Wetlands - Mangroves, Marshes and Bogs - Biomes#9
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- The world's wetlands are aquatic biomes that are among the most complex and biodiverse on our planet. They can occur anywhere on Earth where shallow water exists, from the saltwater mangroves of the tropics, to the bogs and fens of the arctic. Join me as I take a tour of wetlands on every continent and explain the differences in each of their varied types.
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👉0:00 Opening Montage
👉0:24 Introduction and Titles
👉1:16 What are Wetlands?
👉2:46 Mangroves and Salt Marshes
👉4:22 Tidal Freshwater Marshes
👉4:45 Intertidal Flats
👉5:02 Freshwater Marshes
👉6:17 Freshwater Forested Swamps
👉8:05 Riparian Wetlands
👉11:17 Bogs and Fens
👉12:47 Peatlands
👉15:24 Prairie Pothole Region
👉16:01 Threats to Wetlands
👉17:52 Outro
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Mangrove forest occurs only in the tropics, and along coastlines protected from wave action. They are composed of salt tolerant trees and shrubs. Examples are the Sundarbans of India/Bangladesh, the Niger Delta of Nigeria and the Orinoco Delta of Venezuela.
Saltwater marshes are the equivalent of mangroves in temperate latitudes and are populated by salt tolerant trees and shrubs. Examples include the Camargue of France, the Wash of England and the Mississippi Delta.
Tidal Freshwater Marshes and Intertidal Flats occur in areas of large tidal ranges such as river estuaries including the St Lawrence River of Canada and the River Severn of Great Britain.
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Freshwater Marshes (marshland) are large non-forested flat areas that are flooded seasonally or year round by incoming streams or rivers. Examples include the Everglades of Florida, the Mesopotamian Marshlands of the Tigris and Euphrates confluence in Iraq.
Freshwater Forested Swamps are similar to Freshwater Marshes except their primary vegetation is trees. Examples include the Amazon Basin, the numerous forested swamps of the Eastern Seaboard and Gulf Coast of the USA, and the Pripyat or Pinsk Marshes of Belarus/Ukraine.
Riparian Wetlands are similar to the above freshwater systems except they are dominated by a river that regularly floods its banks. Examples include the Sudd of the Nile River in South Sudan and the Pantanal of Bolivia/Brazil/Paraguay.
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Bogs and Fens (peat bog and fenland) are areas where the exit of water is heavily or entirely prevented, allowing the build-up of acids in decomposing expired plants (mostly sphagnum moss) that eventually lead to peat. They are found from the tropics to the arctic, and include the Cuvette Centrale of the Congo River and the West Siberian Lowland, probably the largest wetland of any kind in the world. They are also known as peatlands due to their ability to form peat over time.
In areas such as Ireland, peat has been harvested (turf cutting) for centuries for use in home heating. Peatlands are important in terms of carbon capture and the Earth's carbon cycle. CO2 is trapped in the plant while it is alive and upon expiry, the plant keeps most of this carbon as it is converted to peat. If dried out they can ignite, releasing this carbon and contributing to climate change.
Wetlands have faced threats for millenia, but in 1971 the Ramsar Convention was signed to help protect thousands of wetland sites around the world. However many wetlands in the tropics are still under threat.
This information is ideal study material for Environment and Ecology UPSC and AP Environmental Science courses and exams.
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Welcome to the Wetlands! Did you bring your waders? 😄
Please share any experiences you've had of these places that can be found all around the world...
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We have some nice wetlands in the USA... Excellent waterfowl hunting🦆🪶
@@dannybell926 nice
I live in the Netherlands, which is primarily bog and fenne. A lot of nature has been lost due to urbanization and i always wondered how the Netherlands would look if urbanization didn't happen. I'm trying to learn more about our biome and this has been insightful to me. I still wonder how it would look like to live in a prehistoric world in the Netherlands!
And now that is something I will always wonder as well
Netherlands also has lots of Freshwater marsh and salt marsh
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U would probably be underwater honestly
I feel like as someone from a semi-arid desert, this climate type is my sworn enemy.
But nonetheless cooler then boring steppes. Great breakdown for a complex biome.
Thanks! Which part of the BWk universe is yours?
@@Geodiode The South-West US area. Which is mostly more desert-like and higher elevations but I do manage lol.
B group climates are interesting but I prefer plenty of rainfall, I'm more of a cfa/cfb climate type person myself.
@@arcturus9366 same but cwa the type i have can have dry cool winters
@@introtwerp Cfa climate is where I live currently (Tampa, FL), the hot humid summer temperatures I can deal with because I've lived in it for so long. Besides, the winters make up for the high temps. Also the climate we get here works with a lot of farmers with crops that do well in the heat, (citrus, basil, etc).
