Segers-Glocke, Christiane [Hrsg.]; Niedersächsisches Landesamt für Denkmalpflege [Hrsg.]; Institut für Denkmalpflege [Hrsg.]; Balck, Friedrich [Bearb.]: Arbeitshefte zur Denkmalpflege in Niedersachsen: Aspects of mining and smelting in the Upper Harz Mountains (up to the 13th/14th century) - in the early times of a developing European culture and economy (St. Katharinen: Scripta Mercaturae Verl., Heft 22.2000)

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bogs
above 700 m NN
raised bogs
Z MOUNTAINS
)
LEVELS OF VEGETATION
grassland
mountain matgrass swards
Polygalo-Nardetum
Glob-Flower moist meadows
Tmllio-Cirsietum oleracei
yellow oat mountain-meadows
Geranio-Trisetetum
flavescentis
- Lzd. Ml -
oatgrass meadows
Antienatheretum
elatiohs
UDE IN THE HAR
s after different authors
woodland
ca. 1000 A.D:
upper borderline of beech
at 1000 m NN
spruce woods
Calamagrostio villosae-
Piceetum
beech woods
luiuiu-i ayvium
Dentaho-Fagetum
V
r
8
3
€
d
2
with other tree species
Luzulo-Fagetum
Melico-Fagetum
beech woods
with oak
Luzulo-Fagetum
Melico-Fagetum
Stellario-Carpinetum
>F ALTIT
(value
LTITUDE |
subalpine
oreal
(high
montanous)
montanous
iubmontanou:
collinous
LEVELS C
| LEVELS OF A
Brocken: 1142 m
ca. 1100 m NN
ca. 750 - 850 m
E
c
?
5
5
c
1
1C DATES |
precipitation
(mm/year)
1640
1300-1600
§
o
o
o
o
o
o
CO
<900
CLIMAT1
temperature
(0; °C; year)
2.4
<3->4
>4->6
6-7
>7->8

Fig. 2
The levels of vegetation in the Upper Harz Mountains give insight into the causes for the
natural and anthropo-zoogenous diversity of vegetation in this mountain (information by
different authors).