Plant diversity in Palestine in general, and in the West Bank in particular, requires elaborated investigations to highlight the status the existent plant species and the factors by which they are affected. Among the urgent issues that have emerged lately is the detection of the status of plant diversity in the Tulkarm area due the allocation of the Gishori Industrial Complex in this area. This was achieved via conducting floristic analysis to detect the possible effects of the presence of the Gishori Industrial Complex on different plant taxa levels in the Tulkarm area. Therefore, plant specimens were collected from an experimental area (Ertah: opposite to the factory) and a control area (Thenabeh: far from the factory) for which a floristic analysis, plant life-form examination as well as a comparative study were carried out in this research. The obtained results of the floristic analysis revealed the presence of fifty-seven and 110 plant species belonging to forty-five and eighty-nine genera and eighteen and thirty-five families in Ertah and Thenabeh, respectively. The plant life-form analysis showed that the dominant plant life-forms in Thenabeh and Ertah areas separately are annuals, hemicryptophytes, and chamaephytes (74 and 65 %; 31.4 and 25.4 % and 10.1 and 5.2 %, respectively). In conclusion, the higher plant diversity in Thenabeh compared with the Ertah area at different studied taxa levels can be attributed to the nearness of Ertah to the Gishori Industrial Complex in comparison to the remoteness of Thenabeh to this industrial complex
(1) (PDF) A Study of the Environmental Impacts of the Gishori Industrial Complex on Plant Diversity in Tulkarm, Palestine. Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/337534284_A_Study_of_the_Environmental_Impacts_of_the_Gishori_Industrial_Complex_on_Plant_Diversity_in_Tulkarm_Palestine [accessed Jun 12 2020].

Title

Jordan Journal of Biological Sciences

Publisher

Hashemite University of Jordan

Publisher Country

Jordan

Indexing

Scopus

Impact Factor

0.47

Publication Type

Both (Printed and Online)

Volume

12

Year

2019

Pages

487-494