Vascular plant biodiversity of floodplain forest geobiocoenosis in Lower Morava river Basin (forest district Tvrdonice), Czech Republic

Abstract

This paper presents an evaluation of full-area floristic mapping of floodplain forest in Tvrdonice forest district (Židlochovice Forest Enterprise) based on a single forest stand inventory. The study area encompasses 2,200 ha of forests, where 769 segments were inventoried, and 46,886 single records about presence of vascular plant species were catalogued. We found 612 species (incl. subspecies and hybrids), out of which 514 were herbs, 98 were woody plants, 113 were endangered species and 170 were adventive species. The average area of a segment is 2.86 ha. The mean number of species per segment is 60.97 in a range of 4-151.

Analysis of the development of land use in the Morava River floodplain, with special emphasis on the landscape matrix

“…The change in the observed landscape attributes in the study area in the first half of the 20 th century was triggered by the transition from the 'coppice with standards' forest type to that of a high production forest (Machar, 2009). The intensive and centuries-old forest management processes in the floodplain forests of the Morava River is a conditionally natural state of the floodplain forest geobiocenoses, with unusually high biodiversity (Maděra et al, 2013).…”

Ecological Status of Floodplains and their Potential to Carbon Storage: Case Study From Three Watersheds in the South Moravian Region, Czech Republic

“…Floodplains are valuable ecosystems and are a key part of the river landscape. The positive characteristics and processes of floodplains worth highlighting are, among others, the ability to dissipate waves during flood events (Vári et al, 2022), air cooling through evapotranspiration (Čížková et al, 2013), biodiversity promotion (Maděra et al, 2011(Maděra et al, , 2013, habitat provision, and carbon sequestration (Schindler et al, 2013;Fischer et al, 2019;Shupe et al, 2021).…”

Vascular Plant Biodiversity of Floodplain Forest in Morava and Dyje Rivers Confluence (Forest District Soutok), Czech Republic

“…The area under study is composed not only from valuable floodplain forests (Horák, 1961;Klimo et al 2008;Maděra et al 2011Maděra et al , 2013Řepka et al 2015) but there occur also the continental floodplain meadows (Vicherek et al, 2000) with solitary oak trees (Maděra et al, 2007) creating famous landscape character of the area. High abundance of many endangered xylophagous species of insect (Miklín et al, 2018(Miklín et al, , 2017Miklín & Čížek, 2014;Laštůvka et al, 2016), many rare bird species (Machar et al, 2018;Opluštil & Čupa, 2012), amphibians (Šebela, 2004;Suchomel et al, 2017), invertebrates and other organisms (Hrib & Kordiovský, 2004;Suchomel et al, 2017) due to the occurrence of well preserved habitats like large old trees, forest pools, riverine lakes, water channels and close nature floodplain forests, were reasons why a few small scale protected areas, NATURA 2000, UNESCO Biosphere Reserve were established in the area during last decades.…”

“…Presented paper is third part of articles concerning to vascular plant biodiversity evaluation in south Moravian floodplain forests. The previous were published by Maděra et al (2011Maděra et al ( , 2013 for forest districts Valtice and Tvrdonice. The aim of the work is to describe spatial distribution of vascular plants biodiversity in the area as a tool for both, responsible forest management and conservation efforts.…”