Meadow-pasture land vegetation in Pešter Plateau [Serbia] | Ливадско-пашњачка вегетација Пештерске висоравни [Србија]
2008
Ракоњац, Љ., Институт за шумарство, Београд (Serbia) | Раткнић, М., Институт за шумарство, Београд (Serbia) | Веселиновић, М., Институт за шумарство, Београд (Serbia) | Невенић, Р., Институт за шумарство, Београд (Serbia)
Meadow and pasture types were researched in Pešter Plateau, their plant community classification, main characteristics, floristic composition, etc. Meadows and pastures are the dominant forms of vegetation in the region of southwest Serbia, occupying about 70% of the area. Meadows usually occur around the village settlements, and pastures are somewhat further at the higher altitudes and they occupy larger spaces. Here we have only one integral phase of pasture origin, parallel with the creation of the arable farming base and the village zone. In this region, by one integral process, forests were suppressed both in the horizontal and in the vertical directions. While an isolated and distant economic belt was created on montane pastures on high mountains, a populated pasture-arable zone was created in this region. In the last years, with the reduction of livestock, the impact on meadows and pastures was lower and lower, so their differences within this classification were increasingly diminished. Meadows and pastures were formed on forest lands after deforestation. Meadows and pastures are very rich and diverse from the floristic and phytocoenological aspects. Meadow-pasture communities are systematised by types into communities on basic rocks with feldspar and ultrabasic rocks; communities on limestone; communities on acid siliceous rocks; hilly and mountainous communities of wide ecological amplitude; alpine communities.
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