Taissir Abu Al-Fadel ^(1)*

(1) Al-Rasheed International Private University for Science and Technology, Ghabagheb, Syria.
(*Corresponding author: Taissir Abu al-Fadel. E-Mail: mahmoud.diaf@yahoo.com).

Received: 2/08/2021           Accepted: 3/10/2021

Abstract:

We often witness annually many sites within the precincts of public roads, especially in the green belts sites, traces of burning dry weeds in order to get rid of them and prevent their spread. The research studies the resulting effects on plant biodiversity as a result of doing this process. The research method relied on the field follow-up of the development of plant life for each of the terrestrial herbaceous species and the planted companion trees that were directly burned in the summer and then at the beginning of the spring within selected samples, in which random table readings were taken to determine the dominant herbaceous species. The study proved that the method used in this site was useless. On the contrary, its use led to the burning of most of the accompanying trees. The results of the research recommend that you should search for ways to control other than the burning process, especially in previously wooded sites. But if the method of burning is the only method that can be applied, then before carrying out the burning process, the nature of harmful herbaceous plants and their resistance to burning processes must be known, as well as the nature of the accompanying trees and their sensitivity to fire.
Keywords: Burning dry weeds, Afforestation sites, Plant protection, stratified random samples, Public roads belts, Damascus countryside, Syria.

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