Paleoecological aspects of the Red Lake Peatland, northern Minnesota

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Botany
• Main Author: Griffin, Kerstin O.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 1977
• Subjects: Plant Science; Red Lake; Teardrop; Carex aquatilis
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/b77-025; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/b77-025

The Red Lake Peatland, situated on the eastern arm of the Lake Agassiz plain in north central Minnesota, is made up of large black spruce raised bogs separated by sedge-covered water tracks marked by string patterns and teardrop-shaped forested islands. About 3 m of peat overlie a prairie soil; the...