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2020-05-04
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School of Environmental and Rural Science, University of New England, Armidale, New South Wales, Australia
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Hunter, John
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5112-0465
Hewlett Hunter Pty Ltd, Armidale, New South Wales, Australia
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Hunter, Vanessa
2020-05-04
2020-05-04
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Aims: To use unsupervised techniques to produce a hierarchical classification of montane mires of the study region. Study area: New England Tablelands Bioregion (NETB) of eastern Australia. Methods: A dataset of 280 vascular floristic survey plots placed across the variation in montane mires of the NETB was collated. Vegetation types were identified with the aid of a clustering method based on group averaging and tested using similarity profile analysis (SIMPROF) and through ordinations using Bray-Curtis similarity and non-metric multidimensional scaling (NMDS). A hierarchical schema was developed based on EcoVeg hierarchy and was circumscribed using positive and negative diagnostic taxa via similarity percentage analysis (SIMPER) and importance based on summed cover scores and frequency. Results: We defined one macrogroup to include all montane mire vegetation of the NETB and within these two groups and twelve alliances. Conclusions: Our study re-enforced the separation of bogs from other montane mire systems and confirmed the separation of fens and wet meadows, a distinction that previously had not been independently tested. Based on our results many existing montane mire communities of the NETB have been ill-defined at multiple hierarchical levels, leading to confusion in threat status and mapping. Additionally, nearly half of the alliances we recognise were found to have no correlates within current classification systems, which necessarily has implications for the effectiveness of current conservation planning. Taxonomic reference: PlantNET (http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/, accessed June 2016). Abbreviations: BC Act = Biodiversity Conservation Act; EPBC Act = Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Act; NETB = New England Tablelands Bioregion; NMDS = non-metric multidimensional scaling; PCT = plant community type; RE = regional ecosystem; SIMPER = similarity percentage analysis; SIMPROF = similarity profile analysis.
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fen
marsh
New England Tableland Bioregion
similarity percentage analysis (SIMPER)
wet meadow
unsupervised classification
Montane mire vegetation of the New England Tablelands Bioregion of Eastern Australia
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10.3897/VCS/2020/38644
2020-05-04
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Department of Plant Ecology and Range Management, Desert Research Center, Cairo, Egypt
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Aims: Gebel Elba is an arid mountain range supporting biological diversity that is incomparable to any other region of Egypt. This mountain has a vegetation structure and floristic community similar to the highlands of East Africa and the southwestern Arabian Peninsula. We aimed to provide the first classification of the vegetation units on Gebel Elba and identify the environmental factors controlling their distribution. Study area: Wadi Yahmib and its tributaries, which drain the north-western slopes of Gebel Elba, south-eastern Egypt. Methods: On the basis of 169 relevés, we used TWINSPAN to classify the perennial vegetation. We calculated separate GAMs for the deciduous and evergreen species to describe the patterns for each leaf strategy type with elevation. We used CCA to quantify the relationship between the perennial vegetation and the studied environmental factors. To estimate diversity and our sampling strategy, we used rarefaction curves for species richness. Results: We identified seven communities along the elevational gradient of Wadi Yahmib and its tributaries. We found that each community was restricted to a confined habitat depending on its drought resistance ability. Deciduous Vachellia woodland was the main vegetation type on Gebel Elba, while evergreen Olea woodland appeared in small fragments at higher elevations. We analysed the distribution patterns of deciduous and evergreen trees along the elevational gradient. We found a turnover at 500 m, indicating a potential ecotone between the Vachellia and Olea woodlands that was occupied by a Ficus community. CCA revealed the importance of altitude and soil quality in determining the vegetation structure of Gebel Elba. The species richness increased with elevation as a result of reduced stress and increased water availability at the upper wadis. Conclusions: This study identified seven vegetation units in the study area and showed the importance of orographic precipitation, soil quality and the complex topography in determining the habitats. Taxonomic reference: Boulos (2009); names updated according to POWO (2019). Abbreviations: CCA = Canonical Correspondence Analysis; GAM = Generalized Additive Model; TWINSPAN TWINSPAN = Two Way Indicator Species Analysis.
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Acacia
Afromontane forest
classification
ecotone
Eritreo-Arabian
soil
vegetation
woodland
Plant communities and their environmental drivers on an arid mountain, Gebel Elba, Egypt
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10.3897/VCS/2020/48518
2020-05-04
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Department of Environmental Biology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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Attorre, Fabio
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7744-2195
Department of Land, Environment, Agriculture and Forestry, University of Padova, Legnaro, Italy
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Cambria, Vito Emanuele
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0481-6368
Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA), Rome, Italy
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Agrillo, Emiliano
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2346-8346
Faculty of Science and Technology, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Bozen, Italy
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Alessi, Nicola
Department of Statistical Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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Alfò, Marco
Department of Environmental Biology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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de Sanctis, Michele
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7280-6199
Department of Environmental Biology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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Malatesta, Luca
Department of Land, Environment, Agriculture and Forestry, University of Padova, Legnaro, Italy
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Sitzia, Tommaso
Department of Environmental Biology and Biodiversity, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy
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Guarino, Riccardo
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0106-9416
Department of Plant Biology and Ecology, University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain
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Marcenò, Corrado
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4361-5200
Department of Environmental Biology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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Massimi, Marco
Department of Environmental Biology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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Spada, Francesco
Department of Environmental Biology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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Fanelli, Giuliano
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3143-1212
2020-05-04
2020-05-04
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Aim: To propose a Finite Mixture Model (FMM) as an additional approach for classifying large datasets of georeferenced vegetation plots from complex vegetation systems. Study area: The Italian peninsula including the two main islands (Sicily and Sardinia), but excluding the Alps and the Po plain. Methods: We used a database of 5,593 georeferenced plots and 1,586 vascular species of forest vegetation, created in TURBOVEG by storing published and unpublished phytosociological plots collected over the last 30 years. The plots were classified according to species composition and environmental variables using a FMM. Classification results were compared with those obtained by TWINSPAN algorithm. Groups were characterized in terms of ecological parameters, dominant and diagnostic species using the fidelity coefficient. Interpretation of resulting forest vegetation types was supported by a predictive map, produced using discriminant functions on environmental predictors, and by a non-metric multidimensional scaling ordination. Results: FMM clustering obtained 24 groups that were compared with those from TWINSPAN, and similarities were found only at a higher classification level corresponding to the main orders of the Italian broadleaf forest vegetation: Fagetalia sylvaticae, Carpinetalia betuli, Quercetalia pubescenti-petraeae and Quercetalia ilicis. At lower syntaxonomic level, these 24 groups were referred to alliances and sub-alliances. Conclusions: Despite a greater computational complexity, FMM appears to be an effective alternative to the traditional classification methods through the incorporation of modelling in the classificatory process. This allows classification of both the co-occurrence of species and environmental factors so that groups are identified not only on their species composition, as in the case of TWINSPAN, but also on their specific environmental niche. Taxonomic reference: Conti et al. (2005). Abbreviations: CLM = Community-level models; FMM = Finite Mixture Model; NMDS = non-metric multidimensional scaling.
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cluster analysis
finite mixture model
forest vegetation
Italian peninsula
vegetation plots
Finite Mixture Model-based classification of a complex vegetation system
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10.3897/VCS/2020/53445
2020-05-04
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andscape Ecology, Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany
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Jansen, Florian
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0331-5185
Plant Biology and Ecology, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Bilbao, Spain
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Biurrun, Idoia
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1454-0433
Vegetation Ecology, Institute of Natural Resource Sciences (IUNR), Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW), Wädenswil, Switzerland
Plant Ecology, Bayreuth Center of Ecology and Environmental Research (BayCEER), University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
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Dengler, Jürgen
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3221-660X
Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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Willner, Wolfgang
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2020-05-04
2020-05-04
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With this inaugural editorial, we introduce Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS), the new gold open access (OA) journal of the International Association for Vegetation Science (IAVS). VCS is devoted to vegetation classification at any spatial and organisational scale and irrespective of the methodological approach. It welcomes equally case studies and broad-scale syntheses as well as conceptual and methodological papers. Two Permanent Collections deal with ecoinformatics (including the standardised Database Reports published in collaboration with GIVD, the Global Index of Vegetation-Plot Databases) and phytosociological nomenclature (edited in collaboration with the respective IAVS Working Group). We discuss the advantages of OA as well as challenges and drawbacks caused by the way it is currently implemented, namely “pay for flaws” and publication impediments for scientists without access to funding. Being a society-owned journal, editorial decisions in VCS are free from economic considerations, while at the same time IAVS offers significant reductions to article processing charges (APCs) for authors with financial constraints. However, it is recognised that sustainable OA publishing will require that payment systems are changed from author-paid APCs to contracts between the science funding agencies and publishers or learned societies, to cover the production costs of journals that meet both quality and impact criteria. Abbreviations: APC = article processing charge, GIVD = Global Index of Vegetation-Plot Databases, IAVS = International Association for Vegetation Science, JVS = Journal of Vegetation Science, OA = open access, VCS = Vegetation Classification and Survey.
