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The directory uses a classification system consisting of the following three categories (i.e. A, B and C) which are further sub-divided into a total of 40 different wetland types:
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It is a wetland which plays an important ecological or hydrological role in the natural functioning of a major wetland system/complex.
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C. Human-made wetlands, which consists of 9 wetland types.
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61:Criteria for determining wetland importance
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168:List of Ramsar sites in Australia
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861:National Wetlands Inventory
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925:Wetland indicator status
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742:List of wetland plants
173:Wetland classification
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1168:Wetlands of Australia
616:Salt pannes and pools
206:Environment Australia
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707:Constructed wetland
292:Types and landforms
920:Salt marsh die-off
838:Salt marsh dieback
747:List of fen plants
586:Palustrine wetland
487:Intertidal wetland
482:Interdunal wetland
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898:Marsh organ
797:Hydric soil
676:Vernal pool
659:Shrub swamp
527:Tidal marsh
356:Plateau bog
346:Coastal bog
336:Blanket bog
1157:Categories
1006:Bog butter
702:Bog garden
695:Artificial
666:Wet meadow
532:High marsh
522:Salt marsh
425:Fen-meadow
393:Alder carr
376:Upland bog
371:String bog
366:Raised bog
179:References
828:Hydrosere
816:Processes
802:Marsh gas
647:Myristica
537:Low marsh
351:Kermi bog
326:Bofedales
306:Backswamp
55:Directory
43:Australia
1086:Category
1016:Bog-wood
1011:Bog iron
1001:Bog body
823:Halosere
775:Histosol
770:Acrotelm
753:Sphagnum
611:Reed bed
556:Moorland
435:Rich fen
430:Poor fen
285:Wetlands
243:28 March
114:See also
39:wetlands
1051:Turbary
1031:Estuary
606:Pothole
596:Pocosin
561:Mudflat
400:Ciénega
383:Callows
299:Natural
621:Slough
576:Pakihi
566:Muskeg
492:Kettle
462:Guelta
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686:Yaéré
649:swamp
626:Swamp
581:Palsa
571:Oasis
551:Misse
502:Marsh
472:IgapĂł
467:Hamun
442:Flark
415:Dambo
311:Bayou
202:(PDF)
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913:List
780:Peat
735:Life
601:Pond
546:Mere
497:Lagg
477:Ings
388:Carr
245:2023
210:ISBN
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420:Fen
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