<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Mantle vegetation includes plant communities dominated mostly by shrubs and occurs in habitats where the typical tree layers meet difficulties to evolve. This study was conducted in three areas of Bulgaria – Western Balkan Range, Western Sredna Gora Mt. and the Fore-Balkan. Numerical classification and ordination were performed by PC-ORD and JUICE software packages. Diagnostic species were determined by calculating the Phi-coefficient. Two associations and one plant community of the <italic>Berberidion</italic> alliance were recognized – <italic>Corno-Ligustretum</italic> Horvat ex Trinajstić ---amp--- Z. Pavletić 1991, <italic>Pruno spinosae-Ligustretum vulgaris</italic> Tüxen 1952 and <italic>Elytrigia repens-Crataegus monogyna</italic> community. The latter considered as a successional stage of shrub encroachment into the grasslands. Its species composition is very close to that of the ass. <italic>Corno-Ligustretum</italic>. The species composition of ass. <italic>Pruno-Ligustretum</italic> represents a mixture of species characteristic for dry and mesic grasslands, fringe and forest vegetation. The <italic>Crataego-Prunetea</italic> class is still poorly studied in Bulgaria and much more data from all regions in the country have to be collected.</p></abstract>

Mantle vegetation includes plant communities dominated mostly by shrubs and occurs in habitats where the typical tree layers meet difficulties to evolve. This study was conducted in three areas of Bulgaria – Western Balkan Range, Western Sredna Gora Mt. and the Fore-Balkan. Numerical classification and ordination were performed by PC-ORD and JUICE software packages. Diagnostic species were determined by calculating the Phi-coefficient. Two associations and one plant community of the Berberidion alliance were recognized – Corno-Ligustretum Horvat ex Trinajstić ---amp--- Z. Pavletić 1991, Pruno spinosae-Ligustretum vulgaris Tüxen 1952 and Elytrigia repens-Crataegus monogyna community. The latter considered as a successional stage of shrub encroachment into the grasslands. Its species composition is very close to that of the ass. Corno-Ligustretum. The species composition of ass. Pruno-Ligustretum represents a mixture of species characteristic for dry and mesic grasslands, fringe and forest vegetation. The Crataego-Prunetea class is still poorly studied in Bulgaria and much more data from all regions in the country have to be collected.

Contribution to the knowledge of <italic>Crataego-Prunetea</italic> Tüxen 1962 class in Bulgaria

Department of Plant and Fungal Diversity and Resources

Hacquetia

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Contribution to the knowledge of  Tüxen 1962 class in Bulgaria

Mantle vegetation includes plant communities dominated mostly by shrubs and occurs in habitats where the typical tree layers meet difficulties to evolve. This...

Contribution to the knowledge of Crataego-Prunetea Tüxen 1962 class in Bulgaria

Published Online: Feb 07, 2020

Page range: 81 - 97

Received: Feb 01, 2019

Accepted: Aug 18, 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/hacq-2019-0013

Keywords
classification, forest edge, mantle vegetation, shrublands, syntaxonomy

© 2019 Kiril Vassilev et al., published by Sciendo

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

Contribution to the knowledge of Crataego-Prunetea Tüxen 1962 class in Bulgaria

Published Online: Feb 07, 2020

Page range: 81 - 97

Received: Feb 01, 2019

Accepted: Aug 18, 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/hacq-2019-0013

Keywordsclassification, forest edge, mantle vegetation, shrublands, syntaxonomy

© 2019 Kiril Vassilev et al., published by Sciendo

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

Keywords
classification, forest edge, mantle vegetation, shrublands, syntaxonomy