As part of the Master's thesis, we inventoried the moss flora of selected bog and forest habitat types on Pohorje (Natura 2000). Bryophytes were collected in the following habitat types: 7110* Active raised bogs, 7140 Transition mires and quaking bogs, 91D0* Bog woodland, 9410 Acidophilous Picea forests of the montane to alpine levels (Vaccinio-Piceetea), 9110 Luzulo-Fagetum beech forests, and 9180* Tilio-Acerion forests of slopes, screes and ravines. Priority habitat types are indicated by an asterisk (*). Within habitat type 9410, we sampled separately in three habitat subtypes, represented by three plant communities: Bazzanio-Piceetum, Rhytidiadelpho lorei-Piceetum and Luzulo sylvaticae-Piceetum. In the entire study area of Pohorje, 235 moss taxa (74 liverwort taxa and 161 leafy moss taxa) were recorded. Of them, 40 species were found with an assigned Slovenian conservation status, most of them in bogs. The most species-rich habitat types are Acidophilous Picea forests of the montane to alpine levels and Luzulo-Fagetum beech forests. The habitat type with the lowest species diversity are the Tilio-Acerion forests of slopes, screes and ravines. Habitat types and studied plant communities were compared according to moss species composition, nature conservation importance, distribution of floristic geoelements and estimates of environmental parameters derived from Ellenberg indicator values.
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