Vegetation in Ravine Habitats of Montenegro

Kraradžić, Branko; Bulic, Z.; Jarić, Snežana; Mitrović, Miroslava; Pavlović, Pavle

doi:10.1007/698_2020_479

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“…Therefore, the effects of altitude on the differentiation of communities is insignificant. The specific topography of canyons forms strong thermal and moisture gradients [8]. As canonical correspondence analysis indicates, the investigated ravine forests are clearly differentiated along the moisture and temperature gradients.…”

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“…The new alliances proposed in this article (Pseudofumario albae-Ostryion carpinifoliae and Achilleo ageratifoliae-Ostryion carpinifoliae) occur in adverse scree and saxatile habitats. It is the stress gradient (from relatively deep but skeletal soils to screes and bare rocks) that clearly separates these three Species-rich hop hornbeam forests are widely distributed in central parts of the Balkan Peninsula [3][4][5][6][7][8][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23]. Due to their extremely heterogenous structure, the syntaxonomy of these forests is still unresolved.…”

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“…Čarni et al [4] and Stupar et al [5] analyzed the ecological, floristic, and chorological differences between these alliances. In addition to the zonal belt of sub-Mediterranean xeric forests, the hop hornbeam forms mesic communities that are extrazonally distributed in inland parts of the Apennines and the Balkan Peninsula [2][3][4][5][6][7][8].…”

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“…This species has wide tolerance limits with respect to both light and moisture gradients [9]. Due to its high tolerance to adverse soil conditions, it is most commonly located in canyons [2,3,8]. The stress conditions found in skeletal soils, and on screes and bare rocks, prevent stronger competitors from replacing the hop hornbeam in ravine habitats.…”

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“…Despite numerous studies having been conducted on ravine vegetation in central parts of the Balkan Peninsula [3][4][5][6][7][8][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23], available information on the biodiversity components of Ostrya carpinifolia forests is incomplete. Therefore, we performed investigations of ravine vegetation in Serbia, in order to (1) classify hop hornbeam forests, (2) assess the effects of environmental factors on their floristic differentiation, and (3) detect patterns of biodiversity components (alpha and beta diversity) in investigated communities.…”

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Diversity of Ostrya carpinifolia Forests in Ravine Habitats of Serbia (S-E Europe)

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We investigated vegetation in ravine habitats of Serbia, in order to classify hop hornbeam (Ostrya carpinifolia Scop.) forests in syntaxonomic terms, assess the effects of environmental factors on their floristic differentiation, and detect the biodiversity components of the analyzed communities. Both K-means clustering and Bayesian classification revealed five ecologically interpretable groups of forests that belong to the alliances Ostryo carpinifoliae-Fagion sylvaticae, Ostryo carpinifoliae-Tilion platyphylli, Fraxino orni-Ostryion carpinifoliae, Pseudofumario albae-Ostryion carpinifoliae, and Achilleo ageratifoliae-Ostryion carpinifoliae. Canonical correspondence analysis indicated that these alliances are clearly differentiated along a combined light–moisture gradient (from shade and mesic to sunny and xeric variants). The alpha diversity increases from xeric to mesic alliances. A lower alpha diversity in xeric forests may be explained by the stress conditions that prevent mesic species from colonizing the saxatile habitats. Extremely high—almost the greatest possible—values of both the species turnover and beta diversity were detected in all variants of the analyzed forests. Such high diversity may be the result of the strong environmental gradients in ravine habitats. The investigated forests represent an important pool of rare, paleo-endemic species that survived Quaternary glaciations in ravine refugia.

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Conservation Value and Habitat Diversity of Fluvial Lakes and Gravel Pits in River-Floodplain Systems

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This study aimed to review habitat diversity and conservation value of small fluvial and gravel pit lakes along river-floodplain systems in the Western Balkans. Aquatic habitat types were presented according to the EU Habitats Directive and the Bern Convention, while the physical habitat properties were evaluated following the standard approach for hydromorphological assessment of lakes in Europe. Habitats considered as conservation priorities are present in both types of small water bodies, covering a wide range of water trophic gradient and hydromorphological conditions. This phenomenon, coupled with macrophytes' physical structural heterogeneity, creates extremely diverse habitats for other aquatic communities. Hence, fluvial and gravel pit lakes along the river-floodplains can be considered as hot spots of aquatic habitat diversity in the Western Balkans. However, these ecosystems are subjected to various human pressures such as alteration of hydrological regime, artificial land use of the riparian zone, sediment erosion, shoreline modification, and eutrophication in the entire region.

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Floristic and ecological diversity of stands dominated by Carpinus orientalis in gorges and canyons of eastern Serbia (SE Europe)

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Vegetation in Ravine Habitats of Montenegro

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Diversity of Ostrya carpinifolia Forests in Ravine Habitats of Serbia (S-E Europe)

Diversity of Ostrya carpinifolia Forests in Ravine Habitats of Serbia (S-E Europe)

Conservation Value and Habitat Diversity of Fluvial Lakes and Gravel Pits in River-Floodplain Systems

Floristic and ecological diversity of stands dominated by Carpinus orientalis in gorges and canyons of eastern Serbia (SE Europe)

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