Description
The reserve consists of a small glacial basin on the Dossone di Cembra, carved out of porphyry, with a peaty birch grove. This is a 'transitional' peat bog, which originated by filling in a pre-existing lake basin.
This ancient lake had occupied a depression dug between the porphyry rises of the Cembra Valley by the glaciers of the most recent glacial period.
The protected area represents a kind of 'territorial island' that is home to extremely rare animal and plant species. These are so-called Alpine 'relicts' of northern, boreal species that remained isolated here at the end of the last glaciation.
The biotope is occupied by extremely interesting vegetation, in which the vegetation association Caricetum lasiocarpae stands out.
The biotope as a whole is also an area much frequented by the capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus), a Tetraonidae that has become increasingly rare in our mountains in recent decades, and which still breeds and winters here.
Studies
- management plan
