Forest Communities Floristically Specific to Eastern Romania

Chifu, Toader; Stefan, N.; Zamfirescu, Oana; Manzu, Ciprian; Zamfirescu, Ştefan R.

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“…The degrees of fidelity of characteristic-and differential species of all syntaxa were established by comparing published data from Romania [7,43,44] with our own phytosociological observations from the study area. In some critical cases, major works from other European regions [45][46][47][48][49][50][51] were also considered, to clarify the diagnostic value of species.…”

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“…S. ciliatum is such a neophyte and it currently shows clear tendencies of broaden its area of invasion and diversification of invaded habitats and plant communities. In the Romanian phytosociological literature [4,7,43], it was considered as a diagnostic plant species for the ruderal vegetation of slightly salty soils, within the alliance Brachyaction ciliatae Pop and Viţălariu 1971 (see below). Although Pop and Viţălariu [4] classified the ruderal communities dominated by S. ciliatum within a new plant association, namely Erigero canadensis-Brachyactetum ciliatae, we consider that there is no clear evidence, based on the analysis of a larger number of relevés, that this species has a narrow coenological specialization in the invaded areas.…”

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“…by the classical method of the Zürich-Montpellier school), and that these syntaxa are characterized by their own diagnostic characters [33]. In Romania phytosociological research initiated in the first half of the last century has covered the whole country and in recent decades some valuable phytosociological regional and national syntheses [7,43,44] have been published. The system of phytosociological alliances, orders and classes used in this paper follows the system of Coldea [44], which is in turn consistent with the systems used in Central Europe [45][46][47].…”

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“…ciliatum has a very broad ecological tolerance [10]. According to Chifu et al [7], it is a sub-heliophilous, mesothermophilous, xero-mesophilous and neutrophilous species, with a large tolerance to variation in nitrogen content of the soil. It can also grow in drier habitats [10] although most authors [2,3,5,8,10,21,22] state that S. ciliatum usually prefers moist soils.…”

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“…In the city of Cluj-Napoca (north-western-central Romania) it has recently been reported in the presence of some hygrohalophilous species [27]. In addition, S. ciliatum was recorded in Romania as an accompanying species with low values of abundance-dominance (AD) and constancy (K), in the structure of various ruderal plant communities [7,[28][29][30][31].…”

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Symphyotrichum ciliatum was reported as invasive in Romania in the early 1970s. In this study we have analysed its invasion history, current distribution in Romania, habitat preferences and the associated plant communities. Data recorded during our recent field work, as well as from herbaria and previously published papers, were used in the analysis. This data confirms its invasive character. Given the abrupt increase in the slope of the invasion curve during the last decade, we can assume that S. ciliatum is still far from reaching the saturation phase of its invasion in Romania. Habitats invaded by this species are mostly anthropogenic herb stands associated with rail and road transport networks, and the continental inland salt steppes. The classical methodology of the Zürich- Montpellier school was used for the field phytosociological research and the classification of the investigated communities was done using the deductive method. The phytocoenoses dominated by S. ciliatum were classified as derivate communities. The description of these communities included data about plant composition, synecology and distribution in the study area.

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This report describes the Romanian Grassland Database (RGD), registered under EU-RO-008 in the Global Index of Vegetation-Plot Databases (GIVD). This collaborative initiative aims to collect all available vegetation-plot data (relevés) of grasslands and other open habitats from the territory of Romania to provide them for science, nationally and internationally, e.g. via the European Vegetation Archive (EVA) and the global database "sPlot". The database mainly contains vegetation-plots from not only wet, mesic, dry, saline, alpine and rocky grasslands, but also other vegetation types like heathlands, mires, ruderal, segetal, aquatic and cryptogam-dominated vegetation. Currently, 21,685 relevés have mainly been digitised from literature sources (90%), while the remainder comes from individual unpublished sources (10%). We report on the background and history of the RGD, explain its "Data Property and Governance Rules" under which data are contributed and retrieved, and outline how the RGD can contribute to research in the fields of vegetation ecology, macroecology and conservation.

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Taxonomy and distribution of Allium ursinum (Liliaceae) in Poland and adjacent countries

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The paper presents distribution data on Allium ursinum L. in Poland, with additional records from the other European countries. The study comprised 367 herbarium specimens, drawn from most of Polish herbaria and individuals obtained during field investigations. Two subspecies have been recorded: A. ursinum L. subsp. ursinum and A. ursinum subsp. ucrainicum Kleop. et Oxner. The study also documents the presence of intermediate populations at the border of the distribution ranges for both subspecies. In addition, the paper presents the pedicel structure and pollen grains ultrasculpture of each subspecies under a scanning electron microscope (SEM). Finally, questions in respect of the distribution data and habitat preferences are discussed.

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Forest Communities Floristically Specific to Eastern Romania

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Symphyotrichum ciliatum in Romania: trends of spread and invaded plant communities

Symphyotrichum ciliatum in Romania: trends of spread and invaded plant communities

The Romanian Grassland Database (RGD): historical background, current status and future perspectives

Taxonomy and distribution of Allium ursinum (Liliaceae) in Poland and adjacent countries

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