Today, more than 80% of the Plitvice Lakes National Park, is covered by forest stands of natural composition that prevent erosion, and are very important for the regime optjecanja water, and valuable habitat for a diverse and rich fauna of the park, primarily the National Park Forests provide shelter for all three European large carnivores (bear, wolf and lynx).
The most common forest community in the area of Plitvice Lakes National Park is a mountain beech forest (Lamium orvala-Fagetum Ht.38 sylvatica), which extends from the shores of lakes to which 700 m above sea level. Because of its competitiveness and Cloud Cover soil trees, beech gives little scope for the development of other tree species. The majority of forest communities is the Dinaric beech and fir (Abieti-Fagetum dinaricum Treg. 75) which extends in the zone above 700 m above sea level, constructed from a large number (over 250) types. In the forests of beech and fir are the two major forest communities of relic character and they are: plain forest and pine with Claus (Heleboro - Pinetum Ht.38), and spruce forests on dolomite (Picetum - dolomiticum Ht.58)
As one of the best preserved primeval forest ecosystems within the range of beech and fir forests, located in the area of Plitvice Lakes National Park rainforest "Cork Cove. A special reserve of forest vegetation was declared in 1965. year, with an area of 84 ha and an altitude of 860-1028 m above sea level we all phases of a rainforest dominated by the stage of aging and decay. Belongs in secondary jungle where human influence was present occasionally, but not so much jungle that has lost its significance.
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