Findings of alien plants in the flora of Starobilsk Grass-Meadow Steppe

Abstract The results of an investigation of alien species that change the character, condition, form or nature of ecosystems over large areas (transformer species) in the flora of the Starobilsk grass-meadow steppe are presented. The check-list of alien plants includes over 386 species of vascular plants, of which 28 are invasive and 6 are transformer species. In this study, the data on the first records of alien species, their distribution history, ecology, occurrence in different plant communities and degree of naturalization were compiled. The distribution maps of transformer species are provided.

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Systematic structure of the alien fraction of the flora of Starobilsk Grass-Meadow Steppe

Ukrainian Botanical Journal ◽

10.15407/ukrbotj73.02.153 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 73 (2) ◽

pp. 153-157

Author(s):

O.O. Kucher ◽

Keyword(s):

Meadow Steppe ◽

Grass Meadow ◽

Systematic Structure

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Invasive species in the flora of the Starobilsk grass-meadow steppe (Ukraine)

Environmental & Socio-economic Studies ◽

10.1515/environ-2015-0058 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

pp. 11-22

Author(s):

Oksana O. Kucher

Keyword(s):

Invasive Species ◽

Invasive Plants ◽

Vascular Plants ◽

Life Forms ◽

Meadow Steppe ◽

Alien Plant ◽

The North ◽

Group I ◽

Degree Of Naturalization ◽

Grass Meadow

AbstractThe results of an investigation of the invasive species in the flora of the Starobilsk grass-meadow steppe are presented. Check-list of alien plant has over 386 species of vascular plants of which 28 species are invasive. We have identified 6 transformer species from the invasive plants. We aggregate data on the entry, distribution history, ecology, occurrence in different plant communities, degree of their naturalization and the habitats where they occur. The leading families of invasive species are: Asteraceae. The basis for this group is presented by origin from the North America and the Mediterranean. With respect to the time of immigration, most of them are kenophytes. By the method of introduction, ksenophytes are dominated; according to the degree of naturalization epoecophytes and agriophytes dominate in this group. With regard to the characteristics of life forms, half of invasive species are terophytes. The vast majority of plants are heliophytes and xeromesophytes. Most species are found in biotopes group I: Cultivated agricultural biotopes; least of all species found in biotopes group F: Biotopes dominated by chamephytes and nanophanerophytes. Only 3 species found in biotopes group F: Biotopes dominated by chamephytesand nanophanerophytes. The maps of distribution of 28 invasive species are provided. Most of the species marked dispersed in more than 30 squares.

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ETHNOBOTANICAL USES OF SOME NATIVE AND ALIEN PLANTS OF THE JHOK RESERVE FOREST, PUNJAB, PAKISTAN

JOURNAL OF WEED SCIENCE RESEARCH ◽

10.28941/24-2(2018)-4 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 24 (2) ◽

pp. 89-103

Author(s):

Shahid Ali

Keyword(s):

Alien Plants ◽

Reserve Forest ◽

Ethnobotanical Uses

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Syntaxonomic changes in the plant cover of meadow steppe in the «Mikhailovskaya Tselina» reserve (Sumy Region, Ukraine)

Vegetation of Russia ◽

10.31111/vegrus/2006.09.43 ◽

2006 ◽

pp. 43-57 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

H. N. Lysenko ◽

I. A. Korotchenko

Keyword(s):

Nature Reserve ◽

Plant Cover ◽

Ecological Factors ◽

Single Species ◽

Meadow Steppe ◽

Total Species

Changes in the set of syntaxa have been traced for the plant cover of the «Mikhaylovskaya Tselina» meadow-steppe (an isolated part of the Ukrainian Steppe Nature Reserve, Sumy Region, Ukraine) with the help of the Braun-Blanquet approach. The area vegetation syntaxa prodromus includes 2 classes, 2 rders, 3 alliances, 9 associations, and 6 subassociations, 2 of the latter described anew. The plant cover is highly dynamic and undergoes expressed mesophytization, especially within the area where strict protection has been maintained since 1961. Amplitudes of the principal ecological factors and also peculiarities of their shift under exogenic regulation are determined with the help of the method of synecological phytoindication (i. e. not single species but total species sets of communities serve as indicators). The essential transformations of the reserve meadow steppes are probably caused by the «insular» character of the reserve, its small size, also by the poorness of the set of natural grazers and hence the inadequacy of regulation by means of mowing.

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