Heavy metal lawn
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Heavy metal lawn with clove corridor on the Bottendorfer Hill
Plant communities that have developed on soils with high levels of heavy metal pollution , where ore was previously mined, are referred to as heavy metal lawns or heavy metal fields . Examples are the Galmeiflora in the border triangle around Aachen and the grass carnation in the Harz and Siegerland .
Heavy metal lawn is mainly formed by the so-called galmei plants . These include carnations such as the calamine carnation , the yellow calamine violet , light carnations and calamine spring chickweed .
Heavy metal lawns are classified as azonal vegetation .
literature
- Wilfried HO Ernst: Ecological-sociological studies in the heavy metal plant communities of Central Europe including the Alps. In: Treatises from the State Museum for Natural History in Münster in Westphalia. Volume 27, No. 1, 1965, pp. 1-54.
- Wilfried HO Ernst: Heavy metal vegetation of the earth. In: Geobotanica Selecta. Volume 5, Gustav Fischer, Stuttgart 1974, ISBN 3-437-30187-X .
- Ursula Hoffmann, Michael Schwerdtfeger; ... and the green of life's golden tree. Pleasure trips and educational trips in the realm of plants. Ulrich Burgdorf Verlag, Göttingen 1998, ISBN 3-89762-000-6 .