It may involve the manipulation of natural processes of ecological succession to create a self-sustaining indigenous ecosystem. The restored ecosystem should simulate the natural condition before it was damaged, or some other native ecosystem appropriate for the new conditions of the landscape. It must be stable with a minimum of human input after the initial efforts that may involve hastening the rate of plant successions, reverting to an earlier seral stage, or altering the direction of succession. A dynamic ecosystem that often occures between deep water habitats and uplands. A wetland may have standing water of no deeper than two meters.
Some wetlands are wet year-round, and others are wet only seasonally.
The conversion of a non-wetland area into a wetland where a wetland never existed. The improvement, maintenance, and management of existing wetlands for a particular function or value, possibly at the expense of others.