Characteristics of Wetlands
Soil that is wet for one to four months a year
What is temporarily wet?
Swamps that are typical to tropical and subtropical climates.
What are mangrove swamps?
Protects shoreline from erosion by acting as a buffer against wave actions.
What is shoreline protection?
The same as losing a football field every hour.
What is the rate at which Louisiana is losing wetlands?
Today, more than 30 states depend on coastal Louisiana's navigation channels for imports and exports.
What are shipping and maritime services?
Water Loving Plants
What is Hydrophytic vegetation?
Near ocean shores and other salt water tides
What is Tidal saltwater marsh?
Reduces flood damage by slowing down floodwaters and act as a buffer against storm surge.
What is slow surging flood water?
storms, subsidence, tectonic activity, and sea level rise
What is wetland loss?
Louisiana's offshore waters are home to the largest reserves of oil and gas in the nation.
What is energy production?
Soils that are periodically or continually saturated but have little to no oxygen because of soil saturation.
What are Hydric soils?
Where glaciers have left a depression in the earth. Found adjacent to pine habitats.
What are bogs?
As water flow slows through a wetland, sediment and nutrients settle to the wetland floor.
What is water purification?
natural causes of wetland loss
What are storms, subsidence, tectonic activity, and sea level rising?
Louisiana's coast includes one of the nation's largest and most productive estuaries.
What is commercial and recreational fishing?
Soil that is wet for four to eleven months
What is Seasonally wet?
Adjacent forest swamps
What are shrub swamps?
Serves as a link between surface water and underground drinking water.
What is groundwater recharge?
The name of the fault where land in Louisiana begins a slow landslide.
What is epetate-Baton Rouge?
Nearly 25 million domestic and international visitors visited Louisiana in 2010.
Tourism
Soils that are wet for more than eleven months of the year.
What is continually wet?
Near streams in poorly drained depressions or near rivers, lakes, and ponds.
What is non-tidal marsh?
More than 400 species of fish and birds are dependent on wetlands for their survival.
What are wildlife habitats?
These things can affect sea level rise.
What is subsidence, tectonic activity, and glaciers melting (global warming)?
CPRA
What is Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority?