Rila Monastery Nature Park Management Plan - part - usaid

February 2004
including sporangial mosses, liverworts, leaf, and
sphagnous mosses
buffer zone a territory having a restricted use regime located around
some protected areas (reserves, maintained reserves,
wetlands) designated for the purpose of mitigating the
negative impacts on the latter; the regime of management
and protection is less strict that that of the protected area
around which the buffer zone is located
buffer zone territory designated around a protected area for the purpose
of mitigating negative impacts upon the latter; defined
pursuant to the applicable legislation and legally defined
procedure and governed by a special conservation and
management regime, less strict than that of the protected
area around which it is situated
calamity large-scale invasion of pests as related to ensuing
significant damages on forests or crops
carbotroph fungus growing on dead embers in abandoned fireplaces
clear cutting cutting down of all timber vegetation within an area of .1
hectare, or the merging together of plots where such cutting
is done whose total area exceeds .1 hectare
climax the last, relatively stable stage in the natural development
of a plant community and the ecosystem as a whole, which
most fully corresponds to the ecological conditions in a
given locality for the respective period; stable state of the
vegetation following a succession
clone-population population of a species performing vegetative reproduction
community group of interrelated organisms (represented by specimens
or populations) in co-habitation within a given space; when
composed of plants, this is called a phytocenosis; when of
animals, zoocenosis
community group of organisms that are mutually interrelated and in cohabitation
within a given space (represented by their
specimens or populations); may be regarded as composed
of plants (a phytocenosis) or animals (zoocenosis)
comprehensive ecological
monitoring
monitoring of the state of non-living (abiotic) factors and
components of the environment (e.g. for advanced
accumulation of heavy metals) alongside biological
monitoring (of the state and condition of factors and
elements of wildlife)
conservation regime the combination of allowed and prohibited activities for a
given area as defined by law and the goals and objectives,
the functions and purpose of that area
conservation
significance, of
species or taxon, community, ecosystem, or natural habitat
recognized in a scientific source as endangered to a certain
Rila Monastery Nature Park
Management Plan Draft
2004 - 2013
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