TY  - CHAP
A1  - Kasperek, Gerwin
T1  - Contributions to the flora and vegetation of Kagbeni (Mustan District, Central Nepal)
T2  - Kagbeni - Contributions to the village's history and geography / Pohle, Perdita & Haffner, Willibald (editors) ; Giessener Geographische Schriften ; 77
N2  - Kagbeni and its irrigated oasis are surrounded by subdesert dwarf scrubland. In the present study, a list of 78 species of vascular plants is presented for Kagbeni and its immediate surroundings, supplemented with data on the distribution of the species within the entire Mustan District. The data are arrived from own investigations and the geobotanical literature. A phytogeographical analysis shows the prevalence of western over eastern elements. Species with a wide distribution in Eurasia, which constitute one third of the total flora of Kagbeni, are of great importance as weeds on arable fields and in ruderal places within the irrigated oasis. Their occurrence is closely related to human activity. Presumably, most of these weeds have reached the area under study in connection with agriculture a long time ago. Weeds from the New World, although recorded in other villages of Mustan District, have not been found in Kagbeni. The weed vegetation of Kagbeni is documented by nine vegetation releves, and is compared to releves from Jomsom and Mzrpha. A floristic gradient from south to north that has been detected by earlier investigations throughout the whole district can be reproduced at the local scale. With regard to the weed flora, the effects of different crops are minimal, compared to effects of altitude and other factors related to altitude.
KW  - Vegetation
KW  - Pflanzen
KW  - Unkraut
KW  - Steppe
KW  - Nepal
KW  - Pflanzengeographie
KW  - Pflanzensoziologie
KW  - vascular plants
KW  - plant communities
KW  - subdesert scrubland
KW  - anthropogenic influences
KW  - phytogeographical analysis
KW  - arable fields
KW  - weed vegetation
KW  - Mustang District
Y1  - 2006
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/1866
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-35389
SP  - 61
EP  - 80
PB  - Schmitz
CY  - Gießen
ER  -