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The flora of the Aralkum consists of 368 species belonging to 43 families and 178 genera. It is a young immigration flora (50 years old). Life forms are represented by the following groups: therophytes (41.3%), geophytes (7.3%), hemicryptophytes (21.5%), chamaephytes (9.5%), phanerophytes (microphanerophytes and nanophanerophytes 18.2%) and some hydrophytes. According to geographical analysis, most of the species are connected with the Ancient Mediterranean territory (the eastern part): 33.2% of the species belong to Mediterranean and eastern Mediterranean geoelements. Turanian and Irano-Turanian geoelements constitute 32.1% of the species. The northern Turanian (Kazakhstan) geographical distribution group (including endemics of Kazakhstan) consists of 10.6% of the species. Autochthonic Aral and Aralo-Caspian species represent only a small part of the flora (2.5%). Thus, the Aralkum flora is typical of Turanian deserts, reflecting regional biodiversity.
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This research was funded by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF grant 0339714 and BMBF grant 0330389).
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Dimeyeva, L.A., Breckle, SW., Wucherer, W. (2012). Flora of the Aralkum. In: Breckle, SW., Wucherer, W., Dimeyeva, L., Ogar, N. (eds) Aralkum - a Man-Made Desert. Ecological Studies, vol 218. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21117-1_8
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