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Vegetation of the rock outcrops and screes in the forest-steppe and steppe belts of the Altai and Western Sayan Mts., southern Siberia

ERMAKOV, Nikolai, Milan CHYTRÝ and Milan VALACHOVIČ

Basic information

Original name

Vegetation of the rock outcrops and screes in the forest-steppe and steppe belts of the Altai and Western Sayan Mts., southern Siberia

Name in Czech

Vegetace skal a sutí v lesostepní a stepní zóně Altaje a Západního Sajanu, jižní Sibiř

Authors

ERMAKOV, Nikolai (643 Russian Federation), Milan CHYTRÝ (203 Czech Republic, guarantor) and Milan VALACHOVIČ (703 Slovakia)

Edition

Phytocoenologia, Berlin/Stuttgart, Gebrüder Borntraeger, 2006, 0340-269X

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

10600 1.6 Biological sciences

Country of publisher

Germany

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

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Impact factor

Impact factor: 0.673

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14310/06:00015481

Organization unit

Faculty of Science

UT WoS

000242844100002

Keywords in English

Artemisio-Berberidetea; Asplenietea trichomanis; Cleistogenetea squarrosae; chasmophytic vegetation; phytosociology; syntaxonomy

Tags

International impact, Reviewed
Změněno: 16/12/2006 19:23, prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D.

Abstract

V originále

A new concept of classification of petrophytic vegetation, i. e. plant communities on rock outcrops and screes, is proposed for the steppe and forest-steppe belts of the southern Siberian mountains, using the Braun-Blanquet approach and original releves from the Altai and Western Sayan Mts. In these areas with arid continental climate, the species composition of petrophytic vegetation seems to be less differentiated from the other habitats than is usual in Europe or the Far East. The main habitats of petrophytic vegetation include rock crevices, shallow soils on weathered rock outcrops, disturbed screes with herbaceous vegetation, and shrubberies in less disturbed places. In the proposed classification petrophytic vegetation is divided into three phytosociological classes. The vegetation of moderately dry rock crevices is included in the Eurasian class Asplenietea trichomanis (Br.-Bl. in Meier et Br.-Bl. 1934) Oberdorfer 1977 and the alliance Selaginellion sanguinolentae Hilbig 2000. Vegetation of disturbed or strongly drought-stressed rock outcrops and screes is included in the class of central Asian steppes, Cleistogenetea squarrosae Mirkin et al. ex Korotkov et al. 1991. Within this class, vegetation with predominance of succulent plants is assigned to the alliance Sedion hybridi all. nova and xeric rock-crevice vegetation to the alliance Eritrichio pectinati- Selaginellion sanguinolentae all. nova. A distinct type of central Asian petrophytic vegetation is assigned to the class Artemisio santolinifoliae-Berberidetea sibiricae cl. nova, which includes xeric shrubberies on mobile screes and rock outcrops of different lithology. Seven associations, three subassociations and four communities without syntaxonomic rank are documented in an ordered species-by-releve table and briefly described with respect to their phytosociological affinities and ecology. The DCA ordination of the releves was used to demonstrate patterns of floristic differentiation of the higher vegetation units in the Altai and Western Sayan.

In Czech

A new concept of classification of petrophytic vegetation, i. e. plant communities on rock outcrops and screes, is proposed for the steppe and forest-steppe belts of the southern Siberian mountains, using the Braun-Blanquet approach and original releves from the Altai and Western Sayan Mts. In these areas with arid continental climate, the species composition of petrophytic vegetation seems to be less differentiated from the other habitats than is usual in Europe or the Far East. The main habitats of petrophytic vegetation include rock crevices, shallow soils on weathered rock outcrops, disturbed screes with herbaceous vegetation, and shrubberies in less disturbed places. In the proposed classification petrophytic vegetation is divided into three phytosociological classes. The vegetation of moderately dry rock crevices is included in the Eurasian class Asplenietea trichomanis (Br.-Bl. in Meier et Br.-Bl. 1934) Oberdorfer 1977 and the alliance Selaginellion sanguinolentae Hilbig 2000. Vegetation of disturbed or strongly drought-stressed rock outcrops and screes is included in the class of central Asian steppes, Cleistogenetea squarrosae Mirkin et al. ex Korotkov et al. 1991. Within this class, vegetation with predominance of succulent plants is assigned to the alliance Sedion hybridi all. nova and xeric rock-crevice vegetation to the alliance Eritrichio pectinati- Selaginellion sanguinolentae all. nova. A distinct type of central Asian petrophytic vegetation is assigned to the class Artemisio santolinifoliae-Berberidetea sibiricae cl. nova, which includes xeric shrubberies on mobile screes and rock outcrops of different lithology. Seven associations, three subassociations and four communities without syntaxonomic rank are documented in an ordered species-by-releve table and briefly described with respect to their phytosociological affinities and ecology. The DCA ordination of the releves was used to demonstrate patterns of floristic differentiation of the higher vegetation units in the Altai and Western Sayan.

Links

IAA6163303, research and development project
Name: Diverzita vegetace podél gradientu kontinentality na jižní Sibiři: klíč k pochopení raně postglaciální historie střední Evropy
Investor: Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Vegetation diversity along a continentality gradient in southern Siberia: a key to understanding Early Postglacial history of Central Europe
MSM0021622416, plan (intention)
Name: Diverzita biotických společenstev a populací: kauzální analýza variability v prostoru a čase
Investor: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the CR, Diversity of Biotic Communities and Populations: Causal Analysis of variation in space and time