Current distribution and stage of community Artemisio santonici-Festucetum pseudovinae in Slovakia

Dítě, Daniel Current distribution and stage of community Artemisio santonici-Festucetum pseudovinae in Slovakia / Daniel Dítě ... [et al.]. -- Association Artemisio santonici-Festucetum pseudovinae SOÓ in MÁTHÉ 1933 corr. BORHIDI 1996 is considered as one of the most abundant plant communities of saline habitats in the Pannonian Plain. The paper presents information about its current distribution in Slovakia. The obtained results were compared with historical data. Vegetation changes and the overall state of association in the past and today are commented. Although the association is considered to be primarily community of salt soils, the vegetation is able to create also on the largely disturbed places. Primary and secondary vegetation are comparable. Both were characterized by dominance of the two taxa: Artemisia santonicum subsp. patens and Festuca pseudovina. Secondary vegetation currently prevails in Slovakia. The natural communities we have sampled only on a few places (the Mostové Nature Reserve, Jatov, Kamenín, Kamenný Most). Due to the current state of saline habitats and absence of conservation management, we consider the association as critically endangered in Slovakia

In Thaiszia : Journal of Botany. -- Košice : Univerzita Pavla Jozefa Šafárika, 2010. -- ISSN 1210-0420. -- ISSN 2644-5441. -- Vol. 20, no. 2 (2010), pp. 77-86

1. Artemisia santonicum subsp. patens 2. Festuca pseudovina 3. saline habitats 4. Slovensko

I. Eliáš, Pavol, jun.
II. Šuvada, Róbert
III. Petrášová, Anna, 1982-
IV. Melečková, Zuzana
V. Thaiszia : Journal of Botany. -- Vol. 20, no. 2 (2010), pp. 77-86

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