scholarly journals The phytosociology, ecology, and plant diversity of new plant communities in Central Anatolia (Turkey)

Hacquetia ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Nihal Kenar ◽  
Fatoş Şekerciler ◽  
Süleyman Çoban
Keyword(s):  
Nature Conservation ◽  
Plant Communities ◽  
Plant Diversity ◽  
Detrended Correspondence Analysis ◽  
Central Anatolia ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Forest Steppe ◽  
Site Conditions ◽  
Plant Associations

AbstractThe Central Anatolian vegetation has diverse site conditions and small-scale plant diversity. For this reason, identification of plant communities is important for understanding their ecology and nature conservation. This study aims to contribute the syntaxonomical classification of the Central Anatolian vegetation. The study area is situated among Güzelyurt, Narköy, and Bozköy (Niğde) in the east of Aksaray province of Central Anatolia in Turkey. The vegetation data were collected using the phytosociological method of Braun-Blanquet and classified using TWINSPAN. The ecological characteristics of the units were investigated with Detrended Correspondence Analysis. Three new plant associations were described in the study. The steppe association was included in Onobrychido armenae-Thymetalia leucostomi and Astragalo microcephali-Brometea tomentelli. The forest-steppe association was classified under Quercion anatolicae in Quercetea pubescentis. The riparian association is the first poplar-dominated one described in Turkey and, classified under Alno glutinosae-Populetea albae and its alliance Populion albae.

Classification of woody-shrub vegetation of the forest-steppe complex of Privolzhskaya Upland

2009 ◽  
pp. 27-53
Author(s):  
A. Yu. Kudryavtsev
Keyword(s):  
Plant Community ◽  
Plant Communities ◽  
Dominant Species ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Nature Reserve ◽  
Vegetation Mapping ◽  
Vegetation Classification ◽  
Forest Steppe ◽  
Mapping Data

Diversity of plant communities in the nature reserve “Privolzhskaya Forest-Steppe”, Ostrovtsovsky area, is analyzed on the basis of the large-scale vegetation mapping data from 2000. The plant community classi­fication based on the Russian ecologic-phytocoenotic approach is carried out. 12 plant formations and 21 associations are distinguished according to dominant species and a combination of ecologic-phytocoenotic groups of species. A list of vegetation classification units as well as the characteristics of theshrub and woody communities are given in this paper.

The map of ecological functions of the vegetation cover of Russia

1995 ◽  
pp. 51-57
Author(s):  
E. A. Volkova ◽  
I. T. Fedorova
Keyword(s):  
Plant Communities ◽  
Snow Accumulation ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Functional Difference ◽  
Social Functions ◽  
Ecological Functions ◽  
Second Stage ◽  
Runoff Regulation ◽  
Environmental Landscape

This map was compiled for the Ecological-Geographic Atlas of Russia. The Atlas has to show the ecological potential of natural landscapes which can be revealed by the series of factors determining the vital conditions of population. The map is the first attempt to analyse functional difference of the vegetation throughout such vast region as Russia. It is based on the analysis of both natural factors determining the vegetation distribution and the regulating influence of plant communities on environmental dynamics. So the first stage of creating this map is classification of vegetation in connection to environmental factors (edaphic, hydrologiс, cryologic, etc.). The second stage is evaluation of functional significance of vegetation categories. The main sources of this map are some regional maps of ecological functions of the vegetation and all available universal vegetation and landscape maps of Russia. Only environmental (landscape protective) but not resource and social functions are shown on this map because of its small scale and ecological purposes. These functions of vegetation can be subdivided into three groups: forming (oxygen–, sod–, chernozem–, peat-forming); protective (anti-erosion, anti-deflation, anti-denudation, anti-avalanche); stabilizing (runoff-regulation, water– and snow-accumulation, soil ice-stabilization, soil thermal-regulation, etc.). The legend of the map contains information about actual vegetation as well as its ecological functions peculiar to every unit shown on the map. All typological subdivisions of the vegetation are combined on the base of similar functions. Plant communities are grouped in the legend in zonal order. Mountain types have their own functions, that is why they are shown as independent units. Such maps reveal protective potential of the vegetation. They are important for prognosis of environmental dynamics under anthropogenic press and for protection and restoration of natural vegetation. In future the compiling of such type of maps in larger scale should supplement its content with resourceal and social functions of the vegetation. The most important of the latter are recreation and sanitary ones, which are mainly realized by biotic part of landscape.

