Open AccessSuccession and features distribution plant associations in row of railways
Author(s) -
Nikolay Alexandrovich Nikitin,
Никитин Николай Александрович,
Vera Valentinovna Solovieva,
Соловьева Вера Валентиновна
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
samarskij naučnyj vestnik
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2782-3016
pISSN - 2309-4370
DOI - 10.17816/snv20164106
Subject(s) - ruderal species , ecological succession , forb , vegetation (pathology) , environmental science , ecology , shrub , habitat , soil water , plant community , grassland , geography , soil science , biology , medicine , pathology
ROW is a specific man-made landscape, in which the processes of change occur in its direction and intensity. Erosion processes, in particular the processes of water erosion of soil, lead not only to changes in the soil, but the plant through changes in soil fertility, nutrient richness, and by changing moisture exchange, structure and texture of soils. The main characteristics of flora undergo structural, quantitative and other changes. Vegetation characteristics, composition of plant associations, the speed and direction of succession, from the initial stage of overgrown weeds and ruderal vegetation to sustainable tree and shrub communities also modify. An ecological and geomorphological zoning shows the prevalence of the most eroded soils in the vicinity of the web. The regularity according to which in most habitats anthropogenic disturbed grow motley-grass-wheatgrass association with a reduction of anthropogenic load becomes dominant forb meadow-grass association. The role of indication of Eletrygia repens L. was also identified as an indicator of habitat disturbance.