Formalized classification of European fen vegetation at the alliance level

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PETERKA Tomáš HÁJEK Michal JIROUŠEK Martin JIMÉNEZ ALFARO GONZÁLEZ Francisco De Borja AUNINA Liene BERGAMINI Ariel DÍTĚ Daniel FELBABA-KLUSHYNA Ljuba GRAF Ulrich HÁJKOVÁ Petra HETTENBERGEROVÁ Eva IVCHENKO Tatiana G. JANSEN Florian KOROLEVA Natalia E. LAPSHINA Elena D. LAZAREVIĆ Predrag M. MOEN Asbjorn NAPREENKO Maxim G. PAWLIKOWSKI Paweł PLESKOVÁ Zuzana SEKULOVÁ Lucia SMAGIN Viktor A. TAHVANAINEN Teemu THIELE Annett BIŢA-NICOLAE Claudia BIURRUN Idoia BRISSE Henry ĆUŠTEREVSKA Renata DE BIE Els EWALD Jörg FITZPATRICK Úna FONT Xavier JANDT Ute KĄCKI Zygmunt KUZEMKO Anna LANDUCCI Flavia MOESLUND Jesper E. PEREZ-HAASE Aaron RAŠOMAVIČIUS Valerijus RODWELL John S. SCHAMINÉE Joop H.J. ŠILC Urban STANČIĆ Zvjezdana CHYTRÝ Milan

Year of publication 2017
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Applied Vegetation Science
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Citation
Web http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/avsc.12271/abstract
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/avsc.12271
Field Ecology
Keywords Biogeography; Ecological gradients; Endangered habitats;Mires; Releves; Supervised vegetation classification; Unsupervised vegetation classification; Vegetation plots; Wetlands
Description Phytosociological classification of fen vegetation (Scheuchzerio palustris-Caricetea fuscae class) differs among European countries. Here we propose a unified vegetation classification of European fens at the alliance level, provide unequivocal assignment rules for individual vegetation plots, identify diagnostic species of fen alliances, and map their distribution. 29 049 vegetation-plot records of fenswere selected fromdatabases using a list of specialist fen species. Formal definitions of alliances were created using the presence, absence and abundance of Cocktail-based species groups and indicator species. DCA visualized the similarities among the alliances in an ordination space. The ISOPAM classification algorithm was applied to regional subsets with homogeneous plot size to check whether the classification based on formal definitions matches the results of unsupervised classifications. The following alliances were defined: Caricion viridulo-trinervis (sub-halophytic Atlantic dune-slack fens), Caricion davallianae (temperate calcareous fens), Caricion atrofusco-saxatilis (arcto-alpine calcareous fens), Stygio-Caricion limosae (boreal topogenic brown-moss fens), Sphagno warnstorfii-Tomentypnion nitentis (Sphagnumbrown-moss rich fens), Saxifrago-Tomentypnion (continental to boreo-continental nitrogen-limited brown-moss rich fens), Narthecion scardici (alpine fens with Balkan endemics), Caricion stantis (arctic brown-moss rich fens), Anagallido tenellae-Juncion bulbosi (Ibero-Atlantic moderately rich fens), Drepanocladion exannulati (arcto-borealalpine non-calcareous fens), Caricion fuscae (temperate moderately rich fens), Sphagno-Caricion canescentis (poor fens) and Scheuchzerion palustris (dystrophic hollows). The main variation in the species composition of European fens reflected site chemistry (pH, mineral richness) and sorted the plots from calcareous and extremely rich fens, through rich andmoderately rich fens, to poor fens and dystrophic hollows.
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