Their work doesn’t just shape their own homes—it breathes life into entire ecosystems, creating oases where countless plants and animals flourish. When you step into a beaver-created wetland ...

This ecosystem by many names—bogs ... Invasive plant and animal species can also destroy wetland habitats. Beavers and nutria, a type of invasive rodent, damage wetlands by devouring plants ...

Diverse plant life attracts different insects, birds, and other animals, each playing a unique role in the ecosystem. This ...

In this country alone, wetland ecosystems can take almost uncountable ... more than forests do — and some 40 percent of plant and animal species live in wetlands or require them to reproduce.

Wetlands are ecosystems, in which water is the primary factor controlling the environment and the associated plant and animal life. A broad definition of wetlands includes both freshwater and ...