CONTENTS

B OTA N Y
Luiza-Silvia CHIRIAC, Marilena ONETE, Minodora MANU
Germination tests – rational, methods and benefits 9

Ildikó LIHĂT, Endre VÁNYOLÓS

Sustaining biodiversity, sustaining natural heritage; Developing ideas regarding on the introduction
of local flora in urban areas within the renaturalization process of railway residual areas, Târgu Mureş
(Romania) 13

Mihaela SĂMĂRGHIȚAN
New contributions to the study of vegetation in Oroiu village area, Mureș County (Romania) 29

ZO O LO G Y
Adrian MESTECĂNEANU, Radu GAVA
Observations regarding the avifauna from some dam basins of the Argeş River (Romania) in the
winter 2020–2021 45

Galina BUŞMACHIU
Collembola (Hexapoda) from the Dobruşa Landscape Reserve, Republic of Moldova 57

G E O LO G Y
Vlad A. CODREA, Márton VENCZEL, Alexandru A. SOLOMON, Izabella SABĂU,
Marian BORDEIANU, Cristina FĂRCAȘ
How many Pliocene mastodon species lived in Romania? 65