Dry grasslands and thorn-cushion communities of Armenia: a first syntaxonomic classification

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Abstract
Keywords
Introduction
Study area
- Physiogeography, climate, soils, geology
- National typologies of Armenian dry grasslands
- Overview on the described syntaxa from the surrounding countries
Methods
- Field sampling in Armenia
- Data from external sources
  - Plot data from the surrounding countries
  - Environmental data from external sources
  - Attributes for the Armenian species
- Statistical analysis
  - Unsupervised classification
  - Ordination
  - Comparison of syntaxon characteristics
- Syntaxonomic assignment
Results
- Unsupervised classification and ordination of the West Asian and Caucasian dataset
- General overview of the Armenian plots
- Classification of the Armenian dataset
- Ordination of the Armenian dataset
- Syntaxonomic scheme
- Description of the syntaxa
- Differentiation of the syntaxa with respect to ecology, structure and biodiversity
  - Topography, climate and soil
  - Structure and species composition
  - Plot-scale species richness
Discussion
- Higher-level units of the dry grasslands and thorn-cushion communities of Armenia
- Lower-level syntaxonomic units
- Biodiversity and ecology of the studied communities
Conclusions and outlook
Data availability
Author contributions
Acknowledgements
References
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