PTERIDOPHYTES
Daniel F. Brunton
STUDY LOCATIONS
Monitoring studies of typical species require large areas of various habitats which enjoy long-term physical security. Such sites are rare in the most developed portions of the ecozone and are largely confined to publicly owned park and reserve lands and water. Most such reserves are small, rarely constituting more than a few hundred hectares of natural landscape.
Potential monitoring sites in the Mixedwood Plains Ecozone include Point Pelee and Bruce Peninsula National Parks, federal wildlife reserves such as the Long Point National Wildlife Area, Mer Bleue and Stony Swamp National Capital Commission Conservation Areas, portions of Rondeau, Presquil and Pinery Provincial Parks and privately owned reserves such as Alfred Bog. Many smaller areas maintained by provincial agencies such as conservation authorities and park commissions and by municipalities offer useful but less secure study areas.
The various conservation lands along the Niagara Escarpment are also potentially important for the monitoring of long-term population trends on rock-barren and cliff-face species.