An Ecological Study of Buckeye Lake. 



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Fifteen feet east of the belt is a public dock, four feet wide 

 and extending 78 feet out into the water, and 54 feet up onto the 

 shore. The marsh zones are not formed immediately on either 

 side of the dock. On the upper portion of the beach close to 

 the dock, the Hibiscus zone is coming in. Twenty feet east of 

 the western margin of the belt, the marsh zones are interrupted 



Fig. 'iS. — View of the vegetation from the S. E. side of the island in 

 belt transect a-a', showing associations I, II and III; and societies 1, 2, 

 3, 4, o, C' and 7 of map. 



by a boathouse on the beach with a runway for boats extending 

 into deeper water. The development of the marsh association on 

 the north side has thus been interfered whh and the margin is 

 also more exposed to storm winds and waves. A sandy beach 

 60 feet wide is building; it is occupied in part by the Polygonum- 

 Scirpus and in part by the Scirpus lacustris zone. 



At the south end of the section studied, both lateral zona- 



