Zróżnicowanie roślinności w obrębie porzuconych cmentarzy ewangelickich na terenie gminy Ryn

Abstract

The paper presents vegetation differentiation within selected abandoned evangelical cemeteries, which after World War II ceased to function. From mentioned period they began to spontaneously overgrow by vegetation. Recently, as a result of ecological succession cemeteries transformed and composed in the surrounding landscape and lost its original character as a sacred area. To the research were chosen small and with different ages cemeteries which moreover are diverse in the location in the landscape. As a result of research at all investigated objects were found 197 species of vascular plants. The vegetation diversity is related to the age of cemeteries and their neighborhoods ecosystems like forest and agricultural crops. The research showed that on 3 cemeteries final successional stage took place in forest direction. On the other cemeteries has dominated artificially introduced decorative plant species common encountered on sacral objects.