Calcareous Mires of Slovakia

Download or read book Calcareous Mires of Slovakia written by Ab Grootjans and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slovakia is blessed with an abundance of natural beauties, and some of them are quite unique within Europe. Calcareous fens are such rare ecosystems and in Slovakia they are located almost exclusively in the Western Carpathian Mountains. These areas are hot spots of biodiversity and some protected and almost untouched sites are discussed in this book. Through this book the authors wish to make a contribution to peatland preservation and more effective conservation.