scholarly journals Harmful plant species in meadow-pastures associations on Stara Planina mountain

2006 ◽  
Vol 22 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 129-135
Author(s):  
Zorica Nesic ◽  
Zorica Tomic ◽  
M. Zujovic ◽  
Dragana Ruzic-Muslic

Meadows and pastures are important resource of livestock feeds in mountain regions and all plant species on them don?t have same value as livestock feeds. From aspect of food value for livestock all species fundamentally can distribute as useful and harmful plants. In paper are represent two plant associations of Stara Planina Mountain Festucetum vallesiacae and Agrostietum vulgarae. In this associations, besides useful plants, are defined, harmful plant species, there present in associations and all of it in aim of ascertainment measures for their removal or reduction from sward. Group of harmful plants is segmented on three subcategory: bed and worthless plants, harmful and poorly poisons and very poisons plants. Association Festucetum vallesiacae count 75 plant species and of that, category bed and worthless plants belong 26 plants or 34.7 g kg-1, category harmful and poorly poisons belong 8 or 10.6 g kg-1, while category very poisons plants default. Association Agrostietum vulgare count 47 plant species and of that category bed and worthless plants belong 17 or 36.17 g kg-1, category harmful and poorly poisons just one plant or 2.13 g kg-1 and category very poisons plants default too.

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-101
Author(s):  
Dmitry Sergeevich Lyubarsky ◽  
Rimma Petrovna Tokinova

The paper deals with the examination results of flora and vegetation of the Melekeska and Shukralinka valleys within Naberezhnye Chelny. The most common plant associations are identified, they are Bromopsetum variograminosum, B. varioherbosum, Festicetum variograminosum, Calamagrostetum epigeiosum; Phragmitetum australis associations are identified in the flooded areas. Anthropogenically altered areas with a high mosaicity of listed above associations communities and ephemeral weeds are widely represented. The volume and structure are shown in the areas flora. This area is subjected to constant anthropogenic load. Taxonomic and geographic analyses of flora as well as a range of vital forms and ecological types are submitted. 120 plant species from 94 genera and 40 families have been identified. The position of the leading families is like that in regional flora, Asteraceae, Poaceae, and Fabaceae are leading. Perennial polycarpic grasses especially long-rhizome (21,7%) and tap-root (15,0%) dominate among biomorphs (69,2%). Species with wide ranges are of paramount importance, they are Euro-West Asian (30,9%), Eurasian (27,5%), Holarctic (11,7%) and the percentage of alien species is 8,5%. Ruderal (36,7%), meadow (17,5%) and humid meadow (11,7%) species are leading in the ecological-coenotic spectrum. The adventive flora is represented by 16 species and it is briefly analyzed. Valley floras of some other Middle Volga rivers have been compared.


2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-42
Author(s):  
Mulyati Rahayu ◽  
Nissa Arifa ◽  
Muhamad Nikmatullah ◽  
Ary Prihardhyanto Keim

The study was conducted in Batulanteh District, Sumbawa regency, Sumbawa Island, West Nusa Tenggara, which is aimed to reveal the knowledge of the Samawa people on the diversity of useful plants and their uses. It documented 111 plant species, in which 47.5% are used as traditional medicine. Also, the sudy found that wild honey bees (Apis dorsata) is having a conspicuous association with plants in producing natural honey, which plays an important role in the local economy. The interviews with selected respondents showed that the Samawa people totally understand the importance of forest conservation in relation with the existence of the honey bees’ life.


Our Nature ◽  
1970 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 146-155
Author(s):  
B. Niroula ◽  
K.L.B Singh

A total of 84 aquatic plant species belonging to 71 genera and 41 families were recorded during January 2008 to December 2009 from Betana pond. They were classified into 7 growth forms as helophytes (22), tenagophytes (24), hyperhydates (23), epihydates (2), rosulates (3), vittates (6), and pleustophytes (4). Socio-economically useful plants included: medicinal (28 sp), wild food (19 sp), feed/fodder (28 sp), handicrafts (6 sp), and thatching (5 sp).DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/on.v9i1.5745


Bothalia ◽  
1983 ◽  
Vol 14 (3/4) ◽  
pp. 465-469 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Kunkel

