Could we rename the
Swamp connection to
Swamps and marshes?
I was looking up the difference between the two and came across the website of National Geographic where "
swamp" is defined as follows:
"A swamp is an area of land permanently saturated, or filled, with water. Many swamps are even covered by water. There are two main types of swamps: freshwater swamps and saltwater swamps. Swamps are dominated by trees. They are often named for the type of trees that grow in them, such as cypress swamps or hardwood swamps.""
Marsh" has the following definition:
"A marsh is a type of wetland, an area of land where water covers ground for long periods of time. Unlike swamps, which are dominated by trees, marshes are usually treeless and dominated by grasses and other herbaceous plants."They then continue to list some examples such as the Everglades and the Okavango delta, which are marshes by their definition, and not swamps.
EDIT: The Wikipedia article "
Swamp" does list marshes too as examples, so they seem to flow over into each other (pun intended). But the article does also make the difference between forested wetlands with woody vegetation and wetlands with herbaceous plants.
So I feel that by renaming the connection to "Swamps and marshes" we avoid the problem of differences in definition and possible miscategorisation.
EDIT: Or we could go for the term
Wetlands, which covers both swamps and marshes.
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