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Ponte Academic Journal
Apr 2016, Volume 72, Issue 4

Succession flora of abandoned agricultural fields: inventory and characteristics in south-east of Algeria.

Author(s): BENBRAHIM Keltoum ,CHELOUFI Hamid, EDDOUD Amar

J. Ponte - Apr 2016 - Volume 72 - Issue 4
doi: 10.21506/j.ponte.2016.4.23



Abstract:
This study focus on the identification and characterization of plant succession of abandoned agricultural perimeters in south � east of Algeria, where we have selected 03 stations with the same period of abandonment (09 years): cereal under pivot, palm plantation and planting Greenhouse. Thirty four (34) species have been inventoried and distributed in 14 botanical families including Asteraceae and Poaceae are the most representative. We have counted 28 of these species in greenhouse, 16 species in the pivot and 14 species belong to the palm plantation. Most of these species (30 species) are spontaneous. Only 04 species found in greenhouse had been introduced. The distribution of these species has been conditioned by anthropogenic activities, level of soil tillage and kind of culture which give a banal flora, linked to the history of these natural areas and also the nature of the practiced cultivation
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