The analysis and assessment of the vegetation on coastal revetments: the case of Trabzon (Turkey)

Acar, Cengiz; Kahveci, Hilal; Uzun, Seyran Palabaş

doi:10.1007/s12210-014-0301-5

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“…Turkey is surrounded by an 8,333 km coastline with Black Sea at the North, Marmara Sea between two peninsulas, and Aegean Sea at West and Mediterranean at South. The coastal areas represent a dynamic, ecologically fragile environment with threatened habitats in which a diverse range of human activities are carried out (Acar et al 2014). In addition, the majority of Turkey's ever-increasing population resides in coastal areas (Erginöz and Doğan 1997).…”

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Alien flora of Turkey: checklist, taxonomic composition and ecological attributes

Uludağ¹,

Aksoy²,

Yazlık³

et al. 2017

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The paper provides an updated checklist of the alien flora of Turkey with information on its structure. The alien flora of Turkey comprises 340 taxa, among which there are 321 angiosperms, 17 gymnosperms and two ferns. Of the total number of taxa, 228 (68%) are naturalized and 112 (32%) are casual. There are 275 neophytes (172 naturalized and 103 casual) and 61 archaeophytes (52 naturalized and 9 casual); four species could not be classified with respect to the residence time. In addition, 47 frequently planted taxa with a potential to escape are also listed. The richest families are Asteraceae (38 taxa), Poaceae (30), Fabaceae (23) and Solanaceae (22). As for the naturalized alien plants, the highest species richness is found in Asteraceae (31 taxa), Poaceae (22), Amaranthaceae (18) and Solanaceae (15). The majority of alien taxa are perennial (63.8% of the total number of taxa with this life history assigned, including those with multiple life histories), annuals contribute 33.8% and 2.4% are biennial aliens. Among perennials the most common life forms are phanerophytes, of which 20.3% are trees and 12.6% shrubs; woody vines, stem succulents, and aquatic plants are comparatively less represented. Most of the 340 alien taxa introduced to Turkey have their native ranges in Americas (44.7%) and Asia (27.6%). Of other regions, 9.1% originated in Africa, 4.4% in Eurasia, 3.8% in Australia and Oceania and 3.5% in the Mediterranean. The majority of taxa (71.9%) were introduced intentionally, whereas the remaining (28.1%) were introduced NeoBiotaAhmet Uludağ et al. / NeoBiota 35: 61-85 (2017) 62 accidentally. Among the taxa introduced intentionally, the vast majority are ornamental plants (55.2%), 10.0% taxa were introduced for forestry and 6.7% as crops. Casual alien plants are most commonly found in urban and ruderal habitats (40.1%) where naturalized taxa are also often recorded (27.3%). Plants that occur as agricultural weeds are typically naturalized rather than casual (16.0% vs 7.1%, respectively). However, (semi)natural habitats in Turkey are often invaded by alien taxa, especially by those that are able to naturalize.

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Alien flora of Turkey: checklist, taxonomic composition and ecological attributes

Uludağ¹,

Aksoy²,

Yazlık³

et al. 2017

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“…Similarly, most of the studies examining the composition of local species consider urban areas as one land use type, without categorizing it in subtypes according to the density, structure or function of built-up areas. This although [9,10] have showed that plants in urban areas can find some specific isolated places which show significant differences to the general character of the area, mentioning some plants that do not always have to be in the same conditions even within homogenous-looking small urban areas, owing to such artificial structural elements as harbors, revetments, walls, etc.…”

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Wall Vegetation Characteristics of Urban and Sub-Urban Areas

Yalçınalp

Meral

2017

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Unfortunately, we live in a greedy little world and horizontal areas are often too expensive to leave to nature on them. Therefore, creating gardens on vertical surfaces of urban areas has recently been very important to supporting sustainability because these surfaces are still found to be commercially useless compared with green areas which are generally under pressure from commercial demands and politics. However, these artificial vertical green surfaces are still too far from being common, while too many ordinary walls are spontaneously covered with vegetation already. In this study, we try to address the dynamics of wall vegetation as it has a great potential to make the cities more sustainable. Totally 70 walls (35 in urban and 35 in suburban areas) in Trabzon city were examined regarding their ecological, physical and vegetation characteristics. Having identified 1540 plant samples collected from the walls during a year-round intensive field study, we performed statistical analyzes to enumerate the wall vegetation depending on the ecological characteristics; to evaluate if there are different wall vegetation compositions in urban and suburban areas; and finally to evaluate growth conditions and basic challenges for the wall vegetation.

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“…In Turkey, Ref. [ 79 ] found that the revetments allowed unimpeded dispersal of plant species, and concluded that the plant species distribution on the revetments could be noticed as niches with more plant taxa. On the contrary, Ref.…”

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Environmental impacts of shore revetment

Sanitwong-Na-Ayutthaya,

Saengsupavanich,

Ariffin

et al. 2023

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The analysis and assessment of the vegetation on coastal revetments: the case of Trabzon (Turkey)

Cited by 9 publications

References 39 publications

Alien flora of Turkey: checklist, taxonomic composition and ecological attributes

Alien flora of Turkey: checklist, taxonomic composition and ecological attributes

Wall Vegetation Characteristics of Urban and Sub-Urban Areas

Environmental impacts of shore revetment

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