reedbeds

Gazing out over forlorn reedbeds and marsh, the visitor is briefly serenaded by mournful passages from the work.

National Trust's talking benches to use voices of celebrities 2011

And where around the Overflow the reedbeds sweep and sway

Archive 2010-05-01 Blue Tyson 2010

There are also flowing interfluves (caños) carved by natural drainage, depressions which hold wet season lagoons (lucios) and hollows with upwelling groundwater (ojos), which form a mosaic of microhabitats: pools, streams, mudflats, reedbeds, banks and islands.

Doñana National Park, Spain 2008

The weaver's house is different as it is thatched with reed from the local extensive reedbeds of the Insh marshes.

Country diary: Newtonmore Ray Collier 2010

He talks of the Newport Wetlands, over 65 hectares of reedbeds and suchlike wild stuff.

I think Paul Flynn is worried about his seat. FIDO The Dog 2009

There are four main types of vegetation: alluvial inundated grasslands and reedbeds, alluvial savanna woodland, tropical moist mixed deciduous forests and tropical semi-evergreen forests.

Kaziranga National Park, India 2009

The Delta has been classified into 12 habitat types as follows: aquatic habitats - lakes (0.80 m - 2.50 m depth) covered with flooded reedbeds; 'plaur' - flooded islets; flooded reeds and willows; riverine forest of willows and poplars; cane-fields; sandy and muddy beaches; wet meadows; dry meadows (arid); human settlements; sandy and rocky areas; steep banks; and forests on high ground.

Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve, Romania 2009

Perisor-Zatoane-Sacalin Nature Reserve is a mosaic of lakes and ponds and reedbeds with parallel strips of sand dunes ( 'grinduri').

Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve, Romania 2009

Phragmites spp. reedbeds are burned to encourage regrowth for livestock grazing, and riverine woodland is heavily exploited for firewood.

Middle East steppe 2008

One area of high biodiversity found within this ecoregion is the mouth of the Liao River where extensive wetlands, reedbeds, sand, and mudflat areas remain.

Northeast China Plain deciduous forests 2008