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vegetation classification
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Vegetation classification goes open access
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2020-05-04
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Institute of Ecology and Geobotany, College of Ecology and Environmental Science, Yunnan University, Yunnan, China
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Tang, Cindy Q.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3789-6771
Institute of Ecology and Geobotany, College of Ecology and Environmental Science, Yunnan University, Yunnan, China
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Shen, Li-Qin
Institute of Ecology and Geobotany, College of Ecology and Environmental Science, Yunnan University, Yunnan, China
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Han, Peng-Bin
Institute of Ecology and Geobotany, College of Ecology and Environmental Science, Yunnan University, Yunnan, China
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Huang, Diao-Shun
Research Institute of Resource Insects, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Yunnan, China
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Li, Shuaifeng
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2555-1808
Forest Station of Yunlong Forestry Bureau, Yunnan, China
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Li, Yun-Fang
School of Ecological and Environmental Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
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https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8019-9707
Institute of Ecology and Geobotany, College of Ecology and Environmental Science, Yunnan University, Kunming, China
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Management Office of Tianchi National Nature Reserve, Yunnan, China
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Yin, Long-Yun
Management Office of Tianchi National Nature Reserve, Yunnan, China
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Yin, Rui-He
Management Office of Tianchi National Nature Reserve, Yunnan, China
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Xu, Hui-Min
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Wang
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Xu
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Yang
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Yu
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Aims: Pinus yunnanesis is commercially, culturally and economically important, but there is a lack of ecological data on its role in stand dynamics. Our aims are to clarify the structure, composition, regeneration and growth trends of primary mature P. yunnanensis forests. Study area: The Tianchi National Nature Reserve in the Xuepan Mountains, Yunlong County, northwestern Yunnan, China. Methods: We investigated forests containing P. yunnanensis, measured tree ages and analyzed the data. Results: Six forest types were identified: (1) coniferous forest: Pinus yunnanensis (Type 1); (2) mixed coniferous and evergreen broad-leaved forest: P. yunnanensis-Lithocarpus variolosus (Type 2); (3) mixed coniferous and deciduous broad-leaved forest: P. yunnanensis-Quercus griffithii (Type 3); (4) mixed evergreen broad-leaved and coniferous forest: Castanopsis orthacantha-P. yunnanensis-Schima argentea (Type 4); (5) mixed coniferous, evergreen and deciduous broad-leaved forest: Pinus yunnanensis-Schima argentea-Quercus griffithii (Type 5); (6) mixed coniferous and evergreen broad-leaved forest: Pinus armandii-Quercus rehderiana-Pinus yunnanensis (Type 6). The size- and age-structure and regeneration patterns of P. yunnanensis were highly variable within these six forest types. P. yunnanensis regeneration was well balanced in forest Type 1 as compared to the other five types. All six forest types were identified as rare and old-growth with P. yunnaensis trees reaching ages of more than 105 years (a maximum age of 165 years with a diameter 116 cm at breast height) except for the Type 4 forest (a 90-year-old stand). Growth rates of P. yunnanensis, based upon ring width measurements, were high for the first 10 years, then declined after the 10th year. In contrast, basal area increment (BAI) increased for the first 25 years, plateaued, and only declined as trees became older. Trees in the older age classes grew more quickly than younger trees at the same age, a consequence of either site quality or competitive differences. The BAI of P. yunnanensis in all age classes in the Tianchi National Nature Reserve was much higher than those of the secondary and degraded natural P. yunnanensis forests of other areas. Conclusions: The P. yunnanensis forests of the Tianchi area appear to be some of the last remnants of primeval and old-growth forests of this species. These forests are structurally diverse and contain a rich diversity of overstory, mid-story, and understory species. Taxonomic reference: Editorial Committee of Flora Republicae Popularis Sinicae (1959–2004) for vascular plants. Abbreviations: BA = basal area; BAI = basal area increment; DBH = diameter at breast height; H = height; RBA = relative basal area.
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Age-class
basal area increment
forest stratification
growth rate
old-growth forest
regeneration pattern
species diversity
Forest characteristics, population structure and growth trends of Pinus yunnanensis in Tianchi National Nature Reserve of Yunnan, southwestern China
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10.3897/VCS/2020/38013
2020-05-04
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Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal (UNC-CONICET), Córdoba, Argentina
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Zeballos, Sebastián
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0899-7928
Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina
Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal (UNC-CONICET), Córdoba, Argentina
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Giorgis, Melisa A.
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6126-6660
Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal (UNC-CONICET), Córdoba, Argentina
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Cabido, Marcelo
Dipartimento di Scienze, Università degli Studi di Roma Tre, Roma, Italy
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Acosta, Alicia Teresa Rosario
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6572-3187
Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal (UNC-CONICET), Córdoba, Argentina
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Iglesias, Maria del Rosario
Departamento de Biología Agrícola, Facultad de Agronomía y Veterinaria, UNRC, Córdoba, Argentina
Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal (UNC-CONICET), Córdoba, Argentina
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Cantero, Juan José
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1193-6050
2020-05-04
2020-05-04
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Aims: The native woody vegetation from the Espinal phytogeographic province in central Argentina, found in subtropical-warm temperate climates, represents part of the southernmost seasonally dry forest in South America. Although this vegetation has been studied for over a century, a complete phytosociological survey is still needed. This lack of knowledge makes its spatial delimitation and the establishment of efficient conservation strategies particularly difficult. The main goals of this study were to classify these forests and assess their current forest cover and to better define the extent of the Espinal phytogeographic province in Córdoba region, central Argentina. Study area: Espinal Phytogeographic Province in Córdoba region, central Argentina (ca. 101,500 km2). Methods: We sampled 122 stands following the principles of the Zürich-Montpellier School of phytosociology; relevés were classified through the ISOPAM hierarchical analysis. The extent of the Espinal phytogeographic province was established by overlaying previous vegetation maps, and a map showing the current distribution of forest patches was constructed based on a supervised classification of Landsat images. Results: Four woody vegetation types of seasonally dry subtropical forest were identified based on the fidelity and the abundance of diagnostic species: (1) Aspidosperma quebracho-blanco forest; (2) Zanthoxylum coco forest; (3) Geoffroea decorticans forest; and (4) Prosopis caldenia forest. These vegetation types were segregated along gradients of temperature and precipitation seasonality and soil-texture and sodium content. The remaining forest patches represent 3.43% of the extent of the Espinal province in Córdoba region of which only 1.05% is represented in protected areas. Conclusions: We present a classification of the Espinal forest based on a complete floristic survey. Despite the dramatic forest loss reported, our results show that some forest patches representative of the Espinal are still likely to be found in the area. However, urgent measures should be taken to establish new protected natural areas in order to preserve the last remaining forest patches. Taxonomic reference: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Cono Sur (Zuloaga et al. 2008) and its online update (http://www.darwin.edu.ar). Abbreviations: ISOMAP = isometric feature mapping; ISOPAM = isometric partitioning around medoids.
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central Argentina
chorotype
diagnostic species
dry subtropical forest
Espinal phytogeographic province
exotic species
floristic survey
gradient analysis
vegetation classification
vegetation map
vegetation plot
woody vegetation
The lowland seasonally dry subtropical forests in central Argentina: vegetation types and a call for conservation
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2020-05-04
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Greek Biotope/Wetland Centre (EKBY), The Goulandris Natural History Museum, Thessaloniki, Greece
Department of Botany School of Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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Zervas, Dimitrios
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2892-6046
Department of Botany School of Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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Tsiripidis, Ioannis
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9373-676X
Department of Vegetation and Phytodiversity Analysis, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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Bergmeier, Erwin
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6118-4611
Greek Biotope/Wetland Centre (EKBY), The Goulandris Natural History Museum, Thessaloniki, Greece
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Tsiaoussi, Vasiliki
2020-05-04
2020-05-04
2020
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Aims: This study aims to contribute to the knowledge of European freshwater lake ecosystems with updated and new information on aquatic plant communities, by conducting national-scale phytosociological research of freshwater lake vegetation in Greece. Moreover, it investigates the relationship between aquatic plant communities and lake environmental parameters, including eutrophication levels and hydro-morphological conditions. Study area: Lakes in Greece, SE Europe. Methods: 5,690 phytosociological relevés of aquatic vegetation were sampled in 18 freshwater lake ecosystems during 2013–2016. The relevés were subjected to hierarchical cluster and indicator species analyses in order to identify associations and communities of aquatic vegetation, as well as to describe their syntaxonomy. Multiple regression analysis was applied to investigate the relationship between vegetation syntaxa and environmental parameters of lakes, i.e. physico-chemical parameters and water level fluctuation. Results: Ninety-nine plant taxa belonging to 30 different families were recorded. Forty-six vegetation types were identified and described by their ecological characteristics, diagnostic taxa and syntaxonomical status. Thirteen vegetation types, the largest number belonging to the vegetation class Charetea, are considered to be new records for Greece. The distribution of the vegetation types recorded in the 18 freshwater lakes was found to depend on environmental parameters and levels of eutrophication. Conclusions: An updated aquatic vegetation inventory was produced for Greek lakes, and primary results showed that the presence/absence of aquatic plant communities and the community composition in freshwater lakes can be utilized to assess the pressure of eutrophication on lake ecosystems. Taxonomic reference: Euro+Med (2006–). Abbreviations: MNT = Mean number of taxa; WFD = Water Framework Directive.
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aquatic plant
charophyte
ecological status
eutrophication
Greece
lake
macrophyte
phytosociology
plant community
vegetation
A phytosociological survey of aquatic vegetation in the main freshwater lakes of Greece
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10.3897/VCS/2020/47180
2020-06-16
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National Museums of Kenya, Mombasa, Kenya
University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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Fungomeli, Maria
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8963-6405
Coastal Forests Conservation Unit, Centre for Biodiversity, National Museums of Kenya, Kilifi, Kenya
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Githitho, Anthony
Lòm Research, Rocca d’Arce , Frosinone, Italy
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Frascaroli, Fabrizio
Coastal Forests Conservation Unit, Centre for Biodiversity, National Museums of Kenya, Kilifi, Kenya
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Chidzinga, Saidi
Department of Ecology, Universidade Federal de Goiás, , Goiás, Brazil
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Cianciaruso, Marcus
University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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Chiarucci, Alessandro
2020-06-16
2020-06-16
2020
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10.3897/VCS/2020/47180
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Biodiversity data based on standardised sampling designs are key to ecosystem conservation. Data of this sort have been lacking for the Kenyan coastal forests despite being biodiversity hotspots. Here, we introduce the Kenyan Coastal Forests Vegetation-Plot Database (GIVD ID: AF-KE-001), consisting of data from 158 plots, subdivided into 3,160 subplots, across 25 forests. All plots include data on tree identity, diameter and height. Abundance of shrubs is presented for 316 subplots. We recorded 600 taxa belonging to 80 families, 549 of which identified to species and 51 to genus level. Species richness per forest site varied between 43 and 195 species; mean diameter between 13.0 ± 9.8 and 30.7 ± 20.7 cm; and mean tree height between 5.49 ± 3.99 and 12.29 ± 10.61 m. This is the first plot-level database of plant communities across Kenyan coastal forests. It will be highly valuable for analysing biodiversity patterns and assessing future changes in this ecosystem. Taxonomic reference: African Plant Database (African Plant Database version 3.4.0). Abbreviations: DBH = diameter at breast height; GIVD = Global Index of Vegetation-Plot Databases; KECF-VPD = Kenyan Coastal Forests Vegetation Plot Database.
