Dalby Söderskog is a small national park

National park

A national park is a reserve of natural, semi-natural, or developed land that a sovereign state declares or owns. Although individual nations designate their own national parks differently A national park is a reserve of natural, semi-natural, or developed land that a sovereign state declares or...

 in the province of Scania in southern Sweden

Sweden

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, situated in the municipality of Lund

Lund Municipality

Lund Municipality is a municipality in Skåne County, southern Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Lund.As most municipalities in Sweden, the territory of Lund Municipality consists of a lot of former local government units, united in a series of amalgamations. The number of original...

, near Dalby. It has an area of 0.36 km² and consists of broadleaf forest. It was established in 1918, when it was thought to be a unique remnant of primeval forest. In fact, the area has previously been used for pasture

Pasture

Pasture is land used for grazing. Pasture lands in the narrow sense are enclosed tracts of farmland, grazed by domesticated livestock, such as horses, cattle, sheep or swine. The vegetation of tended pasture, forage, consists mainly of grasses, with an interspersion of legumes and other forbs...

. The ground contains much limestone

Limestone

Limestone is a sedimentary rock composed largely of the minerals calcite and aragonite, which are different crystal forms of calcium carbonate . Many limestones are composed from skeletal fragments of marine organisms such as coral or foraminifera....

 and chalk

Chalk

Chalk is a soft, white, porous sedimentary rock, a form of limestone composed of the mineral calcite. Calcite is calcium carbonate or CaCO3. It forms under reasonably deep marine conditions from the gradual accumulation of minute calcite plates shed from micro-organisms called coccolithophores....

, which makes the flora rich. In particular, there are many spring flowers. An earth bank of unknown origin, possibly the ruins of an ancient fort, surrounds parts of the park. The national park encompasses the southern part of Dalby Hage

Dalby hage

Dalby hage is an area located 10 km east of Lund municipality in South Sweden. The area involves the two small forests Dalby Söderskog National Park and Dalby Norreskog. Between them is a pasture field Hästhagen which together with Dalby Norreskog forms a nature reserve....

, while the northern parts (Dalby Norreskog

Dalby Norreskog

Dalby Norreskog is a nature reserve located close to Dalby and Lund in southern Sweden. It forms Dalby Hage together with Dalby Söderskog National Park. The name means the "northern forest", the Northwoods....

 and Hästhagen

Hästhagen

Dalby hage is an area located 10 km east of Lund municipality in South Sweden. The area involves the two small forests Dalby Söderskog National Park and Dalby Norreskog. Between them is a pasture field Hästhagen which together with Dalby Norreskog forms a nature reserve....

) form a nature reserve.

External links

• Dalby Söderskog National Park from the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency
  Swedish Environmental Protection Agency
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