Comparison of the flora of Kemerovo with the nearby natural floras of the Bolshaya Promyshlennaya and Strelina river basins

A comparison of taxonomic and biomorphological structure of the floras of Kemerovo and basins of the Bolshaya Promyshlennaya and Strelina rivers – the closest studied native floras, comparable in area, has been carried out. The flora of Kemerovo is characterized by a large number of species (826), genera (411), and families (102) compared to the flora of the Bolshaya Promyshlennaya (538, 303, 89) and Strelina (511, 294, 85) river basins. The Jaccard index of similarity of the flora of Kemerovo with the flora of basins of the Bolshaya Promyshlennaya and Strelina rivers had low values, 0.54 and 0.51, respectively. The biomorphological structure of the city flora is characterized by a higher proportion of trees (4.9 %), shrubs (6.5 %), monocarpic terrestrial grasses (26.7 %) and a lower proportion of polycarpic terrestrial grasses (56.5 %) compared with the flora of basins of the Bolshaya Promyshlennaya (4.0 %, 4.4 %, 20.5 %, 64.6 %) and Strelina rivers (3.4 %, 4.2 %, 20.7 %, 65.6 %).