TRANSYLVANIAN REVIEW OF SYSTEMATICAL AND ECOLOGICAL

RESEARCH

5

The Maramureş Mountains Nature Park

Editors

Angela Curtean-Bănăduc, Doru Bănăduc & Ioan Sîrbu

Sibiu - Romania

2008

TRANSYLVANIAN REVIEW OF SYSTEMATICAL AND ECOLOGICAL

RESEARCH

5

The Maramureş Mountains Nature Park

Editors

Angela Curtean-Bănăduc, Doru Bănăduc & Ioan Sîrbu

„Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu, Faculty of Sciences,

Department of Ecology and Environment Protection

“Grigore Antipa” Natural History National Museum

Global Environmental

Facility

United Nations

Development Programme

“Lucian Blaga”

University of

Sibiu

Maramureş Mountains

Nature Park

Bucharest Ecological University

Sibiu - Romania

2008

Scientifical Reviewers:

Gavril ARDELEAN North University Baia Mare, Baia Mare - Romania. Petru Mihai BĂNĂRESCU Romanian Academy, Institute of Biology, Bucharest - Romania. Marta CERONI University of Vermont, Burlington - United States of America. Nicolae GĂLDEAN Bucharest Ecological University, Bucharest - Romania. Peter MANKO Presov University, Presov - Slovakia. Dumitru MURARIU Romanian Academy, "Grigore Antipa" National Natural History Museum, Bucharest - Romania. Letiţia OPREAN "Lucian Blaga" University of Sibiu, Sibiu - Romania. Eckbert SCHNEIDER WWF - Auen Institut, Rastatt - Germany.

Editorial Assistants:

Costel BUCUR Maramureş Mountains Nature Park, Vişeu de Sus - Romania. Oana DANCI Maramureş Mountains Nature Park, Vişeu de Sus - Romania. Gabriele KUTZENBERGER International Association for Danube Research, Wilhering - Austria.

Editorial Office:

„Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu, Faculty of Sciences, Department of Ecology and Environment Protection, 5 - 7 Raţiu Street, Sibiu, Sibiu County, Romania, RO - 550012, Angela Curtean-Bănăduc (banaduc@yahoo.com, angela.banaduc@ulbsibiu.ro)

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IN MEMORIAM

Artemiu Alexandru Artur Coman (1881 - 1972)

Artur Alexandru Artemiu Coman was born on 15 April 1881 in Borşa, on the banks of the Vişeu River, bordered by the Maramureş, Rodnei and Tibleş Mountains, a corner of Romanian heaven of rare beauty, which certainly from a young age gave him a love for Nature, to which he dedicated his whole life with a generosity that has remained in our collective memory as an wonderful example. He went to primary and high school successively in Botiza, Sighetul-Marmaţiei and Iglo (Slovakia), and then began university studies also in Slovakia - after which experience he remained strongly attached to Slovakian colleagues, nature and culture. He was an industrious and talented student who held his teachers’ attention, creating for himself the opportunity to occupy the post of assistant at the Geobotany Department and later that of Botany (1908-1912), at the Institute of Forestry and Mines of Banská Štiavnica. At that time he studied the flora of the Mountains of Eastern Beskids, Tatra, Rodnei, Bârgăului, Ciucaş, etc. World War I meant that he returned home, but also marked the destruction of the herbarium of Slovakia, which made him to bury Romania’s herbarium much deeper into the Romanian soil during the Second World War, thus saving this one for posterity. Love for his birthplace, and his wish to work for nature which had so delighted his childhood and adolescence, made him decide not to accept to return to Slovakia as a lecturer, staying home as an outstanding forest engineer and topographer in the area of Vişeu. His years of school studies and later of work in an area of which he became a master were born a great volume of research works and papers. Artur Alexandru Coman put his name to 25 specialized studies which stand at over 500 pages, most of which have as object of study the flora of the higher plants (vascular plants) of Maramureş. Issues addressed in these studies relate to: taxonomy, systematics, ecology, chorology, phytogeography, geobotany, teratology, ethnobotany, toponymy and environmental protection. To all these are added three major seed catalogues (1964, 1969, 1970) offered to the Botanic gardens of Iaşi, and herbaria with tens of thousands of examples of plants currently found in the major institutions in Bucharest, Vienna, Braşov, Cluj-Napoca, Iaşi, Sighetul-Marmaţiei, etc. Of particular importance is the Flora Romania Exsiccata in which are included hundreds of phytotaxonomic units of Maramureş, and the Inventory of Vascular Plants of Maramureş (1946), prestigious works including 1,270 vascular plant species. Through his research, the general vascular flora of Maramureş was enriched by 600 species. It should be noted that the herbarium of Artemiu Alexandru Artur Coman was used in drafting the monumental work "Flora R. S. R.”. Two of his major scientific contributions were named as special homages: namely Dianthus carthusianorum ssp. Florae-andercoianum, dedicated to his mother, and Cochlearia pyrenaica var. borzae dedicated to the eminent Romanian botanist Alexandru Borza. Not being a scientist imprisoned in the world scientific concerns, he consistently fought against the destruction of the spruce forests of the Romanian Carpathians by irrational cutting, fires and abusive grazing, and fought for the protection of forests and rare plants. He was one of the main protectors of the Pietrosul Mare Reservation. These were meritorious and exemplary acts as much then and they would be today …. His last explorations in the Maramureş area he loved so much, and which from the geobotanic point of view he said "indisputably belongs to the geographic space of Romania" (A. Coman, manuscript) were made at the venerable age of 90. The most representative botanical personality of Maramureş died aged 91, after 70 years of uninterrupted work, leaving behind more than anything, a worthy example to follow.

