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Ruderal Vegetation

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The Vegetation of the Maltese Islands

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The Maltese islands, as well as all the other Mediterranean insular environments, due to the anthropic disturbance dating back to some millennia ago, show a rich nitrophilous flora, which is spread in many secondary habitats. Several and diversified plant communities are frequent in these ruderal stands, represented by footpaths, roadsides, ruble accumulations, organic matter deposits, etc. They are mainly represented by annual or more rarely perennial associations having a winter-spring or sometimes an autumnal vegetative cycle. The phytosociological class involved in these types of vegetation are Polygono arenastri-Poetea annuae, Artemisietea vulgaris, Chenopodietea, Epilobietea angustifolii and Nicotiano glaucae-Ricinetea communis.

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    Salvatore Brullo, Cristian Brullo, Salvatore Cambria & Gianpietro Giusso del Galdo

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Brullo, S., Brullo, C., Cambria, S., Giusso del Galdo, G. (2020). Ruderal Vegetation. In: The Vegetation of the Maltese Islands . Geobotany Studies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34525-9_18

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