Forested Peatland
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Current ecosystem state
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Management practices/drivers
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Transition T1A
Beaver activity, roads, drainage, and other alterations in hydrology.
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Restoration pathway R2A
Draining or maintenance of water on-site causing alterations in hydrology.
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No transition or restoration pathway between the selected states has been described
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Description
Community phases within the Reference State are related to scattered small and moderate sized canopy openings from dead and/or windthrown trees. Windthrown trees were primarily dominant, above the canopy, and more exposed to wind events.
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Mechanism
Impoundment or maintenance of water on-site, and/or establishment of invasive species. Beaver activity, roads, drainage, and other alterations in hydrology can transition the Forest Peatland site out of Reference to an Ponded State, where water is ponded on site for longer durations from overland surface flow.
Mechanism
Draining or maintenance of water on-site causing alterations in hydrology that can transition the Ponded state back to the Reference State, where water is on site for shorter durations and receives less nutrients from overland surface flow causing increased tree growth. Also, natural succession (albeit slow) where more trees get established and provide the evapotranspiration necessary to draw down the water table.
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