L. Lőkös szerk.: Studia Botanica Hungarica 27-28. 1996-97 (Budapest, 1978)

Nagy, János, Figeczky, Gábor, Penksza, Károly, Fintha, István, Molnár, Attila, Tóth, Zoltán; Kalapos, Tibor: Contributions to the flora and vegetation of the Lake Bence-tó, NE Hungary

rinth of oxbow lakes and channels behind. The river occupied its present place in the Neoholocene. This runs roughly along the border of the warm temperate and cold temperate climatic zones. The number of sunny hours is ca 1950, annual mean temperature is 9.4-9.5 °C. Yearly precipitation is 630-660 mm, out of that 370-380 mm falls during the vegetation period. The prevailing wind is northerly (MAROSI and SOMOGYI 1990). Several papers dealt with the flora and vegetation of the Bereg Plain. The forests were studied by HARGITAI (1938, 1943), KOVÁCS (1958), NÉMETH (1980) and SIMON (1957), the grasslands by JUHÁSZ-NAGY (1959, 1960), and the peat bogs by SIMON (1953, 1954, 1960, 1968a, b, 1985a, 1992a), TÓTH and KALAPOS 1993 and VOZÁRY (1957). Data on the vegetation of Kaszonyi-hegy (KasFig. 1. The location of lake Bence-tó