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Vegetation classification and its application are relevant globally
No full textThe annual editorial of Phytocoenologia 2019 brings bittersweet news about plot-based vegetation classification. On the one hand, the editorial of our Special Issue “Classification Approaches” (issue 48(2)) reported noticeable gaps in several regions of the world. On the other hand, articles in recent Phytocoenologia reach more and more of these underrepresented regions and extend to previously rarely classified plant formations. Our last issues 48(1–4) included several papers applying vegetation classification to address a number of ecological and socio-economical questions. We highlight the classification of steppe vegetation in Pamir Alai and Tian-Shan Mountains in Middle Asia and acknowledge the author with the Editor’s Award 2018. Our Ecoinformatics Section attracts many submissions, but we regret that in 2018 we did not publish any paper in the Phytosociological Nomenclature Section
Notas nomenclaturales sobre la vegetación del norte de la Península Ibérica, VII
No full textLoidi, J. & Biurrun, I. Notas nomenclaturales sobre la vegetación del norte de la Península Ibérica, VII. Lazaroa 19: 161-165 (1998). Se designan lectótipos para los nombres Brachypodio-Seselietum cantabrici, Aveno-Seslerietum hispanicae, Teucrio-Potentilletum splendentis y Calamintho-Seselietum montani, así como para algunas de sus subasociaciones. Se propone la inversión del primero de estos nombres (Seseli cantabrici-Brachypodietum rupestris) y la mutación de los dos siguientes (Helictotricho cantabrici-Seslerietum argenteae, Teucrio pyrenaici-Potentilletum montanae). Se designa neótipo para Rubo corylifolii-Salicetum atroeinereae y se valida la asociación Astragalo teresiani-Thymelacetum nivalis. También se hacen algunos comentarios nomenclaturales acerca de la lectotipificación de Microcnemetum coralloidis
GrassPlot v. 2.00 – first update on the database of multi-scale plant diversity in Palaearctic grasslands
No full textIdoia Biurrun, Idoia;Burrascano, Sabina;Dembicz, Iwona;Guarino, Riccardo;Kapfer, Jutta;Pielech, Remigiusz;Garcia-Mijangos, Itziar;Wagner, Viktoria;Palpurina, Salza;Mimet, Anne;Pellissier, Vincent;Marcenò, Corrado;Nowak, Arkadiusz;Bergamini, Ariel;Boch, Steffen;Csergő, Anna Mária;Grytnes, John-Arvid;Campos, Juan Antonio;Erschbamer, Brigitta;Jiménez-Alfaro, Borja;Kącki, Zygmunt;Kuzemko, Anna;Manthey, Michael;van Meerbeek, Koenraad;Swacha, Grzegorz;Afif, Elias;Alatalo, Juha M.;Aleffi, Michele;Babbi, Manuel;Bátori, Zoltán;Belonovskaya, Elena;Berg, Christian;Bhatta, Kuber Prasad;Cancellieri, Laura;Ceulemans, Tobias;Deák, Balázs;Demeter, László;Deng, Lei;Doležal, Jiří;Dolnik, Christian;Dramstad, Wenche;Dřevojan, Pavel;Ecker, Klaus;Essl, Franz;Etzold, Jonathan;Filibeck, Goffredo;Fjellstad, Wendy;Güler, Behlül;Hájek, Michal;Hepenstrick, Daniel;Hodgson, John G.;Honrado, João P.;Jägerbrand, Annika [anajad] (Jönköping University, JTH, Byggnadsteknik och belysningsvetenskap);Janišová, Monika;Jeanneret, Philippe;Kelemen, András;Kirschner, Philipp;Klichowska, Ewelina;Kolomiiets, Ganna;Kozub, Łukasz;Lepš, Jan;Lindborg, Regina;Löbel, Swantje;Lomba, Angela;Magnes, Martin;Mayrhofer, Helmut;Malicki, Marek;Mašić, Ermin;Meier, Eliane S.;Mirin, Denis;Molau, Ulf;Moysiyenko, Ivan;Naqinezhad, Alireza;Ninot, Josep M.;Nobis, Marcin;Pedersen, Christian;Pérez-Haase, Aaron;Peters, Jan;Pladevall-Izard, Eulàlia;Roleček, Jan;Ronkin, Vladimir;Savchenko, Galina;Shyriaieva, Dariia;Sickel, Hanne;Stevens, Carly;Świerszcz, Sebastian;Tölgyesi, Csaba;Tsarevskaya, Nadezda;Valkó, Orsolya;Van Mechelen, Carmen;Vashenyak, Iuliia;Vetaas, Ole Reidar;Vynokurov, Denys;Waldén, Emelie;Widmer, Stefan;Wolfrum, Sebastian;Wróbel, Anna;Zlotnikova, Ekaterina;Dengler, Jürge
RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE STANDARD EUROPEAN VEGETATION CLASSIFICATION
No full textA comprehensive classification system of European vegetation, colloquially known as the EuroVegChecklist, was published in
2016 by a team of 32 vegetation scientists led by Ladislav Mucina. It was accepted by the IAVS Working Group European Vegetation
