Bottomland forest explained

Bottomland forest is woodland on lowland alluvial floodplains or lower terraces of rivers and streams.[1] Bottomland forest is very rare in Europe.[2] The bottomland hardwood forest is a type of deciduous and evergreen hardwood forest found in broad lowland floodplains along large rivers and lakes in the United States[3] and elsewhere.[4] They are occasionally flooded, which builds up the alluvial soils required for the gum, oak and bald cypress trees that typically grow in this type of biome.[5] The trees often develop unique characteristics to allow submergence, including cypress knees and fluted trunks, but can not survive continuous flooding.[6]

Typical examples of this forest type are found throughout the Gulf Coast states, and along the Mississippi River in the United States. It is estimated there were 24000000acres in the region before foresting and farming reduced it to approximately 4000000acres today.[7] [8]

On the Black Sea coast of Turkey there is Lake Saka Nature Reserve in İğneada Floodplain Forests National Park, Sarıkum Nature Reserve in Sinop, and in Samsun.[9]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Bottomland Forests . 2024-04-14 . Benton Soil And Water Conservation District . en.
  2. Book: Kirwan . Guy . The Birds of Turkey . Demirci . Barbaros . Welch . Hilary . Boyla . Kerem . Özen . Metehan . Castell . Peter . Marlow . Tim . Helm . 2008 . 9781408104750 . 35 . Bottomland forest is an extremely rare habitat throughout Europe.
  3. Web site: Bottomland Hardwood Forest . December 2005 . Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries . 2009-04-25 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070306105947/http://www.wlf.state.la.us/pdfs/experience/Bottomland%20Hardwood%20Forest.pdf . March 6, 2007 .
  4. Web site: Human Interventions on Wetlands and their Long Term Impacts on Human Well-being a study of Kizilirmak Delta case, Samsun, Turkey .
  5. Web site: Bottomland Hardwoods. School of Forest Resources and Conservation at the University of Florida. 2009-04-25. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20090527080612/http://www.sfrc.ufl.edu/4h/Ecosystems/Bottomland_Hardwoods/bottomland_hardwoods.html. 2009-05-27.
  6. Web site: Wetlands: Bottomland Hardwoods. Environmental Protection Agency. 2018-04-26.
  7. Web site: The Big Woods of Arkansas: An Imperiled National Treasure. The Nature Conservancy. 2018-04-26. https://web.archive.org/web/20180427044519/https://www.nature.org/ourinitiatives/regions/northamerica/unitedstates/arkansas/ivorybill/big-woods-of-arkansas.xml. 2018-04-27. dead.
  8. Yin, Yao, et al. “Bottomland Hardwood Forests along the Upper Mississippi River.” Natural Areas Journal, vol. 17, no. 2, 1997, pp. 164–73. JSTOR website Retrieved 6 Jan. 2023.
  9. Book: Kirwan . Guy . The Birds of Turkey . Demirci . Barbaros . Welch . Hilary . Boyla . Kerem . Özen . Metehan . Castell . Peter . Marlow . Tim . Helm . 2008 . 9781408104750 . 35 .

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