Environmental Gradients Shaping the Freshwater Bryophyte Communities of Croatia (Western Balkans).

ABSTRACT: A comprehensive field survey of 527 sites on 293 watercourses across Croatia revealed 76 sites (14.42%) in which bryophytes were the dominant part of the macrophyte vegetation. Using classification and ordination analyses, we obtained five community types segregated across the gradients of several climatic, physiographic and water chemistry parameters. The Didymodon tophaceus-Apopellia endiviifolia and the Berula erecta-Cratoneuron filicinum communities were mostly confined to the clean and basic karstic rivers of the Dinaric Ecoregion under the influence of the Mediterranean climate, with the Didymodon tophaceus-Apopellia endiviifolia community being a tufa-forming community associated with the seasonally dry watercourses of small catchment areas and cascades a

SUBMITTER: Rimac A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9230072 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature