Fauna and Flora

The variety of habitats in the national park establishes favourable condition for existence for a great number of species.

Fauna and flora of the National park Jasmund is characterized by the following outer general settings:

•  Island position, pertaining to both the topographical and ecological relationships (exposed peninsula on an island, insular occurrence of chalk, insular large forest situated between cultural landscape and sea, insular climate area),

• In-situ chalk as geological speciality of the north western lowlands effecting the environmental relationship and vegetation structure,
• Cool and humid climate area within the milder coastal climate,
• Extreme contrast of closed wood landscape, naturally open coastal scarps, beach and sea; associated with a broad spectrum of different habitats including extreme living spaces.

These bio-geographical singularities got different consequences for occurrence, dispersal and density of animal and plant species.
The variety of the in part extreme different habitats and the maritime climate (slight variation in temperature simultaneously accompanied by high humidity) compared to continental habitats evolves favourable existence condition for the high amount of species. There are some species due to the special geological situation, which have their only or important appearance in Mecklenburg-Western Pommerania on the peninsula of Jasmund.