Wetland with Eriophorum sp. in the foreground. This lake occupies a depression in the glacially shaped landscape. It most likely formed at the end of the Pleistocene. The recent glacier tongues are far away.

Keywords

alpine vegetation, glacial lake, glacial processes, high-mountain ecosystems, mountainscape, wetland, Zonobiome VI

Created

Wednesday 9 September 2015 by Martin Mergili in Europe / Italy (5343 visits)