Bog
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A bog or bogland is a wetland that accumulates peat as a deposit of dead plant materials – often mosses, typically sphagnum moss. It is one of the four main types of wetlands. Other names for bogs inc
A bog in Lauhanvuori National Park, Isojoki, Finland
Peat bog and peat to dry, L'Isle-aux-Coudres, Quebec, Canada, 1976
Bog in Antwerp Province, Belgium
Bog in the Seliger Lake area, Tver Oblast, Russia
Wetland
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A wetland is a distinct semi-aquatic ecosystem whose groundcovers are flooded or saturated in water, either permanently, for years or decades, or only seasonally. Flooding results in oxygen-poor proce
Bog
…A bog or bogland is a wetland that accumulates peat as a deposit of dead plant materials – often mosses, typically sphagnum moss. It is one of the four main types of wetlands. Other…
Marshlands are often noted within wetlands, as seen here at the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge in New York City.
Sunrise at Viru Bog, Estonia
Wetlands contrast the hot, arid landscape around Middle Spring, Fish Springs National Wildlife Refuge, Utah.
The wetlands of Cape May, New Jersey, in the United States comprise an extensive hydrological network that makes them an ornithologically important location to study the many birds which use the preserve as a place to nest.