Wetland classification

There is no commonly accepted definition of what constitutes a wetland. A number of national wetland classifications exist. In the 1970s, the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands of International Importance introduced a first attempt to establish an internationally acceptable wetland classification scheme.

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