Abstract
In eastern North America raised bogs occur roughly north and east of a line connecting stations with an average annual water deficiency (Thornthwaite 1948) based on a soil storage capacity of 10 cm (Figure 1). In the southern part of their range they are particularly abundant in an area near the Bay of Fundy which corresponds more or less with the Fundy Coast Section of the Acadian Forest Region (Rowe 1972) and the area mapped as spruce fir forest by Davis (1966).
The nomenclature for vascular plants follows Fernald (1950), for lichens Hale & Culberson (1966), for hepaticae Schuster (1953), and for mosses Crum et al. (1965), except for Sphagnum rubelluw Wils., S. nemoreum Scop., S. apiculatum Lindb., S. parvifolium Warnst., Polytrichum strictum Menz. ex Brid., and Dicranum bergeri Bland.
Dedicated to Professor Victor Westhoff on the occasion of his 60th birthday.
This research was supported by NSF grant GB-8744 and grants from the University of Connecticut Research Foundation. I wish to thank K.J. Metzler for carefully tabulating the vegetation data, and A.E. Brower and W.J. Meades for their help in locating some bogs in Maine and New Brunswick, respectively.
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Damman, A.W.H. (1978). Geographical Changes in the Vegetation Pattern of Raised Bogs in the Bay of Fundy Region of Maine and New Brunswick. In: van der Maarel, E., Werger, M.J.A. (eds) Plant Species and Plant Communities. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9987-9_14
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