Bulletin SBS, ročník 34, č. 2/2012
Abstract: Diversity of the summer and autumn phytoplankton of the fishpond at Voznica (Central Slovakia) in 2008 is presented. Geraltov 20 genera of cyanobacteria/cyanophytes with 35 species and 98 genera with 222 species and 19 infraspecific taxa of different groups of microscopic algae were identified in this small eutrophic fishpond. One xanthophycean species, Tetraedriella spinifera Skuja, and two diatoms, Navicula soehrensis var. muscicola (Petersen) Krasske, N. ignota Krasske, are the first records for the territory of the Slovak Republic.
Keywords: algae, cyanobacteria, eutrophic water reservoir.
Abstract: New data on the distribution of vascular plant species in surroundings of Kozol National Nature Reserve (Lúčanská Fatra Mts) are presented. The area includes natural forest communities, habitats of carbonate rocks, screes and dealpine grasslands. Floristic data come from detailed phytosociological and floristic survey of the forest and non-forest communities. The most interesting are three new localities of Cypripedium calceolus – the species of European importance, which is typical for calcicolous forest communities, two localities of yew (Taxus baccata), rare fern species Phyllitis scolopendrium growing in shaded scree forests and endangered species Senecio umbrosus. Another protected species e.g. Gymnadenia odoratissima, Soldanella carpatica, Cephalanthera rubra, Primula auricula and Epipactis atrorubens are relatively common in the area. The whole territory is valuable by high biodiversity, including localities out of the nature reserve.
Abstract: Three new populations of rare orchid Himantoglossum adriaticum H. Baumann were discovered in the Drieňov Hills in the southern part of the Strážovské vrchy Mts. In the year 2010, the largest population counted about 150 flowering plants, and the number of flowering plants in two smaller populations was 20–25 and about 30 respectively. Five phytosociological relevés showing the variety of habitats with presence of the species were made. It grows in thermophilous oak forests (the alliance Quercion pubescenti-petraeae), at the forest edges and slopes that are shaded by solitary oak trees. It also scarcely occurs in semi-dry grasslands (the alliance Cirsio-Brachypodion pinnati).
Keywords: distribution, ecology, threatened and rare species, Slovakia.
Abstract: The results of a morphological comparison of closely related species Cerastium latifolium and C. carinthiacum presented in this paper helped in clarification of the taxonomic identity of the Western Carpathian populations. In the Western Carpathians (Slovakia, Poland) only C. latifolium L. s. str. was confirmed. The data referring to C. carinthiacum Vest from Slovakia were erroneous. The most important differential characters of both species are presented and a list of revised specimens is given.
Keywords: Cerastium carinthiacum, chorology, morphology, taxonomy, Slovakia, Poland.
Abstract: Vegetation of flooded grasslands belonging to the association Ranunculo repentis-Alopecuretum Tüxen 1937 (alliance Potentillion anserinae Tüxen 1947) was studied using the traditional Braun-Blanquet approach. Twenty-three phytosociological relevés were collected in the southern and central parts of Central Slovakia during the last 13 years. The association is mostly confined to the alluvia of rivers and streams, and terrain depressions from planar to montane belt with optimum in the basins to 250 m a. s. l. The hydrological regime is characterized by floods with relatively shallow water level in the spring for a short time and subsequently by decrease of water deeper under soil surface. Habitats are always disturbed by grazing of farm animals. Community was detected in the basins, Ipeľská kotlina, Lučenská kotlina and Zvolenská kotlina, and mountains, Ostrôžky, Revúcka vrchovina and Stolické vrchy. Relatively species-poor stands (15 species per a plot) are formed by dominant Alopecurus geniculatus and/or Ranunculus repens, but the other species can also rarely prevail. Four floristic-ecological variants were identified in the phytosociological material.
Keywords: distribution, ecology, flooded grassland, floristic composition, Potentillion anserinae, vegetation.
Abstract: We investigated aquatic flora and vegetation growing in small scour holes (isolated lakes originated by processes of dam failure during floods) near the Danube River. These holes are not flooded, hence are considered to be influenced only by groundwater. Only four aquatic plant communities were identified, the most prominent being the Ceratophylletum demersi. The littoral zone of some of the scour hole waterbodies were supported stands dominated by Phragmites australis and Typha angustifolia. The scour holes are important habitats of rare hydrophytes such as Myriophyllum verticillatum, Nymphaea alba and Salvinia natans.
Keywords: aquatic vegetation, phytosociology, rare species, the Danube, scour holes.
Abstract: We have been focused on macrophyte vegetation of both natural and artificial waterbodies (river oxbows, water reservoirs, gravel pits, fishponds, and wetlands). Altogether 31 plant communities from the classes Charetea (1 association), Lemnetea (4 associations), Potametea (8 associations) and Phragmito-Magno-Caricetea (18 associations) have been recorded during field survey in 2009 on the territory of eastern Slovakia. The most valuable findings are those of Potamo-Ceratophylletum submersi, Potametum pusilli, Potametum trichoidis, Phalarido arundinaceae-Bolboschoenetum laticarpi, and Phragmito-Schoenoplectetum tabernaemontani associations. From the floristical point of view, altogether more than 90 taxa were found, including some rare or vulnerable/endangered ones (i.e. Butomus umbellatus, Carex buekii, C. paniculata, C. pseudocyperus, Catabrosa aquatica, Ceratophyllum submersum, Leersia oryzoides, Plantago uliginosa, Potamogeton nodosus, P. trichoides, Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani, Utricularia australis, U. vulgaris agg.). The occurrence of Hippuris vulgaris (Paňovce), Nymphaea alba (Kokšov-Bakša), and Nymphoides peltata (Uzovský Šalgov), seem to be of anthropogenic origin.
Keywords: aquatic and wetlands vegetation, ecology, Charetea, Lemnetea, macrophytes, Phragmito-Magno-Caricetea, phytosociology, Potametea.