Successful transplantation of a hart's tongue fern population (Asplenium scolopendrium L.) with ten years of monitoring
Journal: Publication Server of Goethe University Frankfurt am Main (Goethe University Frankfurt)
Year: 2010

At the edge of the Harz Mountains in Lower Saxony a population of the hart’s tongue fern (Asplenium scolopendrium) threatened by destruction by a gypsum quarry were transplanted into a dolina which was not populated by the species at that time, and the new population was followed over ten years. 90% of the 59 transplanted plants survived this period and grew larger during the first six years after transplantation. Progenies appeared in the third year after transplantation. Nowadays, in the tenth