Acta Botanica Croatica, Vol. 77 No. 1, 2018.
Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.1515/botcro-2017-0016
Diversity and gradients of vegetation of Sivrihisar Mountains (Eskişehir-Turkey)
Neslihan Balpinar
orcid.org/0000-0002-4469-8629
; Mehmet Akif Ersoy University, Faculty of Arts and Science, Department of Biology, 15030, Burdur, Türkiye
Ali Kavgaci
; Southwest Anatolia Forest Research Institute, 07022 Antalya, Türkiye
M. Ümit Bingöl
; Ankara University, Faculty of Science, Department of Biology, 06100, Ankara, Türkiye
Osman Ketenoğlu
; Ankara University, Faculty of Science, Department of Biology, 06100, Ankara, Türkiye
Abstract
This study was carried out to determine the plant communities and understand the main topographical driving factors of floristic differentiation in the Sivrihisar Mountains (Eskişehir Province). Vegetation samplings were carried out according to the Braun-Blanquet approach. The relevés were stored in the TURBOVEG database management program. Hierarchical classification was carried out in PC ORD program with Ward’s method and Euclidean distance as a resemblance measure. The diagnostic species were identified by a fidelity measure in the JUICE program. The results of the classification were visualized by ordination techniques in the CANOCO package by using principal component analysis. In conclusion, except for the degraded forest community, all the 7 steppe and 1 scrub plant communities studied were identified and described as new associations.
Also, a syntaxonomical scheme for the vegetation of Sivrihisar Mountains was suggested.
Keywords
classification; numeric analysis; ordination; phytosociology; steppe vegetation
Hrčak ID:
198405
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Publication date:
1.4.2018.
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