scholarly journals TRANSFORMATION OF THE HALOPHYTIC VEGETATION OF THE “SERDOBSKY SOLONETS” SERDOBSKY DISTRICT, PENZA REGION)

Ekosistemy ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 5-11
Author(s):  
L. A. Novikova ◽  
E. V. Mikhailova ◽  
V. M. Vasjukov ◽  
T. V. Gorbushina
Keyword(s):  
Plant Communities ◽  
Environmental Conditions ◽  
Vascular Plants ◽  
Anthropogenic Impact ◽  
Steppe Zone ◽  
Forest Steppe ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
Natural Monument ◽  
High Level

Halophytic vegetation is very rare in the forest-steppe zone. It was studied in the tract Serdobsky solonetsin the vicinity of Serdobsk (Serdobsky district, Penza region). The studies were conducted in the years 2009–2018, using the technique of geobotanical profiling. 80 trial areas were laid (35 in 2009 and 45 in 2008). Ecological and phytocenotic classification of plant communities is performed on the dominant principle. Comparison of two descriptions of vegetation with an interval of 10 years allows us to trace the transformation of halophytic vegetation after intensive anthropogenic impact (grazing and partial plowing) in different environmental conditions. The flora of Serdobsky solonets consists of 179 species of vascular plants, of which 13 species are included in the Red book of the Penza region (2013). The share of halophytic vegetation on the territory of Serdobsky solonetshas changed over 10 years: from 97.0 % to 63.8 %. Moreover, halophyte meadows occupied 67.0 % and halophyte steppes 30.0 % of the area in 2009. Now (2018) halophytic steppes make up 30.8 %, and halophytic meadows 33.0 %.The main stages of demutation of halophytic steppe and meadow vegetation were identified in various environmental conditions (meadows and steppes). The same stages of demutation were identified earlier for the South-Eastern Solonets (Neverskinsky district of the Penza region). However, a special stage of annual saline grasslands has been identified.This place requires protection due to the high level of floral and phytocenotic diversity. We offer to organize here a natural monument called “Serdobsky solonets”.

scholarly journals Classification of plant communities in Sierra Rica, Manuel Benavides, Chihuahua, Mexico

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 197-207
Author(s):  
Alicia Juárez-Pérez ◽  
Alicia Melgoza-Castillo ◽  
Carmelo Pinedo-Álvarez ◽  
Eduardo Estrada-Castillón
Keyword(s):  
Plant Communities ◽  
Larrea Tridentata ◽  
Pine Forest ◽  
Oak Forest ◽  
Vegetation Patterns ◽  
Plant Associations ◽  
Community Types ◽  
And Cluster Analysis ◽  
Desert Scrub

Sierra Rica is a mountain island located in the plains of the northeastern region of the Chihuahua Desert and has a diversity of vegetation patterns. To study this patterns the vegetation was characterized using GIS and cluster analysis, which identified five community types: pine forest (780 ha), oak forest (1640 ha), grassland (550 ha), desert scrub (866 ha), and rosetophyllous desert scrubland (628 ha). By the use of TWINSPAN software, four main vegetation groups containing 10 main plant associations were identified: (1) Pinus-Quercus forest, (2) grassland, (3) pine forest, (4) Rhus-Juniperus, (5) Pinus-Quercus and xeric species, (6) grassland-desert scrub, (7) desert microphyll scrub, (8) Quercus-Aloysia-Bouteloua association, (9) Acacia constricta scrubland, and (10) Larrea tridentata scrubland. The association among groups and species was significant (P < 0.0001). The subsequent analysis shows a high dependence among species inside the main groups and independence between groups.

