Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/454/en

Here the opportunity is given to assign a place in the village precincts — in hedgerows and copse islands — to all species of shrub and tree native to the surrounding landscape, and in this way to create sheltered areas with their own microclimate in the open fieldscape, and to allow the village precincts themselves to become a harmoniously formative member of the cultural landscape. In open country, such plantings serve as a kind of substitute for forest. The greatest floristic and at the same time faunistic density in the cultural landscape is found at the woodland margins — the transitional and simultaneously interpenetrating zones between open field-and-meadow land and forest. Here, arranged in tiers one above the other, a species-rich flora of grasses and herbs builds itself up, then the lower and higher growing shrub-growth, and finally the tall, wide-spreading tree crowns. The same structure and the same ecological function belong to the hedgerows. Toward two sides of the field boundary, they are, as it were, two woodland margins fastened together, grown into one another — as are the copses and tree islands too.