Factors affecting development of pioneering psammophilous Dune vegetation on Przytorska Sandbar (Nature 2000 site „Wolin and Uznam” PLH320019)

The influence of selected environmental factors on shaping sandy beach habitats as a place for the growth of psammophilous and halophilous plants were the purpose of a research performed in the years 2013–2014 on Przytorska Sandbar (Natura 2000 area „Wolin and Uznam” PLH320019). The research was per...

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Published in:Folia Pomeranae Universitatis Technologiae Stetinensis Agricultura, Alimentaria, Piscaria et Zootechnica
Main Authors: Wróbel, Mariola, Kowalski, Wojciech W. A.
Other Authors: Department of Botany and Nature Protection, West Pomeranian University of Technology, Szczecin
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Wydawnictwo Uczelniane Zachodniopomorskiego Uniwersytetu Technologicznego w Szczecinie 2016
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12539/978
https://doi.org/10.21005/AAPZ2016.37.1.09
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Summary:The influence of selected environmental factors on shaping sandy beach habitats as a place for the growth of psammophilous and halophilous plants were the purpose of a research performed in the years 2013–2014 on Przytorska Sandbar (Natura 2000 area „Wolin and Uznam” PLH320019). The research was performed on a beach section, which was excluded from recreational use, and closely bordered with the external port basin of the Liquid Natural Gas terminal under construction, where also the abrasive influence of storm surges had been diminished. Research results indicated a dominant influence of aeolian sand material accumulation in shaping embryo dunes inhabited by pioneer species of psammophilous and halophilous plants - Elymus farctus subsp. boreoatlanticus and Honckenya peploides – species characteristic of the plant association of Honckenyo-Agropyretum juncei R.Tx. 1955, identifying the natural habitat of the initial stages of coastal white dunes (habitat code: 2110), the parts of which had been observed in the research area as a classically shaped form. The presence of Ammophila arenaria and Leymus arenarius creating initial forms of grassy vegetation association of Elymo-Ammophiletum indicated a proceeding stabilisation of embryo dunes – evolving into a foredune. A strong sea accumulation of sand material and simultaneous decrease of abrasive storm-tide influence enabled the development of an ecologically and geographically foreign species Salix daphnoides, diasporas of which were located in the area of lower beach. Wpływ wybranych czynników środowiskowych na kształtowanie się piaszczystych siedlisk plażowych, będących miejscem rozwoju roślinności psammofilnej i halofilnej, był celem badań przeprowadzonych w latach 2013–2014 na Mierzei Przytorskiej (obszar Natura 2000 „Wolin i Uznam” PLH320019). Badania prowadzono na wyłączonym z użytkowania rekreacyjnego odcinku plaży przylegającym do basenu portu zewnętrznego budowanego terminala skroplonego gazu ziemnego, gdzie ograniczone zostało także abrazyjne ...