Description
Naturalistic aspects
The vegetation is mainly represented by wet meadows, and more specifically by a herbaceous association dominated by the grass Molinia coerulea; in areas where waterlogging occurs, marshy meadows are widespread, in which swollen sedge (Carex rostrata) grows densely. Interesting aquatic plants live in the ponds and canals, including some caraceous algae and Potamogeton densus.
The fauna of the protected area is not very rich, also in relation to the absence of substantial watercourses, which could be the habitat of various species. However, the nesting of some uncommon water birds is worth mentioning: the water rail (Rallus aquaticus), the green reed warbler (Acrocephalus palustris) and the marsh bunting (Emberiza schoeniclus).
The biotope does not possess any extraordinarily interesting botanical or faunal elements, as is the case in the not distant Fiavé peat bog; its naturalistic preciousness consists above all in the relative integrity of the environmental components and in the extent of the area. Moreover, even the surrounding environment, on the sides of the hills bordering the valley, is not very anthropised, being practised almost exclusively in the cultivation of woodland.
As a result, the landscape in Val Lomasone is substantially the natural one, little modified by man, and the peat bog, with its considerable extension, is of great value. In fact, these environmental conditions, which used to be common to many other valley bottoms in our Trentino region, have now become very rare because elsewhere they have been irretrievably lost, wiped out by human presence and activities.
In truth, even the Lomasona has in the past been the subject of attempts to reclaim land by digging drainage canals, in order to transform the land for agricultural purposes or to obtain mowable meadows. The practice of grazing has also threatened the survival of the Biotope, because the hooves of animals break up the turf and their weight constricts the soil. With the establishment of the Biotope, these environmental disturbances were removed, restoring all the valuable functions of the wetland ecosystem.
Publications
- Project for protection and enhancement
Studies
- Naturalistic and cadastral definition project
- Periodic avifauna monitoring
- Periodic monitoring of amphibians
- Scientific Commission studies
