Checklist and red list of hornworts (Anthocerotophyta) and liverworts (Marchantiophyta) of Slovakia

Katarína Mišíková,Katarína Godovičová,Pavel Širka,Rudolf Šoltés

doi:10.2478/s11756-020-00670-0

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Abstract

The presented checklist and red list include 231 liverwort (Marchantiophyta) and two hornwort species (Anthocerotophyta). Overall, 22.9% of liverworts are evaluated as threatened (CR – 4.3%, EN – 7.8%, VU – 10.8%), while 17 of species (7.4%) are categorized as NT, 11.6% as DD and 3.0% as RE. A total of 128 species (55.4% of the liverwort flora of Slovakia) were assessed as LC. For the liverwort Lunularia cruciata the criteria were not applicable (NA), since this species is not native to Slovakia. Currently, only two hornworts are known in Slovakia, of which Anthoceros agrestis is assessed as LC and Phaeoceros carolinianus as NT. The main factors of the liverwort and hornwort endangerment and retreat are anthropogenic changes in natural conditions and degradation of the ecosystems caused by agriculture, forestry, aquaculture, climatic changes, industry, and traffic pollution.

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Three editions of the Checklist of liverworts and hornworts (Kubinská et al 1993; Kubinská and Janovicová 1996, 1998) and two of their updated editions (Kubinská et al 2001a, b) including the Red list of bryophytes evaluated according to the IUCN criteria (IUCN 2001) have been published in Slovakia
All hornwort and liverwort species that have been recorded in Slovakia up to the end of February 2020 were taken into consideration
Based on works by Köckinger (2017), Klama and Górski (2018) and Hodgetts et al (2020) we present both species separately

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Three editions of the Checklist of liverworts and hornworts (Kubinská et al 1993; Kubinská and Janovicová 1996, 1998) and two of their updated editions (Kubinská et al 2001a, b) including the Red list of bryophytes evaluated according to the IUCN criteria (IUCN 2001) have been published in Slovakia. Several species new to Slovakia have been recorded. The revised checklist and red list of hornworts (Anthocerotophyta) and liverworts (Marchantiophyta) follow the latest version of the Checklist of mosses (Bryophyta) (Mišíková et al 2020). Occurrence and threat status of hornworts and liverworts are less processed compared to mosses. Data from most areas of Slovakia are absent or are only

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