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Lake Wolayer
The Lake Wolayer is a mountain lake on the Carinthian side of the , near the Plöcken Pass. It is the centrepiece of the Wolayer See and surrounding area nature reserve. Notable plant species include Alpine eryngo (''Eryngium alpestre''), sweet cicely (''Myrrhis odorata''), and Austrian ribwort (''Pleurospermum austriacum''). The lake lies at an altitude of 1,951 meters above sea level and covers an area of 3.8 hectares. It is located in a doline formed tectonically and reshaped by the Wolayer Glacier during the Ice Age. The catchment area spans approximately 60 hectares. Annual rainfall in the region ranges between 2,000 and 2,500 mm, maintaining a relatively constant water level despite the absence of surface inflow. The lakebed is covered with mud, which seals the lake. The western part of the lake slopes gently, while the eastern side is steeper. The deepest point is 13.9 meters below the surface, but two-thirds of the lake is less than 5 meters deep. Water that flows unde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saxifraga Aizoides
''Saxifraga aizoides'', yellow mountain saxifrage or yellow saxifrage, is a flowering alpine plant of the genus ''Saxifraga''. Description ''Saxifraga aizoides'' is an evergreen perennial which branches at or below ground level, and grows to . It spreads by short rhizomes, forming mats of small colonies. The flowers, with five sepals and petals, are yellow—green. Distribution It prefers cold and moist well-draining neutral to basic bedrock, gravel, sand, or shale cliff environments. It is found in: North America, including Alaska, across Canada, the Great Lakes region, and Greenland; and in Europe, including the Tatra Mountains, Alps, and Svalbard. The Flora of Svalbard - ''Saxifraga aizoides'' . accessed 5.14.2013 It is a listed |
Lakes Of Carinthia
A lake is often a naturally occurring, relatively large and fixed body of water on or near the Earth's surface. It is localized in a basin or interconnected basins surrounded by dry land. Lakes lie completely on land and are separate from the ocean, although they may be connected with the ocean by rivers. Lakes, as with other bodies of water, are part of the water cycle, the processes by which water moves around the Earth. Most lakes are fresh water and account for almost all the world's surface freshwater, but some are salt lakes with salinities even higher than that of seawater. Lakes vary significantly in surface area and volume of water. Lakes are typically larger and deeper than ponds, which are also water-filled basins on land, although there are no official definitions or scientific criteria distinguishing the two. Lakes are also distinct from lagoons, which are generally shallow tidal pools dammed by sandbars or other material at coastal regions of oceans or large la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lakes Of Europe
A lake is often a naturally occurring, relatively large and fixed body of water on or near the Earth's surface. It is localized in a depression (geology), basin or interconnected basins surrounded by dry land. Lakes lie completely on land and are separate from the ocean, although they may be connected with the ocean by rivers. Lakes, as with other bodies of water, are part of the water cycle, the processes by which water moves around the Earth. Most lakes are fresh water and account for almost all the world's surface freshwater, but some are salt lakes with salinities even higher than that of seawater. Lakes vary significantly in surface area and volume of water. Lakes are typically larger and deeper than ponds, which are also water-filled basins on land, although there are no official definitions or scientific criteria distinguishing the two. Lakes are also distinct from lagoons, which are generally shallow tidal pools dammed by sandbars or other material at coastal regions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carex Curvula
''Carex curvula'', the Alpine sedge (a name it shares with other members of its genus), is a species of flowering plant in the genus ''Carex'', native to the Pyrenees, the Alps, the Carpathians, and the mountains of the Balkans. It has gone extinct in Germany. It propagates almost exclusively clonally, with some of its clonal colonies A clonal colony or genet is a group of genetically identical individuals, such as plants, fungi, or bacteria, that have grown in a given location, all originating vegetatively, not sexually, from a single ancestor. In plants, an individual in ... estimated to be 2,000 years old. Subtaxa The following subspecies are currently accepted: *''Carex curvula'' subsp. ''curvula'' *''Carex curvula'' subsp. ''rosae'' Gilomen References {{Taxonbar, from=Q122810 curvula Flora of Europe Plants described in 1785 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Festuca Paniculata
''Festuca paniculata'' (east Alpine violet fescue) is a grass with culms 60–120 cm long, endemic to central, southwestern, and southeastern Europe and northern Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 20% of Earth's land area and 6% of its total surfac .... It was first described in 1913. References External links The Plant List entryJSTOR paperWiley Plant Biology paperHortipedia entry {{Taxonbar, from=Q1534551 paniculata Grasses of Europe Grasses of Africa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carex Firma
