Reproductive strategy of the alien moss Campylopus introflexus (Leucobryaceae, Bryophyta) in areas of mining enterprises in Lviv Region

Lobachevska, О.V.; Sokhanchak, R.

doi:10.15407/ukrbotj74.01.046

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“…Thus, the sexual structure of dominant moss species and their sexual productivity is changeable, its formation depends on the turf sizes, the conditions of slope moisture, competitive expansion of neighbouring bryophyte species. The formation of a greater number of female plants in the turf is a rather widespead phenomenon among dioecious mosses (Lobachevska & Sokhanchak, 2017) and gynoecia sometimes prevail even in monoecious species (Goffinet & Shaw, 2009). This is the result of short-term adaptation chosen by selection for decrease of out-breeding over expenditure or the manifestation of adaptation to suboptimal conditions, as for example was established for arctic species Polytrichum alpestre (Longton, 1998).…”

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Bryophytes on the devastated territories of sulphur deposits and their role in restoration of dump substrate

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Bryophytes possess a wide ecological diapason allowing them to populate substrates of technogenic origins which are scarcely suitable or completely unsuitable for viability of vascular plants. 49 bryophyte species, which belong to 2 divisions, 3 classes, 8 orders, 17 families, and 33 genera have been found on the dump territory of sulphur extraction of the mining-chemical enterprise “Sirka” (Yavoriv district, Lviv region). Seven transects, three on the north slope (base, slope, top), three on the south slope and one on the plateau were laid for sample selections. 20 investigated 0.5 × 0.5 m plots located 2 m apart were analyzed within each 10 × 10 m transect. Specific composition, life forms, projective cover, biomass of bryophytes, numbers of male, female and sterile plants, moisture content in the turfs, pH and physiological investigation of mosses were determined on each plot. The quantitative analysis of the biomorphological structure allowed us to establish the dependence of the spread of life forms on exposition and slope height; essential variability of the projective cover and moss biomass. Bryophyte cover plays an essential part in optimization of the moisture regime and surface layer temperature of technogenic substrates, improving the conditions of growth localities. We established that on the dump the dominant moss species are dioecious with a high level of reproductive effort (sexual and sexless), with short ontogenesis and age of first reproduction, which provides the chance to produce the maximum number of progeny in the minimum period and to form a complete moss cover. The analysis of seasonal moss photosynthesis dynamics has demonstrated the adaptability of moss photosynthetic apparatus to contrasting climatic conditions and the ability to support the intensity of photosynthetic processes on a rather stable level during the vegetative period. Our research showed that bryophytes play an important role in productivity of plant cover on the post-technogenic territories of sulphur extraction. It was found that bryophytes play a role in accumulation of organic carbon and biogenic elements in the substrate of the sulphur extraction dump . Carrying out research of specific composition dynamics and species activity is the precondition for revealing the essence of the dynamic processes taking place in the structure of the bryophyte communities on devastated territories and the influence of these processes on the formation of vegetation on dump complexes.

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