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Sexual forms and their ecological correlates of flowering plants in Siberia

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The flora of Siberia includes 4500 species, 815 genera, and 123 families of angiosperms. The causes of the relationship between sexual forms and such ecological and biological features of plants as the life form, the mode of pollination, pericarp’s consistency, habitat type, zonal group, and the ecological group in relation to moistening were analyzed and discussed. For the first time, we demonstrated that gynomonoecy in the flora of Siberia was associated with a semiwoody growth form, pollination by wind, and propagation in zonal communities. It was revealed that gynodioecy in Siberia was associated with a semiwoody growth form, circumpolar or Eurasian distribution, and floodplain meadows. It was found that the ratio of dioecious and hermaphrodite plants in the ecological-biological complexes of species directly depends on the frequency of the abundance of species with endemic areas.

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Original Russian Text © V.N. Godin, 2017, published in Ekologiya, 2017, No. 5, pp. 357–364.

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Godin, V.N. Sexual forms and their ecological correlates of flowering plants in Siberia. Russ J Ecol 48, 433–439 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1067413617050058

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