scholarly journals Continuum of floristic composition between two plant communities – Carici elongatae-Alnetum and Fraxino-Alnetum

2017 ◽  
Vol 78 (4) ◽  
pp. 285-296 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalia Czapiewska ◽  
Sonia Paź ◽  
Marcin K. Dyderski ◽  
Andrzej M. Jagodziński
Keyword(s):  
Plant Communities ◽  
Riparian Forest ◽  
Detrended Correspondence Analysis ◽  
Floristic Composition ◽  
Ecosystem Dynamics ◽  
Swamp Forest ◽  
Continuous Transition ◽  
Plant Associations ◽  
Phytosociological Relevés ◽  
Draw Conclusion

Abstract One of the crucial debates in vegetation ecology is whether plant communities are discontinuous, distinguishable units or whether they change continuously. Phytosociology assumes discontinuity and its methodology requires subjective sampling during vegetation inventories. For that reason, some researchers argue that phytosociology artificially creates discontinuity among plant communities. Our aim was to assess the continuity between ash-alder riparian forest (Fraxino-Alnetum), and alder swamp forest (Carici elongatae-Alnetum), and to check whether discontinuity observed between these two plant associations is an effect of subjective sample plot choice. We conducted 57 phytosociological relevés within a regular grid covering potential sites of both plant communities. All relevés were arranged in order of decreasing relative cover of the diagnostic species for each plant association resulting in a gentle gradient, indicating a continuous transition from Fraxino-Alnetum to Carici elongatae-Alnetum. Similar results were obtained by detrended correspondence analysis. The proportion of species from the Querco-Fagetea class, typical to Fraxino-Alnetum, was decreasing with increasing proportion of species from the Alnetea glutinosae class, typical to Carici elongatae-Alnetum. This shift followed a gradient of ecological light-moisture indicator values. Our results confirmed continuous transition between two plant communities and led us to the conclusion that discontinuity resulted from the standard sampling protocol used in classical phytosociology. This protocol, however, is useful in searching for typological patterns, required for classification of plant communities, which is the main aim of phytosociology. Nevertheless, it does not provide full insight into the variability of vegetation and introduces uncertainty when trying to understand ecosystem dynamics. This uncertainty should be taken into account when phytosociological data are used for nature conservation recommendations and to draw conclusion about vegetation dynamics.

Second international scientific conference «Present fundamental problems of vegetation classification» (Yalta, 15–20 September 2019)

2019 ◽  
pp. 135-142
Author(s):  
K. V. Ivanova ◽  
A. M. Lapina ◽  
V. V. Neshataev
Keyword(s):  
Plant Communities ◽  
National Archive ◽  
Botanical Garden ◽  
Vegetation Classification ◽  
Scientific Conference ◽  
Scientific Journals ◽  
Time Dynamics ◽  
The Past ◽  
Research Organizations

The 2nd international scientific conference «Fundamental problems of vegetation classification» took place at the Nikitskiy Botanical Garden (Yalta, Republic of Crimea, Russia) on 15–20 September 2019. There were 56 participants from 33 cities and 43 research organizations in Russia. The conference was mostly focused on reviewing the success in classification of the vegetation done by Russian scientists in the past three years. The reports covered various topics such as classification, description of new syntaxonomical units, geobotanical mapping for different territories and types of vegetation, studies of space-time dynamics of plant communities. The final discussion on the last day covered problems yet to be solved: establishment of the Russian Prodromus and the National archive of vegetation, complications of higher education in the profile of geobotany, and the issue of the data leakage to foreign scientific journals. In conclusion, it was announced that the 3rd conference in Nikitskiy Botanical Garden will be held in 2022.

