Pavel Novák

Masaryk University | MUNI · Department of Botany and Zoology

Zelkova (Ulmaceae) represents a relict woody genus comprising six extant species with a disjunctive distribution in eastern and southwestern Eurasia. Zelkova carpinifolia is a deciduous tree limited to the Caucasian Ecoregion and its surroundings. Most of its sites are located in the two essential Tertiary refugia of the Northern Hemisphere – Colch...

This article describes FloraVeg.EU, a new online database with open‐access information on European vegetation units (phytosociological syntaxa), vegetated habitats, and plant taxa. It consists of three modules. (1) The Vegetation module includes 149 phytosociological classes, 378 orders and 1305 alliances of an updated version of the EuroVegCheckli...

The unique, basophilic rocky grasslands on the Pulinka rock near Kletno in the Śnieżnik Massif (Eastern Sudetes) have been known since the 1960s. The aim of the study was to, re-analyze the status of this plant community with reference to species composition, functional structure, habitat conditions and syntaxonomic position 50 years afer its disco...

The first comprehensive phytosociological classification of all vegetation types in Europe (EuroVegChecklist; Applied Vegetation Science, 2016, 19, 3-264) contained brief descriptions of each type. However, these descriptions were not standardized and mentioned only the most distinct features of each vegetation type. The practical application of th...

The file of the electronic Expert system for the identification of habitats in Slovakia.

Urban areas exert a significant influence on plant species assemblages. The mosaic of different urban land uses is reflected in the distribution patterns of different plant groups. Here we present the results of the first systematic and detailed floristic survey of the city of Brno, Czech Republic. We studied the flora of Brno from 2011 to 2021, an...

The habitat catalog of Slovakia presents a comprehensive overview of all habitats occurring in Slovakia, including their description, ecology, distribution and characteristic species composition. In addition, an electronic expert system was also created, which can assign the analyzed vegetation record to a specific habitat based on a similarity cal...

Questions What are the main vegetation types of forest and shrubland vegetation in central and eastern Euxine Turkey and SW Georgia? What are the main environmental factors affecting their diversity? What is their syntaxonomic position? Can we integrate them into the European vegetation classification system? Location Central and eastern Euxine Tu...

The Caucasus Region belongs among the most remarkable biodiversity hotspots globally. Local mountain floodplain forests represent highly endangered ecosystems and possess the status of protective forests. However, they have not been extensively phytosociologically assessed using Braun-Blanquet methods to date. Here, we present a novel dataset of ve...

The Caucasus is a hotspot of global biodiversity. However, even in the era of big data, this region remains underrepresented in public vegetation-plot databases. The Transcaucasian Vegetation Database (GIVD code AS-00-005) is a novel dataset which primarily aims to compile, store and share vegetation-plot records sampled by the Braun-Blanquet appro...

https://rdcu.be/dhEmw Relict vegetation of water-splashed petrifying rocks with calcareous tufa formation dominated by the fern Adiantum capillus-veneris and wetland bryophytes (phytosociological class Adiantetea) was investigated in Georgia, Caucasus biodiversity hotspot. The study brings the first phytosociological data on this scarce community...

Aims Oak–hornbeam forests and related vegetation types (phytosociological order Carpinetalia betuli ) are widespread in temperate western Eurasia. However, their national classification systems are poorly compatible, and a broad‐scale classification based on numerical analyses is lacking. Therefore, we aimed to establish a unified formalized classi...

Aims Ellenberg-type indicator values are expert-based rankings of plant species according to their ecological optima on main environmental gradients. Here we extend the indicator-value system proposed by Heinz Ellenberg and co-authors for Central Europe by incorporating other systems of Ellenberg-type indicator values (i.e., those using scales comp...

Novák, P., Kalníková, V. & Peterka, T. 2022. Rhytidiadelphus subpinnatus a new member of the bryoflora of Georgia (South Caucasus). Herzogia 35: 670 674. Rhytidiadelphus subpinnatus (Hylocomiaceae) is a circumpolar boreal-montane moss associated with various natural habitats, mainly wetlands. Here, we report its first finding for Georgia (South Cau...

