Species and ecological diversity of bryophytes occurring on midforest roads in some forest nature reserves in Central Poland

The paper presents socio-ecological and ecological characterisation of 72 bryophyte species found in the years 2008-2012 on midforest roads passing through nine nature reserves situated in the Łódź region. Nine species occurred excl usively in this habitat. Most of the species noted (63%) were forest bryophytes occurring also inside the forest phytocoenoses studied, they constituted 95.5% of all the records. The non-forest species show diff erent socio-ecological relations: some of them occur typically on meadows or in grassy forest ecotones, others – in fens or bogs but there are also some pioneer bryophytes colonizing initial sites, both of natural and anthropogenic character. They diff er from the forest species occurring on midforest roads in their ecological demands regarding the habitat reaction (presence of subneutral species) and light (higher participation of heliophytes). Nine of them (13%) are considered to be synanthropic bryophytes. Details of the species occurrence are provided.