Sentence examples for continuous wetlands from inspiring English sources
Extinct wetlands predominate (99.1%) in the area, whilst recent and continuous wetlands are nearly identical (0.5% and 0.4%, respectively).
Until the eighteen-eighties, when the first channels were cut through the region by steam-powered dredges, South Florida was one continuous wetland — the Everglades.
These events limited the availability of wetlands, and likely forced water rails south to less continuous wetland environments east and west of the arid spots.
Results obtained indicated that the maximum redox gradient was between the surface and the bottom of the bed for continuous planted wetlands (407.7 ± 73.8 mV) and, to a lesser extent, between the surface and the middle part of the wetland (356.5 ± 76.7 mV).
In general continuous flow-through wetlands were more effective in removing most pollutants in comparison to flood-pulse wetlands.
Continuous marsh constructed wetlands have been shown to be effective in treating swine lagoon effluent and reducing the land needed for terminal application.
Among continuous flow-through wetlands those with lower vegetation cover (<5%) acted as algae incubators contributing to biological oxygen demand, while those with long hydrologic residence time (>10 days) promoted increased concentrations of dissolved organic carbon.
The Sundarbans forest is the largest continuous productive mangrove wetland ecosystem in the world (Rahaman et al. [2013]).
Finally, the maximum redox gradients obtained for planted wetlands operated under continuous flow regime would lead to a power production of about 16 mW/m2.
Despite these continuous presidential pledges to protect wetlands, in recent decades, as more and more people have moved to coastal and waterside properties, the economic benefits from developing wetlands (and political pressures on obstacles to development) have significantly increased.
