It depends on your approach to travel and what you want to accomplish on your trip.
12 Our Recent 14-Day Germany Roadtrip Itinerary. 11 If You Have Fewer than 10 Days in Germany. 9 The Romantic Road (Romantische Strasse) in Southern Germany. 8 Lake Constance (Bodensee) in Southern Germany. 7 Rhine Valley & Cologne in Central Germany. 6 Stuttgart & the Black Forest in Southeastern Germany. 4 If You Have More Than 10 Days in Germany. "You cannot really replace missing rain in those bogs," says Bruelheide. This is an alarming sign as there is no way to counteract this extinction in raised bogs and spring moors. In their study, the biologists predict that ten more specialist species will disappear by 2045 if conditions progress as expected. Our study can serve as an example for other regions in Germany, but also for other habitats and groups of species." Presumably, the same thing will happen in other low mountain ranges such as the Harz. "It is getting noticeably drier and hotter in the Black Forest, which is why this change is evident there. This is the first indication that climate change has already arrived in our latitudes," concludes Bruelheide. "Our analyses clearly show that species are declining and dying out in places where it is drier and warmer for longer periods of time in the summer. However, no factor could explain the data better than climate change. The researchers also checked whether their observations could be explained by other factors, such as the size of the bogs, the distance from one bog to another and whether adjacent areas were used for agriculture. However, there were also 46 so-called generalist species that have coped better with the changes and whose numbers have increased over time. This has disproportionately affected so-called specialist species that are adapted to specific climatic conditions and make up a large portion of the biodiversity in Germany. The population size of another 37 have decreased by about one third since the 1970s. Bruelheide then used the data to analyse the 88 plant species. I had to carefully scan the whole area to ensure that specific individuals were not overlooked," says Sperle. "It is really tricky to prove the extinction of a species for an entire bog. Sperle completely re-surveyed nearly all of the areas over a period of four years. The two scientists drew on data from the 1970s about the vegetation of 124 complete bogs. Bog complexes also have a very high proportion of endangered plant and animal species.īruelheide joined forces with Thomas Sperle, a biologist and wetlands expert, to investigate the trends in biodiversity in bogs and spring mires in the southern region of the Black Forest. They react very sensitively to small changes in precipitation and temperature," says professor Helge Bruelheide, a geobotanist at MLU and co-director of iDiv. "These bogs and spring mires are seismographs of climate change. 
They are very sensitive ecosystems that are highly dependent on certain climatic conditions. Today they are still found in the foothills of the Alps and on low mountain ranges, for example in the Black Forest.
They used to cover large swathes of north-western Germany. There are only a few healthy ombrotrophic bogs, raised bogs and spring mires left in Germany.
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