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- Title
FLORISTICAL DIVERSITY OF SMALL MIDFIELD WATER BODIES SITUATED IN A RURAL LANDSCAPE OF LOWER SILESIA (SW POLAND).
- Authors
Tomaszewska, Klara; Podlaska, Magda; Koszelnik-Leszek, Anna; Fudali, Ewa
- Abstract
The paper presents and discuses floristic data concerning 18 rather small midfield water bodies (ponds) (12 of them not bigger than 0.5 ha), mainly of anthropogenic origin, which are situated in a rural landscape of the Lower Silesia region. The aim of research was to answer the question in what range they enrich biodiversity of monotonous landscape of cultivations? Three ecological groups of plants were studied: aquatic, amphibiants and higrophytes forming vegetation on the border between water and ground and terrestrial plants overgrowing the ponds' slopes and close vicinity of the 2 m width from the water line. Altogether 288 species were recorded: 18 aquatic, 83 in sedges and 187 on slopes and in the closest vicinity. The latest group was highly differentiated considering their sociological-ecological relations; the species represent 8 types of vegetation, the most numerous were species associated with forests (44 species), meadows (35) and long-term ruderal communities (34). Altogether almost 70% of the species (50% of the latest group) are not associated with the flora of arable fields, meadows nor fallow arable grounds. So their presence in the rural landscape of the region studied enrich its biodiversity on the species level significantly. But most of the species reported occurred in no more than 5 objects and only 14 taxa (7%) were recorded more frequent.
- Subjects
PLANT species; BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGICAL heterogeneity; TILLAGE; VEGETATION &; climate
- Publication
Zeszyty Naukowe Uniwersytetu Przyrodniczego we Wrocawiu: Rolnictwo, 2016, Issue 617, p75
- ISSN
0137-1959
- Publication type
Article