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Vitality of individuals and cenopopulations of the rare relict species Sophora flavescens Soland. was studied. To characterize the vitality of individuals of the species, the following parameters are used: number and length of the shoots, number of leaves on a shoot, as well as ratio of the leaf length to its width. Different combinations of these quantitative parameters areused to determine the marks of vitality for each individual. When estimating the vitality of cenopopulations of the species the important characteristics include the type of population, average marks of the vitality of the individuals in cenopopulation, completeness of the age range, the presence of the mixed self-maintenance, and abundance of the species in the community. It is noted that the high vitality of the individuals is observed in cenopopulations of the young type and transitional type to the mature and maturing ones.
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Original Russian Text © D.V. Sandanov, 2009, published in Sibirskii Ekologicheskii Zhurnal, 2009, Vol. 16, No. 6, pp. 891–898.
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Sandanov, D.V. Vitality of individuals and cenopopulations of Sophora flavescens Soland. Contemp. Probl. Ecol. 2, 576–580 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1995425509060149
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