Assertion: bog | /r/HasProperty | acidic
Facets:
value: highly
type: DEGREE
value: typically
type: DEGREE
value: always
type: DEGREE
value: usually
type: TEMPORAL
value: in arctic and boreal areas
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
text: Because bogs are highly acidic, with most of their nutrients locked up in decayed plant materials, they are not congenial environments for plants and animals.
text: A bog or muskeg is acidic peat land (peat bog).
text: bogs are highly acid with a pH (index of acidity–alkalinity) of less than five (seven being neutral) and are associated with waters containing no more minerals than are contained in rainwater,
text: Bogs are usually acid areas, frequently surrounding a body of open water.
text: Strictly speaking, a bog is an acidic wetland, usually formed in a depression formed by glaciation.
text: moss bog) is an acidic soil type common in Arctic and boreal areas, although it is found in other northern climates as well.
text: Fens are distinguished from bogs, which are acidic, low in minerals, and usually dominated by sedges and shrubs, along with abundant mosses in the genus Sphagnum.
text: Thus while a bog is always acidic and nutrient-poor, a fen may be slightly acidic, neutral, or alkaline, and either nutrient-poor or nutrient-rich.
text: Bogs and fens are uncommon wetland communities with water chemistry (pH) at the extremes: bogs are acidic and fens are basic or alkaline.
text: Bogs are acidic, low nutrient, northern Wisconsin peatlands dominated by Sphagnum mosses that occur in deep layers and accumulate over time as peat.
text: Bogs are typically acidic because the dominant plant, Sphagnum moss, releases Hydrogen ions (acidity), and the decomposed moss, peat, also releases organic acids (Mitsch and Gosselink 1993) during decomposition.
text: A bog or muskeg is acidic peat land (peat bog).