Lionel-Cinq-Mars Ecological Reserve

IUCN Category Ia - Strict Nature Reserve

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The Réserve écologique Lionel Cinq- Mars is furnished on an area of ​​440 ha in 1988, reserve in the south of the Canadian province of Quebec.

It is in the MRC Lotbinière about 50 km southwest of the provincial capital, Quebec City on the north shore of the Rivière Huron. It is located on the territory of the communes of Saint - Édouard and Sainte- Emmelie and protects the typical for the region Linden, and yellow birch.

The area is located between the Appalachian Mountains and the lowlands of the St. Lawrence River. The subsoil consists of so-called Shales, metamorphic rocks, which are characterized by foliation, which may be either sedimentary rocks and clay minerals. On top of limestone, dolomite, sandstone and shale. With the withdrawal of the post-glacial Champlain Sea have been deposited over the glacial tillite sand and clay minerals. Then the tide formed river terraces. Podzolic and soils with high content of organic residues characterize the region.

The sugar maple, the American linden and white ash are the most common tree species. In addition, yellow birch, red maple, western arborvitae ( Thuja ), black ash and American elm. When threatened applies Allium tricoccum (French: ail des bois, wood garlic ').

The name goes back to the plant pathologists and botanist Lionel Cinq- Mars ( 1919-1973 ). He became in 1962 professor at the Agricultural Faculty of Laval University, and he built a herbarium of more than 10,000 copies on, that is since 1968 Herbier Louis -Marie. He has published more than 70 papers - even for Ornithology - and founded the journals Ludoviciana and Provancheria. Since 1978, ie, a price of the Canadian Botanical Society after him. A kind from the kind of juneberries bears his name: Amelanchier Quinti - Martti (English: Cinq Mars ' serviceberry ).