Effect of the Size of a Populated Area on the Parameters of Synanthropic Vegetation Diversity

In this study, we addressed the problem concerning the importance of the size of a populated area (village) for revealing the diversity of vegetation at three levels: alpha-diversity (species richness of communities), beta-diversity (diversity of communities on the territory of the village), and gamma-diversity (the total flora of the village). The synanthropic flora was studied, i.e., the sum of species found in communities belonging to the classes Chenopodietea (communities of annual plants characteristic of initial stages of progressive successions and field-weed communities in row crops), Artemisietea vulgaris (ruderal communities of tall biennial and perennial species), Galio-Urticetea (communities of disturbed shaded habitats on nitrate-rich soils), Agropyretea repentis (ruderal communities with dominance of perennial grasses actively reproducing by vegetative diaspores), Plantaginetea majoris (communities of overgrazed pastures and trampled habitats), and Bidentetea tripartiti (synanthropic communities of waterlogged habitats).