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Poland
116 IPAs were identified in Poland.
Poland covers an area of over 312,000 km² in Central Europe and has two biogeographical zones: the Continental, which covers most of the country and a small area of the Alpine zone in the Carparthian Mountains of the south. Poland’s natural and semi-natural habitats consist mainly of several types of forest, mown or grazed grasslands, including small areas of warm, dry, steppe-like grassland, as well as vast areas of swamps and peat bogs. The country also harbours two Centres of Plant Diversity, the Carpathians and the Białowieża Forest. Poland joined the EU in May 2004 and is a member of the Council of Europe.
Fact-sheets for the Polish IPAs are available on the IPA Online Database.
For more information see the section on Poland (pages 47-50) in Important Plant Areas in Central and Eastern Europe (available to download at the bottom of the page).
References:
- MIREK Z., PAUL W., WILK L. 2005 Ostoje Ros’linne w Polsce. Instytut Botaniki im. W. Szafera Polska Academia Nauk, Krakow.
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