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bog
bog A plant
community of acidic, wet areas. Decomposition rates in it are slow, favouring
peat development. Typical plants include bog-mosses (
Sphagnum species), sedges (e.g.
Eriophorum species), and heathers (e.g.
Calluna vulgaris and
Erica tetralix). Insectivorous plants (e.g. sundews,
Drosera species) are especially characteristic. They compensate for low nutrient levels by trapping and digesting insects. Three types of bog community are commonly distinguished:
ombrogenous blanket,
raised bogs (see also
TOPOGENOUS MIRE), and
valley bogs. These reflect the different physiographic and climatic conditions that may give rise to bog formation. Compare
FEN.
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Bog discovered in Severna Park
Newspaper article from: Maryland Gazette; 8/29/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Underwood explains, is a bog. Bogs are special wetlands that...said, 'My God, it's a bog,'" Mr. Higgs recalled. Bogs are more acidic than other...state.md.us/wildlife/bogs.hml. What is a bog? A bog is a distinctive kind...
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Bog Turtles, Southern Style.
Magazine article from: Endangered Species Bulletin; 5/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...An example of these challenges is the case of the bog turtle (Clemmys muhlenbergii). The northern population...due to its similarity of appearance to the northern bog turtle. In the south, bog turtles are restricted to small remnants of wetland...
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Bog leads back in time // Volo visitors walk on water, thanks to an ancient glacier
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 8/10/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...floating boardwalk over the jiggly peat of Volo Bog, my 11-year-old daughter, Kate, came...one of the wonders of hiking over the Volo Bog State Natural Area in Ingleside, the only example of a quaking bog in Illinois that exhibits all the stages...
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BOG * Preserved bodies tell the tale of ancient 'bog people'
Newspaper article from: Daily Breeze; 3/31/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...had been jammed into the bog in an "X" formation...was porridge. The peat bogs' astounding preservative...rare. There are far more bog bodies than lurs." Since...regularly mined for fuel. The bogs are now protected, but...Brakke said hundreds of bog bodies have been found...
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BOG TURTLE: Loss of habitat leads to decline.(filling in of bog areas in New York State and other environmental hazards leads to a 50% decline in bog turtles)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: New York State Conservationist; 8/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...Dutchess County, explains that the bog turtle's favored habitat of...Therefore, peripatetic little bog turtles must be on the move with...destruction of this unique habitat. Bogs are disappearing faster than...one study, 68 percent of known bog turtle sites are considered unsuitable...
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BOG STIRS ENVIRONMENTAL DEBATE DIVISION IN FALMOUTH ON CRANBERRY GROWERS' SPREAD OF PESTICIDES
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 11/17/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...which suffer when bogs are flooded and water temperatures rise. Bog supporters, through...the town's scenic bog vistas and a precious...leases the town's bogs, for preventable...bulk of the town's bogs - another 16 acres...founded the Falmouth Bog Preservation Group...
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BOG BODIES IN ART AND LITERATURE
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 2/5/2007; 700+ words
; ...Iron Age surfaced in peat bogs in her native Denmark. She was a teen when "The Bog People," a scientific...approximately 1,000 bog people found so far...before ending up in the bogs. Many were stabbed...brutally assaulted. When bog bodies were first found...
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Volo Bog a creepy, crawly place to visit
Newspaper article from: Courier-News (Elgin, IL); 5/6/1999; 700+ words
; Volo Bog a creepy, crawly place to visit...vegetation, just as the rest of the bog has been. Because little fresh...have been found preserved in bogs. Some of these bodies were preserved...with which love to play. Volo Bog is on Brandenburg Road near Ingleside...
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English bog aok: rare bog oak is buried treasure.(Wood of the Month)
Magazine article from: Wood & Wood Products; 8/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...Floyds Knob, IN. "Bog oaks offer us a great...lessons from the past. Most bog oak was found in the peat bogs of England or Ireland...the wood emerged from bogs, "much of it hard...with salt sea, water bog wood displays an almost...
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Suitland Bog's wonders include many rare plants.(Family Times)(Field Trips)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 6/22/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...your mind to the world of bogs - areas of wet, spongy...up a tour of Suitland Bog. "There used to be tons...in 1980, and Suitland Bog was dedicated in 1987. "It's one of the very few bogs left in the coastal plain...Maryland." Suitland Bog has more than 300 species...
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bogs
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Irish History
...progressively raising the bog's surface. Continued...perpetuating. Blanket bogs first developed rather...distribution of blanket bog is much less extensive...commercial exploitation of bogs in Co.Mayo and the midlands...1970, 135,000 acres of bog were yielding 4 million...
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Peat Bogs
Book article from: Plant Sciences
Peat Bogs A peat bog is a type of wetland...million hectares. Bogs are not just any type...in order to form. A bog begins in a low spot...The Book of Swamp and Bog: Trees, Shrubs...Feehan, John. The Bogs of Ireland: An Introduction...
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peatlands and bogs
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Earth
...precipitation. Raised bogs are dominated, in their...genus Sphagnum, the bog moss. These small plants...ombrotrophic and minerotrophic bogs, and while they may contain much bog moss they also may be...such as the valley bogs of the New Forest in...
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bog
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...of the open water of a bog ( peat is obtained from old bogs) and out on the surface...and the cranberry (old bogs are utilized for cranberry...the reclamation of old bog lands by drainage and...natural filling in, bogs in America are becoming...
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raised bog
Book article from: A Dictionary of Plant Sciences
raised bog An ombrogenous bog community, typically dome...substrates, and sometimes on valley bog surfaces. In the British Isles...still growing upward) raised bogs are confined to western oceanic...central Ireland. The living bog surface shows a complex of hummocks...
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