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Threatened seasonal brackish marsh habitats

Unpresentable
  • Endangered intermittent brackish pools
  • Threatened seasonally inundated alkaline marshland
  • Threatened occasionally inundated grasslands
  • Threatened semi-permanent emergent saline marshes

Background

This habitat has soil waterlogged during growing season. It is often covered with 2 to 3 feet of water and containing shallow lake basins and provides valuable waterfowl areas. The predominant vegetation is alkali hard-stemmed bulrush, widgeon grass and sago pondweed.

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Value

Threat
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Endangered
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SDG

Sustainable Development Goal #10: Reduced InequalitySustainable Development Goal #13: Climate ActionSustainable Development Goal #15: Life on Land

Metadata

Database
World problems
Type
(E) Emanations of other problems
Biological classification
N/A
Subject
Content quality
Unpresentable
 Unpresentable
Language
English
1A4N
J0433
DOCID
12004330
D7NID
149984
Editing link
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Last update
Oct 4, 2020