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An Ecological Overview of Halophytes from the Aralkum Area

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The fourth largest lake on Earth started to shrink since 1960. Today only small remnants of water bodies are left. The desiccated sea floor is a huge new desert: the Aralkum. Most parts of the Aralkum are saline; thus the region is rich in halophytes which migrated from the adjacent areas. This process can be called one of the largest experiments of primary succession. The new flora of the Aralkum is now about 421 species, from which more than 25% are Chenopodiaceae. The general situation, history, climate, and vegetation are described and a list of all species with their so far known salinity indicator values is given.

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Abbreviations

Halophytic types:

EX: Exo-Crino-Halophytes, LSu: leaf-succulent eu-halophytes, Ps: Pseudo-Halophytes, NoH: Non-Halophytes, NX: Endo-Crino-Halophytes, SSu: stem-succulent eu-halophytes

Life-forms:

Ch: chamaephytes, G: geophytes; B: with bulbs; P: parasitic; R: with rhizomes; H: hemicryptophytes; Hy: hydrophytes; Ph-m, Ph-n: micro- and nano-phanerophytes; T: therophytes

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Breckle, SW. (2021). An Ecological Overview of Halophytes from the Aralkum Area. In: Grigore, MN. (eds) Handbook of Halophytes. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57635-6_15

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