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Akkeshi-Kiritappu-Konbumori Quasi-National Park
is a List of national parks of Japan, Quasi-National Park in eastern Hokkaidō, Japan. Established in 2021, the park spans the Municipalities of Japan, municipalities of Akkeshi, Hokkaidō, Akkeshi, Hamanaka, Hokkaidō, Hamanaka, Kushiro, Hokkaidō (town), Kushiro, and Shibecha, Hokkaido, Shibecha. It subsumes and replaces the former Akkeshi Prefectural Natural Park, established in 1955. The park, which has a total designated area of , including a marine zone of , comprises three non-contiguous largely coastal areas, adjoining areas of lake, marsh, wetland, and forest, and several islands. Prominent features include, from west to east, and , , , Daikoku Island (Akkeshi), Daikoku Island (a Wildlife Protection Areas in Japan, Special Wildlife Protection Area, the seabird breeding grounds of which are a Monuments of Japan, Natural Monument), Lake Akkeshi (a Wildlife Protection Areas in Japan, Special Wildlife Protection Area and part of the Akkeshi-ko and Bekambeushi-shitsugen Rams ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sika Deer
The sika deer (''Cervus nippon''), also known as the Northern spotted deer or the Japanese deer, is a species of deer native to much of East Asia and introduced to other parts of the world. Previously found from northern Vietnam in the south to the Russian Far East in the north, it is now uncommon except in Japan, where the species is overabundant. Etymology Its name comes from , the Japanese word for "deer". In Japan, the species is known as the . In Chinese, it is known as . Taxonomy The sika deer is a member of the genus ''Cervus'', a group of deer also known as the "true deer". Formerly, sika were grouped together in this genus with nine other species. Now, only the sika and red deer remain, the latter being divided into three separate species: European red deer, central Asian red deer, and American elk (though this remains controversial). Recent DNA evidence indicates these deer are not as closely related as previously thought, resulting in the creation of new species ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monuments Of Japan
is a collective term used by the Japanese government's Law for the Protection of Cultural Properties to denote Cultural Properties of JapanIn this article, capitals indicate an official designation as opposed to a simple definition, e.g "Cultural Properties" as opposed to "cultural properties". as historic locations such as shell mounds, ancient tombs, sites of palaces, sites of forts or castles, monumental dwelling houses and other sites of high historical or scientific value; gardens, bridges, gorges, mountains, and other places of great scenic beauty; and natural features such as animals, plants, and geological or mineral formations of high scientific value. Designated monuments of Japan The government ''designates'' (as opposed to '' registers'') "significant" items of this kind as Cultural Properties (文化財 ''bunkazai'') and classifies them in one of three categories: * * , * . Items of particularly high significance may receive a higher classification as: * * * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vaccinium Oxycoccos
''Vaccinium oxycoccos'' is a species of flowering plant in the heath family. It is known as small cranberry, marshberry, bog cranberry, swamp cranberry, or, particularly in Britain, just cranberry. It is widespread throughout the cool temperate northern hemisphere, including northern Europe, northern Asia and northern North America. Description This cranberry is a small, prostrate shrub with vine-like stems that root at the nodes. The leaves are leathery and lance-shaped, up to long. Flowers arise on nodding stalks a few centimeters tall. The corolla is white or pink and flexed backward away from the center of the flower. The fruit is a red berry which has spots when young. It measures up to wide. The plant forms associations with mycorrhizae. It mainly reproduces vegetatively. Distribution and habitat ''Vaccinium oxycoccos'' is a widespread and common species occurring broadly across cooler climates in the temperate northern hemisphere. It is an indicator of moist to wet soil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hemerocallis Esculenta
''Hemerocallis middendorffii'' var. ''esculenta'' (synonym ''Hemerocallis esculenta'') known as nikkōkisuge or zenteika (in Japanese: 日光黄菅 or 禅庭花) is a perennial plant belonging to the family Asphodelaceae. It is native to Japan. Its yellow flower blooms in early summer, especially in the highlands of Japan in large groups. Distribution Some of the places where ''nikkōkisuge'' grows include: (in Japanese) * Kirifuri Highland, Nikkō, * Numappara Shitsugen (Wetland), Nasushiobara, |
Thermopsis
''Thermopsis'' is a genus of legumes, native to temperate North America and east Asia. They are herbaceous perennials and are known as goldenbanners or false-lupines. Species ''Thermopsis'' comprises the following species: * '' Thermopsis alpina'' (Pall.) Ledeb. * '' Thermopsis alterniflora'' Regel & Schmalh. * '' Thermopsis barbata'' Benth. * '' Thermopsis bargusinensis'' Czefr. * '' Thermopsis californica'' S. Watson—western North America ** var. ''argentata'' (Greene) C.J.Chen & B.L.Turner ** var. ''californica'' S. Watson * '' Thermopsis chinensis'' S. Moore * '' Thermopsis dahurica'' Czefr. * '' Thermopsis divaricarpa'' A. Nelson—Rocky Mountains of North America * '' Thermopsis dolichocarpa'' V.A. Nikitin * '' Thermopsis fraxinifolia'' (Torr. & A. Gray) M.A. Curtis—eastern North America * '' Thermopsis gracilis'' Howell—western North America * '' Thermopsis gyirongensis'' S.Q. Wei * '' Thermopsis inflata'' Cambess. * '' Thermopsis jacutica'' Czefr. * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iris Setosa