''Carex firma'' is a species of sedge that grows in the mountains of southern and central Europe. Description ''Carex firma'' forms thick cushions. Its leaves are up to long in normal conditions (up to in moist, sheltered localities), dark green and stiff. The stems are up to tall (exceptionally ), but always at least twice as long as the leaves. Ecology In synecology, ''Carex firma'' is a characteristic part of the "" (also called ""), which is an important community in the alpine zone over calcareous rock. ''Carex firma'' can survive temperatures as low as . Taxonomy ''Carex firma'' was first described by Nicolaus Thomas Host Nicolaus Thomas Host (December 7, 1758 in Fiume, now Rijeka – January 13, 1834 in Vienna) was a Croatian botanist and the personal physician of Holy Roman Emperor Francis II. His botanical works include ''Synopsis plantarum in Austria'' and t ... in 1797, in his work ''Synopsis Plantarum in Austria provinciisque adjacentibus sponte crescent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sesleria
''Sesleria'' is a genus of perennial plants in the Poaceae, grass family. They are native to Eurasia and North Africa. They are found in Albania, Austria, Baleares, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Corsica, Czechoslovakia, East Aegean Islands, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Crete, Crimea, Lebanon, Morocco, North Caucasus, Poland, Romania, Sardina, Sicilia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Transcaucasus, Turkey, Ukraine and Yugoslavia. The genus was circumscription (taxonomy), circumscribed by Giovanni Antonio Scopoli in Fl. Carniol. on page 189 in 1760. The genus name of ''Sesleria'' is in honour of Leonard Sesler (d. 1785), German-Italian doctor and botanist who maintained a large botanical garden. Species Kew accepts 36 species; *''Sesleria achtarovii'' *''Sesleria alba'' *''Sesleria albanica'' *''Sesleria albicans'' *''Sesleria araratica'' *''Sesleria argentea'' *''Sesleria autumnalis'' *''Sesleria ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carboniferous
The Carboniferous ( ) is a Geologic time scale, geologic period and System (stratigraphy), system of the Paleozoic era (geology), era that spans 60 million years, from the end of the Devonian Period Ma (million years ago) to the beginning of the Permian Period, Ma. It is the fifth and penultimate period of the Paleozoic era and the fifth period of the Phanerozoic eon (geology), eon. In North America, the Carboniferous is often treated as two separate geological periods, the earlier Mississippian (geology), Mississippian and the later Pennsylvanian (geology), Pennsylvanian. The name ''Carboniferous'' means "coal-bearing", from the Latin ("coal") and ("bear, carry"), and refers to the many coal beds formed globally during that time. The first of the modern "system" names, it was coined by geologists William Conybeare (geologist), William Conybeare and William Phillips (geologist), William Phillips in 1822, based on a study of the British rock succession. Carboniferous is the per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Devonian
The Devonian ( ) is a period (geology), geologic period and system (stratigraphy), system of the Paleozoic era (geology), era during the Phanerozoic eon (geology), eon, spanning 60.3 million years from the end of the preceding Silurian period at million years ago (Megaannum, Ma), to the beginning of the succeeding Carboniferous period at Ma. It is the fourth period of both the Paleozoic and the Phanerozoic. It is named after Devon, South West England, where rocks from this period were first studied. The first significant evolutionary radiation of history of life#Colonization of land, life on land occurred during the Devonian, as free-spore, sporing land plants (pteridophytes) began to spread across dry land, forming extensive coal forests which covered the continents. By the middle of the Devonian, several groups of vascular plants had evolved leaf, leaves and true roots, and by the end of the period the first seed-bearing plants (Pteridospermatophyta, pteridospermatophyt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silurian
The Silurian ( ) is a geologic period and system spanning 23.5 million years from the end of the Ordovician Period, at million years ago ( Mya), to the beginning of the Devonian Period, Mya. The Silurian is the third and shortest period of the Paleozoic Era, and the third of twelve periods of the Phanerozoic Eon. As with other geologic periods, the rock beds that define the period's start and end are well identified, but the exact dates are uncertain by a few million years. The base of the Silurian is set at a series of major Ordovician–Silurian extinction events when up to 60% of marine genera were wiped out. One important event in this period was the initial establishment of terrestrial life in what is known as the Silurian-Devonian Terrestrial Revolution: vascular plants emerged from more primitive land plants, dikaryan fungi started expanding and diversifying along with glomeromycotan fungi, and three groups of arthropods ( myriapods, arachnids and hexapods) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juncus Triglumis
''Juncus triglumis'', called the three-flowered rush, is a species of flowering plant in the genus ''Juncus ''Juncus'' is a genus of monocotyledonous flowering plants, commonly known as rushes. It is the largest genus in the family Juncaceae, containing around 300 species. Description Rushes of the genus ''Juncus'' are herbaceous plants that superfici ...'', native to the subarctic and subalpine Northern Hemisphere. It is typically found in calcareous tundra habitats and arcto-alpine fens. It is often found in association with '' Carex atrofusca'' and '' Carex bicolor'' in the so-called Caricion bicolori-atrofuscae alliance. Subtaxa The following subspecies are currently accepted: *''Juncus triglumis'' subsp. ''albescens'' (Lange) Hultén - Kamchatka and Chukotka in Far Eastern Russia, Alaska (including the Aleutians), all of Canada except the Yukon, the Rocky Mountains of the United States, and Greenland *''Juncus triglumis'' subsp. ''triglumis'' - Greenland, Iceland, the Far ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
