{"id":11484,"date":"2026-08-31T08:15:52","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T08:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/?p=11484"},"modified":"2026-08-31T08:15:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T08:15:52","slug":"diversity-of-spontaneous-plants-in-green-spaces-in-the-city-of-tartous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/?p=11484","title":{"rendered":"Diversity of spontaneous plants in green spaces in the city of Tartous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><strong>Abeer Moussa*<sup>1<\/sup>, \u00a0Zuheir Shater<sup>1<\/sup> and Basima Alcheikh<sup>1<\/sup><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><sup>1<\/sup> Department of Forestry and Ecology, Faculty of Agricultural Engineering, Latakia University, Lattakia, Syria.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">(*Corresponding author: Abir moussa, Email: <a href=\"mailto:Abeerceta@gmail.com\"><u>Abeerceta@gmail.com<\/u><\/a>).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><strong>Received:<\/strong> 26\/01 \/ 2026\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Accepted:13<\/strong> \/05 \/2026 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times; font-size: 17px;\"><strong>Abstract:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times; font-size: 17px;\">The research aimed to document the spontaneous herbaceous plant species growing in the green spaces of Tartous city and identify the factors influencing their diversity. The study was conducted during 2025. Twenty-four parks were selected, and 78 samples with dimensions (3*3 m) were randomly identified within them. All plant species were recorded and their abundance was estimated according to the Braun-Blanquet method. Biodiversity was estimated using species richness, Shannon\u2019s index, Simpson\u2019s index, and Gleason\u2019s index. Subsequently, the factors affecting the diversity of these plants were tested using Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and stepwise regression. The total number of species recorded in the parks was 170 plant species belonging to 129 genera and 36 families. The species Hordeum murinum was the most frequently present and was recorded in all parks, followed by the species Phyla nodiflora, Sonchus oleraceus, and then Medicago polymorpha. Therophytes (58%) and Hemicryptophytes (31%) were the most represented life forms, and the highest values for diversity indices were recorded in parks located on the outskirts of the city. Statistical analysis identified park size and distance from the city center as the key factors significantly influencing the diversity of spontaneous plant species.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><strong>Keywords:<\/strong> Spontaneous plants, Plant diversity, Biodiversity, Urban ecology, Urban green space.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">\u00a0Full paper in Arabic: <a href=\"http:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/wp-content\/uploads\/v13n4p12.pdf\">PDF<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abeer Moussa*1, \u00a0Zuheir Shater1 and Basima Alcheikh1 1 Department of Forestry and Ecology, Faculty of Agricultural Engineering, Latakia University, Lattakia, Syria. (*Corresponding author: Abir moussa, Email: Abeerceta@gmail.com).\u00a0 Received: 26\/01 \/ 2026\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Accepted:13 \/05 \/2026 Abstract:\u00a0 The research aimed to document &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/?p=11484\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sjar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11484"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11487,"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11484\/revisions\/11487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}