Flora and Phytogeography of the Czech Republic

Kaplan, Zdeněk

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-63181-3_3

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“…Central European forest habitats have changed a lot since the Preboreal and Boreal period. Once light Preboreal and Boreal forests were later massively replaced by deciduous forests with more closed canopies in Central Europe (Kaplan, 2012). Open forests containing heliophilous trees like Pinus sylvestris L., Betula pendula Roth., and Larix decidua Mill.…”

Section: Discussion Populations Site Conditions and Vegetationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The present-day flora of Central Europe reflects its geographic position, varied geology and topography, as well as climate and vegetation history, and it is influenced by glacial cycles during the Quaternary Period (Grulich, 2012;Kaplan, 2012). Numerous species that are extinct in Central Europe survived in Eastern Asia (e.g., Platycladus orientalis (L.) Franco (Farjon and Filer, 2013)), in Transcaucasia (e.g., Pterocarya pterocarpa (Michx.)…”

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“…(Hendrych and Hendrychová, 1988), became glacial or postglacial relicts, but also new local endemics appeared, e.g., Galium sudeticum Tausch, G. cracoviense Ehrend., Cochlearia polonica E. Froelich (Cieślak et al, 2007(Cieślak et al, , 2015Szeląg, 2009, 2010;Kolář et al, 2013Kolář et al, , 2015 or Sorbus sudetica (Tausch) Bluff et al (Kaplan, 2012). Climatic changes during the Quaternary Period strongly affected the species composition and the species distribution in Europe (Szafer, 1946(Szafer, -47, 1954Kaplan, 2012). Since the Neolithic Period, humans have become another important factor affecting the regional floras (Szymura, 2012;Hejcman et al, 2013;Roleček et al, 2014;Plieninger et al, 2015).…”

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“…A. liliifolia is considered to represent the EuropeanSouth-Siberian geoelement, which tolerates extreme continental climate with a short growing season, warm but short summers, and long winters with severe frosts (Kucharczyk, 2007;Kaplan, 2012;Kucharczyk et al, 2014). The centre of A. liliifolia distribution is in Western Asia-Southern Siberia, and from there it extends to Mongolia and Western China in the East, and to the North-West of Turkey, and to South-, Eastern-, Central-Europe up to Western Europe in the West (Tacik, 1971;Fedorov, 1978;Deyuan et al, 2011;Urgamal, 2014).…”

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Adenophora liliifolia: Condition of its Populations in Central Europe

Prausová

Marečková

Kapler

et al. 2016

Acta Biologica Cracoviensia S. Botanica

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This study deals with populations of the European-South-Siberian geoelement Adenophora liliifolia (L.) A. DC. in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Poland, where this species has its European periphery distribution. We studied the population size, genetic variability, site conditions, and vegetation units in which A. liliifolia grows. Recent and historical localities of A. liliifolia were ranked into six vegetation units of both forest and non-forest character. A phytosociological survey showed differences in the species composition among localities. Only a weak pattern of population structure was observed (only 22% of total genetic variation present at the interpopulation level, AMOVA analysis), with moderate values for gene diversity (H j = 0.141) and polymorphism (P = 27.6%). Neighborjoining and Bayesian clusterings suggest a similar genetic background for most of the populations from Slovakia, the Czech Republic, and Poland, contrary to the populations from Hungary, Romania, as well as two populations from Central and South Slovakia. This might be explained by a relatively recent fragmentation of the A. liliifolia populations in Central Europe. Nevertheless, it seems that several populations in Romania, South Hungary, and Slovakia were isolated for a longer period of time and their genetic differentiation is more evident.

