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Blanket bog
A blanket bog is a rain-fed peatland that blankets the underlying topography across large areas, forming mainly in oceanic climates with over 1,000 mm of annual rainfall.
Bog
A bog, also called a peat bog, is a peat-forming wetland fed almost entirely by precipitation, producing acidic, nutrient-poor conditions, often carpeted with Sphagnum moss, where deep peat accumulates.
Fagne
Fagne is a French and Walloon word for a small boggy marsh on high ground in the Ardennes, fitting peat bogs so well it became their standard local name.
Fen
A fen is a peat-forming wetland fed by groundwater and mineral soil drainage rather than rain, making it less acidic and more nutrient-rich than a bog.
Minerotrophic
Minerotrophic describes peatlands, especially fens, whose water and nutrients come partly from mineral soil or bedrock, unlike ombrotrophic bogs, which are fed only by precipitation.
Muskeg
Muskeg, or Maskīk, is a North American term for peatland, waterlogged terrain of sphagnum moss and stunted black spruce that covers every Canadian province and stores vast carbon.
Tourbiere
Tourbiere (French tourbière) means peatland: a waterlogged wetland where undecayed plants form peat. Bogs are rain-fed, fens groundwater-fed; peatlands cover 3% of land yet store 20% of soil carbon.