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Coastal forests
conservation
Global Index of Vegetation-Plot Databases
biodiversity hotspots
Kaya
Kenya
plant species diversity
sacred forests
vegetation plot
A new Vegetation-Plot Database for the Coastal Forests of Kenya
Long Database Report
10.3897/VCS/2020/48228
2020-06-16
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University of New England, Armidale, Australia
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Hunter, John
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5112-0465
2020-06-16
2020-06-16
2020
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10.3897/VCS/2020/48228
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Aims: To use unsupervised techniques to produce a hierarchical classification of grasslands on coastal headlands of New South Wales in eastern Australia. Methods: A dataset of 520 vegetation plots scored on cover and placed across grasslands on coastal headlands (ca. 2000 km of coastline). Vegetation assemblages were identified with the aid of a clustering method based on group averaging and tested using similarity profile analysis (SIMPROF) using Bray-Curtis similarity. A hierarchical schema was developed based on EcoVeg hierarchy and was circumscribed using positive and negative diagnostic taxa via similarity percentage analysis (SIMPER) and importance based on summed cover scores and frequency. Mapping the occurrences grasslands was initially constructed using remote sensing which was verified and modified with on ground observations. Results: One group Themeda – Pultenaea – Zoysia – Cynodon grasslands and heathy grasslands was defined to include all coastal headland grassland vegetation of the New South Wales, and within this, three alliances and ten associations. Only one of the circumscribed associations is represented within the current state classification schema. In total 107 ha were mapped of which 68 ha occurred within secure conservation tenure. Conclusions: A number of unique and rare grassland assemblages on coastal headlands have to date gone undescribed. The most common alliance constitutes approximately 87% of extant grassland occurrences but is currently the only type listed as endangered and afforded protection. Although Poa spp. are listed as a threat to Themeda dominated assemblages on headlands data from this study suggest that this is unlikely to be the case. Taxonomic reference: PlantNET (http://plantnet/10rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/; accessed June 2019). Abbreviations: BC Act = Biodiversity Conservation Act; NMDS = non-metric multidimensional scaling; NSW = New South Wales; PCT = Plant Community Type; SIMPER = similarity percentage analysis; SIMPROF = Similarity profile analysis.
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EcoVeg
Grassland
Headlands
New South Wales
Grasslands on Coastal Headlands in New South Wales, south eastern Australia
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10.3897/VCS/2020/56372
2020-11-16
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University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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Willner, Wolfgang
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1591-8386
2020-11-16
2020-11-16
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The alliance is the basic unit of the EuroVegChecklist, and it often serves as the lowest rank in broad-scale vegetation surveys. However, there is hardly any literature about the concept and definition of this syntaxonomic rank, leading to uncertainty in its application. Here, I explore the original association concept of Braun-Blanquet, which was based on absolute character species, and I show that this concept is more or less identical with the units that we now call alliances. By also incorporating the concept of central syntaxa, I propose the following definition: “An alliance is a moderately broad vegetation unit that either has one or several absolute character taxa or that can be interpreted as the central alliance of an order.” The one-to-one relationship between character taxa and vegetation units gives the latter a clear biogeographical and evolutionary meaning. Restrictions to the validity of character taxa – either to certain geographical areas or to physiognomic types – cause theoretical and practical problems and should be avoided. Possible exceptions are species with similar frequency in two formations or species introduced to other continents. Taxonomic reference: Euro+Med PlantBase (http://ww2.bgbm.org/EuroPlusMed/) [accessed 1 July 2020].
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Alliance
Braun-Blanquet approach
character species
EuroVegChecklist
phytosociology
syntaxonomy
vegetation classification
What is an alliance?
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10.3897/VCS/2020/38629
2020-11-16
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University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, United States of America
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Franklin, Scott
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3922-8857
Union University, Jackson, United States of America
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Scheibout, Michael
Institute of Botany, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia
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Šibík, Jozef
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5949-862X
2020-11-16
2020-11-16
2020
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2020
10.3897/VCS/2020/38629
https://vcs.pensoft.net/article/38629/
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Aims: Vegetation classifications are useful for a variety of management purposes as well as scientific exploration. Local classifications are common throughout the United States but only recently have been integrated into a national classification system, which is now expected for local classifications. Study Area: The Pawnee National Grasslands (PNG) in northeastern Colorado, USA, has not been classified using plot data, and is thus a gap on the baseline knowledge of the PNG plant communities that hinders impact assessment of various anthropogenic activities. Methods: Here, we use 128 plots to classify the vegetation of the PNG using a two-step process: first, classifying the PNG plots alone to characterize local uniqueness, and then employing a semi-supervised classification with an additional 64 plots from areas to the north and east of the PNG, using standard classification procedures. Results: We document on the PNG the occurrence of two Classes, three Subclasses, four Formations, five Divisions, six Macrogroups, seven Groups and eight Alliances and Associations already described in the USNVC. Conclusions: The PNG is dominated by the Bouteloua gracilis-Buchloe dactyloides Grassland Association, which we further subdivide and describe as three local subassociations. The mixed-grass concepts in the USNVC do not exist in the PNG. Taxonomic reference: Hazlett (1998). Syntaxonomic reference: USNVC (2016). Abbreviations: BLM = Bureau of Land Management; CPER = Central Plains Experimental Range; ESA = Ecological Society of America; EST = Ecological Site Type; GPS UTM = Global Positioning System Universal Transverse Mercator; NEON = National Ecological Observatory Network; PNG = Pawnee National Grasslands; USNVC = United States Vegetation Classification.
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Colorado
Pawnee
semi-supervised classification
shortgrass
steppe
USNVC
vegetation
Vegetation Classification Exercise for the Pawnee National Grasslands, USA
Research Paper
10.3897/VCS/2020/60352
2020-12-17
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University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Bilbao, Spain
author
Biurrun, Idoia
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1454-0433
University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
author
Willner, Wolfgang
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1591-8386
2020-12-17
2020-12-17
2020
Vegetation Classification and Survey
2683-0671
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145-147
2020
10.3897/VCS/2020/60352
https://vcs.pensoft.net/article/60352/
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The European Vegetation Classification Committee (EVCC) was established in 2017 by the European Vegetation Survey to maintain and update a standard phytosociological classification of European vegetation. Vegetation scientists can send proposals for modification of specific parts of the EuroVegChecklist, which is used as a baseline. The proposals are accepted or rejected based on recommendations issued by a specialist group and after voting by EVCC members. Here we report the results of the first voting, which took place from 4 June to 4 July 2020. EVCC members voted on the recommendations issued for three proposals of change concerning spring and dune vegetation, and mediterranean grasslands. As a result, EVCC accepted to modify the classes Ammophiletea and Helichryso-Crucianelletea, but rejected to include the alliance Philonotidion seriatae and the class Charybdido pancratii-Asphodeletea ramosi. These rejections are not final, and similar proposals can be submitted again with new data supporting the proposed changes. Abbreviations: EVCC = European Vegetation Classification Committee; SG = Specialist Group.
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Alliance
class
European Vegetation Survey
EuroVegChecklist
EVCC
order
phytosociology
syntaxonomy
First Report of the European Vegetation Classification Committee (EVCC)
Report
10.3897/VCS/2020/61348
2020-12-21
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Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
author
Vassilev, Kiril
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4376-5575
Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
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Pedashenko, Hristo
University of Forestry, Sofia, Bulgaria
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Alexandrova, Alexandra
University of Forestry, Sofia, Bulgaria
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Tashev, Alexandar
Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
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Ganeva, Anna
Medicinal University, Pleven, Bulgaria
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Gavrilova, Anna
University of Saraevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Macanović, Armin
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8915-7818
Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria
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Assenov, Assen
Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
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Vitkova, Antonina
Plovdiv University, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
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Genova, Beloslava
Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria
author
Grigorov, Borislav
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5936-3573
Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
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Gussev, Chavdar
University of Saraevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Masic, Ermin
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5383-2431
Forest Research Institute, Bulgarian Academy of Science, Sofia, Bulgaria
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Filipova, Eva
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2591-2642
Plovdiv University, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
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Gecheva, Gana
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5747-255X
Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
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Aneva, Ina
Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
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Knolova, Illona
Directorate Central Balkan National Park, Gabrovo, Bulgaria
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Nikolov, Ivaylo
Plovdiv University, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
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Georgiev, Georgi
Regional Forest Directorate Blagoevgrad, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria
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Gogushev, Georgi
Unaffiliated, Sofia, Bulgaria
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Tinchev, Georgi
Plovdiv University, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
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Minkov, Ivan
Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria
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Pachedzieva, Kalina
Plovdiv University, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
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Mincheva, Katerina
Plovdiv University, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
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Koev, Koycho
Sofia University , Sofia, Bulgaria
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Lyubenova Ivanova, Mariyana
University of Forestry, Sofia, Bulgaria
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Dimitrov, Marius
Institute of Oceanology, Bulgarian Academy of Science, Varna, Bulgaria
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Gumus, Media
Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
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Nazarov, Momchil
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9083-9202
Directorate of Vitosha Nature Park, Sofia, Bulgaria
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Apostolova-Stoyanova, Nadezhda
Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria
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Nikolov, Nikolay
Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
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Velev, Nikolay
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6812-3670
University of Forestry, Sofia, Bulgaria
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Zhelev, Petar
Forest Research Institute, Bulgarian Academy of Science, Sofia, Bulgaria
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Glogov, Plamen
Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
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Natcheva, Rayna
Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria
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Tzonev, Rossen
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8112-1354
University of Saraevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Barudanović, Senka
Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria
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Kostadinova, Sofia
Biodiversity and Conservation Biology, WSL Swiss Federal Research Institute, Bern, Switzerland
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Boch, Steffen
Alterra, Wageningen, Netherlands
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Hennekens, Stephan
Field Crop Institute, Chirpan, Bulgaria
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Georgiev, Stoyan
Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
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Stoyanov, Stoyan
Unaffiliated, Sofia, Bulgaria
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Karakiev, Todor
University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
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Ilić, Tijana
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8259-2024
Beskydy Protected Landscape Area Administration, Rožnov pod Radhoštěm, Czech Republic
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Kalníková, Veronika
Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
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Shivarov, Veselin
Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
author
Vulchev, Vladimir
2020-12-21
2020-12-21
2020
Vegetation Classification and Survey
2683-0671
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151-153
2020
10.3897/VCS/2020/61348
https://vcs.pensoft.net/article/61348/
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The Balkan Vegetation Database (BVD; GIVD ID: EU-00-019) is a regional database, which was established in 2014. It comprises phytosociological relevés covering various vegetation types from nine countries of the Balkan Peninsula (Albania – 153 relevés, Bosnia and Herzegovina – 1715, Bulgaria – 12,282, Greece – 465, Croatia – 69, Kosovo – 493, Montenegro – 440, North Macedonia – 13 and Serbia – 2677). Currently, it contains 18,306 relevés (compared to 9.580 in 2016), and most of them (82.8%) are geo-referenced. The database includes both digitized relevés from the literature (65.6%) and unpublished data (34.5%). Plot size is available for 84.7% of all relevés. During the last four years some “header data information” was improved e.g. elevation (now available for 83.4% of all relevés), aspect (67.7%), slope (66%), total cover of vegetation (54.3%), cover of tree, shrub, herb, bryophyte and lichen layers (27.1%, 20.1%, 40.2%, 11.5% and 2.1%), respectively. Data access is either semi-restricted (65.6%) or restricted (34.4%). Most relevés (84.6%) are classified to syntaxa of different levels. The database has been used for numerous studies with various objectives from floristic, vegetation and habitat-related topics, to macroecological studies at the local, regional, national, continental and global levels. During the last four years, BVD data were requested from 111 different projects via the EVA and sPlot databases.
