%0 Research Notes
%T Variation in Sphagnum shoot numbers and shoot bulk density in hummocks of a raised bog
%A Lindholm, Tapio
%D 1983
%J Suo - Mires and peat
%V 34
%N 3
%U http://suo.fi/article/9571
%X The shoot number of Sphagnum fuscum plants in hummocks was 42160 ± 12800 per m2 and the bulk density of the 10 mm shoot layer immediately below the capitulum level was 10.6 ± 3.3 g/dm3. The shoot number explained 36 % of the variation of bulk densities in different samples. There is a large variation in the size of individual shoots, shoot densities and shoot numbers in different parts of a Sphagnum fuscum hummock.