Lake Maggiore. |
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Amphibians include the green toad, American toad, common tree frog, and the Cretan marsh frog. |
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Barren zones extend from the lowest portion of the intertidal zone to the marsh areas. |
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As spits grow, the water behind them is sheltered from wind and waves, and a salt marsh is likely to develop. |
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It is also an important breeding area for common tern, and a feeding area for marsh harriers. |
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The plan failed, not least because the banks were built using mud dredged from the salt marsh, which then salinated stored fresh water. |
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All the Townlands parishes were laid out as elongated strips, to provide access to the products of fen, marsh and sea. |
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The verges of the upper reaches range from extensive mudflats to marsh and fen. |
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There are several distinct habitats within the Ythan Estuary complex including marsh, littoral, estuarine, lacustrine and dunes areas. |
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The marsh terns normally catch insects in the air or pick them off the surface of fresh water. |
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Polderisation and occasional flooding have created salt marsh meadows that were found to be ideally suited to grazing sheep. |
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Part of the bay is a nature reserve, with seashore habitats including mudflats and salt marsh with migrating waders and wildfowl. |
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A marsh is a wetland that is dominated by herbaceous rather than woody plant species. |
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The three main types of marsh are salt marshes, freshwater tidal marshes, and freshwater marshes. |
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Although considered a freshwater marsh, this form of marsh is affected by the ocean tides. |
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The most serious threats to this form of marsh are the increasing size and pollution of the cities surrounding them. |
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Vernal pools are a type of marsh found only seasonally in shallow depressions in the land. |
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Playa lakes are a form of shallow freshwater marsh that occurs in the southern high plains of the United States. |
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Before it was drained, much of the land was under a shallow brackish sea in winter and was marsh land in summer. |
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Canoe Lake is the last remnant of an area of marsh and open water known as the Great Morass, drained in 1886, on which much of Southsea now sits. |
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The harbour is very shallow in places and has extensive mud flat and salt marsh habitats, as well as muddy and sandy shores and seagrass meadows. |
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It also includes considerable areas of abandoned marsh land which is suitable neither for agriculture nor for urban development. |
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The oldest iron items were imported, although since the 1st century iron was smelted from local marsh and lake ore. |
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On the Newburyport side a small airport, Plum Island Airport, was built at the edge of the marsh. |
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The SSSI is made up of mostly coastal dunes and salt marsh attracting breeding birds and a profusion of flowers. |
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The simplest pitcher plants are probably those of Heliamphora, the marsh pitcher plant. |
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The first is to abandon all human interference and leave the salt marsh to complete its natural development. |
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In the mangrove-type salt marsh, the entire marsh must be canaled or impounded. |
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In the case of a cliffed marsh edge, wave heights increase at the edge but are dissipated rapidly in the first 10-20m landward of the cliff. |
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The most important mortality affecting the larval population was most probably caused by the repeated desiccations of the marsh in the summer. |
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The Lancastrians were harassed by Richard's cannon as they manoeuvred around the marsh, seeking firmer ground. |
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Richard's force was driven several hundred yards away from Tudor, near to the edge of a marsh. |
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Further along the coast, Porlock is a quiet coastal town with an adjacent salt marsh nature reserve and a harbour at nearby Porlock Weir. |
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Etymologically, the name of Bray comes from the Gaulish word braco, which became the Old French Bray, meaning marsh, swamp, or mud. |
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Among the herbaceous flora that occur in the Faroe Islands is the cosmopolitan marsh thistle, Cirsium palustre. |
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Some of these were river islands in their time, or dry land surrounded by marsh. |
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Local Gower salt marsh lamb is produced from sheep which are raised in the salt marshes of the Loughor estuary. |
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These protected habitats support a variety of wildlife such as harbour porpoises and marsh fritillary. |
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Oil in affected coastal areas increased erosion due to the death of mangrove trees and marsh grass. |
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The lake may be infilled with deposited sediment and gradually become a wetland such as a swamp or marsh. |
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One of the soldiers who tumbles into the marsh is the Hanoverian Colonel Talbot, whom Waverley picks up on his horse, saving his life. |
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The marsh terns, Trudeau's tern and some Forster's terns nest in inland marshes. |
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Also within the Presidio is Crissy Field, a former airfield that was restored to its natural salt marsh ecosystem. |
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In winter, the hen harrier is a bird of open country, and will then roost communally, often with merlins and marsh harriers. |
