Vascular Flora Additions and Noteworthy Collections from Quetico Provincial Park, Ontario
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Abstract
Quetico Provincial Park (QPP), in northwest Ontario between latitude N48.045 and 48.695 and longitude W90.850 and 92.275, protects more than half of a 2.2 million acre international wilderness of forest, water, and rock on the Canada/United States border.During a 16-day botanical study along the southeast edge of QPP, mostly over greenstone bedrock, 33 species new to QPP (including 2 new to northwest Ontario), as well as 55 others considered rare or scarce in the park, were found.Also encountered were 11 Ontario rare species (2 new to the park and all but 1 at new locations). MATERIALS AND METHODSSince it would require an enormous amount of time to adequately botanize the greenstone area of Quetico, I tried to focus my efforts on a variety of selected spots that I believed would give the most complete picture of the flora of the area.To this end, I tried to locate and do field work in specialized natural communities in the landscape to emphasize the diversity of plant species present.Necessarily, this entailed ignoring, to some degree, the general forest cover, which is already better known and less likely to lead to significant plant discoveries.By studying maps, aerial photographs, geological information, available plant literature (mainly Walshe 1980), and drawing on my own years of field work in the neighboring BWCAW, I selected areas to explore, and, once in the field, refined my search areas.I collected plants that I recognized as being significant to the understanding of the flora, or that were unfamiliar to me.All collections are from QPP in Rainy River District, Ontario.For each plant gathered, notes were made on habitat and associate species, and, often, location was taken with a hand held Garmin eTrex GPS system.More than 200 collections (Scott #2730-2971) were sent to Michael Oldham at the Ontario Natural Heritage Information Centre (NHIC), for verification, and deposited in the Lakehead University herbarium (LKHD) in Thunder Bay, Ontario (a few collections were retained at the NHIC herbarium).There are three collections (2753, 2810, and 2961) cited in this report that I have misplaced, and thus are not in one of the herbaria.Since QPP lies on the Ontario/Minnesota border and is within the same ecosystem protected by the adjoining BWCAW in Minnesota, distribution information for plants reported as "new" to the park is given for both province (Ontario) and state (Minnesota) to assess the significance of each species' presence in the park in relation to the undivided ecosystem and general region rather than by the limits imposed by national borders.Northern Ontario Plant Database (NOPD), a frequently cited plant distribution source in this paper, "is not comprehensive in its inclusion of northern Ontario
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Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.005 | 0.007 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.010 | 0.001 |
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