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Review of Croatian coastal (karst) wetlands

Wetland is a collective term used for marshes, swamps, bogs and similar areas, which are covered periodically with water. Wetlands are defined directly or implicitly in a variety of ways. Several factors, including personal perspective, position in the landscape, and wetland diversity and function, contribute to the tractable nature of the definition. Each individual or group brings to the definition its own perspective based upon cumulative experience and personal needs. In accordance with previously mentioned definitions each mouth of the Croatian rivers into the Adriatic Sea, as well as each permanent or temporary lake near sea coast (far not more than 30 km) can be treated as a wetland. If we accept this concept, in Croatia there are a lot of small coastal wetlands. Each of them have very different characteristics (dimensions, water quantity and quality, hydrological and hydrogeological characteristics, climate etc.) but they all are extremely endangered more by human interventions than by climate changes and/or variability.

karst; wetland; coastal area

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