Wetlands of the Brdy Mts.

This bachelor thesis examines especially peat wetlands located on the territory of Brdy and Podbrdsko. Specifically, it looks into ten locations that were in various degrees affected by anthropogenic effect. The purpose is to identify historical and current status of these biotopes, to deduce the nature of past changes, identify the causing factors and then propose appropriate protection solutions. Attention is also paid to the newly created protected landscape area of Brdy and extreme drought in 2015. Depth of the humolit, hydrological conditions and diversity of species were all monitored at the locations and the vegetation cover was briefly characterized. Mining, which often led to the degradation, took place in all the monitored areas in the past. The best preserved Brdy´s peat with bank of Pilska's reservoir. The territorially largest peat bog with the highest measured depth of humolit is located on the eastern littoral of Horní padrťský pond. Both of these areas have absolute protection priority. If the landscape will not face any unexpected changes, it can be with appropriate chosen management assumed sustainable state in the following locations: Dolní Padrťský pond, Tok and the pond Tisý. The wetlands are known to be formed over hundreds of years therefore it is our aim to keep these endangered biotopes preserved for the future