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Differentiation of Plant Communities with Heracleum sosnowskyi Manden. on the Southern Border of the Secondary Area in European Russia

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The aim of this study is to identify the ecological and phytocenotic features and factors of differentiation of plant communities with Heracleum sosnowskyi Manden. in the Kursk region. This region is located on the southern border of the secondary area of this species in European Russia. Plant communities with Heracleum sosnowskyi in the study area are represented by four syntaxons. To identify the ecological patterns of their organization, we used an analysis of the composition of differential species and species with the greatest activity, the identification of differences in the ecological regimes of their habitats, and the ordination analysis of relevés. Each syntaxon differs from the others in a number of environmental factors and is characterized by a group of species with similar environmental requirements. The predominance of ruderal and eurytopic species in communities and an increase in similarity of their floristic composition are manifestations of the negative impact of the distribution of Heracleum sosnowskyi on the vegetation cover. The greatest similarity of coenofloras is found between the derivative communities Heracleum sosnowskyi [Agropyretalia intermedio-repentis] and the association Urtico dioicae-Heracleetum sosnowskyi. Their phytocoenoses represent successive stages of a change in vegetation cover under the influence of the invader. As a result of the spread of hogweed, the strongest changes occurred in aboriginal communities, in place of which the phytocenoses of these syntaxons were formed. In communities where Heracleum sosnowskyi forms variants of associations Rudbeckio laciniatae-Solidaginetum canadensis and Chelidonio-Aceretum negundi, the floristic composition and ecological conditions changed slightly compared to typical communities of these syntaxons due to the presence of other invasive species.

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Arepieva, L.A. Differentiation of Plant Communities with Heracleum sosnowskyi Manden. on the Southern Border of the Secondary Area in European Russia. Contemp. Probl. Ecol. 15, 42–50 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1995425522010024

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