Related Topics: [wetlands] Estuarine wetlands contain a mixture of freshwater and ocean water They are typically located in areas where freshwater rivers flow into the ocean Major estuarine systems include the salt marshes, brackish tidal marshes and mangrove swamps
Pertaining to or found in an estuary (inshore marine habitat where sea water is diluted by fresh water input from land)
of or relating to an estuary, which is an inlet or arm of the sea, especially the lower portion or wide mouth of a river where salty tide meets freshwater current
Deepwater tidal habitats with a range of fresh-brackish-marine water chemistry and daily tidal cycles Salt and brackish marshes, intertidal mudflats, mangrove swamps, bays, sounds, and coastal rivers Drowned coasts, where supply of river sediment is insufficient to infill estuary basin