Glades are an important element in the landscape of the Gorce Mts. (southern Poland). The cessation of use of the glades triggered the spontaneous process of landscape development − renaturalization, leading to their gradual overgrowing. The paper presents the results of research on the renaturalization of 46 glades situated in the upper montane belt in the Gorce Mts.
A list of spiders found in Gorce Mountains (southern part of Poland and part of Carpathians), comprising 129 species. One species (Micrargus sp. aff. georgescuae) is probably new to science, Metopobactrus rayi is for the first time reported from Poland, some further species (marked with *) are new for the Western Beskiden.