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BRYOLOGICAL BOOKS

Title Authors Language Year of Edition
Bryological Studies in the Western Carpathians Edited by Adam Stebel & Ryszard Ochyra English 2004
Mosses of the Polica Range (Polish Western Carpathians) A. Stebel, R. Ochyra, L. Stuchlik & J.B. Parusel English 2004
Identification Keys to the Liverworts and Hornworts of Europe and Macaronesia (Distribution and Status)
 2nd revised edition		 R. Schumacker & J. Váňa English 2005

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BRYOLOGICAL STUDIES IN THE WESTERN CARPATHIANS

Edited by Adam Stebel & Ryszard Ochyra

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The book comprises of 15 articles which may be divided into three groups, the first of which consists of a single paper.

Although a catalogue of the mosses of the Polish Carpathians is still under preparation, the present state of knowledge of the regional moss flora is such that time is now ripe for the presentation of the first Red-list of threatened moss species in this region. This local list is compared with a newly revised national (for Poland)  Red-list of mosses.

The next seven articles deal with individual moss species and genera which are rare or otherwise phytogeographically interesting in the Western Carpathians. Two of them consider the distribution of the rare and protected moss Buxbaumia viridis in the Slezské Beskydy and Polish Tatras. Two others are devoted to the rare coprophilous species Splachnum sphaericum and Tetraplodon angustatus and a separate paper deals with the rare and now heavily declining oceanic species Hookeria lucens. This group of papers is supplemented by an article describing the distributions of three species of the genus Codriophorus and another presenting the highest localities of Rhodobryum roseum in the Polish Carpathians.

Finally, the third group consists of seven bryofloristic contributions dealing with mostly undercollected areas in the Polish Western Carpathians which yield many new floristic records for particular areas, including the Carpathian Foothills and the whole of the Western Beskidy. Two papers deal with the moss flora of nature reserves in the Beskid Śląski and Beskid Mały, one with the Babia Góra National Park and one is a preliminary account of the epiphytic bryophyte flora of Bielsko-Biała, one of the largest industrial towns in the Western Beskidy.

160 pages
B5 (17 × 24 cm)
Language: English
ISBN 83-87133-71-X

CONTENTS

ADAM STEBEL, RYSZARD OCHYRA
Preface

 

JAN ŻARNOWIEC, ADAM STEBEL, RYSZARD OCHYRA

Threatened moss species in the Polish Carpathians in the light of a new Red-list of mosses in Poland

 

MARC PHILIPPE, RYSZARD OCHYRA

Occurrence of the moss Buxbaumia viridis (Bryopsida, Buxbaumiaceae) in the Tatras National Park (Poland)

 

VÍTÌZSLAV PLÁŠEK

The moss Buxbaumia viridis (Bryopsida, Buxbaumiaceae) in the Czech part of the Western Carpathians – distribution and ecology

 

ADAM STEBEL, HALINA BEDNAREK-OCHYRA

The moss genus Codriophorus (Bryopsida, Grimmiaceae) in the Polish Carpathians

 

ADAM STEBEL, RYSZARD OCHYRA, HALINA BEDNAREK-OCHYRA, WOJCIECH STACHNOWICZ, ROKSANA KRAUSE, ROBERT ZUBEL, ANNA RUSIŃSKA

Hookeria lucens (Bryopsida, Hookeriaceae) in the Polish Carpathians

 

HENRYK KLAMA, JAN ŻARNOWIEC

Rediscovery of Splachnum sphaericum (Bryopsida, Splachnaceae) in the Babia Góra massif (Western Carpathians)

 

ADAM STEBEL, JERZY B. PARUSEL, GRAŻYNA CISŁO

Another locality of Tetraplodon angustatus (Bryopsida, Splachnaceae) in the Polish Carpathians

 

ADAM FLAKUS, BEATA CYKOWSKA

The highest localities of Rhodobryum roseum (Bryopsida, Bryaceae) in Poland

 

JAN ŻARNOWIEC, HENRYK KLAMA

The bryophyte flora of the Madohora Nature Reserve in the Beskid Mały Range (Polish Western Carpathians)

 

JAN ŻARNOWIEC, WOJCIECH SZWED

A contribution to the moss flora of the subalpine and alpine belts of the Babia Góra massif (Western Carpathians)

 

ADAM STEBEL

Mosses of the Czantoria Nature Reserve in the Beskid Śląski Range (Western Carpathians)

 

ADAM STEBEL

A contribution to the moss flora of the Gorce (Western Carpathians)

 

