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Disjunct Occurrences of Plant Species in the Refugial Mires of Bulgaria

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Author	Hájek, Michal Hájková, Petra Apostolova, Iva Horsák, Michal Plášek, Vítězslav Shaw, Blanka Lazarova, Maria
Copyright Year	2009
Abstract	Many mire vascular plant and bryophyte species have disjunct occurrences in Bulgaria despite that most of south-eastern Europe is not suitable for the occurrence of permanently waterlogged and nutrient-limited wetlands due to the current and glacial dry climate conditions as well as prevailing limestone bedrock. Unfortunately, such important distributional data are scattered throughout numerous papers and reports, and are not adequately provided even by national checklists and floras. No attempt to summarize them has been done yet. Therefore, the main aim of this paper is to review and enlarge such data, and to use the resulting data set to address the question whether the disjunctly occurring rare species are concentrated in certain mire complexes or even in particular vegetation plots and if they do characterize such localities. Our current research shows that the phenomenon of isolated occurrences of mire plants in Bulgaria is even more widespread than previously thought. Seventeen species were found as new for Bulgaria with their distribution range limits there, and distributional data of many other species, including some previously considered extinct, were enlarged. Fifty-four mire species were found at only three or fewer sites. Our analyses showed a conspicuous concentration of rare, disjunctly occurring species at a few sites, which are, however, largely unexplored in terms of palaeoecology or ecology, not legally protected and currently threatened by human activities. The distributions of target rare species within Bulgarian mires were significantly nested, which means that more species-poor assemblages were subsets of richer ones. Nestedness was significantly related to the estimated area of mire complex, but not all high-diversity mires were large. Disjunctly occurring rare species were more concentrated in particular vegetation plots at lower altitudes and in mineral-rich fens. Fragmentary data about the ecology and history of Bulgarian refugial mires suggest that these mires harbour specific ecotypes and genotypes, contain specifically distributed biogeographic groups of species, provide an opportunity to test biogeographical hypotheses and shelter crucial information about the history of European mires. Thus, these sites have a potential to become a source of very important information for biogeographical, palaeoecological, and phylogeographical analyses.
Starting Page	365
Ending Page	386
Page Count	22
File Format	PDF
ISSN	12119520
Journal	Folia Geobotanica
Volume Number	44
Issue Number	4
e-ISSN	18749348
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2009-11-11
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Balkans Conservation Distribution Fen Palaeorefugia Range margin Relic species Warm climate Life Sciences Plant Sciences Plant Ecology Plant Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Plant Science Paleontology

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