Methodological overview and a case study of the Hungarian Bryophyte Monitoring Program

Abstract

Long term investigation of the local population sizes of selected, threatened bryophyte species and long term surveys on the composition and diversity of bryophyte vegetation of different plant communities rich in bryophytes (wetlands, dry grasslands, saline-alkali areas and forests) are going on in the framework of the Hungarian National Biodiversity Monitoring System. In the present paper the methodology of species and community monitoring of bryophytes is described in detail, and with the aim of demonstrating the possibilities of the long term community monitoring on the basis of a case study focusing on the observation of the dynamics of an alkaline grassland stand for three years.