Many wetland birds rely on emergent wetlands for shelter, nesting material and food -- in the form of fish, reptiles, algae and invertebrates like worms or crayfish.

The report also shows that most of the wetland gain was realized in the last six years of the 15-year monitoring period and that most of the gains are in emergent wetlands in agricultural areas ...

Sophisticated machine learning algorithms enabled highly precise classifications of wetland types. Estuarine intertidal emergent wetlands exhibited the highest classification accuracy due to ...

Wyoming is host to a wide variety of freshwater wetland ecosystems, including emergent marshes, wet meadows, playas, riparian forests, and fens. These wetlands exist at the interface, or ecotone, of ...

“It’s actually a special type of emergent wetland called Great Lakes Marsh,” Wildlife Biologist Joe Sage said. Sage says the wetland is a “very rare” community type. “It’s a ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A three-year study in northeastern Illinois and northwestern Indiana found that – even at small scales – emergent wetlands or ponds support many wetland bird species.