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The Everglades is a unique wetland ecosystem located in southern Florida. It’s notable for its expansive flooded grasslands, forming a significant savanna ecoregion. This area, stretching from Lake Okeechobee to Florida Bay, supports diverse plant and animal life including wading birds, reptiles, an...
The Orinoco wetlands are flooded grasslands in Venezuela's northern Orinoco Delta, covering 5,957 km2 and bordered by mangroves and swamp forest.
The Rann of Kutch seasonal salt marsh spans Gujarat in India and Sindh in Pakistan, a 26,000 km2 monsoon-flooded salt desert.
Etosha Pan halophytics are Namibia's salt-pan ecoregion inside Etosha National Park, centered on a 4,800 km2 dry lakebed that floods after rains.
The Zambezian flooded grasslands are scattered floodplain wetlands in southern and eastern Africa, including the Okavango Delta and Kafue Flats.
The Inner Niger Delta flooded savanna is Mali's inland wetland ecoregion, where Niger and Bani floods create a Sahel oasis for birds and fisheries.
The Parana flooded savanna is an Argentine-Paraguayan riverine ecoregion, following the Parana and Paraguay floodplains south to the Rio de la Plata.
Cuban wetlands are Cuba's flooded grassland ecoregion, covering 5,631 km2 and including Zapata Swamp, home to the endemic Zapata wren.
The Guayaquil flooded grasslands are an Ecuadorian ecoregion in the Guayas River delta, covering about 2,850 km2 near the Gulf of Guayaquil.
The Nile Delta flooded savanna is Egypt's Nile floodplain ecoregion, where annual floods largely ended after the Aswan High Dam's 1970 completion.
The Lake Chad flooded savanna is a Central African wetland ecoregion in Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and Nigeria, fed mainly by the Chari-Logone rivers.
The Zambezian coastal flooded savanna is a Mozambique ecoregion in the Zambezi, Pungwe, Buzi, and Save deltas, covering about 19,346 km2.
This 1962 science fiction novel by J. G. Ballard is notable for its visionary depiction of a submerged London transformed by extreme solar radiation and rising global temperatures.
Southern Cone Mesopotamian savanna is a flooded grassland ecoregion of Argentina and southern Paraguay, noted as an endemic bird area.
Central Mexican wetlands are high-elevation marshes in Mexico, including Texcoco, Lerma, Patzcuaro, and Cuitzeo, with endemic axolotl habitat.
Enriquillo wetlands are Hispaniola's lowland lake wetlands, centered on Lake Enriquillo about 44 m below sea level in the Dominican Republic.
Llanos de Mojos is a seasonally flooded savanna in Bolivia's Beni department, notable for extensive pre-Columbian earthworks including raised agricultural fields.
Interior Niger Delta Flooded Savanna in central Mali is one of West Africa's most important wetlands, where the Niger River annually inundates up to 20,000 km² of floodplain supporting millions of migratory waterbirds.
Zambezian halophytics are Afrotropical saline flooded grasslands in Botswana and Mozambique, covering 30,400 km2 in Makgadikgadi and Changane.
East African halophytics are flooded saline habitats around Tanzania's Lakes Natron and Bahi, notable as a soda-lake breeding area for flamingos.
Saharan flooded grasslands are White Nile wetlands centered on the Sudd in South Sudan, noted as one of Africa's largest wetland systems.
