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February 2004<br />

extent or playing a substantial ecological function (e.g.<br />

included in national or international Red Books or lists, in<br />

appendices to Conventions, Directives or other such<br />

instruments)<br />

corpotroph fungus feeding on peat substrate<br />

culture (forest) forest or section thereof created artificially, by afforestation<br />

detailed zone<br />

management plan<br />

an official State document which determines the specific<br />

purpose and the method of management of landed property.<br />

The scope, content, procedure of development and<br />

approval of the plan are determined pursuant to the<br />

Territorial <strong>Plan</strong>ning and <strong>Management</strong> Act<br />

disturbance the impact of different human activities on wild animals<br />

amounting to a state of agitation, fear, or irritation and the<br />

resultant inability to perform natural behavioral activities in<br />

their zone of habitation, and leading to negative results for<br />

the animal: from behavioral changes to quitting its natural<br />

range<br />

dominant species species represented by the largest number of specimens,<br />

having the largest total biomass within a community which<br />

bears its name<br />

ecological corridor territory providing a natural link between populations,<br />

communities, ecosystems and habitats with specific biotic<br />

and/or abiotic attributes, and ensuring the natural migration<br />

of specimens, species, the free flow and exchange of genes<br />

ecological niche <strong>part</strong> of a habitat characterized by a specific microcombination<br />

of ecological factors; the location of a given<br />

species within the trophic chain<br />

ecological-trophic group<br />

of fungi<br />

grouping of fungi by their way of feeding and the food<br />

substrate (host)<br />

ecosystem unit of nature constituting a unified natural complex and<br />

organic combination of abiotic environment (the bedrock,<br />

water and air) with the living organisms inhabiting it; an<br />

open system, relatively stable in time and space,<br />

functioning as an integral organism and affecting the<br />

natural cycle of substance and energy within the area it<br />

occupies<br />

edifier species species determining the living conditions within a<br />

community<br />

endangered taxon taxon whose population size and areas of habitation<br />

diminish in a way whereby over a certain period in the<br />

foreseeable future it may become extinct within a given area<br />

(locally endangered), country (nationally endangered), or<br />

worldwide (globally endangered); there exist detailed,<br />

internationally recognized classifications of the degrees of<br />

<strong>Rila</strong> <strong>Monastery</strong> <strong>Nature</strong> <strong>Park</strong><br />

<strong>Management</strong> <strong>Plan</strong> Draft<br />

2004 - 2013<br />

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