Offenburg blooms: five hectares of flower meadows for a better climate!

Offenburg blooms: five hectares of flower meadows for a better climate!

Offenburg, Deutschland - The city of Offenburg is actively committed to promoting biodiversity to improve the city climate. The aim is to increase the diversity of plants and to create habitats for animals, such as Bo.de In autumn 2024, the city administration in cooperation with the TBO begins with the conversion of existing green areas into natural green areas.

Lean locations with domestic plants of around 1200 square meters are planned, which are to be built on Freiburger Straße and on the Kreisel Badstrasse. Before the sowing, the floor is emaciated by gravel sand. In addition, dead books on the Kreisel Badstrasse are to be removed and the sculpture of CW Loth is to be restored. In the winter months, the locations will initially remain unobtrusive because the seeds need time to germinate. In spring, one -year -olds such as gossip pops and cornflower bloom. In the following years, domestic drying artists such as Wiesensalbei and Karthäuser Knelke will be added.

initiatives for natural redesign

Another part of the initiative includes the preparation of a former lawn in the Mühlbach area for the sowing. Here a flower meadow of 350 square meters is created in cooperation with children from the “Am Oilberg” daycare center. Over five hectares of domestic flower meadows have already been created in the core city. It is planned to mow the meadows once or twice a year, with additional cuts possible with nutrient -rich meadows. Some of the meadows remain unused to offer insects feed and retreat. The edges of the meadows are regularly processed with the lawn mower to keep roads and paths free. Furthermore, the city is working on the creation of further green habitats.

Since October 2020, the city of Offenburg has also been promoting the removal of fortified areas for private owners. This includes the conversion of gravel areas into biodiverse front gardens as well as the greening of roofs and facades.

Additional knowledge about the relationship between the species composition and the function of ecosystems are obtained by an examination, such as biodiversity exploratories . There, an ecological version of the Price equation is used to analyze changes in ecosystem function, in particular the arthropod biomass. The goal is to assign changes in the arthropod biomass to the changes in the community composition. The examination takes place in green countries with different variety of plants and land use intensity over a period of ten years and analyzes the connection between arthropod biomass, diversity as well as identity and abundance of the arthropods. This analysis is part of a cooperation between the Jena Experiment and the Biodiversity Exploratories.

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