Plants From Jepi Mountains, Bucegi, Present in "Alexandru Beldie" Herbarium

Abstract

The present article describes the plants collected from Jepi Mountains area (Bucegi) and present in one of the most important Romanian herbarium -"Alexandru Beldie" Herbarium from "Marin Drăcea" National Institute for Research and Development in Forestry. The article presents the studied material, the number of vouchers with species harvested from this area as well as some characteristics of this great plant collection. The most important species collected from Jepi Mountains are also mentioned, with an analysis of their characteristics: the collection's creation period and the plant's harvesting periods. The plants collected from this area belong to 54 different genera. Most of them belong to Hieracium and Gentiana and were collected during the last century, starting with 1900 and ending in 1999. The found genera were systematized, with an emphasis on the most representative ones. Furthermore, the specialists that had an important contribution for the representation of Jepi Mountains within the herbarium are also mentioned and honored.

Shifts in Forest Species Composition and Abundance under Climate Change Scenarios in Southern Carpathian Romanian Temperate Forests

“…Soil types in the area include protosols, spodozols, cambisols, argiluvisols and hydromorphic soils with pseudogleic properties [34,35]. ) later, both of them in the inferior montane belt [24,36]. Oaks gradually appear in mixed broadleaved forests in the colline belt and, in low-altitude areas, reach the point where Quercus forests dominate the landscape.…”

“…Mixed Fagus-conifer forests, mainly Picea and Abies alba Mill., dominate the intermediate montane belt, with the beech abundance increasing as the altitude decreases. Mixed Fagus-conifer forests are substituted by pure Fagus forests first and mixed broadleaved forest (F. sylvatica and Carpinus betulus L.) later, both of them in the inferior montane belt [24,36]. Oaks gradually appear in mixed broadleaved forests in the colline belt and, in low-altitude areas, reach the point where Quercus forests dominate the landscape.…”

“…In this context, the evolution of European temperate forests under climate change is largely uncertain, with studies suggesting that conifers will be severely damaged by climate change [16], while beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) forests, already affected by drought in recent decades [20], will be more sensitive to climate change. Given the gaps in the knowledge and the relevance of mixed (broadleaf and conifer) forests [24][25][26], such discrepancies require further research.…”