Monika Staniaszek-Kik

University of Lodz · Department of Geobotany and Plant Ecology

Windthrows lead to the formation of a characteristic land microtopography and they provide new habitats and substrata for species. The present study is novel, because it concerns different taxonomic groups of organisms and effects of various variables on species composition, richness and abundance within root plate-pit-mound (RPM) complexes. For th...

In the year 2021 mycological investigations were carried out in the Wigierski National Park (NE Poland). Fifteen 0.04-ha plots, including 5 with low proportion of hazel (< 30%) and 10 with high proportion of hazel (≥ 75%) in the understory, were established in phytocoenoses of a mesophilous oak-linden hornbeam forest (Tilio cordatae-Carpinetum betu...

Fine-grain species niche modelling in topographically diverse areas poses a serious challenge. Nonetheless, it is important for studying factors enabling species’ survival in a changing climate and understanding current species distribution. Niches of two mountain species: Cotoneaster integerrimus Medik and Valeriana tripteris L., were analyzed in...

Bryophytes are good indicators of habitat conditions and show associations with different types of forests. In this study we assessed the diversity and distribution of forest floor bryophytes across a wide gradient of Central European forests using vegetation records from the Polish Vegetation Database (PVD). We identified forest types using the Ha...

Key message In order to preserve the continuity of epiphytic and epixylic cryptogamic flora, two things are essential: maintaining the near-natural character of a forest community in relation to the montane zonation and more sustainable forest management in relation to deadwood. Context Lichens and bryophytes are common species that inhabit dead w...

Aims Understanding fine-grain diversity patterns across large spatial extents is fundamental for macroecological research and biodiversity conservation. Using the GrassPlot database, we provide benchmarks of fine-grain richness values of Palaearctic open habitats for vascular plants, bryophytes, lichens and complete vegetation (i.e., the sum of the...

Although species composition, species diversity and the frequency of epixylic bryophytes is quite well recognised in Central Europe, the patterns associated with their plant traits are still relatively unknown. The main objective of this study was to determine which plant traits best explain the colonization of coarse woody debris (CWD) by the bryo...

In Poland, Hedwigia ciliata (Hedw.) P. Beauv., an obligatory epilithic moss species, has in recent years also been observed on the bark of trees. In this paper, we describe 25 recently identified sites in which epiphytic H. ciliata has been observed, and provide a plausible explanation to account for this phenomenon.

Key message The size of the structural components of the root–pit–mound complex was crucial for high moss species richness. Root plates, pits, and mounds were similar in terms of moss species composition, which was mostly determined by forest type. Context Uprooted trees may be colonized by different terricolous mosses including common species and...

W publikacji przedstawiono nowe stanowiska rzadkich mszaków w Polsce, tj. Anastrophyllum michauxii, Eremonotus myriocarpus, Neckera pennata, Scapania crassiretis, Sphagnum majus, Ulota bruchii oraz Zygodon rupestris.

The paper presents the results of studies on bryophyte flora of the Molenda forest reserve located in the Central Poland. Fifteen species of liverworts and 73 species of mosses were found. Twenty one of these species are considered to be partially protected by law, three endangered and ten rare in the region. Epigean bryophyte constitute the larges...

In the years 2017-2019 bryological investigations were carried out in the Wigierski National Park. As a result, five moss species new to this area have been found-Dicranoweisia cirrata, Homomallium incurvatum, Orthotrichum pulchellum, Serpoleskea subtilis and Zygodon rupestris. The paper provides information about their localities and habitats.

The results of the bryological investigations from the Kampinoski National Park are presented. 167 bryophytes species were noted – 24 liverworts and 143 mosses. The presence of 125 bryophytes previously noted from his area was confirmed, and 42 species not yet recorded in the Kampinoski National Park were found (11 liverworts and 31 mosses).

In the year 2019 bryological investigations were carried out in the 'Przełom Osławy pod Duszatynem' nature reserve, located in the Bieszczady Zachodnie Mountains. List of species comprises 147 species and 2 varieties of bryophytes (30 liverworts and 117 mosses). Five species, namely Campylostelium saxicola, Fissidens rufulus, F. viridulus, Gymnosto...

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The use of functional information in the form of species traits plays an important role in explaining biodiversity patterns and responses to environmental changes. Although relationships between species composition, their traits, and the environment have been extensively studied on a case-by-case basis, results are variable, and it remains unclear...

