1.2.2.9 Wetland

Definition: Those ecosystems where the water table is at, near, or above the land surface for a significant part of most years and dominated by hydrophytic vegitation and biota. Wetlands include marshes, mudflats, swamps, wet meadows, and perched bogs. Wetlands also include seasonally flooded basins, playas, or potholes with no surface water outflow. Wetlands do not include shallow water areas with submerged aquatic vegitation falls (see Water Systems and Ocean Ecosystems). This does not include tidal, estuarian wetlands (see Estuarian Ecosystems).

Definition Source: A Land Use and Land Cover Classification System for Use with Remote Sensing Data

Wetland Categories:

1.2.2.9.1 Forested Wetland: Those wetland ecosystems that are dominated by woody vegetation. This includes season- swamps, shrub swamps, and wooded swamps including those around bogs. (Definition Source: A Land Use and Land Cover Classification System for Use with Remote Sensing Data)

1.2.2.9.2 Nonforested Wetland: Those wetland ecosystems that are dominated by wetland herbaceous vegetation or are nonvegetated. This includes non-tidal fresh, brackish, and salt marshes, nonvegetated flats, and freshwater meadows, wet prairies, and open bogs. This does not include titdal, estuarine wetlands (see Emergent Estuarine Wetlands and Scrub-shrub Estuarine Wetlands under Estuarine Ecosystems). (Definition Source: A Land Use and Land Cover Classification System for Use with Remote Sensing Data)