Réserve écologique de Tantaré
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Réserve écologique de Tantaré
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| location | La Jacques-Cartier , Capitale-Nationale in Québec (Canada) | |
| surface | 14.5 km² | |
| WDPA ID | 4159 | |
| Geographical location | 47 ° 3 ' N , 71 ° 32' W | |
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| Setup date | 1978 | |
| administration | MDDEP | |
The Réserve écologique de Tantaré is a 14.5 km² protected area established in 1978 in the south of the Canadian province of Québec , in the regional county municipality of La Jacques-Cartier .
It belongs to the Capitale-Nationale region and is 42 km north of Québec, in the area of the municipality of Saint-Gabriel-de-Valcartier . It protects a small part of the Laurentides du Saguenay, a mountain range around the Rivière Saguenay , which is a transition zone between the south and the boreal forests of the north.
The area lies at an altitude of 380 to 680 m above sea level. The underlying rock consists mainly of gneiss with intrusions of granite and anorthosite . Above it lies Tillit , which emerged from the rock deposited in the glacier margin during the last Ice Age. Layers of organic material have been deposited in many places, but especially in the shores of Lac Tantaré . The soils are podsol with a lot of stones, i.e. acidic, nutrient-poor soil.
Below 400 m , the sugar maple predominates, often accompanied by the yellow pine on dense, less moist soils, and the American beech on thin to poor soils. They rather represent the forests to the south. In the higher elevations, on the other hand, there are balsam fir and yellow pine, which otherwise occur further north. Paper birch is more likely to be found in less favorable locations . In addition, there are bogs with an area of 2 ha, where the black spruce can be found in peat bogs, on locations rich in minerals, but it also inhabits poor, wet, slightly waterlogged and late frost-prone locations. Some of the trees are very old.
The name Tantaré goes back to a place name of the Wyandot , which can be translated as 'where there is a lake'.
literature
- Ma Catalina Alfaro-De la Torre, André Tessier: Cadmium deposition and mobility in the sediments of an acidic oligotrophic lake , in: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 66.20 (2002) 3549-3562.
- SL Filion Payette, A. Delwaide: Disturbance regime of a cold temperate forest as deduced from tree ring patterns: the Tantaré Ecological Reserve, Quebec , in: Canadian Journal of Forest Research 20 (1990) 1228-1241.
Web links
- Réserve écologique de Tantaré , government website
Remarks
- ^ Serge Payette, Line Rochefort: Écologie des tourbières du Québec-Labrador , Presses Université Laval, 2001, p. 511.