Alpine vegetation of the Ivanovskiy, Prokhodnoy and Rossypnoy Ridges (Western Altai)

2015 ◽  
pp. 96-124
Author(s):  
E. G. Zibzeev ◽  
T. A. Nedovesova
Keyword(s):  
Plant Communities ◽  
Wide Spectrum ◽  
Climate Forcing ◽  
High Mountain ◽  
Air Mass ◽  
Rich Diversity ◽  
Mountain Systems ◽  
Mountain Vegetation ◽  
Coenotic Diversity

The mountain systems are characterized by diverse ecological conditions (climate, geomorphological, soil, etc.). The wide spectrum of environmental conditions entails a rich diversity of plant communities growing on the small territory and determines the different flora and vegetation geneses. The uniqueness of floristic and coenotic diversities of the high-mountain vegetation of the south of Western Altai (Ivanovskiy, Prokhodnoi, and Rossypnoi Ranges) are associated with the effect of two climate-forcing factors such as the westerly humid air mass and dry warm airflow from the inner Kazakhstan regions. The paper summarizes the data on coenotic diversity (Zibzeev, 2010, 2012) and gives a syntaxonomic analysis of the high-mountain vege­tation in the Ivanovskii, Prokhodnoi, and Rossypnoi Ranges (Western Altai, Kazakhstan). The classification of plant communities was carried out using the Braun-Blanquet approach (Westhoff, van der Maarel, 1973). The relevés records were stored in the TURBOVEG database and classified by ­TWINSPAN (Hill 1979).

Plant communities on rock outcrops in the northwest part of the Black Sea Caucasian coast

2009 ◽  
pp. 3-14
Author(s):  
V. B. Golub ◽  
N. A. Grechushkina ◽  
A. N. Sorokin ◽  
L. F. Nikolaychuk
Keyword(s):  
Plant Communities ◽  
Black Sea ◽  
Soil Cover ◽  
Geographical Location ◽  
The Black Sea ◽  
Rock Outcrops ◽  
Exact Test ◽  
Main Factors ◽  
Phi Coefficient

The classification of petrophytic vegetation of coastal steeps was proposed for the Northwest Cauca­sian coast of the Black Sea using the Braun-Blanquet approach. The main factors that influence the deve­lopment of vegetation in question are abrasion and denudation sea coast processes. The coastal steeps in study area are formed by carbonate flysch. The plant communities occur on rocky slopes with poorly deve­loped soil cover, fine stone chips as well as rock crevices. Nine associations and four communities without syntaxonomic rank were documented in the table and described with respect to their phyto­socio­logical affinities, ecology, and geographical location. Diagnostic species of syntaxa were established using phi-coefficient calculations of fidelity and Fisher’s exact test. In addition, the results of relevé ordination were given using the algorithm of non-metric multi­dimensional scaling (NMS) that is embedded in PC-ORD 5.0 software package.

(A review) N. I. Makunina. The forest-steppe vegetation of the West Siberian plain and the Altai-Sayan mountain region. Novosibirsk: Academic publishing house “Geo”, 2016. 183 p.

2017 ◽  
pp. 116-118
Author(s):  
E. A. Volkova
Keyword(s):  
Plant Communities ◽  
Publishing House ◽  
Mountain Region ◽  
Academic Publishing ◽  
Forest Steppe ◽  
West Siberian Plain ◽  
The West ◽  
Steppe Vegetation ◽  
Floristic Classification ◽  
Sayan Mountain

The monograph presents an overview of the forest-steppe vegetation of the West Siberian Plain and the Altai-Sayan mountain region. The questions of bioclimatic zonation of the Altai-Sayan mountain region are discussed. The biodiversity of foreststeppe is characterized, the floristic classification is performed, the scheme of eco-phytocoenotic classification is given, the basic types of plant communities are described in comparative terms. The diversity of forest-steppe landscapes is revealed, the structure of their vegetation is analyzed. The phytogeographical division of forest-steppe is worked out.

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