Diversity of ancient woody species in urban forests

Autorzy

• Beata Fornal-Pieniak Warsaw University of Life Sciences – SGGW, Faculty of Horticulture, Biotechnology and Landscape Architecture, Department of Environment Protection, Nowoursynowska 159, 02-787 Warsaw, Poland
  e-mail: beata_fornal_pieniak@sggw.pl
• Marcin Ollik Warsaw University of Life Sciences – SGGW, Faculty of Agriculture and Biology, Department of Experimental Design and Bioinformatics, Nowoursynowska 159, 02-787 Warsaw, Poland
• Ewa Zaraś-Januszkiewicz Warsaw University of Life Sciences – SGGW, Faculty of Horticulture, Biotechnology and Landscape Architecture, Department of Environment Protection, Nowoursynowska 159, 02-787 Warsaw, Poland
• Barbara Żarska Warsaw University of Life Sciences – SGGW, Faculty of Horticulture, Biotechnology and Landscape Architecture, Department of Environment Protection, Nowoursynowska 159, 02-787 Warsaw, Poland

Abstract

Mostly parks and forest are the most important ‘green islands’ in urban ecological network. Urban forests are belong to green areas and collected many plant species. The main aim of the article was characteristic of ancient plant species in urban forests in Tarnów. The field studies were carried out in years 2011–2012. It covered 80 phytosociological records on the area 500 m² in herb layer of urban forests and in forest nature on oak-hornbeam. The results showed that many ancient plant species were growing in urban forest but less than in nature reserves.

Keywords

• ancient woody species
• urban forest