Moore and Auen are landscapes with many positive properties. The constantly changing floors not only do an important service as natural flood protection. They are also a true hotspot of biodiversity. Moore as a remnant of the last ice age is much more constant. In their peat layer, which has grown over thousands of years, they store tons of climate -damaging carbon. Due to the challenging living conditions, they offer rare, highly specialized animal and plant species.
These valuable habitats were increasingly pushed back through human interventions such as river defaults, peat cuts and drainage to obtain pasture and arable land. In the meantime, only less than one percent of the area of ​​Germany is covered by natural meadows and bogs.
In her large-format band, ecologist Barbara Stammel and the photographer Joe Häckl lead through moor and floodplain landscapes all over Germany. The easy -to -understand texts are gratifying for an illustrated book, while the photos depict the fascinating habitats in their whole, colorful variety. Last but not least, with examples of successful renaturation and strategies for “rewetting” dried bogs, mors encourages the future. Christoph Walter
Selected photos can be found in the picture gallery on Science.de.
Barbara Stammel, Joe Häckl
About Moore and Auen
Frederking & Thaler, 192 pages, € 34.99
ISBN 978-3-95416-407-3