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Babczyna Dolina Nature Reserve
Babczyna Dolina Nature Reserve is a forest nature reserve with an area of 76.25 Hectare, ha, located in Silesian Voivodeship, in the Pszczyna County, in the Gmina Suszec. The reserve is under so called strict (:pl: Ochrona ścisła, ochrona ścisła; 47.56 ha) and active (:pl: Ochrona czynna, ochrona czynna; 28.69 ha) protection. It was created on January 31, 2002, by the Silesian Governor's regulation. The object of protection is a natural complex of ''Calamagrostio villosae-Pinetum'' (bór wilgotny trzcinnikowy), which consists of pine with an admixture of spruce, oak, Betula pendula, silver birch and Betula pubescens, downy birch, as well as beech and fir. The dominant species in the undergrowth is ''Calamagrostis villosa'', from which the nature reserve takes its name. In addition there is also Bog, peat bog and ''Sphagno squarrosi-Alnetum'' (forest complex dominated by black alder or Betula pubescens, downy birch).{{Cite web , title=Otwarta Encyklopedia Leśna [o:ols-torfowc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silesian Voivodeship
Silesian Voivodeship ( ) is an administrative province in southern Poland. With over 4.2 million residents and an area of 12,300 square kilometers, it is the second-most populous, and the most-densely populated and most-urbanized region of Poland. It generates 11.9% of Polish GDP and is characterized by a high life satisfaction, low income inequalities, and high wages. The region has a diversified geography. The Beskid Mountains cover most of the southern part of the voivodeship, with the highest peak of Pilsko on the Polish-Slovakian border reaching above sea level. Silesian Upland dominates the central part of the region, while the hilly, limestone Kraków-Częstochowa Upland, Polish Jura closes it from the northeast. Katowice urban area, located in the central part of the region, is the second most-populous urban area in Poland after Warsaw, with 2.2 million people, and one of Poland's seven supra-regional metropolises, while Rybnik, Bielsko-Biała and Częstochowa and their r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calamagrostis Villosa
''Calamagrostis villosa'' is a species of flowering plant from the family Poaceae which is native to Europe. Description The species is perennial and caespitose with short rhizomes and long culms. It ligule have an eciliate membrane which is long and is also lacerate. The leaf-blades are wide with the bottom being scabrous and pilose. The panicle is open, inflorescenced, and linear. It is also long and wide with the branches being scaberulous. Spikelets are cuneate and are . They carry one fertile floret which have a bearded floret callus. Fertile lemma is keelless, membranous, oblong and is long. Lemma itself have a dentate apex with the main lemma having awns which are over the lemma and are sized . The species also have glumes which are lanceolate, membranous, and have acuminate apexes with the upper glume being of the same size as a spikelet. Rhachilla is long and pilose. Flowers have two lodicules and two stigmas along with and three stamens. The fruits are car ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grass Snake
The grass snake (''Natrix natrix''), sometimes called the ringed snake or water snake, is a Eurasian semi-aquatic non- venomous colubrid snake. It is often found near water and feeds almost exclusively on amphibians. Subspecies Many subspecies are recognized, including: ''Natrix natrix helvetica'' ( Lacépède, 1789) was formerly treated as a subspecies, but following genetic analysis it was recognised in August 2017 as a separate species, ''Natrix helvetica'', the barred grass snake. Four other subspecies were transferred from ''N. natrix'' to ''N. helvetica'', becoming ''N. helvetica cettii'', ''N. helvetica corsa'', ''N. helvetica lanzai'' and ''N. helvetica sicula''. The subspecies ''N. natrix astreptophora'', with distribution in the Iberian peninsula, the Pyrenees, and North-Western Africa, has been reclassified as its own species '' Natrix astreptophora'' or the Iberian grass snake. Description The grass snake is typically dark green or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slow Worm
