Environment - hydrologic cycle wetland attributes
Sketchbook drawings of ideas for a book.
Wetlands are invaluable for several reasons. They are natural water treatment facilities that can reduce some water pollution (not massive amounts of heavy industrial of municipal pollution).
Photosynthetic algae, bacteria and small animals consume pollutants (carbon sources) and fatten up. Higher predator animals eat the algae bacteria, rotifers, etc... The shade from the plants keeps the photosynthetic bacteria from blooming and becoming toxic and de-oxygenating the water.
The fine silt layers filters the water and the organic "schmutzedecke" like layers of the wetland harbor organisms that consume some pollutants.
Plants remove and fix nitrogen and sequester some pollutants.
Environment - hydrologic cycle wetland attributes
Sketchbook drawings of ideas for a book.
Wetlands are invaluable for several reasons. They are natural water treatment facilities that can reduce some water pollution (not massive amounts of heavy industrial of municipal pollution).
Photosynthetic algae, bacteria and small animals consume pollutants (carbon sources) and fatten up. Higher predator animals eat the algae bacteria, rotifers, etc... The shade from the plants keeps the photosynthetic bacteria from blooming and becoming toxic and de-oxygenating the water.
The fine silt layers filters the water and the organic "schmutzedecke" like layers of the wetland harbor organisms that consume some pollutants.
Plants remove and fix nitrogen and sequester some pollutants.