Z historii badań florystycznych na terenie miasta Przemyśla

• Authors: Lilianna Witkowska-Wawer

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A History of Floristic Research in the City of Przemyśl

• Languages of publication: PL

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This paper discusses an account of the history of the floristic research that has been conducted in the city of Przemyśl since the late Nineteenth Century. Short descriptions of works published up until the late 1980s by a number of naturalists, including: Emeryk Turczyński, Bolesław Kotula, Stanisław Batko, Jerzy Piórecki, Kazimierz Karczmarz, Anna Łuczycka and others are presented. The first, but incomplete, list of plants from the Przemyśl area was produced by Emeryk Turczyński and was published in 1872 in “Spis roślin około Przemyśla dziko rosnących” (“List of wild plants growing in the vicinity of Przemyśl”). This list included a total of 270 species. Particularly important are works by Bolesław Kotula: "Flora leśna okolic Przemyśla” (“Flora of the woodlands in the vicinity of Przemyśl”) published in 1878 and “Spis roślin naczyniowych z okolicy Przemyśla" (“List of vascular plants in the vicinity of Przemyśl”) published in1881. These works are very valuable because they detail the methodology of the research that was conducted and they describe the vegetation that was present at that time; making it possible to track changes in the flora of the Przemyśl area during the last century. More than 50 years later another naturalist, Stanisław Batko undertook a research project to locate the sites of rare plants recorded by B. Kotula and to analyse the changes in vegetation occurring since that time. In his works: Przyczynki do rozsiedlenia niektórych drzew i krzewów w okolicy Przemyśla (“A contribution to the distribution of some trees and shrubs in the vicinity of Przemyśl") published in 1933 and O florze okolicy Przemyśla (“Flora in the vicinity of Przemyśl”) (1934, 1938) the author included not only rare and extinct species in this area but also ones not recorded previously by Kotula. In subsequent years, more papers containing information about species occurring in the city and its vicinity have been produced as part of the floristic studies of larger areas (Karczmarz, Piórecki 1977) and phytosociological studies of synanthropic communities (Łuczycka 1977, Święs, Witkowska-Wawer 1988). Single species records can be found in publications presenting their geographic distribution in Poland (K. Karczmarz, M. Kuc 1957, A. Frey 1974). These works are very important as the basis for the comparative analysis of the flora of the city of Przemyśl and its vicinity and how it has changed over the centuries. They also provide information on the distribution and ecology of plants and landscape changes.

• Publisher: Towarzystwo Przyjaciół Nauk w Przemyślu
• Journal: Rocznik Przemyski
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 50
• Issue: 4: Nauki Przyrodnicze
• Pages: 85-94

Contributors

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Lilianna Witkowska-Wawer

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ISSN

0137-4168