The Ecology of Wybunbury Moss, Cheshire: I. The Present Vegetation and some Physical, Chemical and Historical Factors Controlling its Nature and Distribution

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Wybunbury Moss, Cheshire, is a small peat mire of unusual structure located in the agricultural countryside of the Cheshire plain. The surface vegetation of the mire consists of markedly contrasting reedswamp, fen, carr, bog and woodland communities. Quantitative investigations of physical, chemical and historical factors of the environment were made in an attempt to determine those factors controlling the origin and distribution of the communities. The mire communities do not bear a serai relationship to one another, but their distribution can be explained in terms of substratum water chemistry and hydrological factors determined by the structure of the deposit. Their origin can be attributed to historical factors, principally drainage attempts made at the end of the last century.

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