Agriophyte

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Under Agriophyten refers to plant species are the passes only through human influence in one of them not previously populated area (ie archaeologists or neophytes ) and which are established there in natural habitats, d. H. remain part of the natural vegetation even after the end of human influence and are independent of humans in their continued existence. Examples in Central Europe are waterweed , Douglas fir or Japanese knotweed (neophytes), the sweet chestnut introduced by the Romans in Germany , the ornamental plants grouped as stinzen and even the poppy (both archaeophytes), which normally grow in fields, colonized pioneer sites in floodplains and is now part of the natural vegetation.

literature

  • Ingo Kowarik: Biological Invasions. Neophytes and Neozoa in Central Europe. Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3924-3
  • Wilhelm Lohmeyer, Herbert Sukopp : Agriophytes in the vegetation of Central Europe. Landwirtschaftsverlag, Münster-Hiltrup 1992, ISBN 3-7843-2073-2 (series for vegetation studies 25)
  • Wilhelm Lohmeyer, Herbert Sukopp: Agriophytes in the vegetation of Central Europe. First addendum. 2001 (Braunschweiger Geobotanische Arbeit 8), pp. 179–220