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> From: dwebster@glinx.com
> To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca
> Subject: Re: [NatureNS] Clarification of "Northumberland Coastal Plain sp=
ecies"
> Date: Sat=2C 20 Nov 2010 18:57:57 -0400
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> Thanks David. Too bad Ken (I am assuming this was Ken Webb) didn't call t=
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> Cumberland lowlands something like 'Northumberland Lowlands'.
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> I notice that Goldthwait (1924) used the heading 'Cumberland-Pictou=20
> Plain' for a section of his Lowlands chaper but on his map has=20
> 'Cumberland-Pictou Lowlands'.
> DW
> ----- Original Message -----=20
> From: "David Patriquin" <patriqui@DAL.CA>
> To: <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca>=3B "Mary Macaulay" <marymacaulay@hotmail.co=
m>
> Sent: Friday=2C November 19=2C 2010 8:28 PM
> Subject: [NatureNS] Clarification of "Northumberland Coastal Plain specie=
s"
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> >I had figured Mary was using "Northumberland Coastal Plain" in the
> > context it is used by Parks Canada & others=2C not in reference to the
> > "Coastal Plain Flora"=2C which she has confirmed (below=2C as posted to
> > NatureNS)
> >
> > The term "Northumberland Coastal Plain" applies to a physiographic
> > unit in Ag Canada's Ecoregions and Ecodistricts system=2C see
> > Ecoregions and Ecodistricts of Nova Scotia (Webb and Marshall=2C 2003):
> > "The Atlantic Maritime Ecozone covers 210 507 km2 and includes all of
> > New Brunswick =2C Nova Scotia=2C and Prince Edward Island. It also cove=
rs
> > Iles-de-Ia-Madeleine and the part of Quebec extending southwesterly
> > from the Gaspe Peninsula through the Appalachian complex of eastern
> > Quebec to the U.S. border south of Sherbrooke....The ecozone is
> > dominated by the interior Appalachian Upland and the Northumberland
> > Coastal Plain physiographic units. The uplands are composed of
> > granite=2C gneiss=2C and other hard=2C crystalline rocks. This upland
> > terrain is covered by glacial till. Humo-Ferric Podzols are the
> > dominant soils. In the coastal lowland areas=2C Luvisolic and Podzolic
> > soils have formed on surficial materials derived from the underlying
> > sedimentary bedrock (e.g.=2C sandstone=2C shale=2C and limestone)."
> >
> > I think the term has no intended phytogeographic relationship to the
> > Atlantic Coastal Plain flora=2C commonly referred to in NS as our
> > "Coastal Plain Flora"=2C or "Nova Scotias Coastal Plain Flora" .
> > (However there is some overlap in regard to disjunct distributions=2C
> > see Majka et al. 2009 ZooKeys 22:347 ff)
> >
> > The website at http://www.speciesatrisk.ca/coastalplainflora/ gives a
> > list of Nova Scotia's Atlantic coastal plain plant species at risk=2C
> > which are mostly confined to SW Nova Scotia=2C and a complete list whic=
h
> > includes some species that have spread well beyond SW Nova Scotia.
> >
> > The introductory section to The Flora of N.S.: Part 2 The Dicotyledons
> > by Roland & Smith* in which they talk about the floral elements in
> > Nova Scotia's flora still seems to be the best available overview of
> > the origins of our flora=3B it includes a lengthy discussion of "THE
> > SOUTHWESTERN FLORA". (It would be nice if this whole section (pp
> > 279-311) were freely available on the NSIS website=2C also if it was
> > updated - anyone interested?!!!)
> >
> > *Proceedings of the N.S. Institute of Science 26(4): 278-746=2C 1969=2C
> > also available as The Flora Of Nova Scotia by Roland and Smith 1983=2C
> > published by The N.S. Museum
> >
> >
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Well just to confuse matters Angevine Lake is nestled happily in the Wallac=
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t=3B Subject: Re: [NatureNS] Clarification of "Northumberland Coastal Plain=
species"<BR>>=3B Date: Sat=2C 20 Nov 2010 18:57:57 -0400<BR>>=3B <BR>&=
gt=3B Thanks David. Too bad Ken (I am assuming this was Ken Webb) didn't ca=
ll the <BR>>=3B Cumberland lowlands something like 'Northumberland Lowlan=
ds'.<BR>>=3B <BR>>=3B I notice that Goldthwait (1924) used the heading =
'Cumberland-Pictou <BR>>=3B Plain' for a section of his Lowlands chaper b=
ut on his map has <BR>>=3B 'Cumberland-Pictou Lowlands'.<BR>>=3B DW<BR>=
>=3B ----- Original Message ----- <BR>>=3B From: "David Patriquin" <=
=3Bpatriqui@DAL.CA>=3B<BR>>=3B To: <=3Bnaturens@chebucto.ns.ca>=3B=
=3B "Mary Macaulay" <=3Bmarymacaulay@hotmail.com>=3B<BR>>=3B Sent: Fr=
iday=2C November 19=2C 2010 8:28 PM<BR>>=3B Subject: [NatureNS] Clarifica=
tion of "Northumberland Coastal Plain species"<BR>>=3B <BR>>=3B <BR>>=
=3B >=3BI had figured Mary was using "Northumberland Coastal Plain" in th=
e<BR>>=3B >=3B context it is used by Parks Canada &=3B others=2C not=
in reference to the<BR>>=3B >=3B "Coastal Plain Flora"=2C which she ha=
s confirmed (below=2C as posted to<BR>>=3B >=3B NatureNS)<BR>>=3B >=
=3B<BR>>=3B >=3B The term "Northumberland Coastal Plain" applies to a p=
hysiographic<BR>>=3B >=3B unit in Ag Canada's Ecoregions and Ecodistric=
ts system=2C see<BR>>=3B >=3B Ecoregions and Ecodistricts of Nova Scoti=
a (Webb and Marshall=2C 2003):<BR>>=3B >=3B "The Atlantic Maritime Ecoz=
one covers 210 507 km2 and includes all of<BR>>=3B >=3B New Brunswick =
=2C Nova Scotia=2C and Prince