Year: 2015
Type: article
Abstract: In the north eastern keys of Villa Clara province, species introduction is a very important phenomenon due to the negative affectations that causes to the native flora and ecosystems. In this study, introduced species were identified and characterized in Las Brujas and Santa Maria keys, as well as on the cause-way as access road. The sampling sites with greater proliferation of introduced species were: the Airport of Las Brujas Key, the Support Base, the beginning of the road to the Villa Las Brujas Hotel and Sol Cayo Santa María Hotel. The recorded species were located randomly on the sampling stations, and the introduction percent at species and family level exceeded 70 % in most stations and sampling points. Cluster analysis based on the percentage value of species by family and sampling station, resulted in four groups related to the location of the stations, the nature of human actions that carry out in them, and the presence of man in those places. A total of 168 introduced species were recorded, 116 are synanthropic, 98 exotic to Cuba and 66 invasive or potentially invasive. The results show that the increase of introduced species on the north eastern keys of Villa Clara is related to the touristic development in this region, and not due to natural patterns of colonization from main-land. Citation: Mas Castellanos, L., Romero Jiménez, M., Castañeda Noa, I., Perdomo, M. E., Arredondo Quevedo, I. & Rodríguez Alfonso, R. 2015. Caracterización de la flora introducida en los cayos Las Brujas y Santa María, Villa Clara. Revista Jard. Bot. Nac. Univ. Habana 36: 163-172. Received: December 2014. Accepted: April 2015. Online: 12 October 2015.
Language: Spanish
Subfield: Plant Science
Domain: Life Sciences
SDG: Life on land
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7220209403