Dalby Söderskog National Park, Deciduous forest national park in Lund Municipality, Sweden.
Dalby Söderskog is a small protected deciduous forest with limestone-based soil in southern Sweden. The park contains mixed broadleaf trees and spring flowers that grow within the dense woodland.
Dalby Söderskog was made a national park in 1918, when it was believed to be a surviving patch of primeval broadleaf forest. Later study showed the ground had been used as pasture, so the woodland grew up on former grazing land. It covers 36 hectares, the smallest national park in Sweden since Hamra was enlarged in 2011.
The raised earth banks scattered through the woods suggest former human activity and shape how the landscape looks today. Visitors walking through can observe these gentle ridges and sense how people once used this space.
The park lies 10 km east of Lund, beside Dalby village, on the slope of Romeleåsen. A stream crosses it from east to west, dropping from 66 m to 51 m and cutting a ravine before leaving the park. In dry summers the stream and small wetlands can dry up completely until autumn. The forest is exposed to westerly autumn and winter storms.
The limestone and chalk soil creates rare conditions that support specialized plant communities. This geological trait makes the small forest botanically valuable and unusual for the region.
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