wetland
land area that is permanently or seasonally saturated with water
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Summary
wetland ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (7,992 views/month).[1]
Key Facts
- Subclass of: landscape[2], ecosystem[3], body of water[4], natural geographic object[5], habitat[6], Q141740238[7]
- Commons category: Wetlands[8]
- Official website: http://www.ramsar.org[9]
- Topic's main category: Category:Wetlands[10]
- OpenStreetMap tag: natural=wetland[11]
- Described by source: Green Map Icons[12]
- Topic has template: Template:Wetlands[13]
- Equivalent class: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01001209[14], https://w3id.org/gso/1.0/geologicsetting/Wetland_Setting[15]
- Studied by: wetland ecology[16], wetland science[17], telmatology[18]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[19], WikiProject Climate change[20]
- Digital Atlas of Idaho URL: https://digitalatlas.cose.isu.edu/hydr/main/images/wetland.jpg[21]
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Influence
Things named for wetland include malaria[22], a class of disease[23] and World Wetlands Day[24], a world day[25], founded in 1997[26].
Why It Matters
wetland has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] wetland is known by 82 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]
Entities named for wetland include malaria[22], a class of disease[23] and World Wetlands Day[24], a world day[25], founded in 1997[26].