Research on roadside shrub communities in agricultural areas of the Szczecin Lowland showed their floristic and phytosociological differences resulting from the spatial distribution of the communities in relation to the road verge and confirmed that the roadside flora has a synanthropic character. The shrub communities were mostly composed of apophytes. The biological spectrum was dominated by hemicryptophytes and the main part of the phytocenoses was built of nanophanerophytes. The results demonstrated a stable floristic composition and persistence of roadside shrub communities and their important role in preserving the species diversity in the transformed agricultural landscape of the Szczecin Lowland.

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