Fenor Bog information

Fenor Bog is a regenerated alkaline fen and national nature reserve of approximately 32 acres (0.13 km2) in County Waterford. It is the county's first...

marshes, swamps, and bogs. Bogs and fens, both peat-forming ecosystems, are also known as mires. The unique water chemistry of fens is a result of the ground...

needed] The first school in Fenor village was a slated building built in 1826 on marginal land at the edge of Fenor Bog. Lord de la Poer of Gurteen also...

names for bogs include mire, mosses, quagmire, and muskeg; alkaline mires are called fens.[clarification needed] A bayhead is another type of bog found in...

Swamps, marshes, mires, bogs, and fens (all usually called "балота" (balota) in Belarusian) are important parts of the natural landscape in Belarus. Vast...

Liparis loeselii, the fen orchid, yellow widelip orchid, or bog twayblade, is a species of orchid. It is native to Europe, northern Asia, the eastern...

A bog body is a human cadaver that has been naturally mummified in a peat bog. Such bodies, sometimes known as bog people, are both geographically and...

largest bog in Estonia ("Soomaa" means "Bogland") Niitvälja Bog - is a fen in Harju County Nigula Bog - a nature reserve in Pärnu County Viru Bog - a bog in...

flora and fauna that can cope with such extreme conditions. Raised bogs, unlike fens, are exclusively fed by precipitation (ombrotrophy) and from mineral...

Northern Europe, Russia and Northern China) in upland and lowland areas (fens, bogs and marshes). In the north west of Scotland, and down the Western coast...

While a cataract bog is host to plants typical of a bog, it is technically a fen. Bogs get water from the atmosphere, while fens get their water from...

notes one protected habitat at the site: Bogs, mires and fens - specifically, transition mires and quaking bogs. The EUNIS web page for this SAC, however...

Cedar Bog State Nature Preserve is a fen left behind by the retreating glaciers of the Wisconsin glaciation about 12,000-18,000 years ago. A protected...

The bog turtle (Glyptemys muhlenbergii) is a critically endangered species of semiaquatic turtle in the family Emydidae. The species is endemic to the...

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Sphagnum angustifolium. Sphagnum angustifolium, the fine bogmoss, is a species of peat moss with a Holarctic distribution...

deposited in tidal mud-flats and salt-marsh, while the peat grew in the fen and bog. The peat produces black soils, which are directly comparable to the...

with alpine sphagnum raised bogs (not "fens" as the name would imply) both on the plateau and in the valley basin; the bogs, which are over 10,000 years...

Allegheny and Blue Ridge subranges. Though popularly called bogs, many of them are technically fens. After the Pleistocene ice ages, species and ecosystems...

as a National Natural Landmark in 1975. The Cabin Creek Raised Bog is an elevated fen, a peat-forming wetland characterized by alkaline water and soil...

ribbed bog moss is found in sedge (Carex spp.) meadows, sphagnum (Sphagnum spp.) peatlands, heath-sedge fens, and willow (Salix spp.)-dominated fens. In...

by black bog rush and saw sedge, with other species recorded including the fly orchid, western bladderwort, sphagnum moss and broad-leaved bog cotton....

Meacham, Matthew J. Kauffman, and William J. Rudd (Eds.).ISBN 978-0870719431 Fen, Bog & Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate...

species occurs in fens and bogs in Asia, Europe, and North America. In eastern North America, it is considered to be a diagnostic fen species. It sometimes...

heterogeneity. Peatlands, particularly bogs, are the primary source of peat; although less common, other wetlands, including fens, pocosins, and peat swamp forests...

of fen peat gradually built up above the bog mud in the centre of the bog, forming a raised bog. The increased elevation in the centre cut the bog off...

This is a list of bog bodies in order of country in which they were first discovered. Bog bodies, or bog people, are the naturally preserved corpses of...

The Mouds Bog (Irish: Portach Mouds) Special Area of Conservation or SAC is a Natura 2000 site based close to the Hill of Allen and to Newbridge, County...

alkaline. There are four main kinds of wetlands – marsh, swamp, bog, and fen (bogs and fens being types of peatlands or mires). Some experts also recognize...

wild forest and wetland area called Spruce Glen which has trails along a fen, bogs, old growth hemlocks and mixed hardwood forest. The Arboretum is home...

long, with lustrous brown scales. Larch are commonly found in swamps, fens, bogs, and other low-land areas. Tamaracks are very cold tolerant, able to survive...