Structural, ecological and biogeographical attributes of European vegetation alliances

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PREISLEROVÁ Zdenka MARCENO Corrado LOIDI Javier BONARI Gianmaria BOROVYK Dariia GAVILAN Rosario G GOLUB Valentin TERZI Massimo THEURILLAT Jean-Paul ARGAGNON Olivier BIORET Frederic BIURRUN Idoia JUAN Antonio Campos CAPELO Jorge CARNI AndraZ COBAN Suleyman CSIKY Janos ĆUK Mirjana CUSTEREVSKA Renata DENGLER Jurgen DIDUKH Yakiv DITE Daniel FANELLI Giuliano FERNANDEZ-GONZALEZ Federico GUARINO Riccardo HÁJEK Ondřej IAKUSHENKO Dmytro IEMELIANOVA Svitlana JANSEN Florian JAŠKOVÁ Anni Kanerva JIROUŠEK Martin KALNIKOVA Veronika KAVGACI Ali KUZEMKO Anna LANDUCCI Flavia LOSOSOVÁ Zdeňka MILANOVIC Dordije JOSE Antonio Molina MONTEIRO-HENRIQUES Tiago MUCINA Ladislav NOVÁK Pavel NOWAK Arkadiusz PÄTSCH Ricarda PERRIN Gwenhael PETERKA Tomáš RASOMAVICIUS Valerijus RECZYNSKA Kamila RUSINA Solvita DANIEL Sanchez Mata ARNOLDO Santos Guerra SIBIK Jozef SKVORC Zeljko STESEVIC Danijela STUPAR Vladimir SWIERKOSZ Krzysztof TZONEV Rossen VASSILEV Kiril VYNOKUROV Denys WILLNER Wolfgang CHYTRÝ Milan

Year of publication 2024
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Applied Vegetation Science
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Citation
Web https://doi.org/10.1111/avsc.12766
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/avsc.12766
Keywords alliance; attribute; Europe; EuroVegChecklist; parameterization; phytosociology; syntaxon; vegetation survey; vegetation type
Description The first comprehensive phytosociological classification of all vegetation types in Europe (EuroVegChecklist; Applied Vegetation Science, 2016, 19, 3-264) contained brief descriptions of each type. However, these descriptions were not standardized and mentioned only the most distinct features of each vegetation type. The practical application of the vegetation classification system could be enhanced if users had the option to select sets of vegetation types based on various combinations of structural, ecological, and biogeographical attributes. Based on a literature review and expert knowledge, we created a new database that assigns standardized categorical attributes of 12 variables to each of the 1106 alliances dominated by vascular plants defined in EuroVegChecklist. These variables include dominant life form, phenological optimum, substrate moisture, substrate reaction, salinity, nutrient status, soil organic matter, vegetation region, elevational vegetation belt, azonality, successional status and naturalness. The new database has the potential to enhance the usefulness of phytosociological classification for researchers and practitioners and to help understand this classification to non-specialists.
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