scholarly journals The Characteristics of Lucidophyllous Forest Flora and Conditions Endangering Them in Japan

2001 ◽  
Vol 65 (5) ◽  
pp. 609-614 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamotsu HATTORI ◽  
Hiroaki ISHIDA ◽  
Seiji KODATE ◽  
Noriko MINAMIYAMA
Keyword(s):  
Forest Flora ◽  
Lucidophyllous Forest

scholarly journals Ecological and coenotical structure of the Regional Natural Monument «Chelyabinsk city pine forest» vegetation

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 38-44
Author(s):  
Nazar Nikolayevich Nazarenko ◽  
Maria Dmitrievna Novgorodova
Keyword(s):  
Distance Measure ◽  
Ecological Factors ◽  
Pine Forest ◽  
Forest Vegetation ◽  
Regime Changes ◽  
Forest Flora ◽  
Plant Associations ◽  
Synanthropic Species ◽  
Linkage Method ◽  
Natural Monument

The following paper deals with the ecological and coenotical structure of the Regional Natural Monument Chelyabinsk city pine forest vegetation. The estimation was done by a cluster analysis with Sorensen-Chekanovsky (Bray-Curtis) distance measure and a flexible beta group linkage method - by non-metric multidimensional scaling, phytoindication and general discriminant analysis algorithms. The flora and coenotical structure of Chelyabinsk city pine forest plant communities are characterized by significant anthropogenic transformation. Forest-margin and meadow, ruderal and synanthropic species are insinuating and naturalizing in pine forest communities actively and supplanting typical pine forest species off communities. The studied pine forest flora synanthropic index is 32 percent. 15 plant associations were detected; its flora, dominant and constant species, coenotical structure and biotopes were characterized by principal ecological factors. The biotopes series of ecological factors replacement were identified. Biotopes series are specified by forest stand ecological structure, that determining ecological regime changes from semi-light to semi-shade and from more arid to more damp. Also biotopes form series from wet more variable moistening bad-aerated not-acid and salt enriched soils to acid aerated poor soils with contrast arid moistening. The detected Chelyabinsk city pine forest biotopes are characterized by not so fluctuation of principal ecological factors.

Forest flora of Badami Hills of Bagalkot district, Karnataka, India

Phytotaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 393 (3) ◽  
pp. 204
Author(s):  
JAGDISH DALAVI ◽  
SHARAD KAMBALE ◽  
VARSHA JADHAV ◽  
SHRIRANG YADAV
Keyword(s):  
Vegetation Type ◽  
World Heritage Site ◽  
Anthropogenic Pressure ◽  
Fuel Wood ◽  
Field Collection ◽  
Forest Flora ◽  
Cultural Organization ◽  
Potential Source ◽  
Heritage Site ◽  
Historical Importance

Badami is a place of historical importance, once ruled by Chalukyas, and contains many religious monuments. The study site is a World Heritage Site for ‘Evolution of Temple Architecture at, Aihole, Badami and Pattadakal’ by UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization). A detailed inventory of the angiosperms from the dry deciduous forests of Badami, Bagalkot District of Karnataka is presented which includes details on the distribution and occurrence of 558 species from 359 genera and 99 families. Fabaceae Lindl., Poaceae Berhart., Asteraceae Bercht. & J.Presl., Apocynaceae Juss., Cyperaceae Juss., Euphorbiaceae Juss. and Malvaceae Juss. are the dominant families. Fabaceae Lindl. contributes 15 % of total flora. In eudicots, Euphorbia L. (Rosids), Crotalaria L. (Rosids), Ipomoea L. (Asterids) and Alysicarpus Desv. (Rosids) are the dominant genera with 13, 9, 8 & 8 species respectively; while in monocots Cyperus L. (Commelinids), and Fimbristylis Vahl (Commelinids) each having 8 taxa and Eragrostis Nees. with 5 taxa are the dominant genera. The timing of flowering and fruiting, vegetation type and herbarium details are provided. These dry forests are a potential source of medicine, fruits, gum, fuel, food, fodder and oil yielding plants but are ignored by local people and are in decline due to high anthropogenic pressure, high grazing, high fuel wood exploration and tourism. Some of the plants are very rare, Barleria stocksii T.Anderson, Ceropegia spiralis Wight, Vahlia digyna (Retz.) Kuntze, Drimia raogibeikii (Hemadri) Hemadri, Iphigenia mysorensis Arekal & S.N.Ramaswamy, Uticularia caerulia L. and Drosera burmanni Vahl. The present article is an inventory of the flowering plants of the Badami Hills is based on a synthesis of literature review, herbarium visits and field collection undertaken during the last decade.

scholarly journals Response to Comments on “Global Correlations in Tropical Tree Species Richness and Abundance Reject Neutrality”

Science ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 336 (6089) ◽  
pp. 1639.6-1639
Author(s):  
Robert E. Ricklefs ◽  
Susanne S. Renner
Keyword(s):  
Tropical Forests ◽  
Long Distance Dispersal ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Forest Flora ◽  
Tropical Tree Species ◽  
Phylogenetic Reconstructions ◽  
Species Richness And Abundance ◽  
Neutral Models ◽  
Fossil Data ◽  
High Degree

The neutral models in the Technical Comments depend on the assumption of an initially homogeneous global tropical forest flora. Fossil data and phylogenetic reconstructions instead reveal a high degree of provincialism before the development of modern tropical forests with only occasional long-distance dispersal between continental regions, favoring parallel diversification of a small number of ancestral lineages that dispersed between regions at widely different times.

Evergreen Forest Flora of Malawi

Kew Bulletin ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 248
Author(s):  
Ib Friis ◽  
F. White ◽  
F. Dowsett-Lemaire ◽  
J. D. Chapman
Keyword(s):  
Evergreen Forest ◽  
Forest Flora

EVALUATION OF THE FOREST FLORA POPULATION

1932 ◽  
Vol 64 (12) ◽  
pp. 265-267
Author(s):  
Arthur Paul Jacot
Keyword(s):  
Plant Tissue ◽  
Forest Floor ◽  
Mineral Matter ◽  
Living Plant ◽  
Forest Flora ◽  
Quantitative Studies

In all the quantitative studies of the forest floor, sod, and soil faunas, the Acarina or mites have been grouped under one head as useful in reducing dead leaves and twigs to crude mineral matter, in spite of the fact that it is well known that some of the floor Acarina are eaters of mildews and moulds (minute fungi), some are predaceous, and some feed on living plant tissue.

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