Sentence examples for wetlands around from inspiring English sources

The Great Salt Lake watershed consists of a wide range of ecoregions, ranging from mountains as high as 13,000 feet to valleys and wetlands around 5,000 feet (D. White, 2011).

One of the biggest threats to cranes is the decline of wetlands around the world.

(Nutria are furry rodents that are destroying the wetlands around New Orleans).

In addition, the wetlands around the river's estuary have been seriously damaged by pollution and reduced discharge.

Over decades, dozens of such boats have been left to rot in the wetlands around the bay.

Great Lake was a series of wetlands around a smaller freshwater lake before it was dammed in 1967.

"With wetlands all around, the house was perfectly situated on a drained rise to take advantage of all the resources of the marsh," Mr. Turrell said.

The coverage of five land-use types, agricultural land, built area, forest, water bodies and wetland, around each home was calculated with the CORINE2006 land-cover data (a publicly available data base containing standardized land-cover classification across Europe), using a buffer with radius of 3 km.

Visit the great bug house at ZSL London Zoo (zsl.org), the butterfly forest at Bristol Zoo Gardens (bristolzoo.org.uk) or go pond dipping at one of the many WWT wetlands centres around the country (wwt.org.uk).uk

While performance assessments of constructed wetlands sites around the world have appraised their capacity for effective removal of organics, a large variance remains in these sites' reported ability to retain nutrients, which appears to depend on differences in design, operation and climate factors.

To quantify the success of restoration projects, the researchers performed a meta-analysis of 621 restored and created wetland sites around the world.