Description
The Reserve is home to a very rich peat bog flora, with more than 120 species forming various types of plant communities (called vegetation associations), which can be described with the generic terms of wet meadows, sedges, puddles, sphagnum mounds and sphagnum thickets. These plant communities intersect with each other to form a characteristically diverse mosaic.
Among the many interesting plant species, some are particularly remarkable for their rarity: this is the case of the two small insectivorous plants Drosera rotundifolia and Drosera intermedia.
On the other hand, 1987 saw the definitive disappearance of another rare species, Rhynchospora alba, which had been compromised by peat extraction in the past.
This extraordinary environment is valuable not only for its flora, but also for its fauna. It is home to numerous animal species: species that are potentially common, but have become infrequent or rare due to the destruction of the wetlands that provide their habitat.
Studies
- naturalistic and cadastral definition project
- vegetation study
