Bog-à-Lanières Ecological Reserve

IUCN Category Ia - Strict Nature Reserve

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The Réserve écologique you Bog- à - Lanières is furnished in 1992, 433 ha reserve in the south of the Canadian province of Quebec, in the Agglomà de La Tuque west of the Batiscan. It is 60 km from La Tuque away at Lac- Édouard.

The reserve is located in a wide valley and mainly represents the flora and fauna that is characteristic of the moors of the region, and more specifically for the nutrient- poor Bogs in the middle Laurentians. This marsh type is supplied only by rain and snow with water and is very mineralienarm.

The actual reserve represents only the main, inner part of the bog, but can not without the surrounding mire types exist surrounding this core over time. This type of peat is especially rare in Québec. The larger, shallow water area in the north of the protected area harbors bog rosemary ( Andromeda polifolia ), but also species of the genera laurel roses and beak Riede. This inner region surrounds first a belt of black spruce, this in turn is a ring of gekennzeichnetem by ferns Moor.