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Wet grasslands, while extremely diverse, all developed under human, generally pastoral, management, to which they owe their character. Wet grasslands are of five main types: flood meadows, washes, water meadows, grazing levels, and wet heaths and acid grasslands. Flood meadows occur where rivers periodically spread out over their lowland plains and inundate them with fertile...