Historical review of bryological research in Fruska Gora Mt. (Serbia)

Abstract

Fruska Gora is a mountain located in the southern part of Pannonian plane and it is poorly bryologicaly investigated as well as most parts of Serbia. First data on bryophytes, for this region, were published in 1949 by Teodor Soska in his paper Pregled mahovina i lisajeva u okolini Beograda (Review of mosses and lichens in the vicinity of Belgrade). Soska listed 34 species of mosses and 8 liverworts species for this region. Later, in 1955, Zlatko Pavletic in his capital work Prodromus flore briofita Jugoslavije (Prodromus of Yugoslavian bryophyte flora), stated 26 moss species and 3 liverwort species, without indicating specific localities, but all of them were Soska?s original results. In 1966, the second botanist with original findings of bryophytes on Fruska Gora was Popovic, who recorded 2 liverwort and 19 moss species, for this mountain, also without specific localities. By far, the most comprehensive data were given by Cvetic and Sabovljevic in 2004. Their study A contribution to the bryophyte flora of Fruska Gora (Vojvodina, Serbia) counted total number of 118 mosses and 14 liverworts, on 16 localities within National park Fruska Gora. The latest study on bryophytes of Fruska Gora was in 2013, and it is the first and so far, the last study of bryophyte assemblages on grasslands. Authors of this paper recorded 18 species of mosses from 29 releve?. Complete bryophyte flora of Fruska Gora is still unknown. Considering the fact that this is the region with high biodiversity, dense hydrological network and a rather complex geology, Fruska Gora certainly deserves further bryological researches.