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New Records and Endemic Taxa Revealed in The Novel Checklist of Alexandria Flora: Implications for Conservation Prioritization

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Last updated: 01 Jan 2025

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Little is still known about the composition and distribution of vegetation in the Mediterranean region, especially urban flora, and vegetation. Until recently, regional -scale ecological and evolutionary patterns of urban areas have tended to be ignored, as conservation efforts have been concerned mostly with species and their habitats.  A combination of social, ecological experiences and direct field observations were carried out to record the plant taxa that are found in the urban areas of Alexandria city. The present study represents the first work to explore a recently neglected urban flora. In this study, we identified plant taxa and life forms from a typical natural site with different anthropogenic activities to assess the status of the vegetation type. 338 plant species (including the inferaspecific taxa) were recorded in the study area, most of them were therophytes (50%), and about 19 % are cultivated for ornamentals purposes or as crops. Only three endemic taxa were recorded in the studied urban habitat: Anthemis microsperma, Sonchus macrocarpus,and Thesium humile var. maritima, while 91 (26.9%) alien taxa were recorded, out of which six were invasive, and seven were recorded for the first time in the present study, three of them are considered new record species: Nicotiana glutinosa L., Sesuvium portulacastrum (L.) L. and Commelina erecta L.  

DOI

10.21608/ejbo.2023.224043.2413

Keywords

alexandria, Alien species, endemic species, Life-form, Urban Flora

Authors

First Name

Selim Z.

Last Name

Heneidy

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Affiliation

Department of Botany & Microbiology, Faculty of Science, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt

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drsheneidy@yahoo.com

City

Alexandria

Orcid

0000-0001-9885-460X

First Name

Yassin M.

Last Name

Al-Sodany

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-

Affiliation

2Department of Botany & Microbiology, Faculty of Science, Kafrelsheikh University, P.O. Box 33511, Kafr El-Sheikh, Egypt

Email

yalsodany@sci.kfs.edu.eg

City

Cairo

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-

First Name

Amal M.

Last Name

Fakhry

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-

Affiliation

Department of Botany & Microbiology, Faculty of Science, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt

Email

amal.fakhry@alexu.edu.eg

City

Alexandria

Orcid

0000-0001-6240-5917

First Name

Laila M.

Last Name

Bidak

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-

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Department of Botany & Microbiology, Faculty of Science, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt

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laila_bidak@yahoo.com

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-

Orcid

0000-0003-1381-2326

First Name

Sania A.

Last Name

Kamal

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-

Affiliation

Department of Botany & Microbiology, Faculty of Science, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt

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sania.hamouda@alexu.edu.eg

City

Alexandria

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-

First Name

Marwa W.A.

Last Name

Halmy

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-

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Department of Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt

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marwa.w.halmy@alexu.edu.eg

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Alexandria

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-

First Name

Eman T.

Last Name

El Kanany

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-

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Department of Botany & Microbiology, Faculty of Science, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt , Department of Oral Biology, Faculty of Dentistry, Pharos University in Alexandria, Alexandria, Egypt

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emantahaali@hotmail.com

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Alexandria

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-

First Name

Soliman M.

Last Name

Toto

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-

Affiliation

Department of Botany & Microbiology, Faculty of Science, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt

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smt_toto@alexu.edu.eg

City

Alexandria

Orcid

0000-0003-2098-2374

Volume

64

Article Issue

1

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45170

Issue Date

2024-01-01

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2023-07-19

Publish Date

2024-01-01

Page Start

387

Page End

418

Print ISSN

0375-9237

Online ISSN

2357-0350

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EJBO_Volume 64_Issue 1_Pages 387-418.pdf

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Regular issue (Original Article)

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111

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Publication Title

Egyptian Journal of Botany

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https://ejbo.journals.ekb.eg/

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New Records and Endemic Taxa Revealed in The Novel Checklist of Alexandria Flora: Implications for Conservation Prioritization

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30 Dec 2024