The Louisiana bayou and the Philippine coastal marshes are some of my favorite wetlands. Mosquitoes and chiggers and banana spiders and scorpions and centipedes and jungle bees and tank ants don't bother me, water moccasins and gator and catfish are delicious, snakes are fun to hang out with, and mudskippers make excellent bait or you can fry up a couple of dozen of them in a pinch if you're hungry. You can catch crawdads with your bare hands, pick delta oysters off the rocks at the estuary, keep a preying mantis or stick bug as a pet, and river shrimp are plentiful. The weather is almost always hot and humid with the occasional monsoonal or hurricane downpour, which is just the way I like it, like a nice comfortable blanket, and the loud sounds of insects and monkeys and birds at night put me right to sleep. Heaven on earth.
Too many people only know the sedate, boring life around temperature forests or Mediterranean pastoral blandness. I'll take a wetland, scrub land, or tropical rainforest anytime over such places.
Thanks for sharing, David. I know there are a few who think like you, and love the wetlands. Each to their own!
I have visited some mangrove areas here in the Dominican Republic, being in a boat through many channels of waters into the mangroves is very interesting, many birds and many life in them. Great episode as usual!!! 💪💪💪
Thanks! Yes, it's expected that you would get mangrove forests in secluded coastlines in your country.
The most underrated video on this channel
Thank you for your great videos
Wow, thank you! Yes it didn't perform as well as I'd liked. Maybe people just don't see the importance of these places on our planet.
Amazing video, love you included masr (Egypt)
This was definitely the video for you, friend! I hope I covered the subject accurately.
Very useful against tropical cyclones.
Wait, what
@@yoironfistbro8128 they act as barriers against storm surge.
Watching from Colombo, where we have a set of urban wetlands. Thanks for this informative video :)
Thanks for watching! Hope everything is ok there in Sri Lanka
@@Geodiode Things are in control, for now. Thank you :)
International animal law advocate, Ever Chinoda speaks on laws that governs Zimbabwe's wetlands th-cam.com/video/nqRi8Tf_W48/w-d-xo.html
I always fing myself looking for your videos when I'm preparing a dnd campaign, thanks
Wonderful! I wish my DMs would do the same. They rarely describe the landscapes as we're travelling (yes i play!)
Literally here for that exact reason lol.
I live on a Lake in NW Florida, it is bliss.
Such great production quality
Thanks v much!
@@Geodiode I can only imagine how much work you put into this! Fantastic job! 👌
@@pantherjungle it took most of a week!
Nice video. I think montane forests would be interesting too.
Thanks. Funny you mention that, because the next Biomes episode will be about highland areas :)
Superb nature view in Wetland 💙🤍❤💚💚🇮🇳
Wonderfully explained. Thanks a lot
Thanks v much! And thanks for the sub!
Thank you.
very thorough video of the wonders of the wetlands!
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for stopping by, and thanks for the sub!
Danube Delta! magnific place
Hello I am new to this. I work in the NJ Pinelands. We have an area that was supposed turn into a mini wetland area for kids and visitors to learn and such but I have no experience how to build a bog/wetlands...which later will add Pine Barrens Native Plants probably perenial endangered plants that grow on that environment. What are the ingredients to make wetlands especially bog? Please let me know.
I can't claim to be an expert Rosario, but the thing you need more than anything else in building bogs is lots and lots of time! Fens can be built relatively quickly though. All you need is a way to trap the water in a flat area so that the water isn't so deep as to prevent the growth of plants from the bottom to the water surface. Good luck with your project.
Another wonderful subject overview video . An interesting wetland ecologically and sociologically is the Sacramento- San Joaquin Delta, which is the largest inland river delta and estuary on the west coast of the U.S. at 738,000 acres. It supplies a huge amount of water for human consumption and agriculture in California. The regulation of inflow and harvesting of water from this delta has been a complex issue for the authorities, politicians and scientists alike. It lies along a main migratory route for birds, which is only one of the critical reasons that this wetland be preserved in a healthy state.
Thanks! And yes, it is good to mention that delta. I thought about including it, but there were just too many to cover, and I wanted to ensure that all continents were covered.
Fantastic really enjoyed it thanks so much
Glad you enjoyed it!
Awesome video. Loved the threats/conservation themes at the end.
Greetings from the Delta del Paraná Wetland (Argentina)!
Glad you like them! Thanks! And interesting that you live near the inland delta of the Parana...
"Best video ever" - Joe
In the West there's often a historical association of death, disease, or even the demonic with wetlands due to the presence of most of those in the days before modern medicine. I find these areas to be some of the most spiritual though, and very metaphoric for the spiritual and the life which water provides. Wherever I find myself in a wetland, I consider myself blessed, and they are in many places!
