Questions Agricultural intensification has led to the decline of biodiverse meadows and other semi-natural grasslands. Road verges offer potential alternative habitats for meadow species, but they may not be suitable all species due different soil properties, frequent disturbances, pollution or suboptimal management. Are their communities vascular plants bryophytes similar dissimilar those in m...

On the territory of our country, in foreign Europe, North America, some regions there are outcrops calcareous rocks. The high endemism and same rare plant species concentration characteristic features such landscapes. results elemental composition primary assessment aboveground underground organs three from biotopes Samara region given. Three were chosen for studies: obligate calcephite Gypsoph...

Chenopodiaceae is a large, diverse and cosmopolitan family within the order Carophyllales. The majority of species are adapted to saline, hypersaline, xerophytic xerohalophytic communities or ruderal habitats. stenopolinous pollen grains monad exclusively polypantoporate with tiny spinules on both tectum operculum. Pollen morphology six genera (Seidlitzia, Atriplex, Bassia, Salsola, Krascheninn...

Abandoned semi-natural grasslands are characterized by lower plant diversity as a consequence of tall grasses spreading. Mowing is widely used restoration practice, but its effects to maintain the restored over time poorly investigated in sub-Mediterranean grasslands. Since 2010 central Apennines, we fenced grassland, invaded Brachypodium rupestre, which was mowed twice year. Before experiment ...

Man-made habitats in central Europe can be broadly divided into arable land with weed vegetation, and settlements and their surroundings, harbouring ruderal vegetation. The former is a predictable environment with frequent, regular and large-scale disturbances, while the latter is an unpredictable environment with irregular disturbances of varying spatial extent producing heterogeneous mosaics ...

Functional trait plasticity is a major component of plant adjustment to environmental stresses. Here, we explore how multiple local environmental gradients in resources required by plants (light, water, and nutrients) and soil disturbance together influence the direction and amplitude of intraspecific changes in leaf and fine root traits that facilitate capture of these resources. We measured p...

Abstract Lagoa do São Bento is a coastal restinga wetland, remnant of paleolake, located in Maricá, RJ. The study aimed to inventory native aquatic plants, make floristic comparison with other lagoons and analyze the regeneration this community after anthropic impacts. In analysis 45 species were listed, 39 which are Angiosperms six Ferns. Aeschynomene paniculata, Hymenachne amplexicaulis, Mont...