Description
In this environmental context, water plays a key interconnecting role between all the elements and the different portions of the biotope. In fact, springs, water tables, streams, bogs and torrents create a dense network that permeates the entire area, significantly determining its biological structure.
This biotope is home to a large number of extremely rare animal and plant species and has a high degree of original naturalness, i.e. it possesses ecological integrity and continuity.
Due to its geographical location, it is an area that is still scarcely anthropised and therefore little altered by human activities.
Some twenty peat bogs are found here, which are home to a large number of rare plant species, including Drosera intermedia, Vaccinium oxycoccus and Carex pauciflora, which can be considered glacial relicts.
The forests are made up of many different phytocoenoses, evenly distributed over the altitudinal gradient, and almost all characterised by the presence of the stone pine (Pinus cembra).
Vertebrate fauna is very rich, including, among birds, the capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus) and the black grouse (Tetrao tetrix), and, among mammals, the only herd of chamois (Rupicapra rupicapra) native to this portion of the Lagorai.
The presence of the most important mating ground for deer (Cervus elaphus) in this entire mountainous area should also be noted.
Studies
- Vegetation research
- Cartography