a Record control number 000335821200089

a ISSN 1877-0428

a Original cataloging agency NEU GrandLibrary

a Language code of text/sound track or separate title eng

a Classification number G63

b Item number .E26 2014

a Personal name Atalay, İbrahim,

a Title Ecology and classification of forests in Turkey.

h Medium Electronic Document

c Statement of responsibility, etc Ibrahim Atalay, Recep Efe, Munir Ozturk.

b Name of publisher, distributor, etc Elsevier Science,

c Date of publication, distribution, etc 2014.

a Summary, etc Turkey possesses all types of parent materials or bedrocks like metamorphic, sedimentary and volcanic belonging to different geological era and periods. Some parent materials contain evaporitic sediments with salt, gypsum and high contents of alkaline materials which mostly prevent the growth of climax vegetation. The country has a rugged and high topography, related to tectonic movements, and volcanic activities which mainly occurred in Tertiary and Quaternary eras. The mountains are divided into three groups in terms of formation and ecological importance namely; orogenic mountains, volcanic mountains and uplifted blocks or horst mountains. The ecological importance of the topography is fully stressed by altitude, aspect and climate. The forests in Turkey can be classified on the basis of ecological features as: humid-mild deciduous, humid-cold coniferous on the north facing slopes of coastal belt of Northern Anatolian Mountains; subhumid-cold continental coniferous in the north facing slopes of backward part of Northern Anatolian Mountains; subhumid-semiarid semi continental coniferous on the plateau and mountains of southern basins of northern Anatolian Mountains; semiarid continental timer Anatolia Quercus spp. - Juniper spp. - Pinus nigra, semiarid-subhumid Quercus spp., Mediterranean Pinus brutia and oro-Mediterranean coniferous. The excessive cutting, wrong silvicultural practices, opening of agricultural fields inside the forests, and clear-cutting system are changing the vegetation structure of forests. Some of the forests in the country are accepted as relict forests. (C) 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Geography

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Near East University Article

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Yakın Doğu Üniversitesi Makale

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Forest classification

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Biodiversity

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Ecology

g Relationship information 2014, Vol 120, p788-805

t Title Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences

t Title 3rd International Geography Symposium, Geomed2013

x International Standard Serial Number 18770428

u Uniform Resource Identifier http://library.neu.edu.tr:2048/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2014.02.163