SYNOPSIS OF HIGH-RANK SYNTAXES OF PLANT COMMUNITIES OF THE NIZHNYAYA KAMA NATIONAL PARK 

Kozhevnikova Mariya Vladimirovna, Candidate of biological sciences, deputy director of Institute of Environmental Sciences, Kazan (Volga region) Federal University (18 Kremlyovskaya street, Kazan, Russia), E-mail: mvkozhevnikova@kpfu.ru
Prokhorov Vadim Evgen'evich, Candidate of biological sciences, associate professor, sub-department of general ecology, Institute of Environmental Sciences, Kazan (Volga region) Federal University (18 Kremlyovskaya street, Kazan, Russia), E-mail: vadim.prokhorov@kpfu.ru
Luk'yanova Yuliya Aleksandrovna, Deputy director, Nizhnyaya Kama National Park (quarter 109, Tanaevsk forest, Elabuga district, Elabuga, Russia), E-mail: julia-luk@inbox.ru 

581.55 

DOI

10.21685/2307-9150-2019-4-8 

The paper dedicated to the study of plant communities of the Nizhnyaya Kama National Park from the point of view of their position in the Braun-Blanquet system.
The Nizhnyaya Kama National Park is located in the territory of the Republic of Tatarstan within the floodplain-valley complex of the lower reaches of the Kama River and its small tributaries. The analysis was carried out in 1702 relevés, performed by different authors in the period from 1939 to 2017 and contained in the database “Vegetation Database of Tatarstan” of the Kazan Federal University. The expert system EuroVegChecklist, which was built in the JUICE 7.0 package, was used as a classification method. There were 20 vegetation classes representing the following groups: vegetation of the boreal zone (Vaccinio-Piceetea, Brachypodio pinnati-Betuletea pendulae); vegetation of the nemoral forest zone (Carpino-Fagetea sylvaticae, Quercetea robori-petraeae, Lonicero-Rubetea plicati, Molinio-Arrhenatheretea); vegetation of the steppe zone (Festuco-Brometea); alluvial forest and scrub (Alno glutinosae-Populetea albae, Salicetalia purpureae); swamp forests and scrub (Alnetea glutinosae); freshwater aquatic vegetation (Lemnetea, Potamogetonetea); vegetation of shorelines and swamps (Phragmito-Magnocaricetea) and anthropogenic vegetation (Artemisietea vulgaris, Digitario sanguinalis-Eragrostietea minoris, Epilobietea angustifolii, Sisymbrietea, Papaveretea rhoeadis, Polygono-Poetea annuae). The largest number of classes contains groups of anthropogenic vegetation and various forest communities, which reflects the main regularities of the vegetation cover of the Nizhnyaya Kama National Park – the predominance of forest communities experiencing anthropogenic impact due to felling, fires, oil production and recreation. In addition, the study clearly demonstrates the high syntaxonomic diversity of communities, which confirms the uniqueness of this natural object, as well as the need to take measures for its further preservation and restoration. 

Key words

EuroVegChecklist, JUICE, databases, Braun-Blanquet, classification, vegetation 

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