Wetlands - Mangroves, Marshes and Bogs - Biomes#9
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Date: 2024-01-04
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-davidcruz8667
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.
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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.
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-Nhoj31neirbo47
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.
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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.
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-gnjc3480
Nice video, I like that you continue the biomes serie.
There are tons of steppic lakes in SW Siberia and Northern Kazakhstan in the forest-steppe ecotone and northern steppe regions, and those wetlands are clearly distinct from west siberian peatlands. Maybe this could be the asian equivalent to the american Prairie Pothole in the Aspen Parkland Regions? I think that because both regions borders the north of the extense grasslands (steppes and prairies, both are located in great plains somewhat similar geologically and both have a transitional climate between cool semiarid and boreal/continental
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Nice video, I like that you continue the biomes serie.
There are tons of steppic lakes in SW Siberia and Northern Kazakhstan in the forest-steppe ecotone and northern steppe regions, and those wetlands are clearly distinct from west siberian peatlands. Maybe this could be the asian equivalent to the american Prairie Pothole in the Aspen Parkland Regions? I think that because both regions borders the north of the extense grasslands (steppes and prairies, both are located in great plains somewhat similar geologically and both have a transitional climate between cool semiarid and boreal/continental
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-Awakeningspirit20
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!
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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!
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fun-facts
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.
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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.
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-consuelovalk1507
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!
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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!
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-corki9930
I think one of my favorite wetlands in the world is the Black Swamp of north western Ohio
Barely anyone has heard of it (probably because it's mostly all been drained)
I think I like it most because when you think of -American swamp- you think alligators and cypress trees. But this is NOT that and I find that interesting
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I think one of my favorite wetlands in the world is the Black Swamp of north western Ohio
Barely anyone has heard of it (probably because it's mostly all been drained)
I think I like it most because when you think of -American swamp- you think alligators and cypress trees. But this is NOT that and I find that interesting
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-TheogRahoomie
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.
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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.
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-twenty-fifth420
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.
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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.
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-meneither3834
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)
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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)
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fun-facts
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.
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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.
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-Geodiode
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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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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-Geodiode
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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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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-pedroperez6676
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?
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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?
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-hi-gj2qi
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
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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
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-NostalgicMem0ries
where can i find this picture? 7: 52? its so beautiful, is it a painting by some painter or modern art?
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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?
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-user-vr2qp2hi8z
I wonder if it would be possible make lots of wetlands to improve the quality of life around the world
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I wonder if it would be possible make lots of wetlands to improve the quality of life around the world
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-Zpajro
This was really interesting! The only thing I can think of that you did not mention is how bad bogs can smell.
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This was really interesting! The only thing I can think of that you did not mention is how bad bogs can smell.
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