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Balkan Peninsula
Balkan vegetation
conservation
TURBOVEG
vegetation plot
vegetation classification
Balkan Vegetation Database (BVD) – updated information and current status
Short Database Report
10.3897/VCS/2020/60520
2020-12-21
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M.G. Kholodny Institute of Botany, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
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Vynokurov, Denys
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7003-6680
M.G. Kholodny Institute of Botany, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
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Didukh, Yakiv
Kryvyi Rih Botanical Garden of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine
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Krasova, Olga
Gogol State University of Nizhyn, Nizhyn, Ukraine
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Lysenko, Hennadiy
Institute for Evolutionary Ecology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
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Goncharenko, Igor
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5239-3270
Halych National Nature Park, Krylos, Ukraine
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Dmytrash-Vatseba, Iryna
M.G. Kholodny Institute of Botany, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
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Chusova, Olha
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8081-9918
M.G. Kholodny Institute of Botany, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
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Borovyk, Dariia
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7140-7201
National Taras Shevchenko University, Kyiv, Ukraine
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Петрович, Коломійчук
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5767-344X
Kherson State University, Kherson, Ukraine
author
Moysiyenko, Ivan
2020-12-21
2020-12-21
2020
Vegetation Classification and Survey
2683-0671
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149-150
2020
10.3897/VCS/2020/60520
https://vcs.pensoft.net/article/60520/
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The Eastern European Steppe Database (GIVD ID EU-00-030) includes 6961 vegetation plots of dry grassland vegetation from Eastern Europe (Steppe and Forest-Steppe zones, mountain regions), mainly from Ukraine (4579 relevés), Russia (2403 relevés) and Moldova (203 relevés). 3912 vegetation plots are from different literature sources (66 sources), 219 are from the phytosociological card-index of the M.G. Kholodny Institute of Botany, NAS of Ukraine, 2830 relevés are authors’ relevés. They were established in 1935-2019 years. The database comprises mainly the vegetation of the class Festuco-Brometea (around 95% of the dataset), and a small proportion of Koelerio-Corynephoretea canescentis, Artemisietea vulgaris, Crataego-Prunetea. The taxonomy of vascular species is given according to Cherepanov (1995) for vascular plants, Ignatov and Afonina (1992) for bryophytes and identification guides of the USSR (1971–1978) and Russia (1996, 1998) for lichens. The database is part of the European Vegetation Archive.
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Dry grassland
Eastern Europe
forest-steppe zone
steppe
steppe zone
Eastern European Steppe Database
Short Database Report
10.3897/VCS/2020/59869
2020-12-21
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Central Government Real Estate Agency, Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations, Wageningen, Netherlands
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de Ronde, Iris
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6008-6956
Central Government Real Estate Agency, Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations, Wageningen, Netherlands
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Haveman, Rense
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9127-4549
Central Government Real Estate Agency, Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations, Wageningen, Netherlands
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van der Berg, Anja
Central Government Real Estate Agency, Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations, Wageningen, Netherlands
author
van Heusden, Tom
2020-12-21
2020-12-21
2020
Vegetation Classification and Survey
2683-0671
1
155-161
2020
10.3897/VCS/2020/59869
https://vcs.pensoft.net/article/59869/
https://vcs.pensoft.net/article/59869/download/pdf/
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In this paper we describe the historical background and contents of the DUMIRA vegetation plot database (GIVD-code EU-NL-003). It contains 13,046 relevés, collected between 1995 and 2018 at military ranges in the Netherlands, and it is updated regularly with new data. Historical circumstances led to the placement of military ranges at the most nutrient poor, dry, sandy soils, and as a result, the database is built up mainly by plots of Calluno-Ulicetea and Nardetea heathlands, Koelerio-Corynephoretea grasslands, and Quercetea robori-petraeae woodlands. These classes account for more than 50% of the database. Coastal communities (e.g. from the Juncetea maritimae and the Therosalicornietea) and scrubs (e.g. the Lonicero-Rubetea plicati and Salicetea arenariae) are other important sources. Notably, throughout the database, Rubus species are identified to species level. Although the DUMIRA database was initially used for management related vegetation mapping projects, the data gave rise to several more scientific studies and papers. Taxonomic reference: Van der Meijden (2005) for vascular plants; Van de Beek et al. (2014) for Rubus; Kleukers et al. (2004) for Orthoptera. Syntaxonomic reference: Mucina et al. (2016). Abbreviations: DUMIRA = Vegetation plot database of Dutch Military Ranges; GIVD = Global Index of Vegetation-plot Databases; MoD = Ministry of Defence.
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Coastal vegetation
database
DUMIRA
grassland
heathland
management
military ranges
Netherlands
relevé
Rubus
scrub
TURBOVEG
DUMIRA – a management related vegetation plot database of Dutch military ranges
Long Database Report
10.3897/VCS/2020/61776
2020-12-21
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University of Basque Country UPV/EHU, Bilbao, Spain
author
Campos, Juan Antonio
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5992-2753
University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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Mercadé, Arnau
University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
author
Font, Xavier
2020-12-21
2020-12-21
2020
Vegetation Classification and Survey
2683-0671
1
173-174
2020
10.3897/VCS/2020/61776
https://vcs.pensoft.net/article/61776/
https://vcs.pensoft.net/article/61776/download/pdf/
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“SIVIM Deciduous Forests” is a thematic database established in 2015, focused on forest vegetation from the Iberian Peninsula and southern France. It was registered in the Global Index of Vegetation Databases (GIVD ID: EU-00-023) in January 2016. All types of temperate and submediterranean non-riparian deciduous forests of the phytosociological classes Carpino-Fagetea sylvaticae, Quercetea pubescentis and Quercetea robori-petraeae (formerly combined in the class Querco-Fagetea) are represented in the database. Currently, it contains 6,642 published vegetation plots of beech, birch, ash, lime and other deciduous mixed forests, as well as forests dominated by different species of deciduous and marcescent oaks, 100% of them classified at association level. Data are stored in TURBOVEG format, and are available upon request from the international vegetation-plot databases EVA and sPlot in semi-restricted regime. The relevés have also been included in SIVIM database, and thus they are freely available online. However, in SIVIM Deciduous Forests geolocation accuracy has been improved and the taxonomy and syntaxonomy unified. Plot size is available for 73% of the relevés, of which 82% are between 100 and 400 m2. Plant taxonomy is standardized to Flora iberica. During the last four years, data of SIVIM Deciduous Forests were requested via EVA and sPlot for different projects, and have been used for several studies with various objectives, from floristic, vegetation and habitat-related topics to macroecological studies, and from local to global scales. Abbreviations: EVA = European Vegetation Archive; GIVD = Global Index of Vegetation-Plot Databases; SIVIM = Iberian and Macaronesian Vegetation Information System.
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Deciduous forest
Iberian Peninsula
Pyrenees
Querco-Fagetea
relevé
secondary forest
submediterranean forest
temperate forest
vegetation-plot database
SIVIM Deciduous Forests – Database of deciduous forests from the Iberian Peninsula
Short Database Report
10.3897/VCS/2020/59977
2020-12-21
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University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Bilbao, Spain
author
Loidi, Javier
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3163-2409
2020-12-21
2020-12-21
2020
Vegetation Classification and Survey
2683-0671
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163-167
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10.3897/VCS/2020/59977
https://vcs.pensoft.net/article/59977/
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In order to stabilize the defining concepts of the higher rank syntaxonomic units such as class or order, the criteria of floristic content and unity of origin are enunciated. This is done with the aim of preventing the fragmentation of the large classes and the subsequent typological inflation. For orders, the criterion of specific floristic content is discussed, with orders that have been described to encompass seral secondary forests or the separation of forest vegetation from that which is dominated by shrubs rejected, due to their weak floristic characterization. These criteria have been applied to two forest vegetation classes: the European temperate (Querco-Fagetea) and the Mediterranean (Quercetea ilicis). For the first, it is argued in favor of maintaining a single class for all temperate deciduous forests in Europe instead of dividing them into four. Within this single class five orders are distinguished: Fagetalia, Quercetalia roboris, Quercetalia pubescenti-petraeae, Alno-Fraxinetalia and Populetalia albae, rejecting the orders that have been proposed for secondary forests because they have few characteristic taxa. For the sclerophyllous and macchia forests of Mediterranean Europe, the Quercetea ilicis class can be split into two or three geographical orders, rejecting the Pistacio-Rhamnetalia alaterni as a shrubby physiognomic unit. Taxonomic reference: Castroviejo S (coord. gen.) (1986–2012) Flora iberica 1–8, 10–15, 17–18, 21. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC, Madrid, ES. Syntaxonomic reference: Mucina et al. (2016).
