Alpine owl

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Alpenschwemmling is a term used in botany , with the alpine plants are called, which with streams or rivers from the Alps were down swept into deeper layers and summarized in atypical locations for her foot. These can be gravel and gravel banks, as in the Tyrolean Lech , with occurrences of silver arum , edelweiss , alpine flax and blue-green saxifrage , but also conglomerate walls such as the Rinnenden Mauer in Molln (Upper Austria) with hairy alpine rose , dwarf galpenrose , Petergstamm , hunter's blood and white germer .

Trees can also be alpine swarms, for example in alluvial forests on the lower reaches of the alpine rivers. B. naturally single strong (and mostly very stable) spruce trees.

A more general term that is not limited to the Alps is mountain owl .

Individual evidence

  1. Tiroler Lech National Park - Alpenschwemmlinge accessed on June 28, 2015.
  2. Steyrschlucht - Rinnende Mauer (Land Oberösterreich; PDF; 40.7 MB) accessed on May 16, 2013.
  3. ^ Aliens: Neobiota in Austria . Published by: Ruth Maria Wallner and Federal Ministry for Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management, Böhlau Verlag 2005. ISBN 978-3-205-77346-7 , p. 231 (Gebirgsschwemmlinge).