@article{gledocs_11858_7195,
author = {Scholtes, Margret and Reichert, Hans},
title = {Die Brücher – Mittelgebirgsmoore im Hunsrück dargestellt am Beispiel des NSG „Hangbrücher bei Morbach“},
year = {2002},
volume = {32},
pages = {63-106},

abstract = {Abstract: The slope mires in the Hunsrück are called „Brücher“ or „Hangbrücher“ and are examplified by the Hangbrücher conservation area near Morbach. Prerequisites for the forming of mires on the slopes of the Hunsrück-Maincrest are the lithologic and petrographic conditions as well as the rainy and cool climate. Corresponding with the water- and nutritive supply as well as with the thickness of the peat layer, plant communities such as transitional mires, “Kleinseggenrieder”, heather and mirewood appear. The marginal areas of these moors are characterized by heather and birch-mirewoods. Here and there spring-meadows and alder-swampwoods appear. Birch-beech-oakwoods change over to beechwoods which are the catchment basin of these mires. The mosses found here are of significant meaning in nature conservation. Knowledge of specialized animals in these mires is still incomplete. The mires are endangered by direct and indirect disturbance of the water regime. Considerable damage had been done but they are not destroyed yet. The principle of the development of the conservation area ”Hangbrücher bei Morbach” is the protection and re-establishment of favourable ecological properties. Restoring water into the mires is of highest priority. Where vegetation is concerned, the aim is to reverse previous plantings of species not typical of the region. Conflicts arise between the goals of nature reservation and the claims of forestry and the taking of drinking water from the area around the mires. For the optimum protection of these precious mires, a step by step concept of protection and development is absolutely necessary. For such a concept there is a serious lack of comprehensive basic research about these mires.},
note = { \url {http://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gldocs-11858/7195}},
}