Decussing
With Entkusselung ( alemannisch also Enthurstung ) or Entkusseln is in the landscaping removing young trees, so-called Kussel , of heaths , wetlands and drained peatlands designated. The emerging woody growth, which mostly consists of pioneer tree species such as pine , willow or birch, is removed with spades, brushcutters or chainsaws .
In addition to targeted grazing and controlled burning, decussing is a form of cultivated landscape maintenance to keep heaths, lean and dry grasslands , wet meadows and drained bog areas ( bog heaths ) open , which would develop into forests as a result of succession . With this type of landscape maintenance, certain biotope-typical plant communities are to be preserved. In drained moors, excessive evaporation from the trees should also be prevented.
The Rhön biosphere reserve is maintained in this way.
Web links
- Protection and development of our moors (PDF; 3.8 MB), brochure of the Naturschutzbund Deutschland e. V. (NABU) (last accessed on December 10, 2012)
- Notes on biotope and landscape management (PDF; 174 kB), published by the German Association for Landscape Management and the Brandenburg State Environment Agency , p. 9 (last accessed on December 10, 2012)
Individual evidence
- ^ Otti Wilmanns: On the development of Trespenrasen in the last half century. Insight - Outlook - Review, the example of the Kaiserstuhl (PDF; 2.8 MB) in: Düsseldorfer Geobotanische Kolloquien 6, Düsseldorf 1989, ISSN 0176-0769 pp. 3–17
- ^ Open land maintenance of moors , Lüneburg Heath Nature Reserve Association
- ↑ Unkusseln for biotope care , NAJU Naturschutz-Wiki