International animal law advocate, Ever Chinoda speaks on laws that governs Zimbabwe's wetlands th-cam.com/video/nqRi8Tf_W48/w-d-xo.html
Thanks for sharing - you are right. It has been a strange relationship - humanity and wetlands. Only now are we really cherishing them, whereas before we just wanted to drain these "places of decay"...
"I tap my swamp for one black mana"
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A part of Belgrade where i live used to be a swamp and there still are some signs it was. Also the mosquitoes and bugs are so horrible here
Indeed, being at the confluence of two large rivers, and in a floodplain, it wouldn't surprise me.
What careers do you recommend for someone really interested in climate types and geology? Btw I loved your channel.
Thanks! Well, gosh - I wish I could help you, but the truth is I have never been involved in this subject professionally! You could post on reddit/r/geography though - there's quite a few professionals on that subreddit.
@@Geodiode will do. Thanks for responding 😁
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Hydrology engineer. For example you can become a geophysician doing water prospecting, which is similar to prospecting for ores (valuable rocks) but to water instead. If climate is interesting too then maybe enviromental engineer could be something for you. That could be about sampling concentrations of different ions (atoms) in water from industry or mines and see if there's any detectable pollution (that is, a deviation from natural concentrations) or see how vulnerable the enviroment is to pollution in terms of soil like if it's clay or sand if the company that has hired you is planning to change/add infrastructure that could affect it negatively. You could be an enviromental consultant, waste engineer, become an expert on contaminated soil, and so on.
It's pretty nisch compared to other sorts of engineering, but I think it's quite fun and will generally be quite an attracted job for the future. Anyway I think that if you want to work with both geology and climate then hydrology is probably the standard. That's what I'm studying. This is engineering so you will probably need to pass some courses in math, physics and chemistry in order to seek these sort of educations.
Hi there! I am an ecologist and we study a lot of these topics (e.g., climate, biomes, soils).
Edit: The career is a branch of the Biological Sciences.
I would recommend looking into environmental science, maybe environmental engineering.
OMG! i love wetlands haha
Land Productivity isn't the only reason wetlands get drained. There are many cases of drainage to fight malaria (and it's still better than bombing the area with DDT.)
Excellent point - and I really should have remembered this. Years ago I read a book about Ancient Rome, and one of the things the Romans did early on was drain the marshes south of the city as they were mosquito infested and a source of disease for the cityfolk.
Between 300 million and 400 million people live close to and depend on wetlands. They support the cultivation of rice, a staple in the diet of half the world's population. They also provide flood control, clean water, shoreline and storm protection, materials, medicines, and vital habitat.
Yes, I'll be covering the story of rice, and other staples in a (distant) future series.
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Thanks! And thank you for the sub!
Wetlands symbolizes silence and peace but full of life
Wow such an attractive edit ♡ love it..
Thank you so much 😄
Best videos
Excellent video 😊
Thanks!
No mention of the okavango River delta?
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Obrigado!
hi you should also do a series about mariane biomes and ecosystems
Your videos about biomes are amazing. But how did you not make a video about lakes and rivers? Aren't they the main freshwater biomes?
My focus in the series has been upon land-based biomes, and not water, since the focus has been about plants. I only covered the Wetlands because so many plants grow here.
hi OMG IM A HUGE FAN BECHAUSE YOU HELPED ME OUT THROUGH 3 YEARS OF SCHOOL btw im from the u.k as well
So glad to hear the series helped Tabbi! And nice to hear from a fellow Brit :)
When I was a kid our elementary school had a big wetland on two sides of it. We would go on nature walks and catch frogs. There were turtles there too. Sadly it got drained and developed 😢wetlands are still my favourite places to go on nature walks.
good video~
Thanks for the visit
I wonder if it would be possible make lots of wetlands to improve the quality of life around the world
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where can i find this picture? 7:52? its so beautiful, is it a painting by some painter or modern art?
It's a 19th century painting by Ivan Shiskin - slaviclandscape.blogspot.com/2012/12/pripet-marshes-8.html
Delta del Paraná!!! Mallines!! No hablaste de los mallines o salares de altura, un tipo d Humedal dónde lamentablemente extraen lithio... No mencionaste ningún Humedal d argentina q está llenooo
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Welcome!
In what category would the Okavango Delta in Botswana fall under?
It was an important omission I made on that. Since it is freshwater, I would say it is a swamp.
also we have the danube delta one of the most diverse wetlands in the world
Yes, Romania and the Black Sea. So many wetlands didn't make it into the video as there are 100s!
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You forgot the indus river delta
This was really interesting! The only thing I can think of that you did not mention is how bad bogs can smell...
