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- Title
ALIEN PLANT INVASION TO FORESTS IN THE VICINITY OF COMMUNAL GARDENS.
- Authors
Dobravolskaitė, Rasa; Gudžinskas, Zigmantas
- Abstract
Plants cultivated in gardens or other ornamental plantations possess no danger to the environment until they remain in cultivation; however, any plant that has escaped from cultivation should not be neglected because this process can be the start of species naturalization and future invasion. The investigations on alien plant species invasion to forests in the vicinity of communal gardens were conducted in June-August 2008. Six garden communities situated in Vilnius and its environs were selected for the research. Diversity of alien plant species was investigated in the selected study areas situated in the forest habitats outside the limits of the area of communal gardens. The aim of this research was to evaluate the diversity of alien plant species in the forest habitats in the vicinity of communal gardens and the relationship between spread intensity and distance from a garden. In all sampling plots arranged in the vicinity of the communal gardens, 56 alien plant species were registered. The number of alien plant species in the studied areas varied from 18 to 29. Statistically reliable negative correlation (r = -0.77, p < 0.05) was found between the number of alien plant species and the distance of sampling plots from the edge of communal gardens. This research revealed a high diversity of alien species in the vicinity of communal gardens, thus, they should be considered as an important source of alien and potentially invasive species.
- Subjects
INTRODUCED plants; FORESTS &; forestry; GARDENS; PLANT invasions; PLANT growing media; ORNAMENTAL plants; PLANT species
- Publication
Botanica Lithuanica (1392-1665), 2011, Vol 17, Issue 2/3, p73
- ISSN
1392-1665
- Publication type
Article