Novi horološki podaci o rodu Hieracium (Asteraceae) u Sjevernoj Makedoniji

Hieracium maculatum and H. jankae are reported for the first time in North Macedonia while one or more new records are added for the following rare taxa: H. jurassicum, H. olympicum, H. praecurrens and H. villosum.Hieracium maculatum i H. jankae navode se po prvi puta za floru Sjeverne Makedonije dok je za vrste: H. jurassicum, H. olympicum, H. praecurrens i H. villosum, navedeno jedno ili više novih nalazišta u flori

Centaura vandasii, Genista pilosa i Ribes petraeum – nove vrste u flori Sjeverne Makedonije

Three new species for the flora of North Macedonia are reported in this paper: Centaurea vandasii from Belasica Mt., Genista pilosa from the canyon of Probištipska Reka, and Ribes petraeum from Šar Planina Mt. The phytogeographic importance of each record is discussed.U ovom radu su prikazane tri nove vrste u flori Sjeverne Makedonije: Centaurea vandasii s planine Belasica, Genista pilosa iz kanjona Probištipske rijeke i Ribes petraeum sa Šar planine. Fitogeografski značaj za svaku od njih je diskutiran

A new subspecies of Cephalaria pastricensis Dörfl. & Hayek (Dipsacaceae) from North Macedonia

Cephalaria pastricensis subsp. pologensis Teofilovski (Dipsacaceae), from NW North Macedonia, is reported as a new subspecies to science. It is distinguished from C. pastricensis Dörfl. & Hayek subsp. pastricensis by its densely, ± patent-subvillous petioles and rachis of the leaves, and the midrib of the lower surface of the leaf lobes (vs. with sparse, short, ± appressed hairs), densely pubescent lower surface of the leaves (vs. with scattered hairs on the nerves), and densely pubescent to subglabrous upper surface of the leaves (vs. glabrous or with scattered hairs on the nerves). The new subspecies is a Macedonian endemic known from small areas in the Šar Mountains (near Brezno village) and Mt. Buković (near Gorna Đonovica village). Its distribution range is geographically distinct from that of C. pastricensis subsp. pastricensis, which is a Balkan endemic, distributed in Albania, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, and Serbia

Centaura vandasii, Genista pilosa i Ribes petraeum – nove vrste u flori Sjeverne Makedonije

Three new species for the flora of North Macedonia are reported in this paper: Centaurea vandasii from Belasica Mt., Genista pilosa from the canyon of Probištipska Reka, and Ribes petraeum from Šar Planina Mt. The phytogeographic importance of each record is discussed.U ovom radu su prikazane tri nove vrste u flori Sjeverne Makedonije: Centaurea vandasii s planine Belasica, Genista pilosa iz kanjona Probištipske rijeke i Ribes petraeum sa Šar planine. Fitogeografski značaj za svaku od njih je diskutiran

Novi horološki podaci o rodu Hieracium (Asteraceae) u Sjevernoj Makedoniji

Hieracium maculatum and H. jankae are reported for the first time in North Macedonia while one or more new records are added for the following rare taxa: H. jurassicum, H. olympicum, H. praecurrens and H. villosum.Hieracium maculatum i H. jankae navode se po prvi puta za floru Sjeverne Makedonije dok je za vrste: H. jurassicum, H. olympicum, H. praecurrens i H. villosum, navedeno jedno ili više novih nalazišta u flori

Pleurospermum austriacum (L.) Hoffm. (Apiaceae), a new species in the flora of the Republic of Macedonia

Pleurospermum austriacum (Apiaceae) is reported from the Bistrica River basin in the Šar Mountains as a new native species in the flora of the Republic of Macedonia. This is also the first report of the genus Pleurospermum in the country´s flora

PESFOR-W: Improving the design and environmental effectiveness of woodlands for water Payments for Ecosystem Services

ABSTRACT: The EU Water Framework Directive aims to ensure restoration of Europe?s water bodies to ?good ecological status? by 2027. Many Member States will struggle to meet this target, with around half of EU river catchments currently reporting below standard water quality. Diffuse pollution from agriculture represents a major pressure, affecting over 90% of river basins. Accumulating evidence shows that recent improvements to agricultural practices are benefiting water quality but in many cases will be insufficient to achieve WFD objectives. There is growing support for land use change to help bridge the gap, with a particular focus on targeted tree planting to intercept and reduce the delivery of diffuse pollutants to water. This form of integrated catchment management offers multiple benefits to society but a significant cost to landowners and managers. New economic instruments, in combination with spatial targeting, need to be developed to ensure cost effective solutions - including tree planting for water benefits - are realised. Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) are flexible, incentive-based mechanisms that could play an important role in promoting land use change to deliver water quality targets. The PESFOR-W COST Action will consolidate learning from existing woodlands for water PES schemes in Europe and help standardize approaches to evaluating the environmental effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of woodland measures. It will also create a European network through which PES schemes can be facilitated, extended and improved, for example by incorporating other ecosystem services linking with aims of the wider forestscarbon policy nexus

