Abstract
The article reveals that epiphytic and epixylic bryophytes could be successfully used as differentials in classification of forest communities together with vascular plants and epigeic cryptogams, the fact proved for broadleaved forests in European Russia.
Highlights
Epiphytic and epixylic species of bryophytes and lichens are likely to serve as differentials of their synusiae [1] and at the level of forest communities where they grow forming integrated diagnostic groups together with vascular plant and epigeic bryophytes
The group of non-inundated oak forest syntaxa includes the variant of Lunaria rediviva and Mercurialis perennis of the Aegopodium-dominated forests in watershed depressions and bottom parts of slopes
Maximal abundance оf old trees of A. platanoides inhabited by the Anomodon species is observed in the same communities. Both the noninundated and the inundated Aegopodium-dominated oak forests, the latter codominated by Impatiens noli-tangere and Filipendula ulmaria s.l. in their field layer, are united by a set of the multizonal (Urtica dioica), boreal-nemoral (Matteuccia struthiopteris, Stellaria nemorum, Impatiens noli-tangere), and nemoral (Allium ursinum, Lamium maculatum) mesophytes and hygromesophytes
Summary
Epiphytic and epixylic species of bryophytes and lichens are likely to serve as differentials of their synusiae [1] and at the level of forest communities where they grow forming integrated diagnostic groups together with vascular plant and epigeic bryophytes. In the Kaluzhskie Zaseki Reserve (54°N, 36°E) (see Table 1), oak (Quercus robur) forests dominated by Carex pilosa in the field layer, developed on loamy sands of hilly watershed
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