Forest management practices can not only influence the amount of deadwood but also the proportions of particular elements. The goal of the present paper was to compare the amount, number of logs, stumps and snags and their dendrometrical parameters between the protected and managed forests in the Karkonosze Mts after a huge dieback of Picea abies....

Continuity in forest habitats is crucial for species diversity and richness. Ancient Scots pine forests are usually under forest management, which disturbs vegetation and causes differentiation in terms of tree stand age. To date, vegetation variability in ancient Scots pine forests has not been examined based on tree stand age classes. In the pres...

Calathella eruciformis , a species hitherto unknown in Poland, is reported from four localities in the north-eastern part of the country. This wood-inhabiting saprotroph was found on dead decorticated but still attached twigs and branches of living Populus tremula in an oak-hornbeam forest ( Carpinion betuli ). Macro- and microcharacters of the rec...

The dead standing trees i.e. snags are known as habitat for epiphytic and epixylic species including first of all lichens and bryophytes. The vascular plants are much rarer on this type of coarse woody debris (CWD). The eighty snags (CWD elements higher than 1.5 m) of Norway spruce Picea abies and beech Fagus sylvatica in the Karkonosze Mts. were e...

This paper contains a list of 46 species collected in the historic Roman Catholic cemetery in Pławno (Łódź Province, Central Poland). Of these, one species (Syntrichia virescens) is threatened and partly protected and nine species are considered rare in Central Poland (Bryum rubens, B. bicolor, Campylidium cal-careum, Dicranoweissia cirrata, Orthot...

GrassPlot is a collaborative vegetation-plot database organised by the Eurasian Dry Grassland Group (EDGG) and listed in the Global Index of Vegetation-Plot Databases (GIVD ID EU-00-003). GrassPlot collects plot records (relevés) from grasslands and other open habitats of the Palaearctic biogeographic realm. It focuses on precisely delimited plots...

The paper presents the distribution of 112 species, including 17 liverworts and 95 mosses collected from peatland in the Szczerców Basin and Bełchatów Upland in 2014. Four of the recorded taxa are new for the Łódź Province area: Campylopus pyriformis, Sphagnum angustifolium, S. inudatum and S. majus. The most interesting finds are bryophytes threat...

The study covered diversity of lichens on bark of Quercus robur in rich deciduous forest Tilio-Carpin-etum and Scotch pine forest Serratulo-Pinetum in Wigry National Park (NE Poland). Ninety eight taxa of li-chenized fungi have been recorded, which accounts for over 30% of lichens biota of the Park. Greater diversity of species has been noticed on...

Staniaszek-Kik, M. & Żarnowiec, J. 2018. Diversity of mosses on stumps and logs in the Karkonosze Mts (Sudetes Mts, Central Europe). - Herzogia 31: 70–87. The species richness and abundance of mosses on 650 logs and 938 stumps were investigated in the lower and upper montane forest belts in the Karkonosze National Park and its surrounding area (Kar...

The results of bryological investigations from the “Boczki” nature reserve, located in Puszcza Romincka Forest, are presented. The reserve was established in 1974 for protection well preserved forest communities characteristic of the Romincka Primeval Forest. 154 bryophyte species were recorded – 37 liverworts and 117 mosses, including 37 unpublish...

The results of bryological investigations from the “Boczki” nature reserve, located in Puszcza Romincka Forest, are presented. The reserve was established in 1974 for protection well preserved forest communities characteristic of the Romincka Primeval Forest. 154 bryophyte species were recorded – 37 liverworts and 117 mosses, including 37 unpublish...

The main goal of this study was to check whether the process of the colonization of coarse woody debris (CWD) is random or is determined by the wood traits and the environment. The study was conducted in the Karkonosze Mts., a part of Sudeten Mts. (Poland). We recorded the CWD traits and site conditions for 453 logs of spruce (Picea abies) and beec...

The paper presents the distribution of 112 species, including 17 liverworts and 95 mosses collected from peatland in the Szczercow Basin and Belchatow Upland in 2014. Four of the recorded taxa are new for the Lodz Province area: Campylopus piriformis, Sphagnum angustifolium. S. inudatum and S. majus. Tlie most interesting finds are bryophytes threa...

Novel species of fungi described in this study include those from various countries as follows: Australia: Banksiophoma australiensis (incl. Banksiophoma gen. nov.) on Banksia coccinea, Davidiellomyces australiensis (incl. Davidiellomyces gen. nov.) on Cyperaceae, Didymocyrtis banksiae on Banksia sessilis var. cygnorum, Disculoides calophyllae on C...

