Benefit of marsh ecosystem to environment is just because its home-shelter for plenty of species and plants. It usually found at edge of lakes, River basin and wet areas. Marsh land is to save environment and Ground Water. A marsh is a wetland that is dominated byherbaceous rather than woody plant species.
Here we find some interesting facts about Marshland Ecosystem.
Wetland species:
1. Marshes provide habitats for many kinds of invertebrates, fish, amphibians, waterfowl and aquatic mammals.
2. wetland plant species formed by grasses, rushes or reeds.
3. Marshes provide a habitat for many species of plants, animals, and insects that have adapted to living in flooded conditions and the plants which survive in wet mud with low oxygen levels.
4. Aquatic animals, fish to salamanders, are generally able to live with a low amount of oxygen in the water.
5. Some can obtain oxygen from the air instead, while others can live indefinitely in conditions of low oxygen.
Types of wetlands:
6. The three main types of marsh are salt marshes, freshwater tidal marshes, and freshwater marshes.
7. These three can be found worldwide and each contains a different set of organisms.
List of wetlands :
- Pantanal – Brazil
- Camargue – France
- Wasur National Park – Indonesia
- Kakadu Wetlands – Australia
- Kerala Backwaters – India
- Okavango – Botswana
- Kafue – Zambia
- Everglades – USA
- Lower Danube and Danube Delta – Bulgaria, Moldova, Romania, Serbia and Ukraine
- Sundarbans – Bangladesh
Benefit of marsh ecosystem to environment and to humans:
8. Marshes also improve water quality by acting as a sink to filter pollutantsand sediment from the water that flows through them.
9. Marshes and other wetlands are able to absorb water during periods of heavy rainfall and slowly release it into waterways and therefore reduce the magnitude of flooding.
10. The pH in marshes tends to be neutral.
Why it is important to protect wetlands:
11. Wetlands are areas of land where the water level remains near or above the surface of the ground for most of the year.
12. Wetlands cover about 8% of the earth’s land surface.
13. Marshland are several kinds of wetlands such as marshes, swamps, lagoons, bogs, fens and mangroves.
14. Marshland is home to some of the richest, most diverse and fragile of natural resources.
15. Marshland support plenty of plants and animals life, biologically they are one of the most productive ecosystems.
