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Exploration of the Balkan bryophyte flora with a special attention to the rare and threatened species

Papp, Beáta

Eszterházy Károly Egyetem Líceum Kiadó

2017

QK Botany / növénytan

In the last 15 years a network of bryologists from SE Europe has been developed,
dealing intensively with the Balkan area, from where there is still relatively few
data compared to other parts of Europe. Joint field trips were organised to fill the
gap. Special attention was paid to the habitats of rare, threatened species by
visiting suitable sites, making collections, listing the bryophyte flora and
estimating population size of rare species. More than 15.000 specimens have been
deposited in the Hungarian Natural History Museum collected during these joint
field trips and 72 papers have been published on the basis of the material. Voucher
specimens of 527 species can also be found in HNHM, which were reported for the
first time from the various countries of Balkan.
From conservation aspects wetlands are the most important habitat types in SE
Europe, threatened mainly due to climate warming. Their extension is decreasing,
and they are continuously losing the sensitive bryophytes of their species pool.
Although the suitable bogs are small and sporadic in the Balkans, they still
maintain several populations of wetland species of European conservation
interest, such as Campylium elodes, Drepanocladus polygamus, Hamatocaulis
vernicosus, Scorpidium scorpioides, Tomentypnum nitens. The alpine grasslands are
also threatened due to climate warming. The Balkan high mountain areas still
preserve very diverse bryoflora. Especially areas with acidic bedrock in high
elevations have special conservation interest, because they are rare and scattered
in the predominantly calcareous Balkan mountains. The bryophyte flora of acidic
soil and siliceous outcrops contains many calcifuge species regarded as rare in this
region and redlisted in many SE European countries, e.g. arctic, alpine leafy
liverworts such as Lophozia wenzelii, Marsupella sphacelata, Scapania praetervisa,
Solenostoma confertissima or saxicolous species like the members of Grimmiaceae
family (Grimmia caespiticia, G. reflexidens, Schistidium papillosum). In shaded
limestone rocky habitats the bryophyte assemblages also contain several species
of European conservation interest, e.g. Anomodon rostratus, Mannia triandra,
Myurella sibirica, Taxiphyllum densifolium.

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http://real.mtak.hu/71052/1/ABPA_5%281%29_from39to39.pdf

Papp, Beáta (2017) Exploration of the Balkan bryophyte flora with a special attention to the rare and threatened species. Acta Biologica Plantarum Agriensis, 5 (1). p. 39. ISSN 2061-6716

http://real.mtak.hu/71052/

https://doi.org/10.21406/abpa.2017.5.1.39