Methodological peculiarities of the Braun-Blanquet method used for marine bottom vegetation classification

Abstract

The features of the Brown Blanquet method application for the classification of the Black and Azov Seas bottom phytocenoses are discussed. Special attention is given to following methodological questions: term of observations, necessary for associations revealing, size of relevance area, the features of geobotanic al underwater exploration technology, description of the bottom communities with epiphytes and the peculiarities of bottom vegetation syntaxonomic analysis.

Keywords

• bottom phytocenoses
• vegetation classification
• Brown-Blanquet method
• methodological peculiarities
• Black Sea
• Azov Sea
• Russia