Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Built Environment (hierarchy name)
4. Settlements and Landscapes (hierarchy name)
5. landscapes (environments)
6. natural landscapes
7. bodies of water (natural)
8. bodies of freshwater
9. [bodies of freshwater by biome]
10. wetlands

Narrower term/s

• peat bogs

Anotations

Scope note:

Designates waterlogged spongy ground with a characteristic plantlife, such as sphagnum mosses, and in which vegetation is decaying, ultimately producing highly acidic peat. Distinct from "fens," in which the water remains alkaline.