The Hornwort and Liverwort Atlas of Romania

‣ The muskegs from Romania;‣ The floristic provinces of ale Romania;‣ The floristic provinces and districts of Romania;‣ The bioregions of Romania;‣ Area of Pedunculate Oak forests;‣ Area of Long-thorned and Pubescent Oak forests;‣ Area of Turkey- and Hungarian Oak forests;‣ Area of Sessile Oak and the Sessile Oak in mixture deciduous forests;‣ Area of Beech forests;‣ Area of Beech in mixture with coniferous trees forests;‣ Area of Spruce forests;‣ The GEOCOD mapping system for Romania;‣ The climatic map.Data on Romania’s natural setting have been synthesized from Atlasul geografic al României –Romania’s Geographical Atlas (Badea L. & al. 1979), Geografia României, vol.I - Geografia fizică(Badea L. & al. 1983) – Romania’s Geography, 1 st volume - Physical Geography and Carpaţii Sud-Esticide pe teritoriul R.P. Romîne. Studiu de geografie fizică cu privire specială la relief (Mihăilescu V. 1963)The South-Eastern Carpathians from the territory of the Romanian Popular Republic. Physical geographystudy with special emphasis on the relief.The present version of the Atlas is based on the analysis of over 10.000 de recordings (stocked inMicrosoft Office Access 2000 files), derived from a rich bibliographical material and from the materialscomprised in the herbaria of different universities, museums and research institutes from Romania.In order to permit a fast succession of the completion versions, together with the development ofthe resource database with the acquisition of data from written sources, the Atlas is conceived andpresented electronically (the HEPATICE 2008 software).The software includes several facilities, being developed through:• standardized introduction of new recordings in the database by allowing the access to databasesthat contain information regarding the accepted nomenclature for species (standard list) and for thecounties and localities from Romania (over 70.000 placename recordings);• adding the option of multiple selection, up to three species, and the representation of theirchorology on a single map;• representation of the chorology on several grid systems (UTM, geographical) and facilitation ofdata conversion from one system to another;• creating a compatibility with the mapping system used for Atlas Florae Europaeae;• adding the option of visualizing species distributions on maps with 1: 1.000.000, 1: 50.000 and 1:25.000 scale, for the data that have information on the position up to second;• realization of distribution maps for small surfaces, on maps with 1: 50.000 and 1: 25.000 scale;• adding the possibility of measuring distances, on the maps with 1: 50.000 and 1: 25.000 scale;• the software also has an application for the inventory of consulted bibliography and realization ofa citing nomenclature, in order to avoid double-citing;• correlation of distribution data with the used cartographic base. In this way, in the databaseinformation can be stocked on the colors utilized for the maps, which correspond to certain climatic,ecological zones etc., depending on the distribution points of the species. Later this information can beused for the representation of distribution species on each type of map.• adding the possibility of realizing biodiversity maps, by overlap the distribution maps for allspecies, their quantification and visualization on the map by using preset marks, according to thenecessities. We have allocated the presence groups by correlation with the IUCN criteria, starting fromone species per reporting unit, and then 2-5 species/unit, 6-10 species/unit etc.17