The impact of catastrophic flood in 2013 on the flora of the Amur floodplain near Komsomolsk-on-Amur. P.S. SHEHENKO
Keywords:
catastrophic flood, flood plain, flora, taxonomic structure, ecology-coenotic groupsAbstract
The impact of catastrophic flood in 2013 on the flora of the Amur floodplain near Komsomolsk-on-Amur.
P.S. SHEHENKO (Amur State University of Humanities and Pedagogy, Komsomolsk-on-Amur).
The local flora differences of the Amur flood plain after and before the catastrophic flood in 2013 have been considered. The flood impact on the modification of species checklist, family and ecological-coenotic spectra of the higher plants in the high and low flood plain in the vicinity of Komsomolsk-on-Аmur have been revealed. It was claimed that after the catastrophe the low flood plain plant community had changed its taxonomic and ecological structure to a lesser degree than that of the high one. However the renewal process was stated to be slower in the low flood plain.