important plant areas in central and eastern europe - Plantlife
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Czech Republic<br />
Criteria lists<br />
Criterion A = 131 species<br />
Ai (13),Ai/Aii (8),Aii (76),Aiii (21),Aiv (47); Habitats Directive (40), Bern Convention (50)<br />
Vascular <strong>plant</strong>s (105), Bryophytes (25), Lichens (6), Fungi (18),Algae (0)<br />
Criterion B = not applied <strong>in</strong> current project, see below<br />
EUNIS level 2 habitat types assessed for richness<br />
Criterion C = 105 habitats<br />
Ci (20), Cii (85); Habitats Directive (60) & Bern Convention (45)<br />
Methodology summary<br />
Criteria lists: a considerable percentage of the Criterion A taxa are identical with the<br />
Natura 2000 system. Special effort was made to <strong>in</strong>clude non-vascular <strong>plant</strong>s <strong>and</strong> this<br />
resulted <strong>in</strong> a number of methodological problems: the western European bias of lists,<br />
poor data on distribution, difficulties <strong>in</strong> confirm<strong>in</strong>g records, <strong>and</strong> sporadic occurrence of<br />
some species. Criterion B was applied <strong>in</strong> three cases, <strong>in</strong> <strong>areas</strong> where there was a high<br />
diversity of fungi species <strong>and</strong> the occurrence of rare algae species. Criterion B was not<br />
widely used because almost all threatened Czech <strong>plant</strong> communities were <strong>in</strong>cluded <strong>in</strong><br />
the Criterion C list, <strong>and</strong> the rema<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g threatened <strong>plant</strong> communities qualified under<br />
Criterion A.<br />
Data <strong>and</strong> fieldwork: much of the <strong>in</strong>formation to select IPAs came from the exist<strong>in</strong>g<br />
database of the coord<strong>in</strong>at<strong>in</strong>g Czech Agency – AOPK C˘ R, or was obta<strong>in</strong>ed from<br />
published records <strong>and</strong> consultations with specialists.The Natura 2000 database, created<br />
from 2000-2004, provided the ma<strong>in</strong> source for the relatively precise statistical data given<br />
<strong>in</strong> this report. IPA questionnaires were also <strong>important</strong> <strong>and</strong> they were completed by<br />
many of the cooperat<strong>in</strong>g specialists.Almost all of them visited their <strong>areas</strong> <strong>in</strong> 2003 or<br />
2004, <strong>and</strong> those visits also generated some new data.<br />
Site selection: the national site selection strategy was to select IPAs with a range of sizes<br />
from a few hectares to several thous<strong>and</strong> hectares depend<strong>in</strong>g on the qualify<strong>in</strong>g features.<br />
Sites were identified for their Criterion A populations <strong>and</strong> then for their Criterion C<br />
habitats.The <strong>in</strong>tention was not to create too many IPAs at the beg<strong>in</strong>n<strong>in</strong>g of the project,<br />
<strong>and</strong> most IPAs fall with<strong>in</strong> the boundaries of exist<strong>in</strong>g protected <strong>areas</strong> or the proposed<br />
Natura 2000 network. However, the identification of IPAs is not considered f<strong>in</strong>al <strong>and</strong> will<br />
cont<strong>in</strong>ue as new data become available.<br />
Key issues: as already identified above, there were some problems <strong>in</strong> IPA identification <strong>in</strong><br />
relation to non-vascular <strong>plant</strong>s. It is very probable that the <strong>areas</strong> del<strong>in</strong>eated for the best<br />
habitats also are the best sites for non-vascular <strong>plant</strong>s, particularly fungi.This needs to be<br />
confirmed by follow-up research for those taxonomic groups.<br />
Protection <strong>and</strong> management of IPAs <strong>in</strong> the Czech Republic<br />
Total IPAs with National National protection European International<br />
IPAs no legal protection of IPAs (lower level) recognition recognition<br />
protection of IPAs of IPAs of IPAs<br />
(high level)<br />
75 7 66 17 SAC* 68 Ramsar 15<br />
Emerald 27<br />
*SAC - sites proposed to the European Commission as Special Areas for Conservation<br />
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