TY - JOUR TI - Flora of Tunca Valley Natural Park and environs (Ardeşen-Rize/Turkey) AB - The aim of the study is to determine the flora of Tunca Valley Natural Park and environs (Ardeşen, Rize,Turkey). During the years 2016-2017, 1756 plant specimens were collected through comprehensive surveys. 408 taxabelonging to 244 genera and 64 families were identified. 1 of them is Lycopodiophyta, 16 of them are Pteridophyta and391 were Magnoliophyta. The dispersion of Magnoliophyta is as follows; 2 Pinophytina and 389 Magnoliophytina.According to the total number of taxa, Asteraceae (44), Poaceae (31), Fabaceae (26), Caryophyllaceae (25) andRosaceae (19) are the richest families. The distribution of phytogeographic elements are as follows: Euro-Siberian 237(58.1%), Irano-Turanian 14 (3.4%), Mediterranean 5 (1.2%), and multiregional or of unknown phytogeographic origin152 (37.3%). The life spectrum distrubition is as: hemicryptophytes 196 (48.0%), cryptophytes 110 (26.9%),therophytes 46 (11.3%), chamaephytes 28 (6.8%), phanerophytes 28 (6.8%), vascular parasites 1 (0.2%). The endemismratio is 4.9% (20 takson). AU - BAYKAL, Hüseyin AU - ATAMOV, Vagif AU - Yuksek, Turan PY - 2018 JO - Biological Diversity and Conservation VL - 11 IS - 3 SN - 1308-5301 SP - 9 EP - 23 DB - TRDizin UR - http://search/yayin/detay/299818 ER -