2. Floodplain wetland habitats: these are comprised of a variety of seasonally wet habitat types, which are either severely impacted upon by man or entirely man-made:
a) Seasonal streams
b) rice paddies
c) ponds (nong)
Some of these floodplain features are typical of agricultural landscapes throughout the Mekong basin. Nevertheless, their close association with the extensive maze of different riverine habitats is what makes the Siphandone landscape a mosaic of water and land, unique in its physical aspect and sheer size. Siphandone is both a remarkable natural landscape and a very specific agricultural landscape. The diversity of habitats, still retained despite the intensive human
pressure, provides the local farmers/fishers with a range of resources which they harvest according to the rhythms of the still relatively intact hydrological and ecological cycles.