30. Krzesiński Park Krajobrazowy (Krzesiński Landscape Park)

MOTIVES:

1. Number and codes of habitats (HD I): 6 (3150, 6410, 6430, 6510, 91D0, 91F0)
2. Bird species (BD): 5
3. Animal speciest: 5 (HD II -1; HD V -1; KB III - 3).
4. Plant species: 1 (RB).

AREA:

SAC

LOCATION:

Along km 528-552, starting from Czarnów to the vicinity of Papice, partly outside the valley. It includes the valley of the Nysa Łużycka to Coshen and forests on the Polish side (about 6-7 km south of the Odra riverbed).

AREA:

8546 ha.

DESCRIPTION:

Extensively and intensively managed meadows with small fragments of brush, sedges and reed bed communities, predominately in the Odra valley. Within the dikes one can observe the presence of of spontaneouse willow trees and bushes afforestation, constituing regenerative stages of willow-poplar gallery forest. The forests situated south of the Odra riverbed consist a fragment of Dolnośląskie Pine Forests, that is why communities of coniferous forests and mixed coniferous forests prevail in this area, in many cases strongly transformed by forest management. Along watercoursesand around forest lakes swamp alder woods and sedge communities from alliance Magnocaricion occur.

HABITATS:

lowland hay meadows (Alopecurion), eutrophic humid grassland (Calthion) and floodplain meadows (Molinion), elm-ash forests and willow-poplar gallery forests, swamp alder woods and eutrophic lakes.

BIRDS (BD):

Ciconia ciconia (the biggest colony in Poland), Galinago galinago, Milvus migrans, Dendrocopos major, Alcedo atthis.

FISH:

Misgurnus fossilis (HD II), Barbus barbus (HD V), Silurus glanis (KB III), Alburnoides bipunctatus (KB III), Chondrostoma nasus (KB III).

PLANTS:

Cnidium dubium (RB cat. V).

COMMENTS:

the whole area protected as Krzesiński Landscape Park (1998).

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