COST European Cooperation in science & technology COST Action CA18135 CA18135 - Fire in the Earth System: Science & Society

The main aim of FIRElinks is to power synergistic collaborations between European research groups and stakeholders with the objective to synthesise the existing knowledge and expertise, and to define a concerted research agenda which promotes an integrated approach to create fire-resilient landscapes, taking into account biological, biochemical and-physical, but also socio-economic, historical, geographical, sociological, perception and policy constraints. This is an urgent societal need due to expected further intensification and geographical spreading of wildfire regimes under Global Change

Relationships between vegetation of Macedonian pine (Pinus peuce Griseb.) and different types of soils on which it develops

This paper deals with relationships between vegetation of Macedonian pine (Pinus peuce Griseb.) and soils developed on different parent materials on the territory of the Republic of North Macedonia. We analysed the floristic composition of its communities at localities on limestone, on scree of dolomite marble and on scree of silicate (glaciofluvial deposit). On limestone and scree of dolomite marble, rendzinas on hard limestone and dolomite have developed, and on silicate parent material brown forest soils – (cambisols). The vegetation was sampled according to the Braun-Blanquet approach. Detrended correspondence analysis (DCA) and Ellenberg’s indicator values were used for ecological interpretation of the vegetation patterns. The mechanical and chemical properties of soil and textural classes were also processed. An evident increased presence of carbonates in the soil of scree of dolomite marble on Nidže Mountain was observed, unlike that on Shar Mountain which has formed on typical limestone. Although it is a forest community dominated by the same species, differences between the massifs, the precipitation regime, geology, differences in soil properties in relation to the appearance of carbonates and pH values, and other factors, result in differences in their floristic composition and are the reason for the distinction between the two groups. On silicate terrain on Nidže Mountain, Macedonian pine forests have also developed on brown forest soils (cambisols), with a different floristic composition to that of the other group on different parent material - carbonate (dolomite and limestone)

Prioritizing Plants around the Cross-Border Area of Greece and the Republic of North Macedonia: Integrated Conservation Actions and Sustainable Exploitation Potential

Plants know no political borders and some of them are restricted to small geographical territories of different countries in which they are endemic. In this study, we prioritized plants (PPs) of the cross-border area of Greece and the Republic of North Macedonia that are already threatened or nearly so (PPA), those which occur exclusively on either side of borderline and/or nearby countries (PPB), or those which are uncommon and rare in this region (PPC) with the aim to document in-situ the species-specific risks-threats; offer ex-situ conservation for them as a back-up solution for future re-introductions and sustainable exploitation; and raise public awareness and alertness about the importance of local biodiversity. In the framework of the project Conse-pp, 20 botanical expeditions were performed in 75 selected areas to collect samples and suitable propagation material from 130 PPs (147 accession numbers), also recording all types of threats-identified in-situ for each of them. No ex-situ conservation was detected for 40 PPs worldwide while for another 12 PPs only limited attempts have been made to date. The fully documented PPs are currently maintained under ex- situ conservation and acclimatization in the Balkan Botanic Garden of Kroussia (BBGK). In total, 156 propagation trials (sexual or asexual) have been made for these PPs to develop species-specific propagation protocols. Consequently, the production of new plant stocks raised ex-situ was achieved (n = 3254 individuals; first-time ex-situ conservation for 40 taxa), and this has enabled the establishment of three awareness-raising sites with PPs: (i) 1000 plants of 70 PPs in the newly designed Kardia Botanical Park in Thermi (Greece); (ii) 850 plants of 104 PPs in the phytodiversity awareness spot in BBGK and 130 individual PPs in the Garden of Environmental Awareness; and (iii) 42 plants of 14 PP taxa delivered to the botanic garden of Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje. This project outlines the necessity of the development of common plant conservation strategies for threatened plants in cross-border areas of neighboring countries and presents an integrated approach allowing for sustainable development and future in-situ protection measures and actions in the studied cross-border area