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Floristic content
Quercetea ilicis
Querco-Fagetea
syntaxonomy
unity of origin
vegetation class
vegetation order
The concept of vegetation class and order in phytosociological syntaxonomy
Forum Paper
10.3897/VCS/2020/61660
2020-12-21
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University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Bilbao, Spain
author
Biurrun, Idoia
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1454-0433
Department of Plant Biology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
author
Font, Xavier
2020-12-21
2020-12-21
2020
Vegetation Classification and Survey
2683-0671
1
171-172
2020
10.3897/VCS/2020/61660
https://vcs.pensoft.net/article/61660/
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“SIVIM Floodplain Forests“ (GIVD ID: EU-00-024) is a thematic database focused on vegetation plots of riverine forests and scrubs from the Iberian Peninsula and the Pyrenees (Spain, Portugal and southern France). It was registered in the GIVD in February 2016. The data are available both from EVA and sPlot in semi-restricted regime. The database includes both digitized relevés from the literature and unpublished data. Many digitized relevés were derived from SIVIM (GIVD ID EU-00-004) and BIOVEG (GIVD ID EU-00-011), with which SIVIM Floodplain Forests thus partly overlaps. Currently it contains 4,736 vegetation plots of floodplain forests, alder carrs, willow scrubs, and tamarisk and oleander thickets, 99% of them classified at association level. Plot size is available for 94.6% of the relevés. Plant taxonomy is standardized to Flora Iberica. The database has been used for studies on vegetation classification at Iberian and European level, as well as studies on plant invasion, fine-grain plant diversity and macroecological analyses, most of them via EVA. Abbreviations: BIOVEG = Vegetation-Plot Database of the University of the Basque Country; EVA = European Vegeation Archive; GIVD = Global Index of Vegetation-Plot Databases; SIVIM = Iberian and Macaronesian Vegetation Information System.
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Alnetea glutinosae
Alno glutinosae-Populetea albae
floodplain forest
Iberian Peninsula
Nerio-Tamaricetea
Portugal
Pyrenees
relevé
Salicetea purpureae
Spain
vegetation-plot database
willow scrub
SIVIM Floodplain Forests – Database of riverine forests and scrubs from the Iberian Peninsula
Short Database Report
10.3897/VCS/2020/61419
2020-12-21
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University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany
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Bürger, Jana
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3898-6664
Sustainable Agricultural Sciences, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, United Kingdom
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Metcalfe, Helen
Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants, Braunschweig, Germany
author
von Redwitz, Christoph
Plant Protection Unit, Centro de Investigación y Tecnología Agroalimentaria de Aragón (CITA), Zaragoza, Spain
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Cirujeda, Alicia
University of Torino, Grugliasco, Italy
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Fogliatto, Silvia
Anses - Laboratoire de la Santé des Végétaux , Montferrier-sur-Lez, France
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Fried, Guillaume
Plant Breeding and Acclimatization Institute, National Research Institute, Błonie, Poland
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Fu Dostatny, Denise
Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Research Area II (“Land Use and Governance”), Müncheberg, Germany
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Glemnitz, Michael
University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany
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Gerowitt, Bärberl
Instituto de Agricultura Sostenible (CSIC), Córdoba, Spain
author
González-Andújar, José Luis
Instituto de Agricultura Sostenible (CSIC), Córdoba, Spain
author
Hernández Plaza, Eva
University of Catalunya, Castelldefels, Spain
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Izquierdo, Jordi
Czech University of Life Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
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Kolářová, Michaela
Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies, Jelgava, Latvia
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Ņečajeva, Jevgenija
Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté, Dijon, France
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Petit, Sandrine
Széchenyi István University, Mosonmagyaróvár, Hungary
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Pinke, Gyula
University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany
author
Schumacher, Matthias
Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants, Braunschweig, Germany
author
Ulber, Lena
University of Torino, Grugliasco, Italy
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Vidotto, Francesco
2020-12-21
2020-12-21
2020
Vegetation Classification and Survey
2683-0671
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169-170
2020
10.3897/VCS/2020/61419
https://vcs.pensoft.net/article/61419/
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“Arable Weeds and Management in Europe” is a collection of weed vegetation records from arable fields in Europe, initiated within the Working Group Weeds and Biodiversity of the European Weed Research Society (EWRS). Vegetation-plot data from this scientific community was not previously contributed to databases. We aim to prove the usefulness of collection for large scale studies through some first analyses. We hope to assure other weed scientists who have signalled willingness to share data, and plan to construct a full data base, making the data available for easy sharing. Presently, the collection has over 60,000 records, taken between 1996 and 2015. Many more studies for potential inclusion exist. Data originate mostly from studies exploring the effect of agricultural management on weed vegetation. The database is accompanied with extensive meta-data on crop and weed management on the surveyed fields. The criteria for inclusion were a minimum amount of information on the cultivated crop, and a georeference. Most fields were surveyed repeatedly, i.e. transects, multiple random plots, or repeated visits. All surveys aimed to record the complete vegetation on the plots. Sometimes, taxa were identified only to genus level, due to survey dates very early in the vegetation period. Plant taxonomy is standardized to the Euro+Med PlantBase.
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agriculture
arable weed
Europe
management
segetal plant
vegetation-plot database
Arable Weeds and Management in Europe
Short Database Report
10.3897/VCS/2020/54942
2020-12-30
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Department of Environmental Biology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
author
Fanelli, Giuliano
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3143-1212
Research Center for Flora and Fauna, Faculty of Natural Sciences, U.T., Tirana, Albania
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Hoda, Petrit
Departamenti Shkencave të Shëndetit dhe Mirëqenies sociale, Fakulteti Shkencave të aplikuara, K.U “Logos”,, Tirana, Albania
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Mersinllari, Mersin
Research Center for Flora and Fauna, Faculty of Natural Sciences, U.T., Tirana, Albania
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Mahmutaj, Ermelinda
Department of Environmental Biology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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Attorre, Fabio
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7744-2195
Department of Economics and Finance, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy
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Farcomeni, Alessio
Department of Land, Environment, Agriculture and Forestry, University of Padova, Legnaro (PD), Italy
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Cambria, Vito Emanuele
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0481-6368
Department of Environmental Biology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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de Sanctis, Michele
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7280-6199
2020-12-30
2020-12-30
2020
Vegetation Classification and Survey
2683-0671
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175-189
2020
10.3897/VCS/2020/54942
https://vcs.pensoft.net/article/54942/
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Aim: The aim of this study is to analyze the mesophilous forests of Albania including Fagus sylvatica and submontane Corylus avellana forests. Mesophilous Albanian forests are poorly known and were not included in the recent syntaxonomic revisions at the European scale. Study area: Albania. Methods: We used a dataset of 284 published and unpublished relevés. They were classified using the Ward’s minimum variance. NMDS ordination was conducted, with over-laying of climatic and geological variables, to analyze the ecological gradients along which these forests develop and segregate. Random Forest was used to define the potential distribution of the identified forest groups in Albania. Results: The study identified seven groups of forests in Albania: Corylus avellana forests, Ostrya carpinifolia-Fagus sylvatica forests, lower montane mesophytic Fagus sylvatica forests, middle montane mesophytic Fagus sylvatica forests, middle montane basiphytic Fagus sylvatica forests, upper montane basiphytic Fagus sylvatica forests, upper montane acidophytic Fagus sylvatica forests. These can be grouped into four main types: Corylus avellana and Ostrya carpinifolia-Fagus sylvatica forests, thermo-basiphytic Fagus sylvatica forest, meso-basiphytic Fagus sylvatica forest and acidophytic Fagus sylvatica forests. This scheme corresponds to the ecological classification recently proposed in a European revision for Fagus sylvatica forests Conclusion: Our study supports an ecological classification of mesophilous forests of Albania at the level of suballiance. Analysis is still preliminary at the level of association, but it shows a high diversity of forest types. Taxonomic reference: Euro+Med PlantBase (http://ww2.bgbm.org/EuroPlusMed/) [accessed 25 Novemeber 2019]. Syntaxonomic references: Mucina et al. (2016) for alliances, orders and classes; Willner et al. (2017) for suballiances.
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Albania
Corylus avellana
Fagetalia sylvaticae
Fagus sylvatica
Fraxino orni-Ostryion
phytosociology
Random Forest
Phytosociological overview of the Fagus and Corylus forests in Albania
Research Paper
10.3897/VCS/2020/60848
2020-12-30
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Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa, Poland
University of Opole, Opole, Poland
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Nowak, Arkadiusz
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8638-0208
Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa, Poland
Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków, Poland
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Świerszcz, Sebastian
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2035-0035
University of Opole, Opole, Poland
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Nowak, Sylwia
National Research Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russia
Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
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Nobis, Marcin
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1594-2418
2020-12-30
2020-12-30
2020
Vegetation Classification and Survey
2683-0671
1
191-217
2020
funder
Narodowe Centrum Nauki
10.13039/501100004281
10.3897/VCS/2020/60848
https://vcs.pensoft.net/article/60848/
https://vcs.pensoft.net/article/60848/download/pdf/
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Aims: To complete the syntaxonomic scheme for tall-forb vegetation of the montane and alpine belts in the Pamir-Alai and western Tian Shan Mountains in Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan with some remarks on its environmental predictors. Study area: Middle Asia: Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. Methods: A total of 244 relevés were sampled in 2013–2019 using the seven-degree cover-abundance scale of the Braun-Blanquet approach. These were classified with a modified TWINSPAN algorithm with pseudospecies cut-levels 0%, 5% and 25%, and total inertia as a measure of cluster heterogeneity. Diagnostic species were identified using the phi coefficient as a fidelity measure. NMDS was used to explore the relationships between the distinguished groups. Results: Our classification revealed 19 clusters of tall-forb vegetation in Middle Asia. Among others we found forb communities typical for Tian Shan, western Pamir-Alai, forb-scree vegetation of Pamir-Alai, dry tall-forbs and typical forbs of the alpine belt. A total of eight new tall-forb associations and five communities were distinguished. The forb vegetation of Middle Asia has been assigned to the class Prangetea ulopterae Klein. The main factors differentiating the species composition of the researched vegetation are elevation, mean annual temperature, sum of annual precipitation and inclination of the slope. Conclusions: The paper presents the first insight into the comprehensive classification of the alpine forb vegetation in Middle Asia and fosters progress in explaining the relationship of boreo-temperate and Mediterranean-like (Irano-Turanian) vegetation in western Asian and central Asian subregions of the Irano-Turanian phytogeographical region. Taxonomic references: The nomenclature of the vascular plants follows generally Cherepanov (1995) and for Bromus spp. The Plant List (2020) Version 1.1. http://www.theplantlist.org/. Syntaxonomic references: The names of syntaxa are used in accordance with Ermakov (2012), Gadghiev et al. (2002) and Nowak et al. (2018). Abbreviation: NMDS = Non-metric Multidimensional Scaling.
