A comprehensive overview of moors and other organic wet sites from the SIMON project is available for the Free State of Saxony (DITTRICH et al. 2011 https://www.boden.sachsen.de/erstellung-fachkonzept-landesweites-informationssystem-moore-und-organische -nassstandorte-simon-18146.html). For this purpose, in addition to areas that correspond to the pedological moor definition (> 30 cm peat), soils with flatter peat layers (from soil maps, geological maps) and moor-typical wet biotopes (moor-typical biotopes from the selective biotope mapping, moor-typical FFH habitat types, partly without proven peat layers) were analyzed ) recorded and the maximum area formed from all map bases used. The moor areas of Saxony were therefore not defined in purely pedological terms, but rather in terms of ecosystems, including the moor biotopes and peat-forming vegetation. These areas are combined as moor complexes and form the search space backdrop for the renaturation of moor and wet sites. The data show the moor complexes differentiated where: a) a moor-typical vegetation was mapped on a moor-typical abiotic site (3700 ha or 8 percent of the moor complex area) these are the relatively near-natural areas according to a first rough estimate, b) a moor-typical site is mapped , but there are no (more) near-natural bog-typical biotopes (27,000 ha or 57.5 percent), c) bog-typical biotopes or FFH-LRT are mapped, but no typical bog site in soil and geological maps (16,100 ha, 34.5 percent ) shown are areas with only flat or no proven peat cover or small areas.
