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Ewiges Meer Nature Reserve, raised bog element of the remains of a bog in East Frisia. Peat moss floating mat on a silted-up raised bog kolk. Raised bogs, also called ombrotrophic bogs, are acidic, wet habitats that are poor in mineral salts and are home to flora and fauna that can cope with such extreme conditions.
Degraded raised bog are differentiated from active raised bogs by the complete absence (or patchy thin cover) of an acrotelm (the living, actively peat-forming upper layer of the bog). This typically occurs in areas of high bog where the bog hydrology has been negatively impacted by peat cutting, drainage, or other land use activities, but ...
A raised bog in Ķemeri National Park, Jūrmala, Latvia, formed approximately 10,000 years ago in the postglacial period and now a tourist attraction. A bog or bogland is a wetland that accumulates peat as a deposit of dead plant materials – often mosses, typically sphagnum moss. [ 1 ]
Burns Bog is an ombrotrophic peat bog located in Delta, British Columbia, Canada. It is the largest raised peat bog and the largest undeveloped urban land mass on the West Coast of the Americas. [1] Burns Bog was originally 4,000–4,900 hectares (9,900–12,100 acres) before development. Currently, only 3,500 hectares (8,600 acres) remain of ...
The assessment designated the primary feature for the selection of Cors Caron as active raised bog described as: . The Cors Caron sequence of peat domes (also known as Tregaron Bog) developed on the floodplain of the Afon (River) Teifi in mid-Wales now represents the most intact surviving example in the UK of a raised bog landscape (macrotope).
Cors Fochno. / 52.50376; -4.04193. Cors Fochno ( Welsh pronunciation: [kɔrs ˈvɔχnɔ]) is a raised peat bog near the village of Borth, in the county of Ceredigion, Wales. Lying on the south side of the Dyfi estuary, it forms a component part of the Dyfi National Nature Reserve. It was designated a UNESCO biosphere reserve in 1976, and is the ...
In the Dúchas (the Heritage Service) Raised Bog Natural Heritage Areas (NHA) Project 2002 report by Derwin et al. to assess raised bogs for designation as Natural Heritage Areas, Mouds Bog was one of the sites selected under a range of categories - remote location, area of active peat formation, raised bogs with over 60 hectares of high bog ...
Peat provides around 4% of Finland's annual energy production. [91] Also, agricultural and forestry-drained peat bogs actively release more CO 2 annually than is released in peat energy production in Finland. The average regrowth rate of a single peat bog, however, is indeed slow, from 1,000 up to 5,000 years. Furthermore, it is a common ...