Flora Endemic Rare and Bioclimate of Palestine

Abstract

Palestine was subject to classification study through the period from February to May 2017. This area has a characteristic of flora and biodiversity and belongs to dry, arid, semi-arid, sub-humid and humid climates, and locates in Mediterranean region. We took 400 samples of different plant species from Hebron (Idna, Althahreiyeh, Yatta villages and Hebron city); Jenin (Jenin city, Al-Yamon, Maysalon and Yabod); Jericho (Wadi Al-Qalt, Ain or Tal Sultan and Al-Nwehmeh) and Ramallah (Safa, Turmus Aya and Qibia). The absence of classification studies on the areas led us to run a statistical treatment on the 400 sampled flora of Palestine. Moreover, the classification was made following Braun-Blanquet in 1979; we transformed the Braun-Blanquet species abundance-dominance values into those of Van der Maarel in 1979. In the statistical treatment we obtained more than 53 plant species (Endemic rare) as Paronychia palaestina Eig , Trifolium palaestinum Boiss., Trifolium philistaeum Zohary, Suaeda philistaeum Zoharyand, and others, representing forests, copses, herbaceous and high shrublands influenced by climate (climatophilous), and edaphohygrophilic, and bioclimate factors as ombrotype and thermotype. However, according to study area we indicated that the flora endemic rare has 53 species, which of them 13% belong to Compositae family, 7.54% Poaceae, Liliaceae & Papilionaceae families, and 5.66% Iridaceae family.

A Phytosociological of Plant Communities and Biodiversity in the East-South of Idna Village-Hebron of Palestine

“…Group I (P1, P2, P5, P9, P11, P12, P14 and [19], this is a pine-tree forest characterized at the Idna village flora elements such as: Quercus libani G. Olivier, Quercus caliprinos Webb., Ceratonia siliqua L., Alain together with the endemic species Quercus look Kotschy, Tamarix palaestina Bertol and Tamarix jordanis L. this forest develops in the infra-thermomediterranean dry bioclimatic belt and it is growing in Mediterranean maquis and forest [2] [3], with the terra rose and brown rendzinas territory, we proposed pine-tree forest (Abu Salman Forest Reserve), group I or association ASL 1: 1 -16 Pino halepinsis-Quercetum lookii (Table 1).…”

“…Moreover, it is found that about 2750 species of plants including 138 families were estimated for Palestinian flora [22], [23], while in the other study the flora of Palestine includes 149 endemic species [24], (6% of the total flora), which of 43% are found to be common, 27.5% are rare and 25.6% are very rare. The recent study there recorded more than 1881 species of plant, which of 53 are endemic rare species in the fourth areas of Palestine as Hebron, Ramallah, Jericho and Jenin [19], and we described eight new plant associations, of which two have a dry-sub-humid ombrotype (Pistacio palaestinae-Quercetum lokii; Cerasus microcarpae-Quercetum ithaburensis) in the area of Idna, Hebron of Palestine [3].…”

“…In Palestine, about 2780 plant taxa were recorded as native, which of 159 [19], 162 taxa were recorded as endemics [20] [21]. Moreover, it is found that about 2750 species of plants including 138 families were estimated for Palestinian flora [22], [23], while in the other study the flora of Palestine includes 149 endemic species [24], (6% of the total flora), which of 43% are found to be common, 27.5% are rare and 25.6% are very rare.…”

Impact of Climate and Bioclimate Factors on Apricot (Prunus armeniaca L.) Yield to Increase Economy and Achieve Maintaining Food Security of Palestine

“…However recent studies have found the impact of bioclimate and climate factors on yield, harvesting time, planting and flowering of apricot [2] [3] [4] [5], and have highlighted the influence of bioclimatology and climatology applied on biology, physiology, yield and growth of plant [3]- [22].…”

Study of Biology and Bioclimatology Applied of Apricot (Prunus Armeniaca L.): to Increase the Economy and Maintaining Food Security in Palestine

“…Recent studies [12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26] have highlighted the influence of bioclimatology on plant yield; however this is the first time the bioclimatic characterization of the different varieties has been under taken. Palestine is belonging to the inframediterranean to mesomediterranean of bioclimatic belts; and arid, semiarid, dry, sub-humid and humid of ombrotype [12][13][14][15].…”