Marcel-Raymond Ecological Reserve
IUCN Category Ia - Strict Nature Reserve
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The Réserve écologique Marcel -Raymond is furnished on an area of 64.21 ha in 1987 protected area in the extreme south of the Canadian province of Quebec in the MRC Le Haut -Richelieu.
It is located at Pointe du Gouvernement at Richelieu River. It protects a forest where mainly rare in Canada White Oak (Quercus bicolor) find that prefer the river banks of the Richelieu. The leaves have the top and the bottom on different colors.
The surface of the protected area consists entirely of sedimentary rocks. In were deposited during the time of the Champlain Sea clay, silt and sand. The area is humid, with bog and swamp, flood plains and wetlands, and designated as Herbier marins, constantly standing in shallows plant communities coexist. Two-thirds of the area consist of swamps, where trees grow, the White Oak prefers less humid areas. Besides this kind there is silver maple (Acer saccharinum ), a tree species that is also rare in Québec. Both types are available in the higher regions where the soil is vergleyt. In addition, there is the red ash (Fraxinus pennsylvanica ), also Pensylvanische Ash ( French Frêne rouge de Pennsylvanie ) called, silver maple and red maple.
The wet grass areas involve reed canary grass ( Phalaris French roseau ), Spartina pectinata from the kind of mud grasses or broad-leaved cattail.
In reserve at least seven threatened plant species: Aster fragilis from the kind of asters, Carex lupuliformis and Carex typhina, two sedges, Gratiola aurea from the kind of grace herb, Lysimachia hybrida, a Gilbweiderichart, Platanthera flava ( Linnaeus) Lindley (French: Platanthère à gorge tuberculée var petite tart ) from the kind of wood bluebells and Zizania aquatica var aquatica, a species in the genus water rice.
Numerous species of waterfowl use the area, six Froschlurcharten, but the environment through agriculture has been greatly affected.
The name of the area goes back to the botanist Marcel Raymond (1915-1972) from Saint -Jean d' Iberville, who with several works, including his Esquisse phytogéographique du Québec (1950 ), the vegetation Québec made more widely known.