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Help, I’m stuck in a wetland, but I didn’t bring my litmus test!
Sorry, I’m looking for you in the bog but you’re not there
By that definition could you have a swamp bog, a swamp fen, a marsh bog, and a marsh fen?
Wildlife biologist here, Absolutely.
Oddly enough I usually see/write it fen/bog marsh. There are tons of other qualifiers too, like salt marsh, tidal marsh and such.
The same applies for all 4 examples if it’s needed. Salt swamps and fresh water swamps and such.
I’ll have a tidal salt fen marsh, with extra tide.
I’ve never heard of a Fen before
That’s cuz ya basic like one :)
Fen the wetland type or fen the plural of (sci fi/fantasy) fan? Or had you heard of neither?
Sounds like it could be the name of a Hobbit. But no, never heard the word used before. I’m from Georgia and live in Virginia. Never been to a mountain wetland or to middle earth
I think I have only heard the term in:
- The plural of fan: sci fi stories set in the distant future of 1990, also in early internet fandom
- The wetland: stories from the UK, embedded in British place names, having a British parent
I wonder what sort of wetland my local one is, and the nearby swampy grasslands. Both are watered by rain or snowmelt. Both are marked as wetlands on maps
As non-native english speaking person that’s highly fascinating.
I think this is more to do with scientists’ definitions than English in general. See also: what is and isn’t a nut, what is and isn’t a vegetable, is there such thing as a fish.
So what do you call a wetland that has a neutral pH and mixed vegitation?
Everything is a wetland.
Just from what I found, swamps are wetlands with woody vegetation being what DOMINATLY inhibits it. So if it’s mixed, find out what there is more of. If it’s 50/50, I guess the universe collapses.
And a wetland with a neutral ph is just called a neutral wetland.
It feels so liberating to hear it just said out loud
How am I supposed to estimate the pH value of a given wetland area without specialised equipment?
- Take a sip. Did you trip balls? Acid.
- Take a red wire, black wire, and a clock. Can you power the clock? Alkaline.
Duh.
Learn botany. You can tell the approximate pH from the species of plants growing there.
Neat! Didn’t know that.
Just call it something online, if people don’t immediately pop out of nowhere to correct you, then you’re probably right.
Maybe you can find some red cabbage growing nearby?
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Determine whether it’s a swamp or a marsh.
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Tell someone else you did your part, now it’s their turn.
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I forgot already before I started writing this comment
I fucking hate Tumblr users
I never knew the fen/bog part! The only reason I knew swamps from marshes is from labeling them in OpenStreetMap
Huh, TIL
PREACH! MUTHAFUKA!!!
LOUDER, FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BOG!
Thanks crossword puzzles!
These come up pretty often for some reason.
Especially Fen!
Epee, Oreo, era, isle, ore… Lol
Eel, ole, issa, rae, ssn… Lol