We investigated the applicability of Ellenberg’s indicator values (EIVs) on coarse woody debris (CWD). Given that a small number of vascular plant species forms the pool of potential colonizers, we wanted to examine whether the properties of decaying logs and site characteristics can be predicted using EIVs. A comparison was made between the EIVs o...

The paper presents the results of studies on bryophyte flora of the Reberce forest reserve located in the Przemyśl foothills. Thirty-three species of liverworts, 70 species and two varieties of mosses were found. Terrestrial (66 species) and epixylic (58) bryophytes formed the largest ecological groups in the reserve. Twenty-four protected species...

In Central Europe forests, natural habitat heterogeneity, which commonly results from dynamics of canopy gap with soil pits and mounds formation, is to a large extent replaced by anthropogenic disturbances. Vascular plants and bryophytes can profit from anthropogenic habitats occurrence in different ways. Our goal was to study the difference betwee...

Among the vascular plants there is a lack of the typical epixylous species but they are a constant komponent on decaying wood. Their distribution patterns on this kind of substrate seem to be the least known among phototrophs. A total of 454 dead logs of Picea abies were analyzed with regard to cover of vascular plants and the independent morphomet...

We have studied the diversity of bryophytes in planted Polish post-agricultural forests dominated by the native Scots pine Pinus sylvestris and the alien (North American) red oak Quercus rubra . Th e planted sites would be suitable for a mesic coniferous forest (abbreviation: CFS) or mesic broadleaved forest (abbreviation: BFS). We analysed the str...

The study focuses on identifying and assessing the effect of the presence of drainage and roadside ditches on the diversity of bryophytes in managed forests. We compared the composition of moss and liverwort species, their richness and abundance in plots that are located in ditches as well as corresponding control plots in the surrounding forests w...

Bryophytes are important components of pine forests; however, the bryophyte layer is characterised by the dominance of a small number of taxa. Clear-cut logging changes microclimate conditions, while ploughing before planting young trees disrupts bryophyte patches. This promotes early successional species and can work in favour of species diversity...

New distribution data for 171 bryophyte taxa in the Roztocze National Park are provided. Among them there are 43 species protected by law in Poland, including 20 strictly protected species, as well as 13 species threatened in Poland. The research revealed 36 species (5 liverworts and 31 mosses) new for the region. Noteworthy is the occurrence of 19...

aBstract. New distribution data for 171 bryophyte taxa in the Roztocze National Park are provided. Among them there are 43 species protected by law in Poland, including 20 strictly protected species, as well as 13 species threatened in Poland. The research revealed 36 species (5 liverworts and 31 mosses) new for the region. Noteworthy is the occurr...

Abstra ct: The present study reports new localities of four liverwort species, i.e., Fossombronia foveolata Lindb., Gymnocolea inflata (Huds.) Dumort., Leiomylia anomala (Hook.) J.J.Engel & Braggins and Odontoschisma denudatum (Mart.) Dumort., found in Central Poland. The new sites are situated in peat bog habitats and swamp forest in the depressio...

Little is known about the vascular plant flora that grows on dead wood or about the ecological conditions of its development. We focused on montane beech forests in the Sudeten Mts. in southern Poland and chose Fagus sylvatica. The studies were conducted in the years 2003-2006 between 460 and 890 m a.s.l. Among others, the following parameters of d...

Abstrakt. Na terenie Wigierskiego Parku Narodowego od 2012 r. realizowany jest projekt badawczy dotyczący występowania organizmów saproksylicznych. Celem badań jest rozpoznanie zasobów, preferencji siedliskowych oraz zagro-żeń, jakim podlegają organizmy zasiedlające martwe drewno. Badaniami objęto: śluzowce, grzyby, porosty, wątrobowce i mchy, a sp...

New distribution data for 183 species, one subspecies and four varieties of bryophytes in the Świętokrzyski National Park are provided. The most interesting species (rare, protected and new for the area) are Anastrophyllum hellerianum, Buxbaumia viridis, Cephalozia catenulata, Dicranum viride, Lophozia ascendens, Mannia fragrans and Tetraplodon ang...

Streszczenie. W artykule zaprezentowano zagadnienie występowania chronionych mchów w granicach dużej aglomeracji miejskiej – Łodzi. Rozmieszczenie 27 gatunków przedstawiono na tle czterech stref funkcjonalno-stukturalnych miasta. Do najczęściej notowanych należą: Dicranum scoparium, Pleurozium schreberi, Pseudoscleropodium purum i Rhytidiadelphus s...

