bog vegetation

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• Bog — A bog or mire is a wetland type that accumulates acidic peat, a deposit of dead plant material ndash; usually mosses, but also lichens in Arctic climates.Bogs occur where the water at the ground surface is acidic, either from acidic ground water …   Wikipedia

• Bog turtle — Conservation status …   Wikipedia

• bog — bog1 boggish, adj. /bog, bawg/, n., v., bogged, bogging. n. 1. wet, spongy ground with soil composed mainly of decayed vegetable matter. 2. an area or stretch of such ground. v.t., v.i. 3. to sink in or as if in a bog (often fol. by down): We… …   Universalium

• Vegetation of New England and the Maritime Provinces — This area is dominated by a forest ecoregion called the New England Acadian forests which is a temperate broadleaf and mixed forest. [ [http://www.cas.vanderbilt.edu/bioimages/ecoregions/50410.htm Bioimages on Vanderbilt.edu: New England/Acadian… …   Wikipedia

• bog body — Any of an informal collection of some 700 variously preserved human remains found over the past 200 years in natural peat bogs, mostly in western Europe. The bodies, including the soft tissues and the stomach contents, remain preserved because of …   Universalium

• Bog lemming — Taxobox name = Bog lemmings fossil range = Early Pliocene Recent image caption=Southern bog lemming regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Mammalia ordo = Rodentia familia = Cricetidae subfamilia = Arvicolinae genus = Synaptomys genus… …   Wikipedia

• bog borer — noun 1. : woodcock 1a(2) 2. : an instrument for sampling vegetation below the surface of a bog …   Useful english dictionary

• bog soil — noun poorly drained soils on top of peat and under marsh or swamp vegetation • Hypernyms: ↑soil, ↑dirt * * * noun : an intrazonal group of poorly drained dark peat or muck soils underlain by peat and developed under swamp or marsh types of… …   Useful english dictionary

• bog —    Waterlogged, spongy ground, consisting primarily of mosses, containing acidic, decaying vegetation such as sphagnum, sedges, and heaths that may develop into peat.    Compare: fen, marsh, swamp.    GG …   Glossary of landform and geologic terms

• bog harrow — noun : a disc harrow with extra large notched discs for breaking up rank vegetation or hard soil …   Useful english dictionary

• Ballynahone Bog — is a raised bog, situated in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, about 3km south of Maghera, on low lying ground immediately north of the Moyola River about 14km from its mouth at Lough Neagh. It is one of the largest lowland raised bogs in… …   Wikipedia