Aurika Rickiene- Dr.
- Researcher at Nature Research Centre
Aurika Rickiene
- Dr.
- Researcher at Nature Research Centre
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During the last century, Lithuania lost about eighty percent of its wetlands. Before the Second World War, Šepeta bog was one of the largest raised bogs in Lithuania (1398.9 ha) and part of the wider European wetland system. In 1940, a complex study on the vegetation and peat resources of the bog was conducted and, based on the findings obtained, t...
The main objective of the study was to evaluate the population characteristics of Betula nana under different anthropogenic influences. The study was conducted in the vicinity of the exploited Šepeta peatland (northeastern Lithuania). The population status of B. nana was determined by comparing the ramet density and morphology (height, branching, a...
Like one of the ancient trees he wrote about so elegantly and perceptively, Oliver Rackham’s roots run deep while his influence branches far. He was undoubtedly the leading scholar in landscape history and historical ecology, and his work continues to resonate not just with his peers but with a much wider public audience too. His combination of ext...
Until the Second World War, the Šepeta peatland was basically known as a 1,398.9-ha raised bog located in the northeastern part of Lithuania. However, since 1939, it has been exploited for peat extraction. At present, the entire bog massif is destroyed, and the only extant elements of its former landscape are the forests that previously surrounded...
Iki Antrojo pasaulinio karo Šepetos pelkė buvo žinoma kaip šiaurės rytų Lietuvoje plytinti 1 398,9 ha ploto aukštapelkė. Nuo 1939 m. pelkė eksploatuojama ūkio reikmėms. Šiuo metu visas pelkės masyvas sunaikintas. Buvusį kraštovaizdį išsaugojo tik ją supantys pelkiniai miškai, o informacija apie jos gamtą išliko tik publikuotuose šaltiniuose. Iki XX...
Iki Antrojo pasaulinio karo Šepetos pelkė buvo žinoma kaip šiaurės rytų Lietuvoje plytinti 1 398,9 ha ploto aukštapelkė. Nuo 1939 m. pelkė eksploatuojama ūkio reikmėms. Šiuo metu visas pelkės masyvas sunaikintas. Buvusį kraštovaizdį išsaugojo tik ją supantys pelkiniai miškai, o informacija apie jos gamtą išliko tik publikuotuose šaltiniuose. Iki XX...
Iki Antrojo pasaulinio karo Šepetos pelkė buvo žinoma kaip šiaurės rytų Lietuvoje plytinti 1 398,9 ha ploto aukštapelkė. Nuo 1939 m. pelkė eksploatuojama ūkio reikmėms. Šiuo metu visas pelkės masyvas sunaikintas. Buvusį kraštovaizdį išsaugojo tik ją supantys pelkiniai miškai, o informacija apie jos gamtą išliko tik publikuotuose šaltiniuose. Iki XX...
Visual media are one of the fastest and most effective tools informing the public about conservation goals and convincing societies to support conservation actions. Similar mechanisms functioned in the past, only within a much longer time scale and different communication channels. We analyse the evolution of European bison’s depictions between 150...
Zapiski bryologiczne , a book written by Kazimierz Szafnagel, is a report on the author’s bryological studies conducted between 1882 and 1885 in the territories of present-day Belarus, Lithuania, Poland, and Ukraine. The book was published in 1908 by the Society of Friends of Science in Vilnius after a long period of publishing stagnation caused by...
The book, written by an international team of interdisciplinary researchers, is composed of a series of scientific essays touching on themes of roots of the idea of primeval forest in the connection with Białowieża Primeval Forest (BPF) and scientific recognition of BPF and European bison in European research. We trace specimens of European bison f...
Białowieża Primeval Forest and its most famous inhabitant, the European bison, have both grown to a symbol of pristine nature – and Poland itself – in the course of the 19th and early 20th century. It was therefore understandable that the European bison and the forest were used in a series of prints presenting the most important symbols of Poland,...
Collection of the clippings from the periodicals and books of the middle of the 19th – beginning 20th century about Białowieża Primeval Forest, belonging to Polish journalist, bibliographer and editor Ludwik Abramowicz (1879–1939) was found at the Wroblewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences. This article describes the collection, prese...
The second half of the 18th century was a crucial time for the history of education and science in Poland. Reforms introduced by the Commission of National Education reorganized the school system, led to the publication of several textbooks devoted to subjects such as zoology and botany, and surveyed teachers for information about “natural treasure...