The common slow worm (''Anguis fragilis'') is a species of legless lizard native to western Eurasia. It is also called a deaf adder, blindworm, or regionally, a long-cripple, steelworm, and hazelworm. The "blind" in blindworm refers to the lizard's small eyes, similar to a blindsnake (although the slow worm's eyes are functional). The common slow worm, i.e. the species ''Anguis fragilis'', is often called simply "slow worm", though all species of the species complex comprising the genus ''Anguis'' are also called "slow worms". Common slow worms are semifossorial (burrowing) lizards that spend much of their time hiding underneath objects. The skin of slow worms is smooth, with scales that do not overlap. Like many other lizards, they autotomize, meaning that they have the ability to shed their tails to escape predators. While the tail regrows, it does not reach its original length. In the UK, slow worms are commonly encountered in gardens and allotments, where they can be enco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viviparous Lizard
The viviparous lizard or common lizard (''Zootoca vivipara'', formerly ''Lacerta vivipara'') is a Eurasian lizard. It lives farther north than any other non-marine reptile species, and is named for the fact that it is viviparous, meaning it gives birth to live young (although they will sometimes lay eggs normally). Both "''Zootoca''" and "''vivipara''" mean "live birth", in (Latinized) Greek and Latin respectively. It was called ''Lacerta vivipara'' until the genus ''Lacerta'' was split into nine genera in 2007 by Arnold, Arribas & Carranza. Male and female ''Zootoca vivipara'' are equally likely to contract blood parasites. Additionally, larger males have been shown to reproduce more times in a given reproductive season than smaller ones. The lizard is also unique as it is exclusively carnivorous, eating only flies, spiders, and insects. Studies show that the more carnivorous an individual is (the more insects they eat), the less diverse the population of parasitic helminths ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aquatic Plant
Aquatic plants, also referred to as hydrophytes, are vascular plants and Non-vascular plant, non-vascular plants that have adapted to live in aquatic ecosystem, aquatic environments (marine ecosystem, saltwater or freshwater ecosystem, freshwater). In lakes, rivers and wetlands, aquatic vegetations provide cover for aquatic animals such as fish, amphibians and aquatic insects, create substrate (marine biology), substrate for benthic invertebrates, produce oxygen via photosynthesis, and serve as food for some herbivorous wildlife. Familiar examples of aquatic plants include Nymphaeaceae, waterlily, Nelumbo, lotus, duckweeds, mosquito fern, floating heart, water milfoils, Hippuris, mare's tail, water lettuce, water hyacinth, and algae. Aquatic plants require special adaptation (biology), adaptations for prolonged inundation in water, and for buoyancy, floating at the water surface. The most common adaptation is the presence of lightweight internal packing cells, aerenchyma, but floa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hygrophyte
A hygrophyte (Greek ''hygros'' = wet + ''phyton'' = plant) is a plant that inhabits moist areas and is intolerant of dry conditions. The species may inhabit wet and dark forests and islands, dense swamps, and wet meadows. Within the group of all types of terrestrial plants, they are least resistant to drought. Plants that are hydrophytes (aquatic plants) live within aquatic environments including lakes, streams, ponds, and oceans. While plants that are hygrophytes grow on wet soils, both types of plants are adapted to growing in soils that are low-oxygen (anaerobic) environments where there is extended periods of water saturation or flooding. The roots receive oxygen by alternative means than typical terrestrial plants which take up oxygen from the soil. They may absorb the oxygen they need by having hypertrophied lenticels such as the bark of speckled alder; the hollow stems of rush and grass species; and the air-filled cells (aerenchyma) in the roots of cattails, or modified ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frullania Dilatata
