Bird-friendly agriculture can assist in helping waterbirds with rest stops along their seasonal migration routes.

Vernal pools are temporary, seasonal wetlands that typically ... and supporting plants and animals. Wetlands also play important ecological functions by replenishing groundwater and maintaining ...

Whether it’s year-round or seasonal, this period of water saturation ... Wetlands also act as important carbon sinks. As wetland plants grow, they remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

These seasonal wetlands look barren during the ... In the spring the vernal pools bloom with uniquely adapted wetland plants creating rings of colorful wildflowers at the pools’ edges as the ...

Among the many unique plants that thrive in vernal pools is ... resource personnel to assess and monitor these unusual seasonal wetlands. [MARK A. BIDDLE] For 20 years now, we've been monitoring ...

Blue flag iris (Iris versicolor) is also a wetland perennial, found in marshes, swamps, roadside ditches and on the banks of ponds and streams. It tends to occur in clonal colonies connected by ...

The new killifish species was discovered in the temporary wetlands of Chaco National Park, researchers said. Photo by Alonso et al. (2025) While surveying the seasonal wetlands of Argentina’s ...