ombrotrophic

Carbon dioxide and methane fluxes from the ombrotrophic parts of a subarctic mire.

Effects of climate change on landscape and regional processes and feedbacks to the climate system in the Arctic 2009

The continued northward push of the more southern species and habitats has been outlined by Pellerin and Lavoie [14] in relation to changes in ombrotrophic bogs due to forest expansion.

Effects of climate change on the biodiversity of the Arctic 2009

Monitoring of changes in permafrost distribution in subarctic Sweden as part of the Circumpolar Active Layer Monitoring Program [50] shows that permafrost loss causes mires to shift from ombrotrophic moss - and shrub-dominated systems to wetland systems dominated by minerotrophic vascular plants [51].

Effects of climate change on landscape and regional processes and feedbacks to the climate system in the Arctic 2009

Bogs are ombrotrophic referring to their lack of a connection with groundwater, lakes or rivers.

Wetland classifications 2008

Because pocosins are found in broad, flat, upland areas far from large streams, they are ombrotrophic like northern bogs, meaning rain provides most of their water.

Pocosins 2008

Poor fens are intermediate between mineral nourished water and mineral deficient water (ombrotrophic).

Wetland classifications 2008

Stage 5: The bog remains above the groundwater level and becomes ombrotrophic.

Wetland classifications 2008

Those which still have peat-forming vegetation are known as mires, and can be divided into fens (minerotrophic) and bogs (ombrotrophic) on the basis of nutrient status, which is closely related to the quality of the water supply.

Random graphic of the day: UNEP/GRID-Arendal Maps and Graphics Library 2010

Working with plant macrofossil, peat humification, and testate amoebae data, which they obtained from cores extracted from an ombrotrophic bog (Temple Hill Moss in southeast Scotland), the authors reconstructed a proxy climate record spanning the last 7500 years.

New Content on CO2 Science 2009

The authors analyzed plant macrofossils, peat humification and testate amoebae to reconstruct a proxy climate record spanning the last 7500 years of an ombrotrophic bog, Temple Hill Moss, in southeast Scotland.

New Content on CO2 Science 2009