Iris most often refers to: *Iris (anatomy), part of the eye *Iris (mythology), a Greek goddess * ''Iris'' (plant), a genus of flowering plants *Iris (color), an ambiguous color term Iris or IRIS may also refer to: Arts and media Fictional entities * Iris (''American Horror Story''), an ''American Horror Story: Hotel'' character * Iris (''Fire Force''), a character in the manga series ''Fire Force'' * Iris (''Mega Man''), a ''Mega Man X4'' character ** Iris, a ''Mega Man Battle Network'' character * Iris (''Pokémon'') ** Iris (''Pokémon'' anime) * Iris, a '' Trolls: The Beat Goes On!'' character * Sorceress Iris, a ''Magicians of Xanth'' character * Iris, a kaiju character in '' Gamera 3: The Revenge of Iris'' * Iris, a ''LoliRock'' character * Iris, a '' Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals'' (1995) character * Iris, a '' Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney − Trials and Tribulations'' character * Iris, a ''Ruby Gloom'' character * Iris, a ''Taxi Driver'' (1976) character * Iris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erman's Birch
''Betula ermanii'', or Erman's birch, is a species of birch tree belonging to the family Betulaceae. It is an extremely variable species and can be found in Northeast China, Korea, Japan, and Russian Far East (Kuril Islands, Sakhalin, Kamchatka). It can grow to tall. It is noted for its peeling bark, which can sometimes be removed in sheets, but usually shreds and hangs from the trunk and under branches. Yellow-brown male catkins appear with the leaves in spring. Erman's birch is widely cultivated outside its natural range. The cultivar 'Grayswood Hill' has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. Leading tree nurseries including Barcham Trees stock the species. It is consequently a frequently encountered street tree in London and other British towns and cities. File:Betula ermanii SE4 02 MG 5041.jpg, Street tree in Brockley Brockley is a district and an wards of the United Kingdom, electoral ward of south London, England, in the London Borough ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sakhalin Fir
''Abies sachalinensis'', the Sakhalin fir, is a species of conifer in the family Pinaceae. It is found in Sakhalin island and southern Kurils (Russia), and also in northern Hokkaido (Japan). The first discovery by a European was by Carl Friedrich Schmidt (1832-1908), the Baltic German botanist, on the Russian island of Sakhalin in 1866, but he did not introduce it to Europe. The plant was re-discovered by the English plant-collector, Charles Maries in 1877 near Aomori on the main Japanese island of Honshū, who initially thought it to be a variety of ''Abies veitchii''. Abies nephrolepis (khingan fir) is known to be the closest relative, which exists on the mainland just west of the range of Sakhalin fir. Description Grows to 30m tall with Girths up to 100 cm. The crown pyramidal, but tend to flatten out as they grow to old age. Branches are long and slender during the life time. As you move down to more northern parts of its habitat they tend to grow shorter. hardiness zon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peat
Peat (), also known as turf (), is an accumulation of partially decayed vegetation or organic matter. It is unique to natural areas called peatlands, bogs, mires, moors, or muskegs. The peatland ecosystem covers and is the most efficient carbon sink on the planet, because peatland plants capture carbon dioxide (CO2) naturally released from the peat, maintaining an equilibrium. In natural peatlands, the "annual rate of biomass production is greater than the rate of decomposition", but it takes "thousands of years for peatlands to develop the deposits of , which is the average depth of the boreal orthernpeatlands", which store around 415 gigatonnes (Gt) of carbon (about 46 times 2019 global CO2 emissions). Globally, peat stores up to 550 Gt of carbon, 42% of all soil carbon, which exceeds the carbon stored in all other vegetation types, including the world's forests, although it covers just 3% of the land's surface. ''Sphagnum'' moss, also called peat moss, is one of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kiritappu Wetland
is a 3,168ha. wetland area in Hamanaka-cho, Akkeshi District, Hokkaidō, Japan. It is also called because numerous flowers can be seen in summer. Kiritappu wetland is the third largest wetland in Japan, following the Kushiro Shitsugen National Park and Sarobetsu field. The peatland in the center of Kiritappu wetland (803ha) was nominated as a natural treasure of Japan in 1922. In 1993, it was registered as one of the Ramsar sites. The local people founded a national trust in 2000, Kiritappu Shitsugen Trust N.P.O., and are making efforts to protect and preserve the wetland. Location Kiritappu Wetland is on the northeast side of Japan, on the east side of Hokkaidō, facing the Pacific Ocean between Kushiro and Nemuro. It is 9 km long and 3 km wide. On the north hill lies , a visitors' center run by Kiritappu Shitsugen Trust N.P.O. On the height of the west part of the wetland there is an observation deck. Hokkaidō road no. 808 runs there which is also called "M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenbokki Island
is an uninhabited island in Hamanaka, Hokkaidō, Japan. It forms part of Akkeshi Prefectural Natural Park. The name is derived from the Ainu ''kene-pok'' or "beneath the alder" (''Alnus japonica''). During studies in 1999, four species of mammal ( long-clawed shrew, grey-sided vole, harbour seal, and visiting sika deer) and forty-one species of birds were recorded on the island; there were no amphibians or reptiles. Of the birds, Leach's storm petrel (some twenty thousand pairs), Japanese cormorant, Japanese snipe, slaty-backed gull, and common reed bunting were identified as breeding on Kenbokki. Flora include , Hemerocallis esculenta, and lily-of-the-valley. Masanori Hata founded after his stay on the island. References See also {{Commons category, Kenbokki Island * List of Natural Monuments of Japan (Hokkaidō) This list is of the Monuments of Japan, Natural Monuments of Japan within the Prefectures of Japan#Hokkaido, Circuit of Hokkaidō. National Natural Monume ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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