Photo taken on Jun 05, 2012
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This forest is relatively dry and the pines look quite healthy. Yet. Fluffy landscape suggests that soon it will become too wet for the pines. As a rule, pine-cottongrass-sphagnum biogeocenoses are made up by pines dying out due to moisture increase.

C'est la vie. On second look, there are some dead trees in this green forest, and these trees died recently. Bog is like a very complicated system of connected vessels; this system continuously and irregularly grows and accumulates peat and water. In some places the peat grows faster than in other ones; water flows change; thus while in one place ridges become higher — in some other places rising ground water changes the image of the plant community in the opposite direction.

genus Birch Betula
species Hare`s-tail cottongrass, tussock cottongrass, sheathed cottonsedge Eriophorum vaginatum
species Scots pine Pinus sylvestris