scholarly journals Equisetum telmateia Ehrh. morphotypes related to anthropogenic habitats

2011 ◽  
Vol 72 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dominik Wróbel
Keyword(s):  
Growth Regulators ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Morphological Plasticity ◽  
Protected Species ◽  
Anthropogenic Habitats ◽  
Plant Organs ◽  
Southern Poland ◽  
Superior Part ◽  
Intensive Observations

<p>The Giant Horsetail (<em>Equisetum telmateia</em>) is the only representative of <em>Equisetum </em>genus included in the list of strictly protected species. In Central and Western Europe the species is found in communities belonging to alliances: <em>Alno-Padion </em>and <em>Calthion</em>. With progressing destruction of these biotopes, one can observe the phenomenon of this species moving to the habitats extremely anthropogenic in character.</p><p>Frequent and intensive observations of this phenomenon were conducted in the Jasło - Krosno Dale area in southern Poland in three anthropogenic localities. In these localities three interesting, irregular <em>Equisetum telmateia </em>morphotypes were found: fo. <em>serotinum </em>subfo. <em>proliferum</em>, fo. <em>spiralis </em>and a morphotype with branched shoot.</p><p>The phenomenon of morphological plasticity of sporophytes is thought to be connected with the action of genes, which regulate the identity of developing plant organs and their distribution. These genes perform a superior part in relation to the system of growth regulators.</p>

Moerckia hibernica(Marchantiophyta) in Anthropogenic Habitats in Southern Poland

Herzogia ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Stebel ◽  
Agnieszka Błońska
Keyword(s):  
Anthropogenic Habitats ◽  
Southern Poland

The wild goat of Montecristo Island: did it ever exist?

Mammalia ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 80 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Spartaco Gippoliti
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Present Note ◽  
Protected Species ◽  
Selection Procedures ◽  
European Legislation ◽  
Subsequent Selection

AbstractIt has recently been claimed by Masseti that a wild goat survived on Montecristo Island until the first half of the 20th century and that subsequent selection procedures produced a goat that did not resemble any true wild goat. In the present note, it is emphasized that the Montecristo goat was in fact never taxonomically described. The fact that a Montecristo “wild” goat has been included in the national and European legislation as a protected “species” could only been explained with the decline of mammal taxonomy that has been observed in Western Europe during the second half of 20th century.

Jakuszowice — a multi-period settlement in southern Poland

Antiquity ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 65 (248) ◽  
pp. 662-675 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kazimierz Godłowski
Keyword(s):  
Western Europe ◽  
Gold Foil ◽  
Carpathian Basin ◽  
Left Bank ◽  
Southern Poland ◽  
Eurasian Steppe ◽  
The Village ◽  
Sand Extraction ◽  
Made In ◽  
Grave Goods

The village of Jakuszowice (Kielce Voivodship, Kazimie za Wielka Commune) lies some 50 km northeast of Cracow on a loess upland situated on the left bank of the river Nidzica, tributary of the Vistula. In 1911, during sand extraction, an extremely rich burial was discovered. It contained the bones of a young man and a horse as well as a long sword and several bronze, silver and gold objects (Åberg 1936; Lászlo 1951; Harmatta 1951; Werner 1956; Nosek 1959). The grave is dated to the first half of the 5th century AD, probably before 430 on the basis of artefacts made in the Soesdala-Untersiebenbrunn style. The grave goods show clear affinities with many other ‘chieftain's graves’ which occur in an area stretching from the western part of the Eurasian steppe to western Europe – most densely in the Carpathian Basin, where they are associated with the period of Hunnic domination (Werner 1956: 82–95, map 8). Most noteworthy in this context is the gold-foil covered model of a Central Asiatic reflex bow, considered by certain scholars to be a symbol of authority (Harmatta 1951; Lászlo 1951).

scholarly journals Lichens of abandoned zinc-lead mines

2013 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Urszula Bielczyk ◽  
Monika Jędrzejczyk-Korycińska ◽  
Józef Kiszka
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metal ◽  
High Mountain ◽  
Anthropogenic Habitats ◽  
Southern Poland ◽  
Lichen Biota ◽  
Crustose Lichens ◽  
Diploschistes Muscorum

A list of lichens from areas of zinc-lead ores in Southern Poland and a review of the characteristic lichen biota of these sites is provided. In spite of the devastated and heavy metal contaminated environment, a highly diverse epigeic and epilithic lichen biota was found, including species characteristic of various anthropogenic habitats, particularly zinc and lead enriched substrates (<em>Diploschistes muscorum, Steinia geophana, Sarcosagium campestre, Vezdaea aestivalis</em> and <em>V. leprosa</em>). Also, the high-mountain species <em>Leucocarpia biatorella</em>, as well as very rare in Europe <em>Thelocarpon imperceptum</em>, and several species categorized as very rare, endangered and protected in Poland were recorded. Crustose lichens are the most abundant; among fruticose forms <em>Cladonia</em> spp. predominate and <em>Stereocaulon incrustatum</em> is common.

scholarly journals The influence of surrounding vegetation on the flora of post-mining area

2012 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dominik Kopeć ◽  
Izabela Zając ◽  
Anna Halladin-Dąbrowska
Keyword(s):  
Vascular Plants ◽  
Mining Area ◽  
Direct Access ◽  
Indigenous Species ◽  
Protected Species ◽  
Southern Poland ◽  
Dense Forest ◽  
Ceramic Clay

Abstract In 2007, extensive botanical studies were carried out in the Gagaty Sołtykowskie Reserve (Małopolska Upland, southern Poland) to compile comprehensive flora inventories n separately for a post-mining area and the surrounding forest. The main aim of the study was to assess the influence of the surrounding vegetation on the flora of a former ceramic clay mine located in the middle of a dense forest. The results show that over 30 years after closure, the former mine is now home to several valuable and protected species of vascular plants, with the rate and direction of succession determined mainly by the surrounding vegetation. Because ruderal species have no direct access to the area, non-synanthropic, indigenous species are dominant in the Gagaty Sołtykowskie Reserve (GS).

scholarly journals Eragrostis pilosa (L.) P. Beauv. (Poaceae) in Poland

2009 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-16
Author(s):  
Marcin Nobis ◽  
Agnieszka Nobis
Keyword(s):  
Anthropogenic Habitats ◽  
Southern Poland

Eragrostis pilosa(L.) P. Beauv. (Poaceae) in PolandThe paper presents new data on the occurrence ofEragrostis pilosain Poland. The species has been considered as an ephemerophyte in the Polish flora. A new locality ofE. pilosawas found in the railway areas of Nowosielce near Sanok (southern Poland) in 2007. The occurrence of the species at this locality was confirmed in 2008 and 2009. Because the species is established in anthropogenic habitats, it might be regarded as an epecophyte in Poland.

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