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Alpine vegetation
forb
Middle Asia
Pamir-Alai
phytogeography
Prangetea ulopterae
shiblyak
syntaxonomy
Classification of tall-forb vegetation in the Pamir-Alai and western Tian Shan Mountains (Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, Middle Asia)
Research Paper
10.3897/VCS/2020/62232
2020-12-30
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University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain
author
Jiménez-Alfaro, Borja
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6601-9597
University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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Font, Xavier
2020-12-30
2020-12-30
2020
Vegetation Classification and Survey
2683-0671
1
219-220
2020
10.3897/VCS/2020/62232
https://vcs.pensoft.net/article/62232/
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SIVIM Alpine (GIVD ID: EU-00-034) is a thematic database focused on vegetation plots from alpine grasslands of the Iberian Peninsula. The main aim of the database is to centralize historical and new vegetation plots of grassland-like communities above the treeline from Spanish mountains, the Pyrenees (including France and Andorra) and Serra da Estrela (Portugal). The database was registered in GIVD in December 2020, and it is currently available in EVA under semi-restricted regime. SIVIM Alpine includes both digitized relevés from the literature and unpublished data. Most of digitized relevés overlap with SIVIM (GIVD ID EU-00-004) but the header data and the geographical coordinates of SIVIM Alpine have been improved when possible. The database is routinely updated with new surveys conducted with GPS and detailed ecological data. Nowadays, SIVIM Alpine contains 6,420 vegetation plots corresponding to all phytosociological alliances described in the Iberian Peninsula for high-mountain grassland vegetation, 85% of them also classified at the association level. Plot size is available for 80% of the relevés. Plant taxonomy keeps the names provided by the original authors of the relevés, with an additional correspondence to Euro+Med and The Plant List, when possible. The database is continuously updated by revisiting the original sources. Different versions of the database have been used to vegetation analysis at national at continental scales. Abbreviations: EVA = European Vegeation Archive; GIVD = Global Index of Vegetation-Plot Databases; SIVIM = Iberian and Macaronesian Vegetation Information System.
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Alpine vegetation
Festucetea indigestae
Festuco-Ononidetea
Iberian Peninsula
Kobresio-Seslerietea
Mountains
Nardetea
Portugal
Pyrenees
relevé
Spain
vegetation-plot database
SIVIM Alpine – Database of high-mountain grasslands in the Iberian Peninsula
Short Database Report
10.3897/VCS/2021/59384
2021-02-17
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Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal (CONICET-UNC), Córdoba, Argentina
author
Zeballos, Sebastián
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0899-7928
Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal (CONICET-UNC), Córdoba, Argentina
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Cabido, Marcelo
Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal (CONICET-UNC), Córdoba, Argentina
Departamento de Biología Agrícola, Facultad de Agronomía y Veterinaria, UNRC, Río cuarto, Argentina
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Cantero, Juan José
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1193-6050
University of Rome 3, Department of Sciences, Rome, Italy
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Acosta, Alicia Teresa Rosario
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6572-3187
Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal (CONICET-UNC), Córdoba, Argentina
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Palchetti, Virginia
Instituto de Altos Estudios Espaciales Mario Gulich (CONAE-UNC), Córdoba, Argentina
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Argarañaz, Juan
Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal (CONICET-UNC), Córdoba, Argentina
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Marcora, Paula
Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal (CONICET-UNC), Córdoba, Argentina
Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina, Córdoba, Argentina
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Tecco, Paula
Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal, Córdoba, Argentina
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Ferreras, Ana
Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal (CONICET-UNC), Córdoba, Argentina
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Funes, Guillermo
Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal (CONICET-UNC), Córdoba, Argentina
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Vaieretti, Victoria
Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal (CONICET-UNC), Córdoba, Argentina
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Conti, Georgina
Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal (IMBIV-CONICET), Córdoba, Argentina
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Giorgis, Melisa A.
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6126-6660
2021-02-17
2021-02-17
2021
Vegetation Classification and Survey
2683-0671
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5-18
2021
funder
Secretaría de Ciencia y Técnica, Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto
10.13039/501100007868
funder
Secretaría de Ciencia y Tecnología, Gobierno de la Provincia de Córdoba
10.13039/501100007031
funder
Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
10.13039/501100002923
10.3897/VCS/2021/59384
https://vcs.pensoft.net/article/59384/
https://vcs.pensoft.net/article/59384/download/pdf/
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Aims: Trithrinax campestris is one of the palm species with the southernmost distribution in the Neotropics. Despite that the vegetation types in which T. campestris occurs are nowadays heavily threatened by land use and land cover changes, their floristic composition and structure are still to be documented. In order to characterize T. campestris habitats, the aim of this study was to describe the floristic composition of the vegetation types in which this palm occurs and their relationships with different environmental factors. Study area: The survey was conducted in central Argentina in an area comprising the southern extreme of the distribution of T. campestris in the following phytogeographic areas: Espinal, Lowland and Mountain Chaco. Methods: Following the Braun-Blanquet approach we collected 92 floristic relevés recording a total of 601 vascular plant species. Vegetation was classified through the ISOPAM hierarchical analysis. Bioclimatic and elevation data were related to the floristic data through the ISOMAP ordination. Remote-sensed images (Landsat TM, ETM+ and OLI) were used to characterize the fire frequency in the 92 stands. Results: Four vegetation types that differed in floristic composition and in diagnostic species were discriminated: 1.1 Celtis tala/Sida rhombifolia closed forest; 1.2 Aspidosperma quebracho-blanco/Prosopis kuntzei open forest; 2.1 Jarava pseudoichu/Vachellia caven open savanna; and 2.2 Acalypha variabilis/Nassella cordobensis scrubland. The ISOMAP ordination showed that differences in floristic composition were related to elevation, topography and climatic variables.Out of the 92 stands, only 21 showed the occurrence of fires during the period 1999–2018. Conclusions: Our results evidenced that vegetation types (forests, savannas and scrublands) comprising T. campestris developed in a wide range of environmental conditions. This is the first study that focuses on all vegetation types in which T. campestris occurs in central Argentina and it is relevant for conservation and sustainable management of the only native palm species in the flora of this part of the country. Taxonomic reference: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Cono Sur (Zuloaga et al. 2008) and its online update (http://www.darwin.edu.ar). Abbreviations: ISOMAP = isometric feature mapping; ISOPAM = isometric partitioning around medoids.
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chorotype
endemism
environmental variable
Espinal
floristic composition
palm
species richness
vegetation type
Floristic patterns of the neotropical forests, savannas and scrublands with Trithrinax campestris (Arecaceae) in central Argentina
Research Paper
10.3897/VCS/2021/60739
2021-02-17
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Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia
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Janišová, Monika
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6445-0823
Muzeul Național al Țăranului Român, Bucharest, Romania
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Iuga, Anamaria
West University of Timișoara, Timisoara, Romania
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Ivascu, Cosmin
University of Graz, Graz, Austria
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Magnes, Martin
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5453-5735
2021-02-17
2021-02-17
2021
Vegetation Classification and Survey
2683-0671
2
19-35
2021
10.3897/VCS/2021/60739
https://vcs.pensoft.net/article/60739/
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The traditional, low-input use of grassland in Central and Eastern Europe has provided high-quality food, clothing and manure for millennia. As an outcome of sustainable low-intensity agriculture, some rural areas have globally significant species richness. Traditional farming is still well preserved in several regions of the Carpathian Mountains. This is a unique opportunity to use the wisdom of our ancestors to keep grassland biodiversity for our descendants. We present a sampling methodology to survey traditionally managed grassland ecosystems holistically, including abiotic, biological and cultural phenomena, and reflect thus the multidimensionality of traditional farming. Our main objective was to reveal the connection between particular management practices and precisely measured plot plant diversity. Our motivation was to identify traditional farming approaches that result in both high biodiversity and sustainable grassland utilization in particular region, and confirm their impact also using statistical tests. The multitaxon vegetation sampling at seven spatial scales combined with soil analyses, detailed land-use information derived from interviews with the land parcel owners, satellite pictures and historical materials provide potentially valuable data for several scientific disciplines including syntaxonomy, plant ecology, environmental anthropology and ethnology. Examples of grassland management practices based on traditional ecological knowledge can serve as an inspiration for developing modern biodiversity conservation strategies applicable for rural regions. The database Grassland with Tradition is registered in Global Index of Vegetation-Plot Databases (GIVD) with the identifier ID EU-00-032. To date it contains data from 31 study sites in 7 countries (Austria, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Ukraine). Syntaxonomic reference: Mucina et al. (2016).
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ecology
ethnology
grassland management
history
land use
low-input farming
local ecological knowledge
meadow
pasture
plant diversity
sampling approach
typology
vegetation-plot database
Grassland with tradition: sampling across several scientific disciplines
VCS Methods
10.3897/VCS/2021/63608
2021-02-17
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University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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Willner, Wolfgang
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1591-8386
University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Bilbao, Spain
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Biurrun, Idoia
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1454-0433
Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW), Wädenswil, Switzerland
University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Leipzig, Germany
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Dengler, Jürgen
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3221-660X
University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany
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Jansen, Florian
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0331-5185
2021-02-17
2021-02-17
2021
Vegetation Classification and Survey
2683-0671
2
1-4
2021
10.3897/VCS/2021/63608
https://vcs.pensoft.net/article/63608/
https://vcs.pensoft.net/article/63608/download/pdf/
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We report on the completed first volume of Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS), which included ten Research Papers, six Short Database Reports, two Long Database Reports, two Forum Papers and one Report. We highlight three outstanding papers as examples of contributions of which we would like to see more in the future. Finally, we announce a new article type “VCS Methods” and report about the status of two upcoming Special Collections. Lists of colleagues who served as reviewers or linguistic editors in 2020 are included in appendices. Abbreviations: IAVS = International Association for Vegetation Science; VCS = Vegetation Classification and Survey.
