Evaluation of Bryophyte Diversity in National Parks of Turkey

National Parks are aesthetically and scientifically important natural areas which are valued for their rare national and international natural and cultural resource values and contain conservation, recreation and tourism areas and whose management is carried out under certain laws. In the near future, the idea of leaving the natural environment and resources that are not damaged by people instead of our ancient concrete remains to future generations have been dominated. From this point of view, establishment of national parks that we have defined as natural and cultural nature fragments at national and international level have begun. Turkey's first National Park is the Yozgat Çamlığı which was declared in 1958. In Turkey, 43 national parks have been declared up to now, and the status of one of them has been abolished afterwards. The total area of 42 existing National Parks is 851.378,85 ha. Up to now, 16 Bryophyte flora studies have been carried out from 42 National Parks in Turkey. 2 endemic, 29 new records, 15 second records and 489 new square record were recorded for Turkey in these Bryophyte studies.