Gallery forest

As gallery forest is called a forest that extends along the banks of a river in a non-forested or planted with a different type of forest landscape.

Gallery forests are often found along rivers in arid areas where lack of water otherwise no forest grows ( riverine gallery forest ). The gallery forest here is a extrazonale vegetation form, he thrives there only because of the special local conditions.

Gallery forest may form on the riverbank also due to more favorable soil conditions. Example of this are the levels of the Llanos in Venezuela where, despite high rainfall grasses predominate and only the river banks are wooded. In the plains prevents a hard and hardly penetrable Lateritkruste roots in the soil, the Arecife, the growth of trees. The solid crust of the Arecife is broken on the shore, so that thrives forest there.

Along the valleys of Omaruru, Swakop and Kuiseb in the Central Namib, there are also gallery forests. Here, the river beds are filled with a powerful sand layer in which in rainless periods groundwater flows.

This is known as the cultural landscape of gallery forest, then it is forest remnants, where local conditions are determined anthropogenic. This can be found in waters in pasture and arable land (about riparian forest ) as well as at site levels ( slope forest ), so parcels that are not suitable for agriculture. It is often the small forest as a private economic Wood Reserve, or unnutzbares or in the mountains inaccessible wasteland as natural forest remaining. Characteristically, it is fundamental limits at which the gallery forest also features the hedge takes over ( such as protection against erosion in watercourses and slopes ). In land consolidation as well as by land acquisition and technical Sicherungsbau account for these features. This includes gallery forests in central Europe to the rarely becoming important habitat islands.

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