The regulation of the flow of water that supplies the peat bogs is an important factor in guaranteeing its conservation, as it directly affects the survival capacities of the plant species and on the oxidative processes of the substratum, creating the conditions required to maintain the typical conditions of the habitat. Any alterations in the water flow could have a negative impact on the vegetation, in particular on some species that cannot cope with periods of drought, including the interesting fragments with Scorpidio-Utricularietumminoris, Rhynchosporetum albae, Caricetum limosae and groups of Carex rostrata.
Within the Danta peat bogs, despite the fairly stable flow of the water courses supplying the humid areas, it appears opportune to implement some regulation activities including the laying of small hydraulic works and the creation and repair of small banks to direct the water flow and assure the restoration of better hygrophilic conditions existing prior to reclamation works.
This threat may be even greater in those areas that are more closely bound by the availability of water. Among these, one particularly sensitive area is located below the Val di Ciampo peat bog road, where there is a network of small but suggestive pools where the conditions subsist for the formation of an intermediate bog with many peat moss communities and the presence, among other species, of Drosera longifolia and Rhynchospora alba. |