Survey (EVS) as the standard classification of European vegetation. While the EuroVegChecklist accepted 1106 alliances
dominated by vascular plants, more than 300 new alliances have been described since its publication, and numerous revisions
of the syntaxonomical system have been proposed. The EVS has established the European Vegetation Classification Committee
to evaluate such proposals if submitted for evaluation, and some changes have been accepted. Updated versions of the classification
system with tracked changes compared to the EuroVegChecklist are published in the Vegetation module of the new online
database FloraVeg.EU. The most important changes were made to the coastal dune vegetation, Mediterranean pine forests
and bogs. The current number of alliances dominated by vascular plants is 1116. The Vegetation module of FloraVeg.EU has been
extended with new information not included in the original EuroVegChecklist, in particular, distribution maps for each syntaxon
and standardized attributes of 12 variables characterizing the structure, ecology and biogeography of each alliance. Queries
combining distribution data with attribute values can reveal different patterns of European vegetation diversity. In addition, the
database is complemented by photographs documenting different physiognomies of each European alliance in different parts of
its distribution range. Currently, the database contains 4259 photographs of 425 alliances, and the collection of the photographic
database is still ongoing
Benchmarking plant diversity of Paleartic grasslands and other open habitats
No full textCEABN/CIBIO - Vasco Silva (co-autor)Aims: Understanding fine-grain
diversity patterns across large spatial extents is
fundamental for macroecological research and biodiversity conservation. Using
the GrassPlot database, we provide benchmarks of fine-grain
richness values of
Palaearctic open habitats for vascular plants, bryophytes, lichens and complete vegetation
(i.e., the sum of the former three groups).
Location: Palaearctic biogeographic realm.
Methods: We used 126,524 plots of eight standard grain sizes from the GrassPlot
database: 0.0001, 0.001, 0.01, 0.1, 1, 10, 100 and 1,000 m2 and calculated the mean
richness and standard deviations, as well as maximum, minimum, median, and first
and third quartiles for each combination of grain size, taxonomic group, biome, region,
vegetation type and phytosociological class.
Results: Patterns of plant diversity in vegetation types and biomes differ across grain
sizes and taxonomic groups. Overall, secondary (mostly semi-natural)
grasslands and
natural grasslands are the richest vegetation type. The open-access
file ”GrassPlot
Diversity Benchmarks” and the web tool “GrassPlot Diversity Explorer” are now
available online (https://edgg.org/datab ases/Grass landD ivers ityEx plorer) and provide
more insights into species richness patterns in the Palaearctic open habitats.
Conclusions: The GrassPlot Diversity Benchmarks provide high-quality
data on species
richness in open habitat types across the Palaearctic. These benchmark data
can be used in vegetation ecology, macroecology, biodiversity conservation and data
quality checking. While the amount of data in the underlying GrassPlot database and their spatial coverage are smaller than in other extensive vegetation-plot
databases,
species recordings in GrassPlot are on average more complete, making it a valuable
complementary data source in macroecologyinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
BOOK REVIEW: Mucina, L., Bültmann, H., Dierßen, K., Theurillat, J. -P., Raus, T., Čarni, A., Šumberová, K., Willner, W., Dengler, J., Gavilán García, R., Chytrý, M., Hájek, M., Di Pietro, R., Iakushenko D., Pallas, J., Daniëls, F.J.A., Bergmeier, E., Santos Guerra, A., Ermakov, N., Valachovič, M., Schaminée, J.H.J., Lysenko, T., Didukh, Y.P., Pignatti, S., Rodwell, J.S., Capelo, J., Weber, H.E., Solomeshch, A., Dimopoulos, P., Aguiar, C., Hennekens, S.M. & Tichý, L. 2016. Vegetation of Europe: Hierarchical floristic classification system of vascular plant, bryophyte, lichen, and algal communities.
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