Floristic Biodiversity of Weed Communities in Arable Lands of Istria Peninsula (From 2005 to 2017)

Štefanić, Edita; Kovačević, Vesna; Antunović, Slavica; Japundžić-Palenkić, Božica; Zima, Dinko; Turalija, Alka; Nestorović, Nikola

doi:10.2478/eko-2019-0013

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“…Furthermore, any potential human-caused disturbance can significantly change the habitat quality via the cascading effects on biophysical structure and function [67]. Only a few plants can cope with different forms of disturbance, and plant with high dispersal ability and smaller growth forms usually become dominant species in severe disturbed urban area [68,69], which was also found in our study that small growth forms has greater a percentage in higher urbanization regions. Thus the community types were fewer in the center of urban.…”

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“…The rhizomes of ruderals are potentially independent, can maintain a constantly updated state in urban habitats with severe human disturbance, and they can occupy large areas of habitat and form communities. Moreover, they hinder the survival of other species, thus forming a single dominant species community [41,69]. Wind transmission can also sexually propagate the granular seeds of ruderals.…”

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The Diversity Distribution Pattern of Ruderal Community under the Rapid Urbanization in Hangzhou, East China

2020

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The process of rapid urbanization has affected the composition and diversity of urban vegetation species. The process of urbanization from 2000 was analyzed in the area of "one major city with three vice cities and six groups", according to the urban master planning of Hangzhou from 2001 to 2020. The results show that dramatic changes have occurred for land use types during the ten years from 2000 to 2010 in Hangzhou, of which urban land has become the main type of land use and the area of arable land has presented serious loss. This study found that the Gramineae and Compositae species were the main groups of ruderals in 1665 quadrats, which reflected the characteristics of a few large families. The number of Monotypic and Oligotypic family/genera accounted for 67.3% of the total number of families and 97.5% of the total number of genera. The ruderals were dominated by annual life forms with strong adaptability and high plasticity. The ruderal communities in the study areas were divided into 125 community types based on clustering analysis of the dominance of ruderal species. The proportion of summer annual ruderals in the dominant species of ruderal communities gradually decreased along the group-vice city-major city gradient. The percentage of winter annual ruderals was the highest and the percentage of perennials was the lowest in the groups. The number of ruderal community types showed a nonlinear decreasing trend along the urbanization gradient of the group-vice city-major city. The number of ruderal communities in the vice cities and the groups was similar, which was higher than that in the major city. Only species that are highly tolerant to urban habitats can be distributed under frequent and high-intensity human disturbances in the major city. Therefore, the number of ruderal communities in the major city was minimal and it had low diversity.

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The Diversity Distribution Pattern of Ruderal Community under the Rapid Urbanization in Hangzhou, East China

2020

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“…In the Republic of Croatia weed flora in arable lands have changed over past several decades (Radojčić et al, 2018;Štefanić et al, 2019). Some species are declining in their abundance, whereas others have increased (Štefanić et al,2018).…”

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The role of weeds from field margins in supporting crop pollinators

Štefanić¹,

Rašić²,

Panjković³

et al. 2020

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Field margins are pollinator-friendly habitats and important refuges for many pollinators. As a valuable food resource throughout the vegetation season, not just when crop species are in flower, field margins need to be protect or restore in areas of intensive farming. This paper examines the floristic and functional structure of weed communities on field margins in the northeastern part of the Republic of Croatia. A phytocoenological survey was conducted during the summer period of 2017 and 2018. A total of 32 field margins was analyzed for species richness, abundance and their role for entomofauna. Floristically rich field margins consist of 72,6% plant species beneficial to pollinators. Foraging period can be stretching throughout the year, but stabile and high flowering period is from May to end of September. Among highest ranked honeybee plants, several invasive species with significant relative abundance are: Solidago gigantea, Asclepias syriaca and Amorpha fruticosa who pose a serious threat to plant biodiversity. Positive role of vegetation from field margins was not valuable for pollinators only, but they also serve as supply the substrates that provide a shelter and nesting sites.

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“…Agricultural intensification has been identified as the main cause of agrobiodiversity loss (Storkey and Westbury 2007;Potts et al 2010;Meyer et al 2013). Several studies have shown that intensive arable farming negatively affects arable plant communities in terms of their biodiversity as well as the ecosystem services they provide (Marshall et al 2003;Meyer et al 2015;Chamorro et al 2016;Štefanić et al 2019;Görzen et al 2021). The recognition of the importance of the segetal flora for agroecosystems supporting a diverse fauna and beneficial microorganisms has focused attention on the need to maintain traditionally cultivated habitats (Storkey and Neve 2018;Mupepele et al 2019;Böhning-Gaese et al 2020;Bourgeois et al 2020;Gaba et al 2020).…”

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Plant diversity in traditional agroecosystems of North Morocco

Chakkour¹,

Bergmeier²,

Meyer³

et al. 2023

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Questions: While globalisation favours intensive yield-maximizing agriculture with cropping practices that entail agrobiodiversity loss, extensive production systems still exist in areas of marginal lands such as in mountainous regions or islands. It is overdue to study such systems, their sustainability and ecology as potential models for decentralized environmentally balanced land-use. For that purpose, we investigated the composition of the wild arable (segetal) flora in traditional thermo- to mesomediterranean cereal-growing agroecosystems of northwestern Morocco. Study area: The Tingitane (Tangier) Peninsula in the Northwest of Morocco. Methods: A sample of 94 relevés was collected in six areas in the foreland of the Rif Mountains. Results: We found 209 species in 150 genera and 41 families, a mean of 22 species per relevé and a Shannon index of 3.04±0.06. A TWINSPAN classification revealed a high level of similarity between the areas, with the plant communities corresponding to the order Brometalia rubenti-tectorum, but also differences in species composition as a result of climatic, soil and land-use effects. Therophytes dominated, but biennial and perennial herbs indicating shallow tillage and fields under fallow were also common. Almost half of the species found were agrestal species (confined to arable fields), and almost a third were apophytes (native species occurring in fields but also in natural habitats). Twenty-nine species (14%) of the segetal flora were regional endemics and six are considered nationally rare. Although there is evidence of recent structural and floristic diversity decline, traditional agroecosystems tend to favour native species including some of particular conservation interest. Conclusions: The traditional agroecosystems of the Rif Mountains fulfil criteria of High Nature Value agriculture but, in view of recent socio-economic change, require support by policy for their maintenance. Taxonomic reference: Euro+Med PlantBase (http://www.europlusmed.org) [accessed 26 Nov 2022]. Syntaxonomic reference: EuroVegChecklist (Mucina et al. 2016). Abbreviations: TWINSPAN = Two Way Indicator Species Analysis.

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Floristic Biodiversity of Weed Communities in Arable Lands of Istria Peninsula (From 2005 to 2017)

Cited by 5 publications

References 28 publications

The Diversity Distribution Pattern of Ruderal Community under the Rapid Urbanization in Hangzhou, East China

The Diversity Distribution Pattern of Ruderal Community under the Rapid Urbanization in Hangzhou, East China

The role of weeds from field margins in supporting crop pollinators

Plant diversity in traditional agroecosystems of North Morocco

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