But your list does not include wetlands and peatlands.
The area of wetlands in the Great Barrier Reef catchment has decreased by over 50 percent, according to the Great Barrier Reef Coastal wetlands Protection Program.
Besides desertification and grassland shrinkage, the region's lakes and wetlands are also drying up, experts say.
Sparkling lake, wetlands grass, waterfowl Elique and Swan goose fly to south, as a natural landscape of the region.
The park contains 150 lakes and 450 miles of streams, plus ecosystems ranging from wetlands to pine forests to montane areas to alpine tundra.
Pollen and ash remains show that 2000 years ago the Mayans were growing maize with slash-and-burn agriculture in some areas that over the course of later centuries became permanently flooded wetlands.
Wetland plants are mainly in meadow wetlands of Dabancheng, Chaiwopu salinization wetlands and marsh wetlands, salt lake wetlands and desertification meadow wetlands, Tianshan wild zoo meadow wetland.
The paper introduces the basic status of the wetlands of Minjiang River estuary, analyses the existing main problems in wetlands protection, and puts forward advice on protecting the wetlands.
Effects of substrates and plants on pollution removal of constructed wetlands
The bad publicity put tourists off river cruises, fishing trips and visits to the basin's various lakes and wetlands.
This result could be applied in the classification of wetlands in Weishan Lake, China, and could conduct the development direction of local wetland ecotourism.
Over a fifth of the world's freshwater fish species of a century ago are now endangered or extinct. Half the world's wetlands have also disappeared over the past 100 years.
The Salyan Rayon is located near wetlands frequented by migratory birds.
Fourth, strengthen ecological construction of wetlands to prevent water pollution is also a kind of scientific method.
Constructed wetlands around the house and the inclusion of a green roof further help to increase energy efficiency and manage water runoff.
We have dammed rivers and drained wetlands.
Removal of TN and TP in micro-polluted raw water by different constructed wetlands processes
Along the Inter-oceanic highway between Puerto Maldonado and Puente Inambari, excessive gold mining has turned once lush wetlands to desert.
This stretch of wetlands has remained intact.
When the oil starts to wash up in quantity, the greatest environmental threat will be to the Louisiana wetlands.
When Hurricane Katrina wrecked the Louisiana coast, it wasn't the wind that created disaster in itself, but the floods which surged over the levees and washed across the wetlands in its wake.
Dongtan's environment rather special, it is the coastal saline wetlands, soil salinity is a make full use of the surrounding environment planning.
This research applied two-stage inverse vertical subsurface flow constructed wetlands to removal nutrients in wastewater.
The wetlands in Chongming Dongtan can be divided into two types of wetlands: natural wetland and artificial wetland.
and silting up of the rivers and wetlands in the Yangtze basin as a result of rising rates of erosion.
At present 59 marine protected areas, covering gulfs, islands, estuaries, coasts, coral reefs, mangrove swamps, coastal lagoons, marine natural history sites, seaweed beds and wetlands, have been built, covering a total area of 12,900 sq km.
On a day trip to the wetlands that divide Serrekunda from the Gambian capital, Banjul, we watched pelicans fishing and women in traditional canoes plucking oysters from the mangroves.
