Importance of old rural areas of Lubuskie Lakeland and central Pomerania for maintenance of vegetation diversity
| Autor: | Maria Wojterska, Katarzyna Jasińska, Andrzej Brzeg |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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0106 biological sciences
Ecology QH301-705.5 media_common.quotation_subject Ecology (disciplines) threatened plant communities 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences diversity of vegetation Geography Environmental protection spatial-functional complexes medicine poland Pharmacology (medical) Rural area medicine.symptom Biology (General) Vegetation (pathology) villages of medieval origin 010606 plant biology & botany Diversity (politics) media_common |
| Zdroj: | Biodiversity: Research and Conservation, Vol 43, Iss 1, Pp 53-66 (2016) |
| ISSN: | 1897-2810 |
| Popis: | The study areas, located in northern and western Poland, comprised 30 villages of the Lubuskie Lakeland region and 18 in central Pomerania. A total number of recorded associations and local communities of similar rank was counted as 243. In the list prevailed natural and seminatural communities. The endangered associations composed about 47.3% of the whole list of communities. Altogether, 8 communities, assessed as directly endangered, occurred in the villages or their vicinity. Comparison of plant communities of both regions revealed that the structure of vegetation shows many affinities, while the differences are more of qualitative than quantitative character. The diversity of vegetation of rural landscapes was slightly higher in the central Pomerania. The rural landscape of Lubuskie Lakeland was more transformed, richer in ruderal communities, whereas in Pomerania more represented were natural and seminatural communities. The rural landscape of both studied areas is still rich and diversified but recently undergoes transformations leading to its impoverishment and unification as a result of either abandonment of land use or its intensification and new forms of human impact. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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