GB/T 24708-2009Wetland classification (English PDF)

GB/T 24708-2009 is the English-translated version of 湿地分类.

GB/T 24708-2009 is the national classification of wetlands. Clause 1 states that the standard specifies the wetland classification system, the classification levels and the technical criteria, and that it applies to the comprehensive survey, monitoring, management, evaluation and conservation planning of wetlands; the page records no exclusions.

Clause 2 holds six entries whose term names the draft does not print, so they can only be described: natural or artificial, permanent or intermittent marshes, peatlands and water areas holding static or flowing fresh, brackish or salt water, including the sea areas whose depth at low tide does not exceed 6 m; the process of merging from the bottom up or dividing from the top down that splits wetlands into a series of classification units differing in complexity; the sequence of types formed by that gradual merging or division; the state in which surface water is present in a wetland all year round; the system formed where river water and sea water interact, which covers the permanent estuarine waters and the delta at the river mouth and runs from the tidal limit near the mouth section, where the tidal range is zero, down to the waterfront segment; and the inland zone laid down by river alluvium that stays perennially or seasonally infiltrated with water and is counted as part of the floodplain.

Clause 3 sets out the classification system itself, and its principles of division are that it suit the actual situation of the wetlands of China and that it integrate with the wetland classification system proposed by the Wetlands International Bureau.

The grading basis in 3.2 states that wetlands are divided into three levels on the strength of their causes, their landforms, their hydrological characteristics and their vegetation types, that level 1 divides the national wetland ecosystem into natural and artificial wetlands, that natural wetlands are then divided at level 2 into 4 classes and at level 3 into 30 classes, and that the whole classification system contains 42 classes; it adds that level 1 classifies by cause and level 2 by the landscape features of natural wetlands and by major wetland functional use.

The foreword states that the standard was proposed and is managed by the State Forestry Administration and that it was drafted by the Forest Inventory and Planning Institute.

The draft on the page ends with 3.2, so the technical criteria of the individual classes are not shown. It was issued on 30 November 2009 and has applied since 1 January 2010.

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This preview omits tables, figures, formulas and parts of the technical clauses. The complete document — 15 pages — is available in the English PDF.

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