Streszczenie. Na murszejącym drewnie i na wykrociskach w lasach Karkonoszy stwierdzono trzy inwazyjne antropofity, tj.: dwie rośliny naczyniowe – Digitalis purpurea L. i Impatiens parviflora DC. oraz jeden mech – Orthodontium lineare Schwägr. Stanowi to zaledwie 1,9% flory analizowanych siedlisk (1,1% flory mchów, 2,9% flory roślin naczyniowych) i...

Three invasive anthropophytes, i.e. two vascular plants Digitalis purpurea L. and Impatiens parviflora DC. as well as one moss Orthodontium lineare Schwägr, were recorded on decaying wood and tree-fall disturbances (pit-mound-root plate complex). It contributes only 1.9% to the flora of analyzed habitats (1.1% of moss flora, 2.9% of vascular plant...

The paper presents of protected moss species which occur within the administrative boundaries of the city of Łódź. Łódź is the second largest city of Poland with regard to population. It is located close to the geographical centre of the country. Distribution of 27 species has been presented in the aspect of their occurrence in four structural-func...

The paper presents a new locality of Ulota crispa (Hedw.) Brid. found in Central Poland. The new site is situated in the Wólecki Forest, 10 km to the east from Opoczno city. A small tufts were observed in May 2012 on a bark of goat willow (Salix caprea) in managed forest. The main threatening factor for this small population is a road investment pl...

The paper presents a list of 85 epixylic lichen species collected on stumps, fallen logs and snags in the Polish part of the Karkonosze Mts. Of these 25 are threatened in Poland and eight protected by law. The highest number of species - 70, were found on stumps. The most frequent epixylic lichen species in the study area are: Cladonia digitata, C....

The paper reports the occurrence of seven lichen species new to the Polish part of the Karkonosze Mountains: Bacidia sulphurella, Candelariella effiorescens, Lecanora leptyrodes, Melanelixia subaurifera, Opegrapha vermicellifera, Pertusaria leioplaca and Trapeliopsis pseudogranulosa. Most of them are widespread in Poland but they have been recorded...

We studied moss and liverwort diversity in forest and shrub communities in the Ługi peat bog area and in its surroundings (researched area located near the Warta River Valley, in the vicinity of the “Jeziorsko” water reservoir). The plant cover underwent considerable anthropogenic changes and is still subject to modifications due to previous and cu...

The paper contains a list of 38 lichen species collected on tree fall disturbances (pit-mound-root plate complexes) in the Polish part of the Karkonosze Mts. Seven of these species are threatened in Poland: Arthrorhaphis grisea, Bacidina arnoldiana, Cladonia bellidiflora, Lichenomphalina umbelifera, Porpidia cinereoatra, Psilolechia clavulifera, Tr...

Spring fens are rare elements in the lake district landscape of western Poland. The paper presents bryological and habitat studies conducted on Makąty fen situated in the Puszcza Notecka (the Notecka Primeval Forest area). Flora of bryophytes in the investigated area comprises taxa, in-cluding species of liverworts, as well as species and two varie...

2008. Contribution to the bryoflora of the planned nature reserve of "Las Nadwelski" within Welski Landscape Park (ne poland). Parki nar. Rez. Przyr. 27(3): 17 – 29. ABSTRACT: Bryophytes occurring in the area of the planned nature reserve are listed and their stations briefly described. The planned reserve is situated in the Wel river valley betwee...

Campylopus introfl exus (Hedw.) Brid. is a neophytic moss in Europe. It was fi rst recorded in Poland in 1986 (LISOWSKI & URBAŃSKI 1989). Since that time it has been found in further regions of Poland (LISOWSKI & URBAŃSKI 1989; GOS 1991; FUDALI 1992a, b, 1997; RUSIŃSKA & URBAŃSKI 1993; STEBEL 1994, 1995, 1997a, b; URBAŃSKI 1994; FOJCIK 1998; FOJCIK...

This paper presents fifteen new localities of Orthotontium lineare found in the south-western Poland in the years 2002–2005. Current distribution and habitat preferences of O. lineare within this area are briefly described. Key words: Bryopsida, distribution, habitat preferences, neophytic moss, Orthodontium lineare, Poland

Bryophytes recorded and/or collected during the 10th Spring Meeting of the Bryological and Lichenological Section in Krásná Lípa are listed. The most remarkable finds of the 228 recorded species are briefly commented.