Book ID: 114200
Brkovic, Dusko, Marjan Niketic, Gordana Tomovic and Dmitar Lakusic
Vaskularna flora brdsko - planinskog podrucja severozapadne Srbije i Sumadije (Vascular flora of the hilly and mountainous area of northwestern Serbia and Sumadija). 2019. illus. (col.). 463 p. gr8vo. - Serbian, with Latin nomenclature.
The objective of this research was to determine the total number of taxa at the level of species and subspecies in the flora of part of north-western Serbia and S?umadija. Based on field and literature surveys conducted over a number of years, an extensive herbarium collection was made and vast amounts of floristic and ecological data were collected and organised in a database on the structural characteristics and patterns of formation of the flora in the study area. As determined by systematic field surveys and based on very few published references available on floristic and phytocoenological data, the flora of north-western Serbia and S?umadija includes 1333 taxa at the level of species and subspecies classified into 535 genera and 115 families. Research results are reported in the form of a list presenting each individual taxon recorded in the flora of north-western Serbia and S?umadija and indicating its locations in the area surveyed. In terms of sources of information and type of distribution and ecological characteristics of each individual taxon, a critical review of the quality and reliability of literature data on the flora of this region is given. Based on their general distribution, the taxa were classified into floral elements, range types and range groups. Detailed life forms were determined for all taxa, with data provided on their ecological characteristics, including detailed habitat characteristics, altitude ranges and types of geological substrate and vegetation inhabited by each individual taxon in the study area. Among the taxa, flowering plants predominate with 1302 taxa, including 1070 species and subspecies that belong to the class Dicotyledones, making up 94 families and 418 genera; and flowering plants of the class Monocotyledones comprising 12 families, 100 genera and 229 species and subspecies. Pteridophyta are represented by 8 families, 11 genera and 26 taxa. Gymnospermae embrace only 2 families, 6 genera and 8 species...