ADAM STEBEL

A contribution to the bryoflora of the western part of the Carpathian Foothills

 

ADAM STEBEL & DOMINIKA BIELEC

Preliminary studies on epiphytic bryophytes of Bielsko-Biała town (Western Carpathians)

 

ADAM STEBEL, ROKSANA KRAUSE, WOJCIECH STACHNOWICZ, PAWEŁ NEJFELD, ZBIGNIEW WILCZEK & PIOTR GÓRSKI
A contribution to the bryoflora of the Western Beskidy

MOSSES OF THE POLICA RANGE 
(POLISH WESTERN CARPATHIANS)

by A. Stebel, R. Ochyra, L. Stuchlik & J.B. Parusel

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As a result of many years’ bryological investigations in the Polica Range in the Beskidy Zachodnie (Polish Western Carpathians), 264 species and five varieties of moss have been discovered. This number of taxa makes the moss flora of the Polica much richer than that of some other parts of the Beskidy Zachodnie. Two species, Niphotrichum ericoides (Brid.) Bednarek-Ochyra & Ochyra and Splachnum ampullaceum Hedw., have in this range the only localities in the whole of the Beskidy Zachodnie. Over half of the total number of species (57.2%) constitute very rare and rare species which are recorded at 1–3 and 4–8 stations, respectively, whereas common species which are noted at at least 26 sites contribute 11.2% of the total flora. The main ecological groups of mosses are characterized in detail and distribution of taxa is mapped. The largest ecological groups comprise epigean (122), epilithic (120), paludiculous (54), epiphytic (52), epixylic (38), and aquatic (15) species. An annotated list of taxa including listing all collecting sites is presented. Endangered and protected species of the study area are briefly discussed and presented in the Table.

124 pages 
B5 (17 × 24 cm)
Language: English
ISBN 83-89949-00-8

TABLE OF CONTENTS

I. Introduction

II. Study area

III. Bryological research in the Polica Range

IV. General characterization of the moss flora

V. Ecological analysis of the moss flora

1. Terrestrial mosses
2. Epiphytic mosses
3. Epixylic mosses
4. Epilithic mosses
5. Paludicolous mosses
6. Aquatic mosses 

VI. The occurrence of mosses in plant communities

VII. Mosses and the nature conservation

VIII. Systematic list of moss taxa

IX. Doubtful and excluded species

Acknowledgements

References

Appendix: Distribution maps for moss taxa

IDENTIFICATION KEYS TO THE LIVERWORTS AND HORNWORTS OF EUROPE AND MACARONESIA 
(DISTRIBUTION AND STATUS)
2nd edition fully revised and updated

by R. Schumacker & J. Váňa

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The first edition of the Identification Keys to Liverworts and Hornworts of Europe and Macaronesia published in 2000 was very successful: some 400 copies were sold. Thanks to comments, remarks, questions of many users encountering difficulties – especially in the keys to genera or in some keys for large genera, from students, beginners, experimented hobby – and professional bryologists, as to recently published books and papers, we started since 2003 to prepare a 2nd fully revised and updated edition. 

This 2nd edition, carrefully edited by SORUS/Poznań, provides, a.o., new (or partly new) keys for Conocephalum, Fossombronia, Herbertus, Lepidozia, Lophozia, Plagiochila, Riccia, Scapania, Telaranea, etc., numerous new keys for subspecies or varieties, updated distribution data, many corrections to patronyms, an impressive number (ca. 300!) of new synonyms in the corpus as in the index and many new useful references to literature and illustrations until August 2005. 

The book is provided with a metallic spiral binding.

210 pages 
A4 (21 × 29 cm)
Language: English
ISBN 83-89949-11-3

CONTENTS

Foreword to the second edition

1. Introduction

2. Main biological and morphological features of liverworts and hornworts

3. Conspectus of liverwort and hornwort classification for Europe and Macaronesia

4. General methodology

5. General key to the orders or isolated genera and species

6. Keys from orders to genera and isolated species

7. Keys from genera to species (incl. generally recognised subspecies and varieties)

8. Literature

Acknowledgements

9. List of accepted names and synonyms

 

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 Price (incl. porto) Number of copies
Bryological Studies in the Western Carpathians Europe: 26 EU
Rest of the World: 37 USD
Mosses of the Polica Range (Polish Western Carpathians) Europe: 21 EU
Rest of the World: 30 USD
  Identification Keys to the Liverworts and Hornworts of Europe and Macaronesia (Distribution and Status)
 2nd revised edition		 Europe: 30 EU
Rest of the World: 44 USD

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