Open AccessVEGETATION OF FORESTED MIRES OF THE BASHKIR FORE-URALS
Author(s) -
I. G. Bikbaev,
V. B. Martynenko
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
èkobioteh
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2618-964X
DOI - 10.31163/2618-964x-2020-3-3-497-504
Subject(s) - mire , vegetation (pathology) , peat , geography , floristics , quadrat , swamp , forestry , ombrotrophic , ecology , vegetation type , plant community , undergrowth , vegetation types , bog , species richness , habitat , shrub , archaeology , biology , medicine , pathology
In the Bashkir Fore-Ural, 284 forested mires were studied. The total area of the investigated mires was more than 29 thousand hectares. Classification of mire vegetation was performed using Braun-Blanquet approach. The vegetation of forested mires of Bashkir Fore-Ural is characterized by low diversity and belongs to four associations of three alliances, three orders and two classes of vegetation, i.e. Alnetea glutinosae and Oxycocco-Sphagnetea. The brief description and geographical distribution of plant communities of associations are provided. It was shown that the communities of the alliance Alnion glutinosae have a wide distribution across in the Bashkir Fore-Ural by comparison with other types of forested mires. The forested mires with the predominance of pine and sphagnum mosses belonging to the alliance Vaccinii uliginosi-Pinion are most seldom type of vegetation occurring only in the northern part of the Republic of Bashkortostan.