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A swamp is a forested wetland. [ 1 ] Swamps are considered to be transition zones because both land and water play a role in creating this environment. [ 2 ] Swamps vary in size and are located all around the world. The water of a swamp may be fresh water, brackish water, or seawater.
The Big Cypress Swamp is located to the west of the sawgrass prairies and sloughs, and it is commonly called "The Big Cypress". [66] The name refers to its area rather than the height or diameter of the trees; at its most conservative estimate, the swamp measures 1,200 square miles (3,100 km 2 ), but the hydrologic boundary of The Big Cypress ...
The Kafue Flats (locally called Butwa[2]) are a vast area of swamp, open lagoon and seasonally inundated flood-plain on the Kafue River in the Southern, Central and Lusaka provinces of Zambia. They are a shallow flood plain 240 km (150 mi) long and about 50 km (31 mi) wide, [3] flooded to a depth of less than a meter in the rainy season (deeper ...
Geography and ecology of the Everglades. A satellite image of the lower Florida peninsula showing darkened portions south of Lake Okeechobee as the Everglades and Big Cypress Swamp. The reddish area bordering the large inland lake is the Everglades Agricultural Area. Satellite image taken in March 2019 shows southeast of the Everglades ...
Cypress dome. A cypress dome is a type of freshwater forested wetland, or a swamp, found in the southeastern part of the United States. They are dominated by the Taxodium spp., either the bald cypress (Taxodium distichum), or pond cypress (Taxodium ascendens). The name comes from the dome-like shape of treetops, formed by smaller trees growing ...
Great Cypress Swamp. Coordinates: 38°29′N 75°18′W. Cluster of bald cypress trees in Trap Pond State Park. The Great Cypress Swamp (also known as Burnt Swamp, Great Pocomoke Swamp, Cypress Swamp, or Big Cypress Swamp), is a forested freshwater swamp located on the Delmarva Peninsula in south Delaware and southeastern Maryland, United States.
The Blue Mountains swamps communities contain a high level of flora biodiversity, primarily mixtures of sedges and shrubs with sclerophyllous foliage with some smaller trees. The sizes of typically occurring shrubs are generally between 0.5–2 metres (1 ft 8 in – 6 ft 7 in). Ground cover varies depending on the topography of the swamp area ...
Atchafalaya Basin. The wetlands of Louisiana are water-saturated coastal and swamp regions of southern Louisiana, often called "Bayou".. The Louisiana coastal zone stretches from the border of Texas to the Mississippi line [1] and comprises two wetland-dominated ecosystems, the Deltaic Plain of the Mississippi River (unit 1, 2, and 3) and the closely linked Chenier Plain (unit 4). [2]