UVM Libraries Research Guides: Colchester Bog Natural Area: Science and Ecology

Science and Ecology

The studies listed below represent some of the research that has been conducted at Colchester Bog, and include relevant peer reviewed research, thesis work and undergraduate research related to the science and ecology of the bog.

A more comprehensive annotated bibliography put together by the NR378 graduate course in the Rubenstein School of Environment & Natural Resources is also available here.

Research

Bledski, Leszek A., and Aaron M. Ellison. Diversity of Rotifers from Northeastern U.S.A. Bogs with New Species Records for North America and New England.
Hydrobiologia 497.53-62 (2003)
A survey of rotifers in the bogs of Massachusetts, Vermont and Connecticut. Detailed analysis and species list is presented.
Cocca-Muller, Karen. Minimizing Visitor Impacts in Colchester Bog: A Proposed Boardwalk, 1996.
Senior Thesis, UVM Environmental Program. Stored in the Library Research Annex; contact uvmsc@uvm.edu for access.
Gotelli, Nicholas J., et al. Geographic Variation in Nutrient Availability, Stoichiometry and Metal Concentrations in Plants and Pore Water of Ombrotrophic Bogs in New England.
Society of Wetland Scientists 23.3 (2008)
Examines geographic patterns in water chemistry and nutrient content of leaf tissue in several plants across 24 bogs and assesses how they indicate trends of nutrient limitation and human impacts on an area.
Howard, Lauren D., and Ian A. Worley. Phytosociological, Hydrological and Other Ecological Features of Colchester Bog, Vermont.
Proceedings of the Lake Champlain Basin Environmental Conference (1976): 52-116.
A detailed history and geomorphology of the bog. Describes eight methods of landscape analysis used in the Colchester Bog area and how they contribute to the phytosociological analysis.
Call number: Special Collections and Howe Library HC107 .N7 L34 1976
Johnson, Alexander Clark. Developing a Monitoring Protocol to Determine the Effects of a Boardwalk on Peatland Ecology and at Reducing Visitor Disturbance at Colchester Bog, Colchester, Vermont, 1996.
Senior thesis, UVM Environmental Program. Stored in the Library Research Annex; contact uvmsc@uvm.edu for access.
Lowstein, Frank, and Jillian Bubier. Soils on a Wetland-Upland Transition in Colchester Bog, Colchester, Vermont.
University of Vermont (1988).
Available in Special Collections.
Milgroom, Michael. "The Vertebrate Fauna of Colchester Bog."
University of Vermont (1977).
The author mapped the soil types and drainage classes at the upland-wetland boundary at a fine-scale level to assess the potential for land use.
Available in Special Collections.
Morales, Sergio E., et al. Comparison of Bacterial Communities in New England Sphagnum Bogs Using Terminal Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism (T-RFLP)
Microbial Ecology 52.1 (2006): 34-44.
A survey of bacterial populations at the surface and anoxic sub layer of 24 bogs in Vermont and Massachusetts.
Pinheiro, Victoria. A Literature Review of Scientific Studies Pertaining to Colchester Bog.
Prepared for University of Vermont NR378, 2014.
Sperry, J. S., N. M. Holbrook, M. H. Zimmermann, and M. T. Tyree. Spring Filling of Xylem Vessels in Wild Grapevine.
Plant Physiology 83.2 (1987): 414-17.
The progression of the contents of the xylem vessels in wild grapevines present in Colchester bog.
Weeks, Charlotte. The Geomorphological Origin of Colchester Bog, Vermont: An Alternate Model.
University of Vermont (1987).
An alternative to Howard and Worley’s theory, postulating lake-level and longshore sediment transport as the drivers of bog formation.
Available in Special Collections.
Woerner, Joseph, Christopher Wulff, and Melody Krause. "Vegetational Patterns in Relation to PH Levels In Colchester Bog."
University of Vermont (1995).
An investigation of the correlation between plant species assemblages with the pH of the water present.
Available in Special Collections.