Paludification

Quick meaning: Paludification is a noun meaning The formation or expansion of swamp or bog.

Meaning

The formation or expansion of swamp or bog.

Example Sentences

At sites undergoing paludification, litter can accumulate to great thicknesses, as soils become increasingly colder, wetter, and nutrient-poor.

Research by Backman (1919) proved, however, that only about 5% of the swamps had arisin in that way, and that the paludification of mineral soils was the most common source of swamps.

On the eastern side of Lago Fontana small bogs are to be found here and there, paludifications of spring water where there is still sufficient moraine bed; most of them, however, are already dried and covered with sand.

One of the most significant ecological processes occurring in the black spruce forests of northern Abitibi is the paludification of forest soils (Boudreault et al. 2002; Fenton et al. 2005; Lavoie et al. 2005; Simard et al. 2007).

Word Forms

• paludifications

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include swamping, puddling, bogdown, plumper, plumping, muddening.

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