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Nahajališča in rastišča vrste Pulsatilla vernalis v Julijskih Alpah
Localities and sites of Pulsatilla vernalis in the Julian Alps
i g o r Da k S k o b l e r
1
, i z t o k Si N j u r
2
, i. v e B e r
3
, B. zu p a n
4
1
  Institute of Biology, Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of 
Sciences and Arts, Regional unit Tolmin, Brunov drevored 13, SI-5220 Tolmin, 
Slovenia; igor.dakskobler@guest.arnes.si
2
  Slovenian Forestry Institute, Večna pot 2, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
3
  Zoisova 24, SI-4264 Bohinjska Bistrica, Slovenia
4
  Savica 6, SI-4264 Bohinjska Bistrica, Slovenia
Applying the standard Central-European method we phytosociologically studied the sites 
of Pulsatilla vernalis, a rare and protected species of Slovenian flora, in the frost hollows on 
mountain pastures Ovčarija and Za Grivo in the Fužina pasturelands (the Triglav Mountains, 
the Julian Alps). We established that it grows in a unique community of swards and heaths 
which usually extends over small surfaces (4–10 m
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) and is dominated by herbaceous 
perennial species (hemicryptophytes) and dwarf shrubs (chamaephytes) with mostly arctic-
alpine and south-European montane distribution. This community is explicitly (floristically 
and ecologically) different from the communities of swards and heaths described in the 
Julian Alps so far, so we classified it into a new association Pulsatillo vernalis-Dryadetum 
octopetalae ass. nova (order Rhododendro hirsuti-Ericetalia carneae) and subdivided it 
into two, floristically and ecologically clearly distinguished subassociations -ericetosum 
carneae subass. nova and -vaccinietosum subass. nova.
i g o r Da k S k o b l e r e t a l .: Nahajališča in rastišča vrste Pulsatilla vernalis…