Zdravko Hubenov
29 February 2012 ·
volume 20 · pp. 107–120 ·
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Abstract: A total of 3199 species has been established in the Kresna Gorge, belonging to 355 families, 75 orders, 16 classes and 5 types. The taxa with Mediterranean type of distribution for some of the investigated groups are over 70%. Three hundred and eighteen species are rare (19.4%), endemics — 83 species (4.6%) and relicts — 16 species (5.3% of the bulgarian relicts). The number of taxa with conservation significance is about 400 (12.5%), of which 42 species are of the highest category — world importance.