Subalpine vegetation in Giresun Mountains (Turkey)

Abstract

In this study, the subalpine vegetation in the Giresun Mountains of northern Turkey was investigated. The study area included north- and south-facing slopes at altitudes ranging between c. 2000 and 2500 meters. For vegetation classification and for describing the relationships between vegetation and environment, traditional Braun-Blanquet methods and multivariate analysis techniques were used. The vegetation mainly consisted of subalpine grasslands and coniferous cushion scrubs. Caricetea curvulae and Astragalo microcephali-Brometea tomentelli were found to be dominant syntaxa in the vegetation of the study area. Land topography, soil physical and chemical factors and species richness have important impacts on the development of subalpine vegetation according to the results of multivariate analysis. Three associations and two subassociations were newly determined and classified. Hemicryptophytes, chamaephytes and geophytes participated in the floristic composition of these syntaxa. EUNIS habitat code and names for described syntaxa were also proposed.

International Code of Phytosociological Nomenclature. 4th edition

“…Examples The name ‘Bunio microcarpae‐Festucetum pinifoli’ is not validly published in Hüseyinova and Yalçin (2018, p. 154) because the relevés of the original diagnosis are not effectively published according to Art. 1 as they occur only in the on‐line supplement ( https://hrcak.srce.hr/206295). The original diagnosis of the ‘ Juncetum filiformis Tx.…”

Classification of forest vegetation in Yaraligöz Education and Observation Forest, Kastamonu, Türkiye

“…The syntaxonomy of the Turkish forest vegetation has not yet been resolved (Akman 1995). However, with new numeric and digital technologies, some of them have been eliminated with the vegetation studies carried out in recent years (Kavgacı et al 2012;Kenar and Ketenoglu 2016;Hüseyinova and Yalçın 2018;Çoban and Willner 2019;Karaköse 2019;Yıldırım et al 2019;Kenar et al 2020;Tunçkol et al 2020;Bonari et al 2021;Çoban et al 2021;Karaköse and Terzioğlu 2021;Kavgacı et al 2021;Eminağaoğlu et al 2022;Yıldırım et al 2022). However, there are still some scientific gaps in the forest vegetation of Türkiye.…”