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The newspaper is aimed at residents, visitors, fans and supporters. It is free for park residents and available at Triglav National Park information centres. Up to two issues a year are published.

We investigated different types of vegetation in cirques of two valleys in the Julian Alps, Zadnjica and Kot, which develop on slope screes and are heavily influenced by avalanches that occur here every year. Our phytosociological analysis identified the following shrub-forest developmental stages: Saliceteum eleagno-purpureae hieracietosum porrifolii var. Achnatherum calamagrostis, Homogyno sylvestris-Salicetum glabrae, Polysticho lonchitis-Rhamnetum fallacis, Rhododendro hirsuti-Laburnetum alpini, Rhodothamno-Laricetum deciduae anemonetosum trifoliae and Rhododendro hirsuti-Fagetum sylvaticae var. Sorbus chamaemespilus. On unconsolidated fluvio-glacial deposits in the Kot Valley we determined the following successional stages: Salicetum eleagno-purpurae hieracietosum porrifolii var. Pinus mugo, Amelanchiero ovalis-Pinetum mugo laricetosum and Rhododendro hirsuti-Fagetum sylvaticae petasitetosum paradoxi.

Information on organised public transport in the Triglav National Park and the Julian Alps Biosphere Area, guided tours, hints for excursions and tips for visiting.

The newspaper is aimed at residents, visitors, fans and supporters. It is free for park residents and available at Triglav National Park information centres. Up to two issues a year are published.

In the alpine belt of the Julian Alps (glacial cirque Na Jezerih under Mt. Veliki Rokav, Jarečica, the Mangart Saddle and Prodi under Mt. Mangart as well as Mt. Plešivec in the rock wall of Loška Stena) we studied the phytosociology and ecology of snow-bed vegetation with dominating flowering plants Salix herbacea, Luzula alpinopilosa, Gnaphalium supinum, Soldanella pusilla and Salix retusa, and numerous moss species. Based on the comparison with similar snow-bed communities in the Central, Eastern and Southern Alps we described a new association Salicetum retuso-herbaceae and classified it into the alliance Salicion herbaceae and class Salicetea herbaceae. We determined several successional stages of snow-bed vegetation on mixed calcareous-silicate bedrock that we treat as variants, in two relevés also the initial association Polytrichetum sexangularis.

Using the (unweighted) average linkage clustering (UPGMA) method we classified 458 phytosociological relevés of Larix decidua forests in the Southeastern Alps into 25 clusters. Based on their analysis we described the following new subassociations: Rhodothamno-Laricetum deciduae geetosum rivalis, sorbetosum chamaemespili, piceetosum abietis, adoxetosum moschatellinae, cystopteridetosum fragilis, cyclaminetosum purpurascentis, dryadetosum octopetalae and sorbetosum ariae. The selected method proved adequate in identifying the differences between larch stands on potential subalpine spruce and beech sites, and larch forests on the upper forest line, as well as the differences between initial larch stages on the upper forest line and more stable development stages on better developed soils on promontories and ledges above the upper beech forest line. Larch forests occur mainly in the altitudinal belt between (1,500) 1,600 and 1,800 (1,900) m, on shady aspects and slopes that are steeper than 30°. They are some of the best preserved forest types in the Southeastern Alps, on smaller surface areas (Macesnje above the Beli Potok valley in the Julian Alps) even virgin forests, and their role as biotopes is exceptional.

Information on organised public transport in the Triglav National Park and the Julian Alps Biosphere Area, guided tours, hints for excursions and tips for visiting.

In the north-eastern foothills of the Julian Alps, above the village of Krnica under the peak of Srednji Vrh in the Radovna Valley, we found a new locality of the thermophilous Pontic-Mediterranean (South-European-West-Asian) species Buglossoides purpurocaerulea. This is so far the only locality in the Triglav National Park and the most northeastern locality in the Julian Alps, in a region with a relatively cold Alpine climate. We recorded it in a stand of thermophilous deciduous trees, European hop-hornbeam (Ostrya carpinifolia) and manna ash (Fraxinus ornus), which we for now classify in the association Fraxino orno-Ostryetum carpinifoliae. This species thrives in this community, but also in thermophilous beech forests in similar geological conditions but in a warmer and more humid climate, in the south-western foothills of the Julian Alps above the Bača Valley and in the Tolmin area.

The newspaper is aimed at residents, visitors, fans and supporters. It is free for park residents and available at Triglav National Park information centres. Up to two issues a year are published.

In the Triglav Mountains, mainly on the slopes and plateaus to the west of Mt. Triglav (Glava v Zaplanji, Vrh Zelenic) we found new localities of three rare species of Slovenian flora, Crepis terglouensis, Cerastium uniflorum and Geum reptans, and made a phytosociological inventory of their sites. Based on comparisons with similar communities within which they occur elsewhere in the Eastern and Southeastern Alps we described two new associations, Crepido terglouensis-Potentilletum nitidae (alliance Thlaspion rotundifolii) and Saxifrago carniolicae-Cerastietum uniflorae (alliance Arabidion caeruleae).