Although the flora of Africa is rather poor in plant species when compared to the floras of Tropical America or South-east Asia, this vast continent is the home of a wide range of plants useful to Man. Many of these have become famous in cultivation around the world. Coffee now provides an important source of income for certain countries, and the Yams yield one of the world’s staple foods. The Oil Palm and Cola trees are widely cultivated in Africa itself and elsewhere. African Mahoganies and Ironwoods are much sought after timber trees of excellent quality. Numerous grasses and pulses are well-known for their food value, and some of the native Cucurbitaceae are appreciated additions to our vegetable diet. African plants have also made their contribution to horticulture, ranging from world-famous trees such as the African or Gabon Tulip tree and many of the South African species of Proteaceae to the multitude of East and South African succulents. The present paper provides a survey of the most important of these useful plants and will emphasize the need of further research for forestry and agricultural as well as horticultural purposes, especially as far as some still little-known but potentially important plants species are concerned.


2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bonnie L. Heidel ◽  
Susan. Crispin ◽  
Catherine. Jean ◽  
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2022 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 42-53
Author(s):  
Nyoman Wijana ◽  
I Made Oka Riawan ◽  
I Wayan Sukrawarpala

This study aimed to identify the composition of plant species and Useful plants in the forests of Taman Gumi Banten, Indonesia. This research conducted in the forests of Taman Gumi Banten and village Wanagiri. The population of this study, from the ecosystem aspect, is all plant species in the Taman Gumi Banten forest. From the sociosystem aspect, it is the entire community in Wanagiri village. The sample of this research from the ecosystem aspect is the plant species covered by squares. From the sociosystem aspect, it is a community component. The total sample is 50 people. Data collection methods are quadratic methods and interviews. The sampling technique is a systematic sampling technique. Data were analysed descriptively. The conclusions of this study are (1) There are 68 plant species in the entire forest of Taman Gumi Banten, (2) Of the 68 existing plant species, as many as 59 (86.76%) of the plant species were useful plants, while 9 (13.24%) of them were unknown. (5) The use of plants by the local community is 23 species (38.98%) for food, 20 species (33.89%) for boards, 9 species (15.25%) for medicine, 25 species (47.17%) ) for Hindu religious ceremonies, and industrial materials there are 1 species (1.69%).


2013 ◽  
Vol 82 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Koczur ◽  
Paweł Nicia

<p>The species composition of vegetation associated with the Carpathian fens primarily depends on the type of water present and the hydrological feeding of the soils that occur there. These, in turn, shape the fertility of the fens. Those with typically formed <em>Carici-Agrostietum caninae</em> and <em>Valeriano-Caricetum flavae</em> fundamentally differ in the properties of their soils and feeding waters. These include differences in mineral content, pH, CaCO<sub>3</sub> levels, degree of peat decomposition, electrical conductivity and oxygenation of the waters that feed the fens. <em>Carici-Agrostietum caninae</em> is a homogenous plant association adapted to extreme habitat conditions. It is characterized by a very narrow range of essential soil and feeding water parameters. <em>Valeriano-Caricetum flavae</em> is a highly diverse association. Considerable diversity both in terms of plant species and vegetation structure reflects very wide ranges in the properties of soil and feeding water. Vegetation patches of transitory character were also identified. These contained plant species characteristic of both associations. The character of the vegetation depends mainly on fen soil pH and the degree of mineralization of the feeding waters. It is only these parameters that allow intermediate patches to be clearly distinguished. The degree of peat decomposition, mineral content and water oxygenation all differ for <em>Carici-Agrostietum caninae</em> and <em>Valeriano-Caricetum flavae</em>, whereas the values for intermediate patches display a range of parameters typical of both investigated associations. Consequently, vegetation present in these patches reflects to a greater or lesser extent one of the two analyzed plant associations.</p>


Plants ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 642
Author(s):  
Olfa Karous ◽  
Imtinen Ben Haj Jilani ◽  
Zeineb Ghrabi-Gammar