The first scientific description of the flora of the Białowieża Primeval Forest (Puszcza Białowieska) was published in 1829 in Stanisław Batys Gorski’s paper “O roślinach żubrom upodobanych, jakoteż innych w puszczy Białowiezkiey [About preferred plants of the European bison and other plants from the Białowieża Primeval Forest]”. This publication c...
A report from mission to Białowieża Primeval Forest by Janusz Domaniewski,
an outstanding zoologist and nature conservationist was discovered in the archives of the
Museum and the Institute of Zoology of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. The
mission, undertaken in February 1921, was the third scientific expedition to the Forest
(after the e...
The article analyses Janusz Domaniewski’s writings on the post-war history
of Białowieża National Park (BNP), stored in the Museum and Institute of Zoology,
Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. The analysed letters concern the resumption
of the activities of the Society for the Protection of the European Bison, the assessment
of the wartime losses...
The hunting magazine “Przegląd Myśliwski i Łowiectwo Polskie” was published
for four years (1923-1926). Its founder and editor-in-chief was a writer, historian and hunting
activist Julian Ejsmond. The journal was connected with Poznań’s hunting society, which,
at that time, was conflicted with hunting organizations in Warsaw. Białowieża Primeval
Fo...
Missing audiovisual documents about European bison and the Białowieża Forest
ABSTRACT: In the context of research on Polish hunting and natural science magazines from the end of the 19th and the first half of the 20th century, we discovered the existence of audiovisual documents about the Białowieża Forest and the history of European bison. What h...
Find and save the last bison - what is known about the mission of Herman Knothe in the Bialowieza Forest in 1919?
The article presents the mission of Herman Knothe to Białowieża Primeval Forest in March 1919. Emerging Polish authorities entrusted Knothe, a naturalist and hunter, with the task of finding the last European bison in the forest of Bia...
Unknown testimony to the beginning of the reintroduction of bears in the Białowieża Forest. Parki nar. Rez. Przyr. 39(2): 89-98. A�������: The article presents documents found in the collection of the correspondence of Janusz Domaniewski, an outstanding zoologist and nature protection activist, at the Museum and Institute of Zoology of the Polish A...
The article, based on a detailed query in the archival issues of the “Łowiec Polski”
magazine from 1899–1939, shows the perception of the bison and Białowieża Primeval
Forest among the authors and readers of this periodical. The founder and fi rst editor-in-chief of the magazine was Jan Sztolcman, a naturalist best known for his crucial role in sav...
In 1830, two European bison arrived at the Warsaw Zoological Cabinet. F.P. Jarocki, the curator of the Cabinet and the first professor of zoology at the University of Warsaw hunted them in Białowieża Primeval Forest, with the consent of the Russian Tsar. However in the illustration of the exhibition at the Cabinet by W. Gerson, published in 1869 in...
The paper deals with bryophytes collected by Polish researchers from the mires in the eastern part of Lithuania in 1934–1940 and deposited at the Herbarium of W. Szafer Institute of Botany, Polish Academy of Sciences (KRAM). The collection provides data on bryophyte diversity and distribution patterns in the mires of Lithuania. The collection (868...
Stanisław Batys Gorski (1802–1864) was a pharmacist, botanist, and entomologist. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, he headed the Vilnius University Botanical Garden and lectured on botany at the Imperial University of Vilnius and the Vilnius Medical and Surgical Academy. It is a known fact that the Herbarium of Vilnius University (WI) con...
The meeting of the Lenin All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences (VASKhNIL) that occurred from July 31 to August 7, 1948, declared Michurinism to be the only “correct theory” of biology in the Soviet Union. As of that moment, Michurinist biology officially took center stage in Soviet scientific institutions, and it was further developed over the...
Jean-Emmanuel Gilibert (1741-1814) was a French botanist, physician, and politician who lived in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth between 1775 and 1783, where he organized studies on medicine and natural sciences. During this time, he collected local plants, and in 1781-1782, published a two-volume compendium: Flora Litvanica inchoata. One hundre...
In 1957, the Soviet Union launched the first artificial Earth satellite, initiating its space exploration programs. Throughout the rest of the twentieth century, the development of these space programs received special attention from Soviet Union authorities. Scientists from the former Soviet Republics, including Lithuania, participated in these pr...
