The relationships between environment and plant communities in the middle part of Taihang Mountain Range, North China

2006 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Zhang ◽  
Y. Xi ◽  
J. Li
Keyword(s):  
Plant Communities ◽  
North China ◽  
Middle Part ◽  
Mountain Range ◽  
Taihang Mountain

The Expansion of the Taihang Mountain Range

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 (33) ◽  
pp. 107-134
Author(s):  
Jingfei Niu
Keyword(s):  
Mountain Range ◽  
Taihang Mountain

Syntaxonomic diversity as an indicator of ecological diversity — case study Vranica Mts in the Central Bosnia

Biologia ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sulejman Redžić
Keyword(s):  
Plant Communities ◽  
Bosnia And Herzegovina ◽  
Carrying Capacity ◽  
General Level ◽  
Mountain Range ◽  
Ecological Diversity ◽  
Vegetation Diversity ◽  
High Level ◽  
Very High

AbstractSyntaxonomic diversity (SD) represents the number of plant communities (phytocoenoses) in certain area. Plant communities as organized systems of populations of various coexisting plant species inhabiting same or similar habitat in the function of time. SD is one of the best indicators of the state and potential carrying capacity of every ecosystem and an attribute of total ecological diversity. In general, level of syntaxonomic diversity indicates habitat heterogeneity and diversity. This could have significant importance in the categorization of habitat values in accordance with European Nature Information System (EUNIS) criteria. The results presented in this paper indicate without any doubt high natural values of mountain range Vranica in Bosnia and Herzegovina. One of the best proofs is an extremely high level of syntaxonomic diversity. In this area covering just 288 km2, vegetation is differentiated into 9 formations, 28 classes, 44 orders, 73 alliances and 165 associations. This represents 85% of all classes, 73% of all orders, 65% of all alliances, and 53% of all associations of vegetation in Bosnia and Herzegovina, or 35% of all classes in vegetation diversity in Europe. Going from the level of class to the level of order, the number of syntaxa increases for 61%, from order to alliance for 60%, and from alliance to association for 44.24% (average 55%). SD index is very high and it is 0.5729. This means that on each km2 contains 0.5729 syntaxa.

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