Ten years primary succession on a newly created landfill at a lagoon of the Mediterranean Sea (Lake Burullus RAMSAR site) |
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Authors: | Mohamed A El-Sheikh Yassin M Al-Sodany Ebrahem M Eid Kamal H Shaltout |
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Institution: | 1. Botany Department, Faculty of Science, Damanhour University, Damanhour, Egypt;2. Botany Department, Faculty of Science, Kafr El-Sheikh University, 33516 Kafr El-Sheikh, Egypt;3. Botany Department, Faculty of Science, Tanta University, 31527 Tanta, Egypt |
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Abstract: | This study was carried out on the transported bed soil dredged from the outlet of Lake Burullus to the Mediterranean Sea and deposited nearby, forming by this way new land that underwent a primary plant succession. The multi-methodological approach comprised floristic inventories, vegetation sampling and soil composition analyses of the study site in order to detect the crucial parameters controlling the plant resettlement on recently deposited soil as related to time, local micro-topography and substrate characteristics. Floristic composition was assessed for the first 10 years of primary succession (2001–2010) on 18 stands of the area, distributed on basement, slope stands and plateau of the landfill, respectively. Vegetation surveys were the basis of multivariate analyses of the vegetation and soil data using TWINSPAN, DCA and CCA. Relationships between the edaphic gradients, floristic composition and species diversity were assessed. |
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Keywords: | Lake Burullus Annual invasion Halophytes Seral succession Coastal pioneer vegetation Wetlands |
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