Goals

• Being able to define what a bog is.
• Being able to explain what bogs are like as habitats.
• Being familiar with bog-dwelling animal species.

Summary

• Bogs are peat-forming ecosystems.
• Bogs accommodate fewer species than forest ecosystems, and their food webs are likewise less complex.
• Many insect-eating bird species can be found in bog ecosystems.
• Invertebrates thrive in bog ecosystems.
• Bogs accommodate only a few mammal species.