The Editors

Transylvanian Review of Systematical and Ecological Research

5. The Maramureş Mountains Nature Park 2008

CONTENTS

I Preface The Editors Geographical background elements of the Vişeu River Basin (Maramureş, Romania);

Timur Vasile CHIŞ .......................................................................... 1. Analysis of Levelled surfaces in Maramureş Mountains (Maramureş, Romania);

Alexandur MUREŞAN ..................................................................... 5. The characteristics of the hydrographical basins of the Maramureş Mountains (Maramureş, Romania);

Marioara COSTEA .................................................................……. 13. Pollen analysis of the sequence from the Peat Bog Tăul Mare - Bardău (Maramureş, Romania);

Sorina FĂRCAŞ, Ioan TANŢĂU, Marcel MÎNDRESCU, Bogdan HURDU, Liviu FILIPAŞ and Tudor URSU......................................

21.

Conservation and management of the Mountain Pine habitat in Maramureş Mountains Nature Park (Maramureş, Romania):

Oana Viorica DANCI ...................................................................... 31. Rare, endangered and endemic species of plants of the Chyvchyny/Civcin Mountains (Carpathians);

Illia CHORNEY, Vasyl BUDZHAK and Alla TOKARYUK ........…. 37. Data on aquatic and hygrophilous molluscs from the Maramureş Mountains Nature Park (Maramureş, Romania);

Ioan SÎRBU, Voichiţa GHEOCA and Monica SÎRBU .................... 45.

Data concerning the terrestial gastropod fauna of the Maramureş Mountains Nature Park (Maramureş, Romania);

Voichiţa GHEOCA, Monica SÎRBU and Ioan SÎRBU .................... 53.

The harvestmen fauna (Arachnida, Opiliones) from the Maramureş Mountains Nature Park (Maramureş, Romania);

Rodica PLĂIAŞU and Raluca BĂNCILĂ ......................................... 59. Aspects regarding the diversity of aquatic and semiaquatic Heteroptera from Maramureş Mountains Nature Park (Maramureş, Romania);

Horea OLOŞUTEAN and Daniela ILIE .......................................... 63. The Miridae (Heteroptera) species list of Maramureş (Romania); Aurora STĂNESCU …………....….....……...….........………........ 73.