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The northern shore is in Northern Ireland and includes the most significant mudflats in the lough, and an area of salt marsh. |
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While the bay is largely made up of intertidal flats, there is a significant area of salt marsh on the western shore. |
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These plants are terrestrial in origin and are essential to the stability of the salt marsh in trapping and binding sediments. |
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It is an important process in delivering sediments, nutrients and plant water supply to the marsh. |
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Their hike in the wetlands took them all the way across the marsh but gave them dozens of mosquito bites. |
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The marsh, to the east of Norwich, is run by the Norfolk Wildlife Trust and hosts a variety of waterbirds and wildlife. |
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Broadhead Clough Nature Reserve is home to cuckoos and woodpeckers as well as beautiful plants including marsh violets and wood sorrel. |
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The survey work will focus on species such as Virginia and Sora rails, least and American bitterns, and marsh wren. |
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Starting then and for the rest of his life, he photographed bitterns, red-winged blackbirds, and marsh wrens, among other bird species. |
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Martin Hughes-Games, meanwhile, reports on marsh harriers and avocets, while Simon King is in Scotland to film the mad March hares. |
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Axenic in vitro nitrogen and phosphorus response of some Ductch marsh orchids. |
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Once, presumably, this quadrangle with its smooth lawns, its massive buildings, and the chapel itself was marsh too, where the grasses waved and the swine rootled. |
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The ridge drops more sharply to the marsh on the other side. |
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In Latvian folk songs, the dead must cross a marsh rather than a river. |
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Many kinds of marsh occur along the fringes of large rivers. |
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The terms also pointed out that the slaves are to be allowed to plant rice wherever they want and in any marsh, without needing to ask permission. |
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The buyer had indeed bought marsh land and sold constructible land. |
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It contains specialised plants such as bog asphodel, bog bean, cotton grass, ragged robin and marsh thistle and has been designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest. |
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I have taken many an old sofa to pieces to find the understuffing was marsh hay, with a heavy over-stuffing of cotton, with no edge, but simply plain tufting. |
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The Romans held Lacus Flevo and all the marsh and riverland to the south. |
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The genera Anous, Procelsterna and Gygis are collectively known as noddies, the Chlidonias species are the marsh terns, and all other species comprise the sea terns. |
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The extensive creeks in the salt marsh, and the vegetation that grows there, helps dissipate wave energy thus improving the protection afforded to land behind the saltmarsh. |
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They are almost always next to flat marshlands, the geest being higher and better protected against flood but, compared to the marsh, with poor soil for agriculture. |
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It is usually in the slacks that more rare species are developed and there is a tendency for the dune slacks soil to be waterlogged and where only marsh plants can survive. |
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At the left a man stands on the bank of a marsh seemingly holding up a long spear on which is impaled a fish and a duck represented just above the fish. Both fish are bultis. |
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The sea level rise causes more open water zones within the salt marsh. |
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A brackish marsh may occur where a freshwater flow enters a salt marsh. |
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The intertidal mud or sand flat habitat is continuous with many other habitats. Landward, it may be bordered by a beach, marsh, bulkhead, or stretch of riprap. |
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The western side towards the Dee Estuary was marsh and wetland habitats. |
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According to popular traditions, Anne of Brittany was hunting with her court when she saw a white ermine who preferred to die than to cross a dirty marsh. |
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The battlefield still looks much as it probably did at the time of the battle, but the burn and marsh which so badly hampered the Scots advance is now drained. |
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But once upon a time, bitterns nested in every pothole marsh and every streamside cattail patch from British Columbia to Newfoundland and from Florida to California. |
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Much of the state's lands were formed from sediment washed down the Mississippi River, leaving enormous deltas and vast areas of coastal marsh and swamp. |
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On the nearby marsh, where salt and fresh water channels mix, terns, avocets and marsh harriers are buoyed by mid-flight coastal breezes, to the delight of wildlife watchers. |
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Select pond plants that thrive in just a few inches of water, such as striped sedge, marsh marigold and water mint, and arrange on top of the pebbles. |
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They offer fantastic photographic opportunities and the chance to see barn owls, marsh harriers, sedge and reed warblers as well as wheatears and wagtails over the reedbed. |
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Once Oxford and his men were clear of the marsh, Norfolk's battle and several contingents of Richard's group, under the command of Sir Robert Brackenbury, started to advance. |
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Conversely, peat soils in a marsh can naturally burn and reverse this process to recreate a shallow lake resulting in a dynamic equilibrium between marsh and lake. |
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