The paper presents ecological characteristics of meadows with <em>Taraxacum</em> sect. <em>Palustria</em> in Pogórze Dynowskie. Field studies were carried out using the patrol method. Floristic description was made, methods of meadow use were evaluated and habitat conditions were determined based on Ellenberg’s bioindication method on every meadow with marsh dandelions. Analyses were performed in eight sites with <em>T. mendax</em>, <em>T. paucilobum</em>, <em>T. polonicum</em>, <em>T. portentosum</em>, and <em>T. vindobonense</em>.

The vegetation of protected salt meadows along the Baltic coast is fairly well known; however, dandelions have been so far treated as a collective species. The aim of our study was to examine the microspecies diversity of the genus Taraxacum in Polish salt and brackish coastal meadows and to analyse soil property preferences of the dandelion microspecies identified. In addition, we analysed the relations between soil properties and vegetation patterns in dandelion-supporting coastal meadows (by canonical correspondence analysis). The salt and brackish meadows along the Polish Baltic coast we visited were found to support a total of 27 dandelion microspecies representing 5 sections. Analysis of vegetation patterns showed all the soil parameters (C:N ratio, organic matter content, pH, concentration of Mg, P, K, electrolytic conductivity of the saturated soil extract ECe) to explain 32.07% of the total variance in the species data. The maximum abundance of most dandelion microspecies w...

The hamate dandelion section (Taraxacum sect. Hamata H. Øllg.) represents a morphologically tight group of taxa, distributed in the oceanic and sub-oceanic regions of Europe. In Central Europe, it is mostly confined to freshly moist meadows, as well as places in the shade within urban areas. The known distribution area in Europe until now extended towards the E part of the Czech Republic and S Poland. During the past six years, we have discovered an additional eleven localities of hamate dandelions in NW and N Slovakia, which represents a corrected south-eastern limit for the distribution area of this section. In this paper, we discuss seven recognized taxa (T. boekmanii, T. fusciflorum, T. hamatiforme, Taraxacum hamatum, T. lamprophyllum, T. pseudohamatum, and T. quadrans). We provide a determinative key to the Slovakian hamate dandelions, brief species descriptions, comments on their distribution, a distribution map of the section in Slovakia, as well as images of all of the newly found species.

The paper includes a list of localities of 35 Taraxacum species found in Błażowa town. The species belongs to 3 sections: Borea, Palustria, and Ruderalia. The record of the new species to the Polish flora – Taraxacum clarum Kirschner, Štěpánek et Trávníček – is given. Data were collected from 2011 to 2014.

Objetivo: Avaliar a motivação para a prática de esportes e níveis de depressão de atletas integrantes de uma equipe de basquetebol em cadeira rodas de uma cidade do interior do estado do Paraná. Metodologia: Para a avaliação da motivação utilizou-se do Inventário de Motivação à Prática Regular de Atividade Física – IMPRAF 54 e para os índices de depressão utilizou-se a escala de Depressão de Beck. Foram avaliados 11 indivíduos, atletas de basquetebol em cadeira de rodas com diferentes tipos de deficiência física e tempo de experiência na modalidade. Resultados: Como resultados observa-se que os índices de motivação se relacionam em maior escala apenas nos aspectos de saúde, prazer e para minimizar o estresse, os índices de depressão entre os atletas encontram-se baixos, fator que não é determinante para um preocupação generalizada sobre o time de basquetebol em cadeira de rodas. Considerações Finais: O índice de motivação mais relevantes para os atletas é o aspecto da saúde, já o me...