41. Unteres Odertal

MOTIVES:

1. Number and codes of habitats (HD I): 18 (3150, 3260, 3270, 6120, 6210, 6430, 6440, 6510, 7140, 9110, 9130, 9150, 9160, 9170, 9180, 91E0, 91F0, 91G0)
2. Bird species (BD): b.d.
3. Animal species (HD II): 18
4. Plant species - 2 (HD II, KB I)

AREA:

SPA, SAC

LOCATION:

Along the Odra valley, about 50 km (km 670-720), 1 - 5 km long, developed mostly in floodplain areas, it extends outside the strict Odra valley only towards large forest complexes (e.g. by Angermunde).

AREA:

10 069,50 ha.

DESCRIPTION:

The area of great natural value, with the area of Międzyodrze corresponding to it on the Polish side. There are numerous, highly differentiated types of habitats; from those directly connected with the floodplain Odra valley to the lime-sycamore slope forests and orchid’s beech forests developing on steep slopes. It results in a huge richness of flora and fauna.

HABITATS:

Oxbow lakes and eutrophic lakes, streamside vegetation, psammophilous grassland and xerothermic subcontinental steppic grasslands, grasslands and meadows out of a compound of Cnidion and Alopecurion, eutrophic tall herb fringes, acidphilous beech forest (Luzulo-Fagetum), neutrophilous beech forest (Asperulo-Fagetum) and orchid’s beech forest (Cephalanthero-Fagion), eutrophic oak-hornbeam forests and, lime-sycamore slope forests, ash-alder forests, willow-poplar gallery forests and elm-ash forests, supra-mediterranean oak woods.

OTHER ANIMAL SPECIES (HD II):

Vertigo moulinsiana, Vertigo angustior, Lycaena dispar, Omphiogomphus cecilia, Aeshna viridis, Lampetra fluviatilis, Lampetra planeri, Rhodeus sericeus, Aspius aspius, Cobitis taenia, Misgurnus fossilis, Gobio albipinnatus, Bombina bombina, Emys orbicularis, Lutra lutra, Castor fiber, Myotis myotis.

PLANTS:

Apium repens (HD II), Salvinia natans (KB I).

RARE AND PROTECTED:

Stipa capillata, Stipa pennata, Gentiana cruciata, Orchis tridentata (Ex in Poland).

COMMENTS:

The area protected as national park. A part (Polder 10 A/B) protected within Ramsar convention. The area of Międzyodrze is its direct continuation, hence in the 80’s a conception of creating a common bilateral (transboundary) national park emerged. The idea has not been realised so far - probably due to the plans connected with development of navigation and reconstruction of the lower Odra riverbed on the Polish side.

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