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German: Auwald

English translation: alluvial forest







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German term or phrase:Auwald
English translation:alluvial forest
Entered by:Martin Hesse
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German term or phrase: Auwald
... und den letzten Auwäldern des Untersees.

Kontext: Tourismus, Hotel am Bodensee
Martin Hesse
Germany
alluvial forests/lowland forests
Explanation:

weiß nicht viel über sie - hat was mit Flachland und Überschwemmung zu tun, aber auch nur zum Teil

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Note added at 2004-05-17 20:49:10 (GMT)
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... Country. Austria. Administrative region(s). ... There are still substantial areas of
humid grassland and small pockets of dry grassland, fens and alluvial forest. ...
www.birdlife.net/ datazone/search/sites_search.html?action=SitHTMDetails.asp&sid=3256&m=0 - 30k - Cached - Similar pages

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Mag. Sabine Senn
Austria
Note from asker to answerer
Danke an alle! CU in Berlin.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +2alluvial forests/lowland forests
Mag. Sabine Senn
5woodlands along the banks of
John Wellesly Helliwell
4commentKen Cox
4wetland(s)
Wolf Brosius
3 +1Riparian forestNancy Arrowsmith
4bottomland
Kim Metzger
4 -1biosphereDavid Moore


  


Answers

4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
alluvial forests/lowland forests

Explanation:

weiß nicht viel über sie - hat was mit Flachland und Überschwemmung zu tun, aber auch nur zum Teil

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Note added at 2004-05-17 20:49:10 (GMT)
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Search for Sites
... Country. Austria. Administrative region(s). ... There are still substantial areas of
humid grassland and small pockets of dry grassland, fens and alluvial forest. ...
www.birdlife.net/ datazone/search/sites_search.html?action=SitHTMDetails.asp&sid=3256&m=0 - 30k - Cached - Similar pages



Mag. Sabine Senn
Austria
PRO pts in category: 4
Note from asker to answerer
Danke an alle! CU in Berlin.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree Ken Cox: prefer 'alluvial forest' (especially in light of 'die sich in fast allen vegetationszonen ausbildet') see also separate comment
1 hr
  -> Thanks. Alluvial is the better term.

agree Steffen Walter: alluvial forests
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6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): -1
biosphere

Explanation:
Auwald bezeichnet die natürliche Vegetationsform entlang der Bäche und Flüsse, die sich in fast allen Vegetationszonen ausbildet. Aufgrund ihres Nährstoffreichtums zählen Auwälder zu den artenreichsten Lebensräumen der Erde. In Europa wurden Auwälder frühzeitig gerodet, da die reichen Böden exellentes Weideland darstellen. Heute finden sich v.a. in Mitteleuropa nur noch Reste des ursprünglichen Auwaldvorkommens.

Von Wikipedia.

Ich weiß, "biosphere" ist nicht 100% als Übersetzung von "Auwald", doch in diesem Falle ist es wohl angebracht.


David Moore
Germany
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 32

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree Steffen Walter: Way too general - see EN Wikipedia definition @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosphere
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6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
bottomland

Explanation:
Auwald bezeichnet die natürliche Vegetationsform entlang der Bäche und Flüsse, die sich in fast allen Vegetationszonen ausbildet. Aufgrund ihres Nährstoffreichtums zählen Auwälder zu den artenreichsten Lebensräumen der Erde. In Europa wurden Auwälder frühzeitig gerodet, da die reichen Böden exellentes Weideland darstellen. Heute finden sich v.a. in Mitteleuropa nur noch Reste des ursprünglichen Auwaldvorkommens.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auenwald

Bottomland

Definition: low-lying alluvial land near a river

http://www.hyperdictionary.com/dictionary/bottomland



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Kim Metzger
Mexico
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 124

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral David Moore: Bottomland? In a hotel brochure......hmmmm....
37 mins
  -> It's music to my ears. So many immigrants looking for good bottomland in America.
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53 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
Riparian forest

Explanation:
Alluvial is also good, this is used more in the US.

Nancy Arrowsmith
United States
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree Ken Cox: I thought of this too, but it has the slight drawback that it doesn't imply native forests (many of the US references are to reforestation or quasi-artificial buffer zones)
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
comment

Explanation:
From a bit of googling I favour 'alluvial forest', although 'riparian forest' would also be possible (but in this context I would suggest 'native riparian forest').

The listed reference (Glossary of Environmental Terms for
Urban and Regional Planners, translated from an Umweltbundesamt document) translates Auenwald as 'alluvial forest' and vice versa, and provides the following definition:

Alluvial forest:
Vegetation zone on the flood-plain of a river.



    Reference: http://www.umweltdaten.de/rup/glossar/englisch.pdf
Ken Cox
Netherlands
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 16
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7 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
wetland(s)

Explanation:
...werden diese Landformen im suedlichen Afrika genannt(auch in Werbeprospekten).Dabei kann es sich u.A. auch um Waelder handeln.Siehe St.Lucia im Norden von Kwa-Zulu - Natal
HTH
Wolf

Wolf Brosius
South Africa
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman, Native in EnglishEnglish
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10 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
woodlands along the banks of

Explanation:
In a tourist brochure I would have thought that something less "scientifc" would be more appropriate

secondly: *forest* - for me, conjures up a great expanse of large trees

The other suggestions are all undoubtedly possible but sound more like an encyclopedia than a brochure for tourists.

John Wellesly Helliwell
Italy
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