Ecological and Biological Analyses of the Dendroflora of Western Tanirtau

Abstract

Ecological analysis of flora is one of the most important areas of typological analysis of flora by environmental factors. Usually, when determining the ecological structure of any flora, the distribution in habitats with different moisture patterns is taken as a basis. According to the classical division of such ecological groups [1-5] in the dendroflora of Western Tanirtau, we distinguish the following ecological groups: Hygrophytes are plants that live on abundantly moist soils. In plants of this category, leaf blades are often thin [4]. Mesophytes are plants that live with sufficient (not excessive and not too limited) moisture. Typical mesophytes are usually associated with both moderate thermal conditions and good mineral nutrition conditions [4]. Mesoxerophytes are plants of habitats with periodically insufficient moisture [1; 5;], more closely approaching xerophytes [4]. Xerophytes are plants of rainy places with severe moisture deficiencies [1;4;5]. Xeromesophytes are plants of habitats with less severe moisture deficiencies, more closely approaching mesophytes [4]. The ecological structure of the dendroflora of Western Tanirtau on this basis is given in Table 1.