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Box 1: Riparian forests in central Europe One of the floodplain habitats listed in the Habitats Directive is riparian forest, which is also the natural vegetation of floodplains in Central Europe. Softwood forest is found close to the river where inundation can be up to 180 days per year. Hardwood forest is found further away from the river where groundwater levels are lower and inundation occurs less than 60 days per year. In their natural state floodplain forests provide important habitats for many different species. Because of their nutrient rich soils, water supply and diversely structured forest strata, old hardwood forests host one of the most species-rich and unique bird communities of Central European forests. One study counted more than 200 pairs of breeding birds per 10 hectares in a riparian forest along the Elbe River (Scholz et al., 2012). One of the most prominent bird species of these forests in Central Europe is the Middle Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocopos medius).
Only around 12% of existing riparian forests across Europe achieve favourable conservation status, and many have disappeared altogether. |
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Year of the publication to be put into brackets: "An overview of floodplain loss in Europe was presented in EEA, 2016"
Which rivers are you referring to in "Of the rivers shown"
Delete comma after "This loss,"
Figure 2.5: Unclear, what do the dots mean? Specify in figure caption.
Maybe better to use the word 'substantial' instead of 'considerable' in the first sentence.
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Figure 2.5. Spelling mistake of ‘Unknown’
Page 15 (line 8). Reference is made to 37 floodplain habitats. It may be worthwhile including an Annex indicating what these 37 habitats are. Without such detailed information it is unclear whether these are habitats which only occur in floodplains or whether they are habitats which can occur in floodplains
There should be a call-out in the text of 2.2 to Box 1; otherwise use of Box is not clear.