Floristic Features of El -Burullus Wetland: a RAMSAR site in Mediterranean Coast of Egypt | ||
| Mansoura Journal of Biology | ||
| Volume 54, Issue 1, March 2022, Pages 28-35 PDF (1.12 M) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/mjb.2022.450431 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Aya A. Al-Afifi* 1; El‐Sayed F. El‐Halawany1; Ghada A. Khdery2; Yasser A. El-Amier1 | ||
| 1Botany Department, Faculty of Science, Mansoura University, Mansoura - 35516, Egypt | ||
| 2Agriculture Applications Department, National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Science | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The current study investigates the floristic aspects of Burullus wetland, including a list of plant species, life-span, life-form spectra, and floristic analysis of the plant life in the Deltaic Mediterranean coast. Floristically, the total number of the recorded flowering plant species in the present study is 63, belonging to 50 genera and related to 30 families. Chenopodiaceae, Asteraceae, Poaceae and Cyperaceae are the main families being represented collectively by 28 species or about 44.4 % of the total number of the recorded species. Cryptophytes, which comprise helophytes, geophytes, and hydrophytes (32 %), and partially nanophanerophytes, make up the bulk of plants (4 % ). These species are divided into four groups based on their ecological characteristics: a) four floating hydrophytes, b) four submerged hydrophytes, c) fourteen emergent species, and d) 41 terrestrial species. The floristic analysis of the research region indicates that Mediterranean taxa account for 35 species, or roughly 55.55 percent of the total number of species reported. Pluriregional (18 species = 28.57 %), biregional (16 species = 25.39 %), or monoregional (6 species = 9.52 %) taxa are represented. This study will be useful for the future oriented management plan for the protectorate | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Burullus, Lake; wetland; Floristic, Hydrophytes, Vegetation | ||
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