The new issue of the international journal Tuexenia (No. 40) features an article by scientists of the PAN Botanical Garden - CZRB in Powsin, titled "The Botanical Garden of Powsin. "Pseudosteppes and related grassland vegetation in the Pamir-Alai and western Tian Shan Mts - the borderland of the Irano-Turanian and Euro-Siberian regions". This is the first synthesis of its kind in Asia (Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan) presenting seven communities belonging to pseudosteps, which belong to grassland vegetation, but unlike steppes develop in a zone where woody vegetation can also occur. In addition to pseudosteps, three typical steppes and three grassland communities of lowland, mountain and alpine zones were described. The results of this study show that the newly described pseudostep communities occur not only in the Mediterranean, but also in the Irano-Turanian region.
Publication:
Świerszcz S., Nobis M., Swacha G., Kącki Z., Dembicz I., Waindzoch K., Nowak S., Nowak A. 2020. Pseudosteppes and related grassland vegetation in the Pamir-Alai and western Tian Shan Mts - the borderland of the Irano-Turanian and Euro-Siberian regions. Tuexenia. 40:147-173. doi: 10.14471/2020.40.04.
Photographs of the communities: a) Brayo pamiricae-Stipetum glareosae, Tajikistan; b) Astragalo lithophili-Stipetum zalesskii, Kyrgyzstan; c) Eremuro tianschanici-Delphinietum biternati, Kyrgyzstan; (d) the community Carum carvi-Hordeum turkestanicum, Kyrgyzstan; e) Eremuretum bucharici, Tajikistan; f) Cryptosporo falcatae-Brachypodietum distachyi, Tajikistan. Photographer: Arkadiusz Nowak.
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