TAILIEUCHUNG - A new bryophyte community and three new records for the epiphytic bryophyte vegetation of Turkey
Based on 38 relevés, the Lewinskyetum affinis ass. nov.(Ulotion crispae alliance) was described and characterized as a new epiphytic association from the Abant Mountains. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report about three epiphytic bryophyte associations, namely Dicranetum taurici, Pterigynandretum filiformis, and Orthotricho straminei–Pterigynandretum filiformis, in Turkey. | Turkish Journal of Botany Turk J Bot (2017) 41: 308-323 © TÜBİTAK doi: Research Article A new bryophyte community and three new records for the epiphytic bryophyte vegetation of Turkey * 1, 2 Mevlüt ALATAŞ *, Güray UYAR Department of Bioengineering, Faculty of Engineering, Munzur University, Tunceli, Turkey 2 Department of Biology, Polatlı Faculty of Science and Arts, Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey 1 Received: Accepted/Published Online: Final Version: Abstract: Based on 38 relevés, the Lewinskyetum affinis ass. nov. (Ulotion crispae alliance) was described and characterized as a new epiphytic association from the Abant Mountains (Northwest Turkey). To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report about three epiphytic bryophyte associations, namely Dicranetum taurici, Pterigynandretum filiformis, and Orthotricho straminei–Pterigynandretum filiformis, in Turkey. In addition, multivariate analysis techniques such as two-way indicator species analysis (TWINSPAN) and detrended correspondence analysis (DECORANA) were used to examine epiphytic bryophyte communities for cluster analysis and ordination analysis, respectively. Key words: Abant Mountains, bryophyte, Bolu, epiphytic vegetation, Turkey 1. Introduction Plants are divided into two main groups. The largest group contains the plants that produce seeds. These are flowering plants (angiosperms) and conifers, Ginkgos, cycads, Gnetum, Ephedra, and Welwitschia (gymnosperms). The other group contains seedless plants, which reproduce by spores. It includes liverworts, hornworts, mosses, whisk ferns, club mosses, horsetails, and ferns (Bidlack and Jansky, 2011). Unfortunately, tracheophytes such as flowering plants and ferns were studied as priority groups by Turkish botanists until the last part of the 1980s, as their greater size than that of bryophytes makes them more visible. In fact, most mosses and .
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