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Vegetation cover of subalpine lakes within the Svydovets ridge (Ukrainian Carpathians) and prospects for its protection

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The results of continuous geobotanical research, which started in 2012 and is still ongoing, are presented from the three most famous subalpine lakes within the Svydovets ridge in the Ukrainian Carpathians (Gereshaska, Apshinets, Ivor). We focused on the description and characteristics of plant communities, from aquatic through wetland to faded ponds, which are formed during the succession. We noted the disappearance of the rare communities of Potamogeton alpinus from lake Gereshaska and the emergence of the bryoaggregation Warnstorfia fluitans, a new pioneer community in the gradual series of paludification processes of the lakes Gereshaska and Ivor. The main cause of the observed changes in vegetation is the significant and ever-increasing human pressure associated with the recreational use of lakes. Around the lake Apshinets, where the anthropogenic influence is minimal, we recorded the shrub-sphagnum stage of oligotrophic bog development, while in the middle of the last century, it was in the sedge-sphagnum stage.

In order to preserve original and rare plant communities, it is, therefore, necessary to proceed with more active and effective protection of lakes (e.g. by including them among Ramsar sites or areas with a higher degree of protection).

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Acknowledgements

We thank the head of the Laboratory of Ecological Monitoring of the Carpathian Biosphere Reserve Dr. Petr S. Paparyga and Dr. Ludmila I. Pipash for the water analyses, also Dr. Pavel Širka (Technical University in Zvolen, Slovakia) for the determination of the moss Straminergon stramineum.

The Slovak Research and Development Agency financially supported this work under grant no. APVV-20-0358.

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  1. Faculty of Biology, SHEI Uzhhorod National University, A. Voloshyna str. 32, Uzhhorod, 88018, Ukraine

    Lyubov Felbaba-Klushyna

  2. Faculty of Natural Sciences, Matej Bel University in Banska Bystrica, Tajovského 40, Banská Bystrica, 974 00, Slovakia

    Ingrid Turisová

  3. Low Tatras National Park Administration, Lichardova 129/52, 976 13 Slovenská Ľupča, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia

    Peter Turis

  4. Carpathian Biosphere Reserve, Krasne Pleso str. 77, Rakhiv, 90600, Ukraine

    Mykola M. Voloshchuk

  5. Poltava National Pedagogical University named after V. G. Korolenko, Ostrogradsky str. 2, Poltava, 36003, Ukraine

    Svetlana Gapon

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Felbaba-Klushyna, L., Turisová, I., Turis, P. et al. Vegetation cover of subalpine lakes within the Svydovets ridge (Ukrainian Carpathians) and prospects for its protection. Biologia 78, 2329–2338 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11756-023-01386-7

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