Sphagnum Bog: an ecological inventory and recommendations for management and use
Seyer SC and Franklin JF. 1980. Sphagnum Bog: an ecological inventory and recommendations for management and use. Cooperative Park Studies Unit, Oregon State University. Corvallis, OR
"Vegetation at Sphagnum Bog consists of a complex mosaic of species associations, exhibiting gradual variation of species composition and structure between the types. The twelve communities described fall into five physiognomic types, as follows: (a) aquatic rooted and free floating herbs – fountain moss/marsh cinquefoil community and fountain moss/American speedwell/northern mannagrass community; (b) reedswamp communities – Indian pondlily community and beaked sedge community; (c) sedge fens – few flowered spikerush – mudsedge community, few flowered spikerush/bryophyte community, with two phases named for the dominant moss, either Meesia triquetra or fountain creek moss, and sitka sedge community with St. John’s-wort phase and a western aster phase; (d) shrub thickets – western bog blueberry/ribbed bog moss communities – thin leaf alder community and willow community. An additional forest edge transitional type, named lodgepole pine /grouse whortleberry/bead lily was also noted. A vegetation map was constructed to illustrate locations and extents of these various communities. Comparisons with other montane mires in the area determined that these physiognomic units are repeatable when appropriate habitat conditions are present, and that they usually include many of the same characteristic species."
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Seyer, Susan; Franklin, Jerry
- Date of Issue
- 1980-06
- Publisher
- Cooperative Park Studies Unit, Oregon State University
- Units
- CRLA
- Keywords
- Abundance (Biodiversity), Aquatic Plants, Management, Map, Marshes and Bogs, Observations, Plant Communities, Plant Studies, Presence (Biodiversity), sphagnum bog, sphagnum marsh, Succession