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During the El Niño-event in 1997–1998 more than 24,400 km 2 [2] of peatland was lost to fires in Indonesia alone from which 10,000 km 2 was burnt in Kalimantan and Sumatra. The output of CO 2 was estimated to 0.81–2.57 Gt, equal to 13–40% of that year's global output from fossil fuel burning.
Stillwater Bog - a sphagnum bog in Snoqualmie, Washington. Home to threatened species such as few-flowered sedge, mountain bladderwort, and state-candidate Beller's ground beetle. [2] Tannersville Cranberry Bog - a sphagnum bog in Pennsylvania; Tom S. Cooperrider-Kent Bog State Nature Preserve - A 42-acre (170,000 m 2) bog in Kent, Ohio
[2] [3] They are often covered in heath or heather shrubs rooted in the sphagnum moss and peat. The gradual accumulation of decayed plant material in a bog functions as a carbon sink. [4] [5] Bogs occur where the water at the ground surface is acidic and low in nutrients. A bog usually is found at a freshwater soft spongy ground that is made up ...
While a cataract bog is host to plants typical of a bog, it is technically a fen, not a bog. Bogs get water from the atmosphere, while fens get their water from groundwater seepage. [11] Cataract bogs inhabit a narrow, linear zone next to the stream, and are partly shaded by trees and shrubs in the adjacent plant communities. [12]
The word palustrine comes from the Latin word palus or marsh. [2] Wetlands within this category include inland marshes and swamps as well as bogs , fens , pocosins , tundra and floodplains . According to the Cowardin classification system , palustrine wetlands can also be considered the area on the side of a river or a lake, as long as they are ...
It is dominated by a wet cypress forest, but while "few giant cypress remain...one third of the swamp is covered with dwarf pond cypress." [ 11 ] It is host to an array of flora and fauna, including mangroves , orchids , alligators , crocodiles , venomous snakes like the cottonmouth and eastern diamondback rattlesnake , a variety of birds ...
That happened Wednesday, Dec. 20, in the Shark Valley area of Everglades National Park, when a 10- or 11-foot alligator was seen trying to swallow an equally large python.
moss bog) is a peat-forming ecosystem found in several northern climates, most commonly in Arctic and boreal areas. Muskeg is approximately synonymous with bog or peatland, and is a standard term in Canada and Alaska. The term became common in these areas because it is of Cree origin; maskek (ᒪᐢᑫᐠ) meaning "low-lying marsh". [1]