B. Papp szerk.: Studia Botanica Hungarica 33. 2002 (Budapest, 2002)

Papp, Beáta; Sabovljevic, Marko: The Bryophyte flora of Tara National Park (W Serbia, Yugoslavia)

Studio bot. hung. 33, pp. 25-39, 2002 THE BRYOPHYTE FLORA OF TARA NATIONAL PARK (W SERBIA, YUGOSLAVIA) B. PAPP

1 and M. SABOVUEVlé

23 'Department of Botany, Hungarian Natural History Museum H-l

476 Budapest, Pf. 222, Hungary; E-mail: pappbea@bot.nhmus.hu 2

Department of Plant Ecology, Institute of Botany and Bot. Garden, University of Belgrade Takovska 43, YU-1

1000 Belgrade, Yugoslavia; E-mail: marko@bfbot.bg.ac.yu 3

Department of Biology, Petnica Science Centre, P. O. Box 118, YU-1

4000 Valjevo, Yugoslavia Tara National Park is one of the important réfugia for many relict and endemic species and rare associations in Serbia. With its shaded outcrops and decaying dead wood in its old-growth forests, this area provides home for a large number of bryophytes and maintains a diverse flora. The bryoflora is rich in the wet places, meadows, fens and stream sides. Our investigation recorded 224 bryophytes (44 hepatics and 180 mosses) from this territory. Of this number, 36 taxa (13 hepatics and 23 mosses) are new for Serbia. Six species are included in the Red Data Book of European Bryophytes (ECCB 1995). Three species are European endemics. The bryophyte flora shows close relations to those of the mountainous habitats. Besides the species of the temperate zones of Europe, we recorded many boreal/subboreal species, as well as several montane species with sub-Mediterranean and/or suboceanic distribution. Key words: bryophyte flora and vegetation, red data list, Serbia, Tara National Park INTRODUCTION The bryoflora of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) is insufficiently known. There are only a few investigated regions and the number of records is far from being complete. During the past years the authors combined their efforts to improve their knowledge and make further exploration of the bryophyte flora of Serbia. Results of a field trip in 2000 to Petnica region near Valjevo city in western Serbia appeared soon after the field work (PAPP and SABOVLJEVIC 2001). There, the authors recorded 136 bryophytes (116 mosses and 20 liverworts), at the altitude of only around 200 m a.s.l; projected to the small area (ca 10 km

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), this number represents a very high level of diversity of bryophytes. 15 species were recorded as new for Serbia and 11 for the F. R. of Yugoslavia. With these results, the bryophyte flora of the F. R. of Yugoslavia counts 119 hepatic and 521 moss species, respectively (SABOVLJEVIC and STEVANOVIC 1999, SABOVLJEVIC 2000, PAPP and SABOVLJEVIC 2001). In the present paper the results of four field trips made to Tara National Park are presented. This is a mountainous area, a refugium of key importance for many relict and endemic species and associations. The locus classicus of Picea omorika