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Quantitative approaches to phytogeography pp 263–276Cite as

Vicariance and Clinal Variation in Synanthropic Vegetation

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Part of the book series: Tasks for vegetation science ((TAVS,volume 24))

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Distribution of vegetation types is a subject of synchorology (Braun-Blanquet 1921, 1964; Westhoff and van der Maarel 1978; Géhu and Rivas-Martínez 1981), which is an interface between vegetation science and biogeography. Synanthropic vegetation covers extensive areas of disturbed habitats. It consists of weeds with prevailingly ruderal life-strategy (sensu Grime 1979). Several types of synanthropic vegetation can be recognized. In this paper, however, only two basic ones, the ruderal and agrestal (segetal) vegetation (Holzner 1978), will be paid particular attention. The synchorology of synanthropic vegetation offers special challenges for biogeographic discussions since weeds are considered as “botanical birds”, mainly because of their great dispersal ability (Baker 1965) paralleled to the vagility of birds. The “weedy” character is thus expressed in their (sub)cosmopolitan distribution (Jehlík 1986).

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Mucina, L. (1991). Vicariance and Clinal Variation in Synanthropic Vegetation. In: Nimis, P.L., Crovello, T.J. (eds) Quantitative approaches to phytogeography. Tasks for vegetation science, vol 24. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2063-7_9

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