Aims We asked how geological substrate affects the distribution of plant species between forest interiors, forest edges, and steppe patches in the forest–steppe landscapes. Specifically, we sought for the presence of the edge effect at the forest–grassland transitions on different substrates. Location Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia and...

Aim The first comprehensive checklist of European phytosociological alliances, orders and classes (EuroVegChecklist) was published by Mucina et al. (2016, Applied Vegetation Science , 19 (Suppl. 1), 3–264). However, this checklist did not contain detailed information on the distribution of individual vegetation types. Here we provide the first maps...

This is the fourteenth of a series of miscellaneous contributions, by various authors, where hitherto unpublished data relevant to both the Med-Checklist and the Euro+Med (or Sisyphus) projects are presented. This instalment deals with the families Apocynaceae, Compositae, Crassulaceae, Cyperaceae, Euphorbiaceae, Gramineae, Leguminosae, Nyctaginace...

Supplementary figures: Fig. S1. Nerium oleander L.; Fig. S2. Mirabilis jalapa L. (photographs by P. Novák)

Colchis (Caucasus Ecoregion, Euxinian Province) is a region with unique Tertiary relict biota and high species and vegetation diversity. However, its vegetation has been only little studied by Braun-Blanquet methods so far. Based on original field data (20 phytosociological relevés), we describe a novel vegetation type of calciphilous and thermophi...

Aim To analyse the biogeographic patterns of Temperate Deciduous Forests (TDFs) in Western Eurasia based on different life-forms and forests layers and explore their relationships with the current climate, Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) climate and topography. Location Western Eurasia. Taxon Vascular plants. Methods We delimited nine regions encompa...

An Correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12224-021-09391-x

The Caucasus harbours unique forest vegetation so far only little studied using the Braun-Blanquet approach. This study is mostly based on a dataset (N = 110) of original phytosociological relevés of oak-hornbeam and ravine forests in the Eastern Greater Caucasus, Georgia. Their unsupervised classification produced seven communities. Five belong to...

Milí priatelia botanici, i v tejto neľahkej dobe covidovej Vám opäť prinášame našu rubriku a v nej množstvo cenných údajov od dvanástich autorov. Celkovo si môžete prečítať dáta k 182 taxónom (82 lišajníkov, 100 kvitnú-cich rastlín). Tak ako vždy, i tentoraz sa v rubrike objavujú údaje o mnohých vzácnych taxónoch len kriticky ohrozených je 16 (13 l...

Aim The EUNIS Habitat Classification is a widely used reference framework for European habitat types (habitats), but it lacks formal definitions of individual habitats that would enable their unequivocal identification. Our goal was to develop a tool for assigning vegetation‐plot records to the habitats of the EUNIS system, use it to classify a Eur...

We studied the diversity of calcicolous rock-outcrop forest vegetation dominated by lime (Tilia cordata, T. platyphyllos and T. tomentosa) in northern Austria, the Czech Republic, southern Poland, Slovakia, northern Hungary and northwestern Romania. This vegetation includes species rich forests with a mixture of mesophilous and thermophilous forest...

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This is the twelfth of a series of miscellaneous contributions, by various authors, where hitherto unpublished data relevant to both the Med-Checklist and the Euro+Med (or Sisyphus) projects are presented. This instalment deals with the families Asparagaceae (incl. Hyacinthaceae), Boraginaceae, Cactaceae, Caryophyllaceae, Chenopodiaceae, Compositae...

Abstrakt: Červený seznam biotopů České republiky hodnotí riziko zániku pro 157 typů přirozených a polopřirozených biotopů vymezených ve druhém vydání Katalogu biotopů České republiky. Hodnocení bylo provedeno podle metodiky pro Červený seznam ekosystémů Mezinárodního svazu ochrany přírody (IUCN) v úpravě použité v Evropském červeném seznamu biotopů...

River gravel-bar habitats are highly endangered. They are still well-preserved in the Caucasus, but developing conservation strategies is burdened by the lack of data from this region. We studied vegetation and habitat types on gravel bars of 22 rivers in Georgia, including successional stages from open early-successional herbaceous vegetation to s...

