Comparison of vascular plants in herb layers of ecotones in urban and non-urban forests in Brzesko city (Polish Carpathian foreland)

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2022-09-22

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Sciendo (De Gruyter)

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Nowadays, human influence is more noticeable in urban and non-urban ecosystems, which, in turn, leads to the transformation of valuable natural resources. This article presents a study on the diversity of species composition of the vascular herb layer species of ecotones in selected urban forests of the city of Brzesko and in forests outside the city. All forests represented the association of oakā€“hornbeam plant. The results showed that there are inconsistent and consistent vascular plant species with the Tilio-Carpinetum habitat in urban and non-urban forests. Plant species were significantly (c2 test, p < 0.05) found more frequently in the herb layer of non-urban forests than in urban forests. This proves, among other things, that the influence of anthropogenic activity is more on these objects than in forests outside the city.

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Ā© 2022 Beata Fornal-Pieniak et al., published by Sciendo. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ . The Version of Scholarly Record of this Article is published in Folia Forestalia Polonica, Series A ā€“ Forestry, 2022, Vol. 64 (3), 156ā€“160, available online at: https://sciendo.com/article/10.2478/ffp-2022-0015 . Keywords: vascular plant species; herb layer; ecotone; human impact; oakā€“hornbeam forest; urban forests; Polish Carpathian foreland; Europe; Poland.

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Fornal-Pieniak, B. & Mandziuk, A. (2022). Comparison of vascular plants in herb layers of ecotones in urban and non-urban forests in Brzesko city (Polish Carpathian foreland). Folia Forestalia Polonica, 64(3), 156-160. https://doi.org/10.2478/ffp-2022-0015

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