Freshwater+Swamps+Period+2

**Freshwater Swamps Period 2**
**Facts/characteristics of the Biome:** - Swamps are forested wetlands

- Swamps have shallow water in them all of the time or atleast most the year

- The times swamps are not filled the swamp has very spongy soil. - Swamps are one of the most nutrient filled places on earth.

- Because there’s so much nutrients swamps also have lots of biodiversity. When I say lots I mean right up there with the rainforest

-Swamps are named by the main plant life in them.

**Location of the Biome**: - Because swamps are just forested or shrubby wetlands they are usually found along rivers and lakes all around the world. - Swamps come from lakes or ponds slowly draining and eventually having trees and plant life grow throughout the wetland, making it a plant-filled wetland



**Consumers/Animals living in the biome** : - Alligators - Birds - Fish!
 * American bittern
 * Sand hill Crane
 * Herons
 * (lots of long legged birds so they can wade in the water)


 * Cape
 * Carp
 * Siamese Fighting Fish
 * ====== South American Lungfish(ewe) ======
 * ====== Catfish ======

- Flamingo
**Producers/Plants living in the biome:**

**There are many plants and producers that live in a swamp biome:**
 * **Buttonbush[[image:biomesduff/Copy_of_oldmanmonkey.jpg width="119" height="89"]]**
 * **Cabbage Palm[[image:biomesduff/Asclepiadaceae.png width="186" height="165"]]**
 * **Carolina Willow**
 * **Dahoon Holly**
 * **Elderberry**
 * **Lobolly Bay**
 * **Red Maple**
 * **Sweetbay Magolia**

** Some plants in the swamp consist of: **
 * ** Blackberry **
 * ** Golden club **
 * ** FetterbushLizard's tail **
 * ** Poison ivy **
 * ** Poison sumac **
 * ** Primrose willow **
 * ** Resurrection fern **
 * ** St. Johnswort **
 * ** Saw palmetto **
 * ** Saw-grass **
 * ** Smilax **
 * ** Spanish moss **

** Dominant (keystone) species in the biome: ** **Arthoropods are very important to a swamp. They are at the beginging of the food chain and support many different kinds of animals. Some dominant trees are Baldcypress, Pondcypress, and Swamp tupelo.**

**Average Temperature Range for the biome:**
=== Swamps are excessivley humid and wet. The temperature can also very from where the swamp is located. The Badja Swamps average temperature is about 20-27 degrees celcius from October to April, and gets down to about 12-15 from June to September. === **15-35 degrees celcius is the average temerature for swamps.**

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**Some swamp areas get a lot of precipiation throughout the year while others may only have about an inch of water in it and have dry season with only moist ground. For example in Australia, the Badja annual precipiation is about 50 mm a year.** =====

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