Description
GIS dataset with the biotope types and habitat types first inventoried between 2001 and 2009 in the Natura 2000 areas of the Biosphere Reserve Niedersächsische Elbtalaue.
The FFH area ‘Elbeniederung zwischen Schnackenburg und Geesthacht’ (Report No DE 2528-331) covers 22,654 hectares. Apart from the Elbe river between Lauenburg and Geesthacht and the right-hand half of the river in the section between Boizenburg and Lauenburg, it is located in the ‘Niedersächsische Elbtalaue’ biosphere reserve and occupies about half of the biosphere reserve area (MU 2006b) (see text map 5). The area described in Annex 4 to the law on the biosphere reserve ‘Niedersächsische Elbtalaue’ (NElbtBRG) as a proposed FFH area ‘Elbeniederung zwischen Schnackenburg und Lauenburg’ is, in accordance with the Commission decision of 7 July 2004, the area referred to in Annex 4 to the law on the biosphere reserve ‘Niedersächsische Elbtalaue’ (NElbtBRG) as a proposed FFH area ‘Elbeniederung zwischen Schnackenburg und Lauenburg’. 31 December 2004 (OJ L 382/1, 28. It has been included in the list of sites of Community importance for the Continental biogeographical region. It has thus no longer been granted the status of a proposed area, but of an existing FFH area ("Elbeniederung zwischen Schnackenburg und Lauenburg", Notification No DE 2629-302).
In October 2004, the Lower Saxony State Government adopted a list of FFH area proposals for subsequent notification to the European Commission, which also included four areas that complement the existing FFH area:
- Elbe between Boizenburg and Geesthacht
- Rögnitz and trench system
- Bodies of water and swamps at Gartower Forst
- Buchhorst south of Gartow.
The existing FFH area and the four post-declaration areas were combined under the new name "Elbeniederung zwischen Schnackenburg und Geesthacht" and proposed to the EU Commission with this name as a whole as a FFH area.
With the decision of the EU Commission of 13 November 2007, the biosphere reserve plan ‘Niedersächsische Elbtalaue’ of 17 March 2009 41 also granted the area ‘Elbeniederung zwischen Schnackenburg und Geesthacht’ the status of an existing FFH area.
The Habitats Area is intended to protect certain habitat types and species, some of which enjoy special (‘priority’) protection (NElbtBRG, Annex 5). Priority habitat types are found, for example, on dry sites (dry, lime-rich Sandrasen and species-rich Borstgrass grasslands on silicate soils), on moor sites (living raised bogs, bog forests) and in the brook and softwood floodplains (outer forests with Alnus glutinosa and Fraxinus excelsior - Alno-Padion, Salicion albae). As a priority species under the Habitats Directive, the hermit (Osmoderma eremita) occurs in the biosphere reserve, in addition to numerous other species of Annex II to the Habitats Directive (cf. Chapter 5.1.1)
Habitats Area 247 ‘Jeetzel water system with spring forests’ extends with the northern tip into the biosphere reserve.
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https://www.umweltkarten-niedersachsen.de/Download_OE/Naturschutz/FFH.zip |