floodplain

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Changes that would help salmon include having larger flows in rivers at the right times to support fish, and opening up more floodplain habitats to support their recovery, Rypel said.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2025

Parts of Mandalay and its buildings also lie along the floodplain of the Ayerwaddy River.

From BBC • Mar. 29, 2025

These tyrannosaurs would have been around a third of the size of their famous cousin Tyrannosaurus rex, and likely hunted small dinosaurs and other reptiles in their floodplain habitat.

From Science Daily • Dec. 5, 2024

Even as communities deal with the aftermath of so much deferred maintenance, others are facing the inescapable fact that rebuilding on a floodplain may no longer make sense.

From Salon • Nov. 25, 2024

But when a tsunami comes, that farmland becomes a wide floodplain that is difficult to escape in a hurry.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland