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WETLAND

What is a wetland?
The wetland is characterized by muddy territories due to a high proportion of water. they are the biome that separates the terrestrial from the aquatic, still considered as terrestrial.
Wetlands can vary in terms of size, vegetation or fauna but they are always ecosystems with a high humidity due to the presence of water, as well it has hot and humid climates. It has a very high variety of flora and fauna that includes various types of aquatic, terrestrial plants, as well as a high level of insects, mammals, amphibians, reptiles and birds.

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Types of wetlands 

Marines: Coastal wetlands, including coastal lagoons, rocky coasts, seagrasses and coral reefs.
Estuarines: Deltas included, tidal marshes and mangroves.
Lacustres: Wetlands associated with lakes.
Rivers: Wetlands adjacent to rivers and streams.
Palustres: marshes - marshes, marshes and swamps.
Artificial: Fish and shrimp farming ponds, farm ponds, agricultural irrigated lands, flooded depressions, salt pans, reservoirs, gravel ponds, wastewater basins and canals.

Importance of wetlands

Biogeochemical cycles refers to the movement of elements such as nitrogen, oxygen, hydrogen, sulfur, phosphorus, carbon and other elements between living beings and the environment (atmosphere) through a series of processes: production and decomposition.

The biogeochemical cycles are important because  this cycles are the ones that let organisms keep feeding and growing because are the ones that make the matter re-cycle for be used by organisms again and again. 

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE 

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NITROGEN

PHOSPHORUS

SULFUR

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