Forest communities of Küre Mountains in Bartın, Turkey

Abstract

The object of this study is to analyse the forest communities of Küre Mountains in Bartın (Turkey). Küre Mountains National Park, which is located on the Western Black Sea Region of Turkey. The altitude of the relevés varies between 48 m to 1098 m. The vegetation was collected and classified according to Braun-Blanquet methods. All of the relevéswere stored into TURBOVEG and the classification was done within JUICE software. Forest vegetation data consists of 121 relevés and 245 different taxa. As a result of the classification using TWINSPAN, ıt occurs a structure from thermophile forests through hygrophilous forests.