 | Paul A. Keddy - 2000 - 632 pages
...definition of wetlands in Article 1: . . . areas of marsh, fen, peatland or water, whether natural, permanent or temporary, with water that is static...fresh, brackish or salt, including areas of marine waters the depth of which at low tide does not exceed six meters. Moreover, the area of coverage is... | |
 | Edward Holdaway, Gerald Smart - 2001 - 332 pages
...sites are SSSIs. Sites can be areas of marsh, fen, peatland or water - natural or artificial and either permanent or temporary, with water that is static or flowing, fresh, brackish or salt. They can also include very shallow areas of the sea. Not only important for birds but also for their... | |
 | David Newsome - 2017 - 356 pages
...Wetlands are defined by the Convention as areas of marsh, fen, peatland or water, whether natural or artificial, permanent or temporary, with water that...fresh, brackish or salt, including areas of marine waters, the depth of which at low tide does not exceed six metres (McNeely et al., 1994). Biosphere... | |
 | Brian Groombridge, Martin Jenkins - 2002 - 362 pages
...Wetlands are defined by the convention as: areas of marsh, fen, peatland or water, whether natural or artificial, permanent or temporary, with water that...fresh, brackish or salt, including areas of marine waters, the depth of which at low tide does not exceed 6 meters. There are currently (March 2002) 131... | |
 | S. M. Haslam - 2003 - 311 pages
...shoots (International Biological Programme) 7 Areas of marsh, fen, peatland or water, whether natural or artificial, permanent or temporary, with water that...water the depth of which at low tide does not exceed six metres (Ramsar Convention) 8 Lands transitional between terrestrial and aquatic systems where the... | |
 | James L. Wescoat, Gilbert F. White - 2003 - 346 pages
...Iran, in 1971. That defined wetlands as "areas of marsh, fen, wetland or water, whether natural or artificial, permanent or temporary, with water that...water the depth of which at low tide does not exceed six metres" (Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, 1999). By 2002, the contracting parties had designated... | |
 | P. R. Shukla - 2003 - 526 pages
...Convention on Wetlands defined wetlands in 1971 as "areas of marsh, fen, peat land, whether natural or artificial, permanent or temporary, with water that...water the depth of which at low tide does not exceed six meters" and later proposed that wetlands "may incorporate riparian and coastal zones adjacent to... | |
 | Philippe Sands - 2003 - 1252 pages
...in the Ramsar Convention, wetlands are: areas of marsh, fen, peatland, or water, whether natural or artificial, permanent or temporary, with water that...water the depth of which at low tide does not exceed six metres.277 This definition does not reflect the enormous variety of wetland types or the fact that... | |
 | R.S. Ambasht, Navin K. Ambasht - 2003 - 400 pages
...definition, as quoted by Dugan (l990): "Areas of marsh, fen, peatland or water, whether natural or artificial, permanent or temporary, with water that...including areas of marine water, the depth of which at low tides does not exceed six metres." Smith (l996) has quoted another definition given by Cowardin et... | |
 | K V Krishnamurthy - 2003 - 280 pages
...convention, according to which wetlands are 'areas of marsh, fen, peatland or water, whether natural or artificial, permanent or temporary, with water that is static or flowing, fresh, brackish or salty, including areas of marine water, the depth of which at low tide does not exceed six metres'.... | |
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Convention wetlands are areas of marsh, fen, peatland or water, whether natural or artificial, permanent or temporary, with water that is static or flowing, fresh, brackish or salt, including areas of marine water the depth of which at low tide does not... 
