PJB-2019-781
Biodiversity and Phytosociological of Plants in the Wadi Al-Quf Nursery in Palestine
Jehad M.H. Ighbreyeh
Abstract
This paper presents a vegetation study of the territories in the Wadi Al-Quf Nursery Reserve in northwest Hebron-Palestine. This site is very important at the local level of plants species and flora with a high average endemicity. The floristic analysis revealed the existence of 83 species, of which 34 (40.9%) are endemic, and 90 vegetation plots distributed in this area. The phytosociological approach and analysis are based on the Braun- Blanquet methodology (1979), and Salvador Rivas Martinez’s land classification was used to analyse the physical factors of bioclimate and climate. Although the Wadi Al-Quf Nursery Reserve is located to the west of the Hebron area and has an inframediterranean to mesomediterranean thermotype, this area is arid, dry and not very sub-humid, and is located between the Mediterranean Basin, Negev, Sinai desert and the Red Sea region. We took 300 samples of different plant species from the Wadi Al-Quf Nursery Reserve. In the statistical treatment we obtained two large groups in the cluster: group (A), representing forests, copses and high shrub lands influenced by climate (climatophilous); and group (B), representing pine copses which are influenced by climatophilous. We propose three plant community associations: ASL1 (Association 1): Pistacio palestinae-Quercetum lokii; ASL2: Ceratonio siliquae-Quercetum calliprini; and ASL3: Pino halepensis-Cupressetum sempervirentis.
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