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Salt Marshes Vegetation

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The coastal lagoons, usually localized in the inner part of sandy belt, are colonized by hygro-halophilous plant communities, characterized by succulent chamaephytes and nanophanerophytes, as well as by perennial helophytes and therophytes. They are splitted in several associations well distinct from floristic and physiognomic point of view, which are linked to well-defined edaphic conditions. The shrubby communities belong to Sarcocornietea fruticosae, the helophytic ones to Juncetea maritimi, while that one prevalently dominated by annual species are referable to Thero Salicornietea. The salt marshes are characterized also by submerged communities differentiated by algae and Ruppia species.

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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). Salt Marshes Vegetation. In: The Vegetation of the Maltese Islands . Geobotany Studies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34525-9_9

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