<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>This paper is the first critical review of the diversity of the Ukrainian adventive flora, which has spread in agricultural habitats in the 21<sup>st</sup> century. The author’s annotated checklist contains the data on 740 species, subspecies and hybrids from 362 genera and 79 families of non-native weeds. The floristic comparative method was used, and the information was generalised into some categories of five characteristic features: climamorphotype (life form), time and method of introduction, level of naturalisation, and distribution into 22 classes of three habitat types according to European Nature Information System (EUNIS). Two assessments of the ecological risk of alien plants were first conducted in Ukraine according to the European methods: the risk of overcoming natural migration barriers and the risk of their impact on the environment. The exposed impact of invasive alien plants on ecosystems has a convertible character; the obtained information confirms a high level of phytobiotic contamination of agricultural habitats in Ukraine. It is necessary to implement European and national documents regarding the legislative and regulative policy on invasive alien species as one of the threats to biotic diversity.</p></abstract>

This paper is the first critical review of the diversity of the Ukrainian adventive flora, which has spread in agricultural habitats in the 21st century. The author’s annotated checklist contains the data on 740 species, subspecies and hybrids from 362 genera and 79 families of non-native weeds. The floristic comparative method was used, and the information was generalised into some categories of five characteristic features: climamorphotype (life form), time and method of introduction, level of naturalisation, and distribution into 22 classes of three habitat types according to European Nature Information System (EUNIS). Two assessments of the ecological risk of alien plants were first conducted in Ukraine according to the European methods: the risk of overcoming natural migration barriers and the risk of their impact on the environment. The exposed impact of invasive alien plants on ecosystems has a convertible character; the obtained information confirms a high level of phytobiotic contamination of agricultural habitats in Ukraine. It is necessary to implement European and national documents regarding the legislative and regulative policy on invasive alien species as one of the threats to biotic diversity.

Alien Plant Species in the Agricultural Habitats of Ukraine: Diversity and Risk Assessment

Institute for Evolutionary Ecology, NAS of Ukraine

Ekológia (Bratislava)

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This paper is the first critical review of the diversity of the Ukrainian adventive flora, which has spread in agricultural habitats in the 21st century. The...

Alien Plant Species in the Agricultural Habitats of Ukraine: Diversity and Risk Assessment

Published Online: Mar 20, 2018

Page range: 24 - 31

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/eko-2018-0003

Keywords
adventive flora, taxonomiccomposition, typologicalstructure

© 2018 Raisa Burda, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Alien Plant Species in the Agricultural Habitats of Ukraine: Diversity and Risk Assessment

Published Online: Mar 20, 2018

Page range: 24 - 31

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/eko-2018-0003

Keywordsadventive flora, taxonomiccomposition, typologicalstructure

© 2018 Raisa Burda, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
adventive flora, taxonomiccomposition, typologicalstructure