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“…Its range extends from northern Spain, France and the British Isles northwards to southern Norway and southern Sweden and eastwards to north-western Poland and north-western Czech Republic (Cook 1983, Lansdown 2011. In the Czech Republic L. natans occurs as a sub-Atlantic geoelement (Kaplan 2012), reaching the south-eastern limit of its distribution in Bohemia. It grows in slightly acidic, mesotrophic to oligotrophic, clear, cold standing water.…”

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Distributions of vascular plants in the Czech Republic

Kaplan¹,

Danihelka²,

Koutecký³

et al. 2017

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This the fourth part of the series on the distributions of vascular plants in the Czech Republic includes grid maps of 84 taxa of the genera Aldrovanda, Alisma, Asclepias, Azolla, Blechnum, Botrychium, Butomus, Carex, Centaurea, Drosera, Dysphania, Hypochaeris, Illecebrum, Luronium, Ophioglossum, Persicaria, Pilularia, Rubrivena, Sagittaria, Salvinia, Scirpoides, Sideritis, Streptopus, Teesdalia and Thesium. These maps were produced by taxonomic experts based on herbarium specimens, literature and field records. Of the native taxa studied, 40 are on the national Red List. Among them, Carex pseudobrizoides, Hypochaeris glabra and Illecebrum verticillatum are rare species of mainly sandy habitats, which are all now restricted to a few or several sites and are therefore classified as critically threatened. Endangered aquatics and wetland plants are represented by Alisma gramineum, Salvinia natans, three Drosera species, Luronium natans and Pilularia globulifera, of which the latter two are species with sub-Atlantic distributions, reaching in this country their south-eastern and eastern distribution limits, respectively. All eight species of the genus Thesium and most species of Botrychium are endangered, either because they are rare or they are now considerably less common than they were, or combination of both. Two of the species mapped in this paper are now extirpated from this country. Botrychium simplex was last recorded more than 120 years ago, whereas the spontaneous occurrences of Aldrovanda vesiculosa vanished after 1952. However, the latter species has recently been deliberately planted in the wild for conservation purposes. The taxonomically extremely difficult Centaurea sect. Jacea, whose taxonomy and evolution is complicated by polyploidization and frequent hybridization, includes many taxa whose distributions were unclear until recently. Maps

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Does hybridization with a widespread congener threaten the long‐term persistence of the Eastern Alpine rare local endemic Knautia carinthiaca?

Čertner

Kolář

Schönswetter

2015

Ecology and Evolution

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Interspecific hybridization, especially when regularly followed by backcrossing (i.e., introgressive hybridization), conveys a substantial risk for many endangered organisms. This is particularly true for narrow endemics occurring within distributional ranges of widespread congeners. An excellent example is provided by the plant genus Knautia (Caprifoliaceae): Locally endemic K. carinthiaca is reported from two isolated populations in southern Austria situated within an area predominantly occupied by widespread K. arvensis. While K. carinthiaca usually inhabits low‐competition communities on rocky outcrops, K. arvensis occurs mainly in dry to mesic managed grasslands, yet both species can coexist in marginal environments and were suspected to hybridize. Flow cytometry revealed that diploid K. carinthiaca only occurs at its locus classicus, whereas the second locality is inhabited by the morphologically similar but tetraploid K. norica. In the, therefore, single population of K. carinthiaca, flow cytometry and AFLP fingerprinting showed signs of introgressive hybridization with diploid K. arvensis. Hybridization patterns were also reflected in intermediate habitat preferences and morphology of the hybrids. Environmental barriers to gene flow seem to prevent genetic erosion of K. carinthiaca individuals from the core ecological niches, restricting most introgressed individuals to peripheral habitats. Efficient conservation of K. carinthiaca will require strict protection of its habitat and ban on forest clear cuts in a buffer zone to prevent invasion of K. arvensis. We demonstrate the large potential of multidisciplinary approaches combining molecular, cytometric, and ecological tools for a reliable inventory and threat assessment of rare species.

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Flora and Phytogeography of the Czech Republic

Cited by 46 publications

References 65 publications

Adenophora liliifolia: Condition of its Populations in Central Europe

Adenophora liliifolia: Condition of its Populations in Central Europe

Distributions of vascular plants in the Czech Republic

Does hybridization with a widespread congener threaten the long‐term persistence of the Eastern Alpine rare local endemic Knautia carinthiaca?

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