Aims Vegetation‐plot sampling usually involves estimating species cover. When plots are classified to vegetation types, covers are often transformed to decrease the effect of dominant species. However, it remains unclear which transformation is optimal. We suggest that for vegetation classification, optimal is such transformation as contributes to...

Oak-hornbeam forests (order Carpinetalia) are a widespread vegetation type in central Europe. As vegetation ecologists focused on them since the pioneering times of vegetation research,many syntaxonomic units are described. However, classification systems used in various central-European countries suffer from inconsistencies and overlaps of the con...

Aims: Western Podolia is one of several regions in the Eurasian forest-steppe zone where diverse steppe vegetation has been relatively well preserved. Our aims were to describe compositional turnover of steppe vegetation along different environmental gradients, to identify the patterns of species richness and evenness across complete compositional...

(23) Galio sylvatici-Carpinetum betuli Oberdorfer 1957: 424–435. Typus: Oberdorfer (1952), Table 2, rel. 86a (lectotypus Willner & Grabherr 2007: 232). (=) Querco pedunculatae-Carpinetum betuli Klika 1928: 34–37. Typus: Klika (1928), Table on pp. 35–37, rel. 1 (lectotypus hoc loco). (24) Lithospermo-Carpinetum betuli Oberdorfer 1957: 440–442. Typu...

The Transcarpathian Lowland in the Zakarpattia Oblast (western Ukraine) is the north-easternmost extension of the Pannonian Basin. The vegetation survey in this area has so far focused on mesic grasslands and forests, whereas dry grassland vegetation has been poorly known. Therefore, we performed a survey of the dry grassland sites in this area, re...

The Red List of Habitats of the Czech Republic assesses the risk of collapse for 157 types of natural and semi-natural habitats defined in the second edition of the Habitat Catalogue of the Czech Republic. The assessment followed the guidelines for the IUCN Red List of Ecosystems as used in the European Red List of Habitats project, using the crite...

Náplavy řeky Labe, náležící biotopu M6 Bahnité říční náplavy (Natura 2000), jsou v rámci České republiky zcela unikátní jak svou velkou rozlohou, tak dobrou kvalitou. V Děčíně se připravuje realizace plavebního stupně, kterým by byly zásadním způsobem negativně ovlivněny říční náplavy v EVL Labské údolí. Říční náplavy jsou zde součástí významného k...

Aim Climate is an important factor controlling plant distributions. However, it is not yet fully understood how climate interacts with human impacts or whether the effects of these factors differ between native and alien species. Facing ongoing climate change and urbanization, we explore the effects of climate on plant species richness and composit...

Aim: The aim of the paper is to describe species composition, ecology and syntaxonomy of unique mesophilous forests in Georgian Colchis in the context of the Euxinian forests. Location: SW Georgia, western part of the Caucasus Region, slopes of the Lesser Caucasus (80–990 m). Methods: Forest vegetation was sampled following the Braun-Blanquet appro...

Bryum klinggraeffii is a widespread small ruderal moss. It inhabits a wide altitudinal gradient, and typically grows on the bare ground of frequently disturbed open habitats. Here we report its first finds for Georgia and simultaneously, we bring new evidence of the species for the Greater Caucasus. The moss was discovered in Racha-Lechkhumi and Kv...

The disjunct occurrence of Pedicularis exaltata in the White Carpathians (Czech Republic), isolated by more than 500 km from the nearest populations in the Eastern Carpathians, has been considered one of the mysteries of the Western Carpathian flora. We used molecular methods (AFLP, ITS and cpDNA sequencing) to reconstruct a possible scenario of th...

This report describes the Romanian Grassland Database (RGD), registered under EU-RO-008 in the Global Index of Vegetation-Plot Databases (GIVD). This collaborative initiative aims at collecting all available vegetation-plot data (relevés) of grasslands and other open habitats from the territory of Romania and providing them for science, nationally...