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ecoinformatics
editorial
gold open access
International Association for Vegetation Science (IAVS)
scientific journal
vegetation classification
vegetation survey
vegetation-plot database
Vegetation Classification and Survey: the first year
Editorial
10.3897/VCS/2021/62998
2021-03-15
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University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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Bergmeier, Erwin
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6118-4611
Université de Genève, Chambésy, Switzerland
Centre alpien de Phytogéographie, Fondation J.-M. Aubert, Champex-Lac, Switzerland
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Theurillat, Jean Paul
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1843-5809
2021-03-15
2021-03-15
2021
Vegetation Classification and Survey
2683-0671
2
37-39
2021
10.3897/VCS/2021/62998
https://vcs.pensoft.net/article/62998/
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To comply with the International Code of Phytosociological Nomenclature (ICPN), we validate the names Saturejo spinosae-Scutellarietalia hirtae, Arenarion creticae, Verbascion spinosi and Lomelosio sphacioticae-Centranthetum sieberi. Two divergent interpretations of Article 3i about the point at issue in the validation of the first three names are discussed. Syntaxonomic reference: Bergmeier (2002), unless indicated otherwise in the text.
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Crete
high mountains
phytosociology
syntaxon
validation
Validation of the names of some Cretan high mountain syntaxa, with considerations about Article 3i, ICPN
Short Communication
10.3897/VCS/2021/60575
2021-04-14
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University of Wyoming, Laramie, United States of America
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Fleri, Jesse
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3824-9915
University of Wyoming, Laramie, United States of America
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Wessel, Sienna
University of Wyoming, Laramie, United States of America
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Atkins, David
University of Wyoming, Laramie, United States of America
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Case, Nicholas
University of Wyoming, Laramie, United States of America
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Albeke, Shannon
Department of Botany, University of Wyoming, Laramie, United States of America
author
Laughlin, Daniel
2021-04-14
2021-04-14
2021
Vegetation Classification and Survey
2683-0671
2
41-45
2021
funder
National Science Foundation
10.13039/100000001
10.3897/VCS/2021/60575
https://vcs.pensoft.net/article/60575/
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The Global Vegetation Project (http://gveg.wyobiodiversity.org) is a new initiative to host an online database of open-access, georeferenced vegetation photos. The mission of the Global Vegetation Project is ‘to inspire and empower people of all ages to learn about the diversity of vegetation on our planet and to provide educators with a resource for teaching ecology online’. The beta release includes two R-Shiny web applications that allow users to 1) submit photos of plant communities through a user-friendly online portal and 2) explore submissions made by others through an interactive global map. The spatial coordinates of each photo are used to extract information about the location including long-term and recent climate data to create Walter and Leith climate diagrams for each photo. User submitted photos can be filtered by biome, temperature, precipitation, and elevation on the map. The Global Vegetation Project will evolve to match the needs of vegetation scientists and ecology educators. We intend to enhance the educational value of the mapping application by incorporating additional search features, global data layers, and the publication of curricula geared towards primary, secondary, and post-secondary education. We encourage the global community of vegetation scientists to use this resource in their classrooms and to contribute photos of vegetation to grow this valuable resource for the world.
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community ecology
ecology
geodatabase
global database
gVeg
R-Shiny
Global Vegetation Project: An Interactive Online Map of Open-Access Vegetation Photos
Report
10.3897/VCS/2021/39583
2021-04-19
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Kazan Federal University, Kazan, Russia
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Kozhevnikova, Maria
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8771-5679
Kazan Federal University, Kazan, Russia
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Prokhorov, Vadim
2021-04-19
2021-04-19
2021
Vegetation Classification and Survey
2683-0671
2
47-58
2021
10.3897/VCS/2021/39583
https://vcs.pensoft.net/article/39583/
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Aims: To develop a syntaxonomic classification of the xero-mesophytic broad-leaved oak forests of the Republic of Tatarstan with a preliminary analysis of their unique ecological features. Study area: The Republic of Tatarstan (European part of the Russian Federation). Methods: A total of 91 relevés were processed. Most of them (73.6%) were sampled in Tatarstan during 2016 and 2017, the remaining ones (26.4%) were historical published data. They were classified by means of a modified TWINSPAN algorithm using total inertia as a heterogeneity measure. Diagnostic, constant, and dominant species were identified using analytical tools in the JUICE 7.0 program. Results: The xero-mesophytic forests of the study area were assigned to four clusters. We describe two of them as new associations: Astragalo ciceri-Quercetum roboris ass. nova and Sanguisorbo officinalis-Quercetum roboris ass. nova. We classify them within the class Quercetea pubescentis. Conclusions: Our study is the first attempt to classify thermophilous and xero-mesophytic oak forests of the Republic of Tatarstan using the Braun-Blanquet system. Taxonomic reference: Czerepanov (1995). Syntaxonomic reference: Mucina et al. (2016) unless stated otherwise in the text. Abbreviations: GIVD = Global Index of Vegetation-Plot Databases; NMDS = Non-metric multidimensional scaling.
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Aceri tatarici-Quercion
Lathyro pisiformis-Quercion
oak forest
Quercetalia pubescenti-petraeae
Quercetea pubescentis
Republic of Tatarstan
xero-mesophytic forest
Syntaxonomy of the xero-mesophytic oak forests in the Republic of Tatarstan (Eastern Europe)
Research Paper
10.3897/VCS/2021/64911
2021-05-05
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University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
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Alvarez, Miguel
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1500-1834
Department of Socio-Economic Sciences, FiBL, Frick, Switzerland
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Curran, Michael
National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya
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Malombe, Itambo
2021-05-05
2021-05-05
2021
Vegetation Classification and Survey
2683-0671
2
59-63
2021
funder
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
10.13039/501100001659
10.3897/VCS/2021/64911
https://vcs.pensoft.net/article/64911/
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SWEA-Dataveg is a vegetation-plot database collecting observations mainly in sub-Saharan Africa but also open to the rest of the African continent. To date this database contains more than 5,500 plot observations provided by 47 sources (projects, monographs, and articles). While the database is stored in PostgreSQL (including the PostGIS extension), the R-package “vegtable” implements a suitable exchange format. In this article we assess the current content of SWEA-Database and introduce its history and future as a repository of data for syntaxonomic assessments and macroecological research.
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ecoinformatics
plant biodiversity
taxlist
syntaxonomy
vegetation ecology
vegtable
SWEA-Dataveg: A vegetation database for sub-Saharan Africa
Long Database Report
10.3897/VCS/2021/66398
2021-06-24
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University of Castilla-La Mancha, Toledo, Spain
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Fernández-González, Federico
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1234-4065
University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
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Silva, Vasco
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2729-1824
Fondation J.-M. Aubert, Champex-Lac, Switzerland
University of Geneva, Chambésy, Switzerland
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Theurillat, Jean Paul
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1843-5809
2021-06-24
2021-06-24
2021
Vegetation Classification and Survey
2683-0671
2
65-69
2021
10.3897/VCS/2021/66398
https://vcs.pensoft.net/article/66398/
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After a nomenclatural revision of the higher rank syntaxa of the class Isoeto-Nanojuncetea, the conservation of the order name Nanocyperetalia against Nanocypero-Polygonetalia and a conserved type for the order Isoetetalia are proposed. (26) Nanocyperetalia Klika 1935: 292, nom. cons. propos. Typus: Nanocyperion flavescentis Koch 1926: 20–28 (holotypus) (≡) Nanocypero-Polygonetalia Koch 1926: 20, nom. rejic. propos. (27) Isoetetalia Braun-Blanquet 1936a: 142, typus cons. propos. Typus: Isoetion Braun-Blanquet 1936a: 141 (typus cons. propos.) Taxonomic reference: Euro+Med (2020). Syntaxonomic reference: Mucina et al. (2016). Abbreviations: ICPN = International Code of Phytosociological Nomenclature.
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Isoeto-Nanojuncetea
nomenclature
phytosociology
temporary ponds
vegetation
Proposals (26–27): to conserve the names Nanocyperetalia Klika 1935 and Isoetetalia Braun-Blanquet 1936
Nomenclatural Proposal
10.3897/VCS/2021/61463
2021-06-30
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University of New England, Armidale, Australia
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Hunter, John
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5112-0465
University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, United States of America
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Franklin, Scott
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3922-8857
Northern Territory Government, Darwin, Australia
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Luxton, Sarah
University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Bilbao, Spain
author
Loidi, Javier
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3163-2409
2021-06-30
2021-06-30
2021
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2683-0671
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73-85
2021
10.3897/VCS/2021/61463
https://vcs.pensoft.net/article/61463/
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Aims: We attempt to review the conceptualisation, science and classification of biomes and propose to limit the definition of a biome to potential natural vegetation as determined by general environmental variables. Results: Classifying the distribution and abundance of vegetation types on earth has been a central tenet of vegetation science since Humboldt’s classic studies in the early 1800s. While the importance of such classifications only grows in the wake of extreme changes, this review demonstrates that there are many fundamentally different approaches to define biomes, hitherto with limited efforts for unifying concepts among disciplines. Consequently, there is little congruence between the resulting maps, and widely used biome maps fail to delimit areas with consistent climate profiles. Conclusions: Gaps of knowledge are directly related to research avenues, and suggestions for defining and classifying biomes, as well as modelling their distributions, are provided. These suggestions highlight the primary importance of the climate, argue against using anthropogenic drivers to define biomes and stabilize the concept of biome to escape from the current polysemy. The last two decades have seen an emergence of new approaches, e.g., using satellite imagery to determine growth patterns of vegetation, leading to defining biomes based on the objective, observable qualities of the vegetation based on current reality.
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climate
climax vegetation
ecozone
formation
global
potential natural vegetation
terrestrial
typology
vegetation classification
zonal
Terrestrial biomes: a conceptual review
Review and Synthesis
10.3897/VCS/2021/68430
2021-06-30
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University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
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Silva, Vasco
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2729-1824
Complutense University, Madrid, Spain
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Molina Abril, José Antonio
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4348-6015
2021-06-30
2021-06-30
2021
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10.3897/VCS/2021/68430
https://vcs.pensoft.net/article/68430/
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We propose to complete two association names of the class Isoeto-Nanojuncetea by selecting the name-giving taxa according to Art. 40 of the International Code of Phytosociological Nomenclature. Taxonomic reference: Euro+Med (2021).
