Vitis vinifera subsp. sylvestris in the alluvial area of the Danube in Austria – A scientific editing of the manuscript by Siegfried Reissek
Authors/Creators
- 1. Überfuhrstraße 57, 1210 Wien, Österreich; E-Mail: doris@stefan-rotter.at
- 2. Department für Botanik und Biodiversitätsforschung der Universität Wien, Rennweg 14, 1030 Wien, Österreich; E-Mail: luise.ehrendorfer@univie.ac.at
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Around the mid-19th century and before the regulation of the Danube, the botanist Siegfried Reissek studied its alluvial flora in Vienna and adjacent Lower Austria. He left a hand-written and so far largely unpublished manuscript on this topic in the archives of the Museum of Natural History in Vienna. This manuscript is the only extensive source of botanical information from the period before the regulation of the Danube. In Reissek’s days, Vitis vinifera subsp. sylvestris was a common and widespread species in the alluvial forests of the Danube floodplain, and Reissek considered this species not to be under threat. However, since then, the species has disappeared from many locations, and only a few hundred individuals remain in the area of the National Park “Donau-Auen”. Based on literature data and the authors’ field observations, the historical and recent habitat conditions are compared, and morphological and genetic aspects are addressed.
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