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habitat pond
More than just recreation and romance
Ponds are artificially created, shallow and still bodies of water. Designed to mimic nature, they can be a valuable substitute habitat for animals and plants that otherwise live in shallow banks of ponds or lakes.
Ideally, the banks of larger ponds are lined by some woody plants of the sowood floodplain, e.g. the goat or silver willow.
Depending on the vegetation and environmental conditions in the respective pond section, many animal species can also be found here.
In general, the more numerous and variable the individual habitats at a site, the higher the biodiversity.
Ponds
- bundle a wide variety of habitats in a small area (biotope complex)
- are substitute habitats for wetlands and dried up bodies of water
- have a positive effect on the microclimate
- have a high recreational value
Effective measures for your home:
- follow a nature-like design (sufficient size and zonation)
- use native plants
- choose a predominantly sunny location
- under suitable conditions, animals will colonise the pond themselves
- fill the pond with rainwater (e.g. through an inlet from the roof drainage)
Amphibians have existed on our planet for around 380 million years. Frogs and toads as they look today have existed for around 250 million. So they are among the oldest animal species on the planet. It is all the sadder that around 60 percent of amphibians have declined in recent decades, and some species are even threatened with extinction.
The mating season for frogs and toads is late winter and early spring. They come to a pond to spawn.
Life in a pond
information from university of Ulm (can be translated in the browser)