''Frullania dilatata'', the dilated scalewort, is a species of liverwort Liverworts are a group of non-vascular land plants forming the division Marchantiophyta (). They may also be referred to as hepatics. Like mosses and hornworts, they have a gametophyte-dominant life cycle, in which cells of the plant carry ... in the family Frullaniaceae. It is found in Ireland, Germany, the United Kingdom. Subspecies *''Frullania dilatata'' subsp. (''dilatata'' 1982) (L.) Dumortier, 1835 *''Frullania dilatata'' subsp. (''dilatata'' 1982) f. ''fuscovirens'' Jorgensen, 1934 *''Frullania dilatata'' subsp. (''dilatata'' 1982) var. ''anomala'' Corbiere, 1889 *''Frullania dilatata'' subsp. (''dilatata'' 1982) var. ''macrotus'' Nees, 1838 *''Frullania dilatata'' subsp. (''dilatata'' 1982) var. ''subtilissima'' Nees, 1838 *''Frullania dilatata'' subsp. ''asiatica'' Hattori, 1982 References Frullaniaceae {{Bryophyte-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marchantiophyta
Liverworts are a group of non-vascular plant, non-vascular embryophyte, land plants forming the division Marchantiophyta (). They may also be referred to as hepatics. Like mosses and hornworts, they have a gametophyte-dominant life cycle, in which cells of the plant carry only a single set of genetic information. The division name was derived from the genus name ''Marchantia'', named after his father by French botanist Jean Marchant. It is estimated that there are about 9000 species of liverworts. Some of the more familiar species grow as a flattened leafless thallus, but most species are leafy with a form very much like a flattened moss. Leafy species can be distinguished from the apparently similar mosses on the basis of a number of features, including their single-celled rhizoids. Leafy liverworts also differ from most (but not all) mosses in that their leaves never have a costa (botany), costa (present in many mosses) and may bear marginal cilia (botany), cilia (very rare i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orthotrichum Lyellii
''Orthotrichum lyellii'', also known as Lyell's bristle moss, is a species of acrocarpous moss belonging to the family Orthotrichaceae. ''O. lyellii'' can be found throughout western North America and Europe. It is found most commonly growing epiphytically on a variety of trees, and less commonly on rocks or boulder substrates. Description ''Orthotrichum lyellii'' is generally described as forming green and yellow mats, with loose tufts reaching lengths of 3 to 4 cm forming mound-like structures. Its leaves are sharply pointed with a single costa and lanceolate linear leaf morphology, being very slender and reaching lengths of 2.5 to 6.5 mm. Tufts can reach lengths ranging from 10 to 13 cm, and often are found lying prostrate to the ground. The lamina cells of its leaves are papillose, and the entire leaf surface can often be found dusted with brown asexual propagules ( gemmae) which may help to distinguish it from similar species such as '' Orthotrichum papillosum.'' Pale-brow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orthotrichum Obtusifolium
''Orthotrichum'' is a genus of moss in the family Orthotrichaceae. It is distributed throughout the world. There are about 125 species in the genus. Species include: USDA PLANTS. *'' Orthotrichum affine'' *'' Orthotrichum alpestre'' *'' Orthotrichum anomalum'' *'' Orthotrichum bartramii'' – Bartram's orthotrichum moss *'' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bryophyte
Bryophytes () are a group of embryophyte, land plants (embryophytes), sometimes treated as a taxonomic Division (taxonomy), division referred to as Bryophyta ''Sensu#Common qualifiers, sensu lato'', that contains three groups of non-vascular plant, non-vascular land plants: the Marchantiophyta, liverworts, hornworts, and mosses. In the Sensu#Common qualifiers, strict sense, the division Bryophyta consists of the mosses only. Bryophytes are characteristically limited in size and prefer moist habitats although some species can survive in drier environments. The bryophytes consist of about 20,000 plant species. Bryophytes produce enclosed reproductive structures (gametangia and sporangia), but they do not produce flowers or seeds. They reproduce sexually by spores and asexually by fragmentation or the production of Gemma (botany), gemmae. Though bryophytes were considered a paraphyletic group in recent years, almost all of the most recent phylogenetics, phylogenetic evidence support ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
