Fen

A fen is one of the main types of wetland, the others being grassy marshes, forested swamps, and peaty bogs. Along with bogs, fens are a kind of mire. Fens are usually fed by mineral-rich surface water or groundwater. They are characterised by their water chemistry, which is pH neutral or alkaline, with relatively high dissolved mineral levels but few other plant nutrients. They are usually dominated by grasses and sedges, and typically have brown mosses in general including Scorpidium or Drepanocladus. Fens frequently have a high diversity of other plant species including carnivorous plants such as Pinguicula. They may also occur along large lakes and rivers where seasonal changes in water level maintain wet soils with few woody plants. The distribution of individual species of fen plants is often closely connected to water regimes and nutrient concentrations.

Fens have a characteristic set of plant species, which sometimes provide the best indicators of environmental conditions. For example, fen indicator species in New York State include Carex flava, Cladium mariscoides, Potentilla fruticosa, Pogonia ophioglossoides and Parnassia glauca.

Car (surname)

Car is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Marko Car (disambiguation), multiple people
  • Mirosław Car (1960–2013), Polish footballer
  • Roberto Car (born 1947), Italian physicist
  • Car (Greek mythology)

    Car or Kar (Greek: Κάρ) is a name in Greek mythology that refers to two characters who may or may not be one and the same.

    The name "Car" is unrelated to the English word "car" (vehicle).

    Car of Megara

    According to Pausanias, Car was the king of Megara and the son of Phoroneus (and Cerdo). His tomb was located on the road from Megara to Corinth. The acropolis at Megara derived its name Caria from him.

    Car of the Carians

    Herodotus mentions a (probably) different Car, brother of Lydus and Mysus; the three brothers were believed to have been the ancestral heroes and eponyms of the Carians, the Lydians and the Mysians respectively. This Car was credited by Pliny the Elder with inventing the auspicia.

    Car was also said to have founded the city Alabanda, which he named after Alabandus, his son by Callirhoe (the daughter of the river god Maeander). In turn, Alabandus's name is said to have been chosen in commemoration of his Car's victory in a horse fight— according to the scholar Stephanus of Byzantium, "Alabandos" was the Carian word for "winner in a horse fight". Another son of Car, Idrieus, had the city Idrias named after himself.

    Munch (surname)

    Munch is a Norwegian surname, meaning "monk". It may also sometimes be a variant of the German surname Münch, meaning the same. Notable people with this surname include the following:

  • Adolph Munch, American businessman and politician
  • Charles Munch (conductor) (1891–1968), Alsatian symphonic conductor and violinist
  • Charles Munch (painter) (born 1945), American artist
  • Edvard Munch (1863–1944), Norwegian Symbolist painter and printmaker; an important forerunner of Expressionist art
  • Peter A. Munch (1908–1984), Norwegian-American sociologist, educator and author
  • Peter Andreas Munch (1810–1863), Norwegian medieval historian
  • Peter Rochegune Munch (1870–1948), Danish historian and politician
  • Munch (crater)

    Munch crater is a crater on Mercury.

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