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FLORISTIC COMPOSITION AND SIMILARITY ANALYSIS OF FOREST

ECOSYSTEMS IN BUCEGI MOUNTAIN LTER-SITES

Poster · September 2018

DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.32951.57761

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 International Scientific Conference
„Forest Science for a Sustainable Forestry and Human Wellbeing in a Changing World”
INCDS „Marin Drăcea” 85 Years of Activity

September 18th -21th 2018, Bucharest, Romania

Marin Drǎ
Drǎcea (1885-
(1885-1958)

FLORISTIC COMPOSITION AND SIMILARITY ANALYSIS

OF FOREST ECOSYSTEMS IN BUCEGI MOUNTAIN LTER‐SITES
József Pá
Pál FRINK*, Gruiţ
Gruiţă IENĂŞ
IENĂŞOIU, Ovidiu BADEA
National Institute for Research and Development in Forestry ‘Marin Drăcea’
Drăcea’, Romania;
*e-
*e-mail: jpfrink@gmail.com

INTRODUCTION
The Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) network in Bucegi
Mountains (Southern Carpathians, Romania) was established in 2006.
This monitoring network consists of 10 sampling sites (LTER-sites)
uniformly distributed in the area of Bucegi Natural Park (BNP), between
900 and 1700 m altitudes (Fig. 1).
The aims of this study are:
i). the complete floristic inventory on all layers of forest ecosystem within
the established permanent plots;
B.
ii). syntaxonomic classification of the surveyed forest phytocoenoses;
Fig. 1. (A). LTER network in Bucegi Natural Park;
iii). floristic composition and similarity analysis of the identified plant
(B). Sampling design within one LTER-site
A.
communities. (ap. Badea et al., 2011)

Table 1. Identified plant communities (associations) in Bucegi Mountain LTER-sites MATERIAL AND METHODS

Altitude The vegetation survey was carried out in 9 permanent LTER-sites between
No. LTER site Plant community
(m.a.s.l.) 2016-2018 based on the Braun‐Blanquet method. Each LTER site
Hieracio transsilvanici-Piceetum Pawl. et Br.-
1 Bătrâna (B) 1620 represents an area of 0.7 ha and consists of 5 circular permanent sub‐plots
Bl. 1939
Salvamont (PSP) of 500 m2 (Fig. 1). Numerical syntaxonomic analysis (Detrended
2 1250 Norway spruce (Picea abies) plantation
Bran (SB)
Correspondence Analysis - DCA) was performed.
Timen Grofi Chrysanthemo rotundifolii-Piceetum Krajina
3 1000
(TG) 1933
Poiana RESULTS
4 1310 Symphyto cordati-Fagetum Vida 1959
Stânii (PS)
Four forest plant communities were identified (Table 1):
Valea cu Norway spruce (Picea abies) and European
5 1460 two European beech communities and two associations with Norway
Brazi (VB) larch (Larix decidua) plantation
Hieracio transsilvanici-Fagetum (Vida 1963) spruce;
6 Dichiu (D) 1210
Täuber 1987
Cariera Hieracio transsilvanici-Fagetum (Vida 1963) two coniferous plantations.
7 1360
Lespezi (CL) Täuber 1987 The DCA analysis reveals the separation of beech communities from the
Podu cu Hieracio transsilvanici-Piceetum Pawl. et Br.-
8 1685 spruce ones and from the coniferous plantations (Fig. 2). The two axes of the
Flori (PF) Bl. 1939
Observator Hieracio transsilvanici-Fagetum (Vida 1963) ordination diagram can be associated with ecological variables:
9 930
Urs (OU) Täuber 1987
over the first DCA axis overlaps an obvious altitudinal gradient: on the
extreme right of the axis are grouped the phytocoenoses with spruce from
higher altitudes (over 1600 m a.s.l.), due to the presence in the herb synusia
of the flora elements characteristic of this higher vegetation range; at the
origin of the axis, the lower altitude beech communities are grouped together;
the second DCA axis should be associated with a soil moisture
gradient: at the farthest edge of the axis, the wet-mesic, springwater-
dominated spruce phytocoenoses are located.
The use of DCA has revealed the spatial distribution of phytocoenoses at the
ecosystem level according to the existing ecological gradients.

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Fig. 2. Ordination diagram based on the floristic similarity of the studied
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phytocoenoses; for LTER-sites nomenclature and abbreviation see Table 1 Manual, Natural History Museum, University of Oslo.

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