The vegetational ecology of black spruce swamps, fens, and bogs in southern boreal Manitoba, Canada

Wetlands

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 564-582

  Locky, David A ^a   Bayley, Suzanne E ^a   Vitt, Dale H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Black spruce swamp; Bog; Boreal; Bryophyte; Classification; Depression wetland; Fen; Lichen; Peatland; Vascular plant

Indexed keywords

BOG; FEN; PEATLAND; SWAMP; VEGETATION;

CANADA; DUCK MOUNTAIN PROVINCIAL PARK; MANITOBA; NORTH AMERICA;

BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; CALAMAGROSTIS CANADENSIS; CONIFEROPHYTA; CORNUS; CORNUS CANADENSIS; DREPANOCLADUS ADUNCUS; EQUISETUM; EQUISETUM ARVENSE; EQUISETUM FLUVIATILE; EQUISETUM SYLVATICUM; GEOCAULON LIVIDUM; HELODIUM BLANDOWII; HYLOCOMIUM SPLENDENS; LINNAEA BOREALIS; LISTERA CORDATA; MERTENSIA PANICULATA; MONESES UNIFLORA; PETASITES; PETASITES FRIGIDUS; PICEA MARIANA; PLAGIOCHILA PORELLOIDES; PLEUROZIUM SCHREBERI; RHIZOMNIUM GRACILE; RHIZOMNIUM PSEUDOPUNCTATUM; ROSA ACICULARIS; SALIX; SALIX DISCOLOR; THUJA OCCIDENTALIS; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 33749486202     PISSN: 02775212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1672/0277-5212(2005)025[0564:TVEOBS]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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