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  • Ponds with a rich variety of emergent and submergent plants-pondweed, duckweed, bur reed, flooded sedges, and wild rice-are almost sure to hold ducks.

    Beaver-Dam Ducks 2006

  • Looking at a map of the Mackenzie Delta, one thing becomes immediately clear – the lithosphere it sits on is submergent.

    Interview with Fred Michel on Arctic Ice Shelves « Climate Audit 2007

  • Consequently we had no discipline in the sense in which it was restrictive, submergent of individuality, the Lowest Common

    Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

  • If the surge and waves didn't wash away the submergent (floating aquatic) vegetation, the salt water probably killed it.

    On-line Exclusive: Rita's Ruin 1999

  • Without ample sunshine, submergent vegetation decays.

    Minot Daily News 2010

  • Without ample sunshine, submergent vegetation decays.

    Minot Daily News 2010

  • Brackish estuarine bays and marshes with abundant submergent vegetation and invertebrates are ideal wintering habitat for canvasbacks.

    unknown title 2009

  • Brackish estuarine bays and marshes with abundant submergent vegetation and invertebrates are ideal wintering habitat for canvasbacks.

    unknown title 2009

  • Brackish estuarine bays and marshes with abundant submergent vegetation and invertebrates are ideal wintering habitat for canvasbacks.

    unknown title 2009

  • Brackish estuarine bays and marshes with abundant submergent vegetation and invertebrates are ideal wintering habitat for canvasbacks.

    unknown title 2009

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