The Upper Tisa Valley. Preparatory proposal for Ramsay

Wetland flora and vegetation of the Upper Tisa river valley
Constantin Drăgulescu, István Fintha, Andrij Mihály, Anikó Szabó
Introduction
This work presents a characterization of the flora and vegetation of the Upper
Tisa (upper section of River Tisa) and an enumeration of the hydrophilous,
hygrophilous and hygromesophilous species and phytocenoses. In the text we use
following abbreviations: lifeforms: Ph = phanerophyte (Mph. = MM.:
megaphanerophyte, mPh = M.: mesophanerophyte, nPh = N.: nanophanerophyte), Ch.:
chamaephyte, H.: hemicryptophyte, G.: geophyte, T.: therophyte (Th.: annual
therophyte, TH.: biannual therophyte), Hh. = HH.: helohydatophyte = hydato-
helophyte.
Floristic elements. Adv.: Adventive, Afr.: African, Alp.: Alpine, Amphiatl.:
Amphiatlantic, Asia (S-~, E-~ = Southern-~, Eastern-~ etc.): Asian, Atl.: Atlantic, B. =
Balc.: Balcanic, Bor.: Boreal, Cauc.: Caucasian, Carp.: Carpathian, Cp.: Circumpolar
= Circumboreal, C. = Cont. Continental, Cosm.: Cosmopolitan, D.: Dacic, End.:
Endemism, Eua. (S-~, M-~ etc. = Southern~, Middle-~ etc.): Eurasian, Eu. (S-~, Ec =
M-~ etc. = Southern~, Central or Middle~ etc.): European, Eurosib.: Eurosiberian, M.
= Medit.: Mediterranean, Mp. = Ponto-medit.: Pontic-Mediterranean, Palaetrop.:
palaetropical, Pn. = Pannon: Pannonic, P. = Ponto-: pontic, Sarmata: Sarmathian,
Submedit.: Submediterranean, Subtr.: Subtropical, and combinations of the above
mentioned elements.[Mont.: mountainous].
Waterway segments: BT - the Chorna Tisa, WT - the Bila Tisa, MT - the united
(joined) mountainous section of River Tisa, JT - the joined Romanian-Ukrainian
section of River Tisa, UT - the hilly Ukrainian section of River Tisa, HT - the
Hungarian Upper Tisa.
The mark (!) indicates that the plant or association was observed by foreign
authors.
Keywords: wetland flora and vegetation, Upper Tisa (upper section of River
Tisa)
Methods
The flora and vegetation indices and their accompanying observations are
based on our field research in summer 1995, on bibliographical information and data
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