Floristic Diversity and Vegetation Analysis of Wadi Sudr, South-West Sinai Peninsula. | ||||
| Taeckholmia | ||||
| Article 5, Volume 35, Issue 1, 2015, Page 99-119 PDF (429.9 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/taec.2015.12223 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| Amal A. Morsy* 1; Hemat Khatab1; Esraa A. El Sherbiny2; Jasmin Eldemirdash2 | ||||
| 1Faculty of Science- Ain Shams University. | ||||
| 2Ecology and dryland agriculture division, Desert Research Center. | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
This study evaluated the effect of edaphic factors on species diversity and distribution of vegetation in Wadi Sudr, Sinai Peninsula. The study included 21 stands, 54 species belonging to 44 genera and representing 22 families, where the abundant family was Zygophyllaceae comprising 15% of the total number of the recorded species. Chamaephytes were the dominant life forms in the studied Wadi (55.56%). Chorological analysis showed the dominance of the monoregional Saharo-Arabian chorotype (46.3%). TWINSPAN classification separated five vegetation groups which included: (I) Zygophyllum album, (II) Haloxylon salicomicum, (III) Retama raetam, (IV) Reaumuria hirtella and (V) R raetam. CCA analysis indicated that the vegetation group representing the downstream of Wadi Sudr was affected by soil chemical properties, whereas CaC03% and physical properties affected the vegetation groups representing the up and midstream parts of the Wadi. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| CCA; Sinai Peninsula; TWINSPAN; Vegetation; Wadi Sudr | ||||
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