“Uroczysko Wielkie Łunawy” belongs to objects which can be distinguished for their considerable floristic values. Varied and slightly deformed flora of this small object comprises 192 species of vascular plants derived from 60 families, including 41 taxons of arborescent plants. Sites of 13 species under legal protection were identified. Valuable fragments of oak-hornbeam and riparian forest communities as well as stands close to natural ones were also found. It seems that, bearing in mind the relatively rare and wellpreserved communities of the oak-hornbeam and riparian forests occurring in this region, the entire “Uroczysko Wielkie Łunawy” should be protected.
The subject of the study was a dynamic population of Sorbus torminalis resulting from spontaneous regeneration from seeds in northern Poland. The population, occupying a fenced plot of 1.72 ha in Forest District Jamy, amounted to 579 individuals. The spatial structure of population and some basic individual traits of trees were recorded, then the growing space of individual trees was examined. The following measures of tree growing space were investigated: crown diameter and projection area, and tree volume. The spatial structure of population was non-random, and there was evidence for effects of population density on tree performance. The observations have to be continued in order to describe optimal growing space of wild service tree; the results could be used to improve in situ conservation of this rare and valuable species.