Galium divaricatum Pourr. ex Lam. is an annual plant species occurring mainly on dry grasslands. The centre of its distribution range is situated in the Mediterranean region, while in Central Europe it has been known only from a few isolated sites in Slovakia and Hungary. In 2016 we discovered this species in open dry grassland of the class Sedo-Sc...

Aim Urban floras are composed of species of different origin, both native and alien, and with various traits and niches. It is likely that these species will respond to the ongoing climate change in different ways, resulting in future species compositions with no analogues in current European cities. Our goal was to estimate potential shifts in pla...

The paper provides information about a finding of a remote population of the Pteris cretica fern which occurs mainly in subtropical regions of the World. The species was discovered in 2016 in an old well of the Letovice Castle (W Moravia, Czech Republic). Since this fern has never been recorded in the Czech Republic before, it is the first record f...

Transitional between the Pannonian Basin and the Eastern Carpathians the Transcarpathian Ukraine (Transcarpathia) has a diverse geology including Quaternary sediments, volcanites, limestones and flysch, and its climate at low altitudes is relatively warm and humid. We conducted a field survey in June 2016 focusing on mesophilous forest vegetation a...

New localities and/or confirmations concerning 67 specific and subspecific plant taxa of Tuscan vascular flora, belonging to 59 genera and 37 families are presented: Alisma (Alismataceae), Amaranthus (Amaranthaceae), Leucojum, Sternbergia, Tristagma (Amaryllidaceae), Aloe (Asphodelaceae), Erigeron, Galinsoga, Hieracium, Rhagadiolus, Silybum, Soliva...

The botanical guide was prepared for the 58th Annual Symposium of the International Association for Vegetation Science (IAVS), held in Brno in the Czech Republic on 19–24 July 2015. After an introduction and a brief description of geography and biogeography of Moravia, 16 botanical sites discribed: 1 Žďár Hills (1a Dářko National Nature Reserve, Lo...

Krumlovský les Forest and its surroundings (south-western Moravia, Czech Republic) comprise a large woody area on the south-eastern edge of the Bohemian Massif. Although the forests in the region are extensive and relatively well preserved, their ecology and species composition are poorly studied. Therefore, we conducted a field survey between 2011...

A new site of Himantoglossum adriaticum in the Weinviertel region (Lower Austria) The eastern Mediterranean-submediterranean orchid Himantoglossum adriaticum was found at a new site near the village of Eichenbrunn in the Weinviertel region (Lower Austria). So far, there exist no records from the NE part of the Weinviertel region. A small population...

A peripheral site of thermophilous oak forest vegetation in Eastern Bohemia is reported from Střemošická stráň Nature Reserve near the town of Luže, Chrudim district. Our findings support the view that Vraclavský hřbet Ridge is an important outpost of thermophilous vegetation in Eastern Bohemia. The eastern boundary of distributional range of therm...

Erica tetralix belongs to biogeographically distinctive members of the flora of the Czech Republic, with clear oceanic tendency in distribution and with Czech sites forming the southeastern edge of the species' distributional range. The origin of its occurrence at most localities, and thus its native status in the Czech flora, however, remains ques...

Quercus frainetto is a typical species of semi-dry forests of the Balkan Peninsula. The northern border of its natural distribution has by many authors been placed in the SE part of Central Europe. In the Czech Republic, the only well-documented occurrence has been known from the neighbourhood of the town of Znojmo, SW Moravia. A new site was disco...

Recent record of a critically threatened parasitic oxtongue broomrape (Orobanche picridis) is reported from a railway cutting near Vendolí village by the town of Svitavy (Eastern Bohemia, Czech Republic). Ten individuals of the species have been observed in sparse vegetation growing on shallow soil rich in calcareous marlstone debris. It is the onl...

Flora and vegetation of Litomyšl Region were formed through various geographic and ecological influences. The area is situated on the transition between warmer and cooler regions, where the thermophilous species characteristic for Elbe River Basin (e.g. Bupleurum falcatum, Carex distans, C. riparia, Melittis melissophyllum, Viola mirabilis) decreas...