What is the difference between a bog and a wetland?

What is the difference between a bog and a wetland?

Swamps are low wetlands; bogs are generally higher than the surrounding land. Swamps receive water from rivers or streams and have some drainage; bogs receive water from precipitation and have no outflow; water is held by seepage. Swamps have muddy soil; bogs have peat formed by dead and decaying vegetation.

How are bogs different from fens?

Although both bogs and fens are similar types of wetlands as they are both considered peatlands, what sets them apart from each other is the source of their water supply. Fens typically are fed by a steady source of ground water whereas bogs are usually enclosed depressions filled by rain water.

What types of bogs are there?

Bogs can be divided into three types: (1) typical bogs of cool regions, dominated by the growth of bog mosses, Sphagnum, and heaths, particularly Chamaedaphne (northern bogs with trees growing on them are often called muskegs); (2) fens, dominated by grasslike plants, grasses, sedges, and reeds; and (3) tropical tree …

Is a bog alkaline or acidic?

Bogs and fens are uncommon wetland communities with water chemistry (pH) at the extremes: bogs are acidic and fens are basic or alkaline. Because of their water and soil conditions, bogs and fens are home to rare and specialized plants. Bogs receive their water from rainfall and snowmelt.

Is a moor a bog?

Moor, tract of open country that may be either dry with heather and associated vegetation or wet with an acid peat vegetation. If wet, a moor is generally synonymous with bog (q.v.).

Is bog a body of water?

Bogs are a type of freshwater wetland. A bog is a freshwater wetland of soft, spongy ground consisting mainly of partially decayed plant matter called peat. Bogs are generally found in cool, northern climates. They often develop in poorly draining lake basins created by glaciers during the most recent ice age.

What trees grow in bogs?

Bog woodlands are dominated by downy birch (Betula pubescens) with some silver birch (B. pendula) and willows (Salix species). Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) may be present locally. Dwarf shrub, herb and moss layers are well developed in bog woodlands.

What are the 2 types of bogs?

Although most bogs appear similar, there are in fact two very distinct types: Blanket Bogs are expansive, generally formed in wet or upland areas. Raised Bogs are smaller, generally formed in lowland areas.

What do bogs smell like?

Because true bogs are very low in O2 and nutrients they tend to smell little. Sure if you disrupt the system they can smell but my bog has been established since 1998 and it has no odor except a wonderful earthy smell.

Why are there no trees on moors?

People often ask us why we’re not planting trees on the moors… the answer is, we are! Blanket bogs, when in healthy condition, are waterlogged, nutrient poor and acidic, so trees do not normally thrive in this environment.

Are moors man made?

There is uncertainty about how many moors were created by human activity. Oliver Rackham writes that pollen analysis shows that some moorland, such as in the islands and extreme north of Scotland, are clearly natural, never having had trees, whereas much of the Pennine moorland area was forested in Mesolithic times.