Marsh Shrub Wetlands
Functions of Marsh & Shrub wetlands for wildlife
What is breeding, feeding, cover or nesting?
At the water's edge, native aquatic vegetation, submerged rocks and boulders, and dead trees fallen into the water especially with intact undisturbed buffers.
What are features of high quality shoreline habitat?
Small streams and wetlands at the highest end of a watershed.
What are headwater streams?
Presence or physical evidence of breeding by marbled salamander, wood frog, & spotted salamander.
What are primary vernal pool indicators?
A habitat linkage the joins two or more areas of habitat, allowing the movement of wildlife from one area to another.
What is a wildlife corridor?
Rare shy bird species found in marshes dominated by cattails and scattered shrubs, where they feed on fish, amphibians, snakes, and insects.
What is Least bittern?
A shoreline with large areas of diverse underwater vegetation including coontail and bladderwort mixed with pickerelweed & yellow pond lily and found near deepwater, shoreline wetlands & upland forests.
What are the best shoreline habitats?
Streams with large rocks, steep grades, and flash floods = mountain streams contain these fish that depend on clean & cold water.
What are Eastern Brook Trout?
What are secondary vernal pool indicators?
Linkages between habitats allow wildlife to move safely from one area to another.
Why wildlife corridors are important?
The soils in marshes and scrub shrub wetlands are wet most of the year.
What is the one thing Marsh and Scrub Shrub wetlands have in common?
Lives beside the waters of lakes & large rivers, year-round & depend on large shoreline trees for nesting & winter roosting.
What is the bald eagle?
Stoneflies, mayflies, and dragonfly larvae.
Larvae live underwater and provide valuable food that attracts predators from nearby forest habitats.
Blandings turtle, blue-spotted salamander, Jefferson salamander, Northern leopard frog, Spotted turtle.
What are wildlife found in vernal pools?
Silver maple wetland forests found along the major NH rivers- that provide wildlife habitat corridors.
What are the floodplain forests?
Two turtles that spend most of their time in the marsh and shrub wetlands, but during breeding or nesting, they will travel distances.
What is Blanding turtle and Spotted Turtles?
A threatened bird that uses large lakes and ponds & vulnerable to human disturbance.
What is the Common Loon?
A term that describes streams that species use to take advantage of the relative safety of headwater streams for reproduction.
What are refuge streams?
Unique wetlands that provide critical breeding habitat for several amphibian species of conservation concern.
Why are vernal pools important?
Loss of wildlife corridors may result in..
What is direct mortality, habitat fragmentation & barriers to movement?
An herbaceous habitat composed of cattails, sedges, and grasses.
What is a marsh?
A state threatened fish found along larges lakes and rivers or small headwater streams with healthy aquatic vegetation.
What is a bridle shiner?
Eastern brook trout, Bridle shiner, Banded sunfish, swamp darter, Little brown bat.
What are wildlife found in headwater streams?
Vernal pool provides essential breeding habitat for certain amphibians - wood frogs, spotted salamanders & invertebrates (such as fairy shrimp)
Why are vernal pools are important?
As wildlife need to move to find food & shelter, reproduce, and migrate between winter and summer habitats, and disperse to new territories...
Why are Wildlife corridors are critically important?