Biliavskyi S. Urban flora of Bila Tserkva town and its suburbs.

The dissertation is devoted to the current research of the flora of Bila Tserkva town and its suburbs. As a result of the comprehensive analysis, the species composition was identified and an annotated synopsis of the urban flora of Bila Tserkva and its suburbs was compiled; structural (systematic, geographical, biomorphological, ecological, and floraecotopological) and fractional analyses of the investigated urban flora were carried out, the town was zoned, and the classification scheme of its ecotopes was proposed; an assessment of the anthropic transformation of urban flora is given; the distribution of some invasive quarantine species in the territory of Bila Tserkva town was investigated. The species composition of the urban flora of Bila Tserkva includes 994 species of vascular plants from 520 genera and 109 families. The results of the comparative analysis of the urban flora of Bila Tserkva and the previously studied cities of Ukraine indicate a significant generic and species richness of the studied urban flora in comparison with the urban flora of other cities. The identified spectrum of the first 10 families of the urban flora of Bila Tserkva and its suburbs is generally typical for the floras of Holarctic.