I was actually wondering about that, since obviously you have decomposing matter. The one I visited last week (Hartlebury Common - it's in the video), however, had no smell to it.
@@Geodiode It in large part depends on the season & how the weather has been the last weeks. I have not tried to memorize when they do smell, but thinking back it's when there has rained but is starting to dry up.
@@Zpajro yes, it makes sense that you should get a smell from them as they are, after all, filled with decomposing matter.
@@Geodiode as someone who grew up playing in swamps, it smells very rotten. Especially around the lakes. The ground consists mainly of mud which is very moist and as you step in it you slowly sink down. When that step disturbs the soil the smell comes free. Sometimes is smells very earthy and rainy, but sometimes it smells like rotten eggs or cow manure.
Make video on oceanic currents and trade winds
I mention Trade Winds in detail in the first 4 episodes of my Secrets of World Climate series. Ocean currents will be covered in an upcoming Biomes episode.
My love my home
Eye-oh-way?!
my mum lives in usa they have good wetlans there
can creating wetlands artificially help us better conserve wild life?
Yes, and this has been done in some areas, with migrating birds finding them and then remembering them for the following years.
I have the privilege of living right next to this climate here in south Florida.
Have you ventured into the Everglades?
@@Geodiode a few times, unforgettable, particularly in the “winter” months when it barely rains. It’s a shame that the airboat tours are so loud since they’re also a lot of fun.
@@alaskanbullworm5500 it's definitely a bucket list item for me to do a tour of one of the flooded forested swamps, but they are a little to the north of you, I think (unless the Big Cypress Preserve is of that type?)
@@Geodiode more like a little west of me. I live on the transition zone of the Everglades swamps and the humid woodlands, although a lot of these have been removed for sugar plantations.
@@alaskanbullworm5500 they are some unique habitats. Too bad they're being lost to grow more sugar!
Very good vid. My only concern is why the UN and youtube feel the need to define climate change when they are mostly responsible for creating the problem/ situation in the first place. That is not good.
Otherwise neat film. :)
They're both propagandists for the wanna be tyrants of the world economic forum
Hardly mentioned the Florida Everglades.. great vid nonetheless
Thanks! Yes, they're usually the first ones that everyone thinks of, but I was careful to ensure that so many wetlands around the world got a fair mention, and yet squeeze everything into 15 mins of video!
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Hey, so about the deforestation in Ireland. The production of peat on the uplands is evidence that this did occur thousands of years ago, before the Romans, and possibly the Celts, but obviously after the last ice age that ended 10-12,000 years ago. Because it would have taken that long for the peat to develop. Also, I believe there are Roman accounts that describe it as a bare and treeless isle, but need to check on that. Same with Scotland.
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What abt India climate & biomes as an example
India's climate varies widely due to its vast size and diverse geography. Generally, it can be classified into tropical monsoon, tropical wet and dry, desert, and mountain climates. The majority experience a hot tropical climate with variations in rainfall patterns. Coastal regions are humid, while inland areas can be arid. Summers are typically hot, with temperatures exceeding 40°C in many regions, while winters are mild to cool. The monsoon season, from June to September, brings heavy rainfall, vital for agriculture but also causing floods. Northern regions experience snowfall in winter. Overall, India's climate reflects its rich geographical and climatic diversity.
Don´t fear a climate change. You can put more and more CO2 in the air, but the "change" will stop at one point. This happens, when all the summary of light which can be modified into heat by CO2 is modified. The light spectrum which is absorbed by CO2 is easy to find. So: If you want a higher temperature you have to rise the amount of light coming in!
This is as if you want to sift some sand to 4mm. You may install five sieves after the first, but they will stay empty. Because the first sieve has done it´s work. so if the work of a amount of CO2 is finally done, there is no reason of danger by tuning the amount up. Because the source of energy has not turned up: This is this thing we call sun.
The only climate change happens in the people´s minds.
Muskeg fuck yes, Canada represents
Okavango delta
I couldn't get any footage of that, otherwise it would have gone in!
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The biggest wetland is Pantanal in Brasil not Everglades in Florida. Don't forget Ibera un Corrientes Argentina with a area of 10000 km2 tge second in size in the world.
Categorisation of wetland areas can be challenging, and there are differences in how these are done. Also in determining the full extent of a wetland. I described the Pantanal in the video as "the largest tropical wetland area, and is the largest flooded grassland in the world".
@@Geodiode do you know how big is Ibera?, because I know and stay there also is a protected area the biggest in Argentina.
@@Geodiode is the land exhibit of Guarani ' s acuifer. Saying acuifer is the biggest on the world and geostrategic point in the world when the water depoyed. There are military iterest to put a military base there.