Apoid hymenopterans (Melittidae, Megachilidae, Anthophoridae, Apidae) from Maramureş area (Romania);

Cristina BAN-CĂLEFARIU ............................................................. 89. Contributions to the knowledge of the distribution of coccinelids and cerambycids beetles (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae, Cerambycidae) in Maramureş Mountains Nature Park (Maramureş, Romania);

Rodica SERAFIM ............................................................................ 97.

The diversity of the leaf beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) in the Maramureş Mountains Nature Park and surroundings (Maramureş, Romania);

Sanda MAICAN .............................................................................. 115.

The rove beetle fauna (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) of the Maramureş County (Maramureş, Romania);

Melania STAN ................................………………...........…….…. 129. Species Diversity of the Beetle Fauna, a sensitive parameter for ecological monitoring. Maramureş Mountains Nature Park (Romania);

Eugen NIŢU .................................................................................... 143.

Diptera (Insecta) of the Maramureş Mountains Nature Park (Maramureş, Romania);

Corneliu PÂRVU ............................................................................. 155.

Vişeu River and some tributaries ecological assessment based on macroinvertebrate communities (Maramureş, Romania);

Angela CURTEAN-BĂNĂDUC ....................................................... 165. The Hucho hucho (Linnaeus) 1758 species monitoring in the Vişeu River (Maramureş, Romania);

Doru BĂNĂDUC ............................................................................. 183. The current distribution of herpetofauna in the Maramureş County and the Maramureş Mountains Nature Park, (Maramureş, Romania);

Dan COGĂLNICEANU, Raluca BĂNCILĂ, Ciprian SAMOILĂ and Tibor HARTEL .........................................................................

189.

Preliminary ornithological survey in the Maramureş Mountains Natural Park (Maramureş, Romania);

István KOVÁCS ............................................................................... 201. Results of research on the bat (Chiroptera) fauna of the Maramureş Mountains Nature Park (Maramureş, Romania);

Csaba JÉRE ..................................................................................... 207. Small mammals (Rodentia and Insectivora) from the Maramureş Mountains Nature Park (Maramureş, Romania);

Ana Maria GURZĂU, Ana Maria BENEDEK, Monica SÎRBU and Ioan SÎRBU .........................................................…........................

215.

Preface A legendary place the Maramureş area, in the north of Transylvania, is one of the special areas among the remote zones of Romania. Emblematical from the geological, geographical, biological and ecological point of view for this area are, the Maramureş Mountains. This accepted genuine symbol of the northern part of the Romanian nature benefit recently (since 12 January 2005) by the creation of a new protected area, the Maramureş Moutains Nature Park / Parcul Natural Munţii Maramureşului. The Maramureş Mountains Nature Park is situated in the north part of the Maramureş County, including the localities (or parts of them) Borşa, Moisei, Vişeu de Sus, Vişeu de Jos, Leordina, Ruscova, Repedea, Poienile de sub Munte, Petrova and Bistra, and the Maramureş Mountains Massif. The Maramureş Mountains are situated on the northern border of the country between the 47°35'5" and 47°58'20" north latitude and between the 24°8'12" and 25°2'38" west longitude.

The Maramureş Moutains Nature Park localization (Badea et al., 1983 - modified).

This area lay towards the north of the Vişeu and Bistra Aurie valleys on a length of over 100 km, with a surface of round 1500 km2 and is included in the Romanian Carpathians. The park administration members together with a group of specialists developed a very needed research plan, in the context of an United Nations Development Project (no. 41462) - based on this project scientific studies results at which were added a substantial number of independent studies caried on in the last ten yers. The Transylvanian Review of Systematical and Ecological Research editors, dedicated this volume, to the Maramureş Moutains Nature Park.

Acknowledgements The editors of this volume would like to express their gratitude to the authors and the scientific reviewers whose work made the appearance of this publication possible, and to the Maramureş Moutains Nature Park Administration members, which supported the field work on which a part of the necessary research was based. This volume came in to being also based on the suport on the field through the Global Environmental Facility - United Nations Development Programme 41462 „Strengthening Romania's Protected Area System by Demonstrating Public-Private Partnership in Romania's Maramureş Mountains Nature Park” project.

The Editors