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Syntaxonomy of Some Phytocenoses in Mountain and Piedmont Ecosystems of the Central Caucasus (Kabardino-Balkaria)

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Abstract—Three associations (Carici michelii-Bromopsidetum ripariae ass. nov., Amorio ambiguae-Alchemilletum orthotrichae ass. nov., and Cicerbito macrophyllae-Aethusetum сynapii ass. nov.) have been distinguished and characterized based on the ecological and floristic classification of phytocenoses in the mountain and piedmont ecosystems of Kabardino-Balkaria within the Tersk and Elbrus variants of vertical zonation in the Central Caucasus. As a result of syntaxonomic analysis, two of them were classified as secondary postforest meadows Molinio-Arrhenatheretea Tx. 1937, and the other one was classified as subalpine tall-grass meadows Mulgedio-Aconitetea Hadaê et Klika in Klika et Hadaê 1944.

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We thank L.M. Abramova, Doctor of Biology and Professor, and Ya.M. Golovanov, Candidate of Biology, for valuable advice and support.

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Tsepkova, N.L. Syntaxonomy of Some Phytocenoses in Mountain and Piedmont Ecosystems of the Central Caucasus (Kabardino-Balkaria). Biol Bull Russ Acad Sci 46, 1239–1249 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1062359019100327

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