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Bogs

Bogs. By: Will Mock and Kira Schnitzler. Bogs: Abiotic Factors, Adaptations, and Ecosystem Structure.

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Bogs

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  1. Bogs By: Will Mock and KiraSchnitzler

  2. Bogs: Abiotic Factors, Adaptations, and Ecosystem Structure. • -A bog is a freshwater wetland with soft, spongy ground due to an accumulation of decaying plant matter (known as “peat”). Bogs often develop in poorly draining lake basins and low-laying valleys in cool, Northern areas. • -There are many distinct types of bogs, including, but not limited to: Blanket bogs, cataract bogs, quaking bogs, raised bogs, string bogs, and valley bogs. • -Bog soils are oxygen- and nutrient-poor, and are much more acidic than other soils. • -Peat mosses are capable in growing in these very acidic conditions where there is no groundwater flowing. Their only source of nutrients come from rain, but their structure allows them to hold 15 times their own weight in water. This allows the moss to withstand long dry spells. • -Many species of fungi and certain low-lying shrubs, such as heather, can also grow in bogs because they can grow directly on sphagnum moss.

  3. Ecosystem Services • Bogs serve an important ecological function in preventing downstream flooding by absorbing precipitation. Bogs support some of the most interesting plants in the United States (like the carnivorous Sundew, who feeds on invertebrates because of the lack of nutrients), and provide habitat to animals threatened by human encroachment.

  4. Negative affects by Humans • Bogs are being drained in order to mine the peat to be used as fuel or soil conditioner, as well as being drained to use the land for farming.

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