Thanks to its geographic location between two bioclimatic belts (arid and Saharan) and the ancestral nomadic roots of its inhabitants, the sector of Ouled Dabbeb (Southern Tunisia) represents a rich source of plant biodiversity and wide ranging of ethnobotanical knowledge. This work aims to (1) explore and compile the unique diversity of floristic and ethnobotanical information on different folk use of plants in this sector and (2) provide a novel insight into the degree of knowledge transmission between the current population and their semi-nomadic forefathers. Ethnobotanical interviews and vegetation inventories were undertaken during 2014–2019. Thirty informants aged from 27 to 84 were interviewed. The ethnobotanical study revealed that the local community of Ouled Dabbeb perceived the use of 70 plant species belonging to 59 genera from 31 families for therapeutic (83%), food (49%), domestic (15%), ethnoveterinary (12%), cosmetic (5%), and ritual purposes (3%). Moreover, they were knowledgeable about the toxicity of eight taxa. Nearly 73% of reported ethnospecies were freely gathered from the wild. The most commonly used plant parts were leaves (41%) followed by flowers and inflorescence (16%). We reported the use and collection of non-renewable parts (underground storage organs and roots) for 20 ethnospecies. Interestingly, a comparison with the available literature in Tunisia and neighboring countries reveals 13 new useful plants as well as 17 plants with new uses and demonstrates an important reservoir of traditional ethnobotanical heritage that is still sustained by respondents stemming from the semi-nomadic lifestyle of their ancestors (74% of cited taxa). These data could set a basis for further phytochemical and pharmacological research and conservative approach of the most relevant plant species including endemic overused and endangered taxa.


2013 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 125-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kinga Mazurkiewicz-Zapałowicz ◽  
Mariola Wróbel ◽  
Artur Silicki ◽  
Maria Wolska

During the vegetation seasons in years 2004-2005 the health state of rush plant species from <em>Phragmition</em> and <em>Magnocaricion</em> alliances around the Lake Glinno was investigated. From 13 plant species with disease symptoms 94 species of fungi and FLO were isolated. The highest mycological biodiversity was stated in <em>Phragmitetum australis</em> (24 species) and <em>Thelypteridi-Phragmitetum</em> (27 species) plant associations. The host species in which the biggest number of fungi and FLO species was observed were: <em>Phragmites australis</em> (37 species) and <em>Carex acutiformis</em> (25 species). The highest mycological similarity based on the Jaccard-Sörensen coefficient occurred between <em>Caricetum acutiformis</em> and <em>Glycerietum maximae</em> plant associations (50%) whereas the lowest value of the coefficient represented <em>Glycerietum maximae</em> and <em>Phalaridetum arundinaceae</em> associations (7%).


2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Valéria Cid Maia ◽  
Bruno Gomes da Silva

Abstract: Insect galls host a rich and diverse fauna of secondary dwellers, which compose the associated fauna. In Brazil, many inventories of insect galls in Cerrado areas have recorded secondary dwellers. These records were scattered in several papers. This study gathered literature data to provide an overview of the arthropod fauna associated with insect galls in the Brazilian Cerrado. We searched for scientific publications in online academic databases and retrieved 16 papers with data on the secondary dwellers. We limited our search to the period from 1988 to 2020. We updated the name of plant species and verified endemism and geographic distribution in Flora do Brasil 2020. We provided plant species uses based on the Tropical Useful Plants 2014. We found 163 gall morphotypes with secondary dwellers (16.8% of the total of gall morphotypes of the Brazilian Cerrado) on 94 plant species in 37 families. Asteraceae, Fabaceae, Myrtaceae, and Malpighiaceae exhibited the greatest number of records. These are the richest families in insect galls in the Brazilian Cerrado. Most arthropod fauna were recorded in galls of Cecidomyiidae (Diptera). Most records were in leaf galls, the predominant galled organ. Parasitoids were more frequent than successors, inquilines, and predators. Eulophidae and Eurytomidae were the most frequent parasitoid families. Inquilines were represented by Coleoptera, Diplopoda, Diptera, Hemiptera, Hymenoptera, Lepidoptera, Psocoptera, and Thysanoptera; successors by Acari, Araneae, Cecidomyiidae (Diptera), Coleoptera, Collembola, and Formicidae (Hymenoptera), whereas predators by Pseudoscorpiones and Diptera. Most records were presented in suprageneric categories, showing that the taxonomic knowledge is very deficient. 29 plant species are endemic to Brazil and totaled 45 gall morphotypes with secondary dwellers; 46 plant species are useful and host secondary dwellers in 62 gall morphotypes. These data add ecological and economic importance to these arthropods.


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