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Isoeto-Nanojuncetea
nomenclature
phytosociology
Requests (1–2) for a binding decision on the name-giving taxa in the names Isoeto-Cicendietum Br.-Bl. 1967 and Verbeno-Gnaphalietum Rivas Goday 1970
Nomenclatural Proposal
10.3897/VCS/2021/68916
2021-08-12
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Instituto Superior de Ciências da Educação da Huíla, Lubango, Angola
author
Gonçalves, Francisco
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8859-7491
Instituto Superior de Ciências da Educação da Huíla, Lubango, Angola
author
Chisingui, António
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5137-1448
Instituto Superior de Ciências da Educação da Huíla, Lubango, Angola
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Luís, José
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7485-6931
Instituto Superior de Ciências da Educação da Huíla, Lubango, Angola
author
Rafael, Marina
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1617-8412
Instituto Superior de Ciências da Educação da Huíla, Lubango, Angola
author
Tchamba, José
Instituto Superior de Ciências da Educação da Huíla, Lubango, Angola
author
Cachissapa, Manuel
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3770-2482
Instituto Superior de Ciências da Educação da Huíla, Lubango, Angola
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Caluvino, Isaías
Instituto Superior de Ciências da Educação da Huíla, Lubango, Angola
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Bambi, Bernardino do Rosário
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5038-2305
Instituto Superior de Ciências da Educação da Huíla, Lubango, Angola
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Alexandre, José
Instituto Superior de Ciências da Educação da Huíla, Lubango, Angola
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Chissingui, Magno
Instituto Superior de Ciências da Educação da Huíla, Lubango, Angola
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Manuel, Silva
Universidade Mandume Ya Ndemufayo, Lubango, Angola
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Jacinto, Henrique
University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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Finckh, Manfred
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2186-0854
University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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Meller, Paulina
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6711-4385
University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
author
Jürgens, Norbert
Namibia University of Science and Technology, Windhoek, Namibia
author
Revermann, Rasmus
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7044-768X
2021-08-12
2021-08-12
2021
Vegetation Classification and Survey
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109-116
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funder
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst
10.13039/501100001655
funder
Southern African Science Service Centre for Climate Change and Adaptive Land Management
10.13039/501100011013
10.3897/VCS/2021/68916
https://vcs.pensoft.net/article/68916/
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Angola is a country in south-central Africa, particularly rich in biodiversity. Despite the efforts recently made to document its biodiversity, there is a need for standardized sampling methods to document and compare the variety of ecosystems and plants occurring in the country. With this database report we aim to document the abundance and diversity of woody species in the woodlands of Huíla province. The database hosts the results of a standardised plot-based vegetation survey, consisting of 448 vegetation plots distributed throughout the 14 municipalities and Bicuar National Park. In total, 40,009 individuals belonging to 44 plant families were recorded and measured, belonging to 193 woody species. Species richness per municipality ranged from 32 to 126. The mean stem diameter (DBH) was 10.9 cm ± 7.5 cm. Small-size classes are increasingly dominated by few species, while the largest trees come from a wider range of species; miombo key-species dominated almost all size classes. Our study represents the first plot-based vegetation survey of any Angolan province and constitutes a useful source of information for conservation and management. Additionally, may constitute a powerful dataset to support future studies on biodiversity patterns and vegetation change over time and facilitate the elaboration of vegetation maps. Taxonomic reference: Checklist of Angolan Plants (Figueiredo and Smith 2008), The African Plant Database (version 3.4.0) and A new classification of Leguminosae (LPWG 2017). Abbreviations: DBH = Diameter at Breast Height; GIVD = Global Index of Vegetation-Plot Databases; LUBA = Acronym of the Herbarium of Lubango
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Angola
Baikiaea-Burkea woodland
database
Huíla province
miombo
woodlands/forests
woody species
vegetation survey
First vegetation-plot database of woody species from Huíla province, SW Angola
Long Database Report
10.3897/VCS/2021/62825
2021-08-12
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Falz-Fein Biosphere Reserve "Askania Nova", Askania Nova, Ukraine
author
Shapoval, Viktor
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0443-663X
M.G. Kholodny Institute of Botany, NAS of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
author
Kuzemko, Anna
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9425-2756
2021-08-12
2021-08-12
2021
Vegetation Classification and Survey
2683-0671
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87-108
2021
10.3897/VCS/2021/62825
https://vcs.pensoft.net/article/62825/
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Aims: To revise the syntaxonomy of the vegetation of steppe depressions (pody), in particular (1) to identify the associations and to reveal their environmental, structural and compositional peculiarities; (2) to assign the associations to higher syntaxa; and (3) to correct nomenclatural aspects according to the ICPN. Study area: Steppe zone of Ukraine, Left-Bank of the Lower Dnieper basin. Methods: 641 relevés were included in the final analysis in the PCOrd program integrated into Juice software. Two expert systems (EVC and EUNIS-ESy) were used to assign relevés to vegetation classes and to EUNIS units. Results: The analysis resulted in nine clusters, which were interpreted as Festuco-Brometea (two units), Molinio-Arrhenatheretea (three units), Isoёto-Nanojuncetea (three units) and one derivate community of the Festuco-Puccinellietea. Detailed characteristics of the species composition, structure, distribution, and environmental conditions are provided for each unit. According to the DCA ordination, the leading factors of the syntaxa differentiation are soil moisture and fluctuating water level. Conclusions: We could clarify the placement of steppe depression vegetation in the system of syntaxonomic units of Europe. The previously described syntaxa of the rank of alliance (Myosuro-Beckmannion eruciformis), suballiance (Galio ruthenici-Caricenion praecocis), and six associations are validated. Two associations and two subassociations are described as a new to science. Taxonomic references: Euro+Med PlantBase (https://www.emplantbase.org), except Mosyakin and Fedoronchuk (1999) for Phlomis scythica Klokov & Des.-Shost. and Tulipa scythica Klokov & Zoz. Syntaxonomic references: Mucina et al. (2016) for syntaxa from alliance to class level; Dubyna et al. (2019) for associations. Abbreviations: DCA = Detrended Correspondence Analysis; DES = Didukh Ecological Scales; EUNIS = European Nature Information System; EVC = EuroVegChecklist; GIVD = Global Index of Vegetation-Plot Databases; ICPN = International Code of Phytosociological Nomenclature.
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Althaeion officinalis
Bern Convention
Didukh ecological scales
EUNIS
expert system
grasslands
Myosuro-Beckmannion eruciformis
steppe depressions
syntaxonomy
wetlands
Syntaxonomy of steppe depression vegetation of Ukraine
Research Paper
10.3897/VCS/2021/65217
2021-10-01
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University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
author
Lübben, Maximilian
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8352-2776
University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
author
Erschbamer, Brigitta
2021-10-01
2021-10-01
2021
Vegetation Classification and Survey
2683-0671
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117-131
2021
10.3897/VCS/2021/65217
https://vcs.pensoft.net/article/65217/
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Aims: The Vinschgau is the driest inner-alpine valley in the Eastern Alps and harbours a unique steppe vegetation. We studied these dry grassland communities and aimed to answer the following questions: Which plant communities can be found currently? Do the syntaxa described by Braun-Blanquet in the 1960s still prevail in the area? Has there been any change in species composition over the last 40–50 years? Study area: Along an approximately 40 km transect, the south-facing slopes of the Vinschgau valley (South Tyrol, Italy) from Mals to Plaus were investigated. Methods: For the classification, 92 relevés were sampled in 2019 and compared with 76 relevés from the 1960s and ´70s by means of vegetation tables and ordinations (Detrended Correspondence Analysis). Results: Based on our investigation, the majority of dry grassland communities can be classified as Festuco-Caricetum supinae. Three subassociations were defined by the dominant species Stipa capillata, Bothriochloa ischaemum and Stipa pennata agg. The comparison of new and old relevés shows an increase in species from the class Sedo-Scleranthetea (e.g. Trifolium arvense, Erodium cicutarium) and the association Artemisieto-Agropyretum. In addition, ruderal elements (e.g. Erigeron annuus, Convolvulus arvensis) have also migrated into dry grasslands. A shift in the dominance over time can be recognized as well. In particular, Festuca rupicola and to some extent also Stipa capillata, have increased in abundance and frequency. Conclusions: We suggest to include the investigated closed dry grasslands in the alliance Festucion valesiacae. The rank of the character species at association, alliance and order level should be re-analysed. In order to obtain a better syntaxonomic overview of western and eastern alpine dry grassland communities in relation to Eastern European dry grasslands, a comprehensive study is absolutely necessary. Furthermore, long-term vegetation dynamics and vegetation change need to be studied in more detailed future studies. Taxonomic reference: Fischer et al. (2008). Syntaxonomic references: Mucina et al. (2016) for syntaxa from alliance to class level; Braun-Blanquet (1961) for associations. Abbreviations: agg. = aggregate; cf. = confer (means ‘compare’); DCA = Detrended Correspondence Analysis; s. lat. = sensu lato; s. str. = sensu stricto
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biodiversity
Festuco-Brometea
Festucetalia valesiacae
inner-alpine steppes
syntaxonomy
vegetation change
Long term changes of the inner-alpine steppe vegetation: the dry grassland communities of the Vinschgau (South Tyrol, Italy) 40–50 years after the first vegetation mapping
Research Paper
10.3897/VCS/2021/68594
2021-10-01
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Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Graz, Austria
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Magnes, Martin
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5453-5735
University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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Willner, Wolfgang
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1591-8386
Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia
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Janišová, Monika
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6445-0823
Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Graz, Austria
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Mayrhofer, Helmut
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9433-3847
Oviedo University, Mieres, Spain
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Afif Khouri, Elías
Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Graz, Austria
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Berg, Christian
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0587-3316
NAS of Ukraine, M.G.Kholodny Institute of Botany, Kyiv, Ukraine
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Kuzemko, Anna
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9425-2756
University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
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Kirschner, Philipp
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9263-5112
University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy
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Guarino, Riccardo
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0106-9416
AVL Agency for Vegetation Ecology and Landscape Planning, Vienna, Austria
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Rötzer, Harald
Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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Belonovskaya, Elena
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8354-4606
Environmental Management of Navarre, Pamplona-Iruña, Spain
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Berastegi, Asun
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0456-3305
University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Bilbao, Spain
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Biurrun, Idoia
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1454-0433
University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Bilbao, Spain
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García-Mijangos, Itziar
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6642-7782
University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Masic, Ermin
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5383-2431
German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Leipzig, Germany
Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW), Wädenswil, Switzerland
University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
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Dengler, Jürgen
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3221-660X
University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
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Dembicz, Iwona
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6162-1519
2021-10-01
2021-10-01
2021
Vegetation Classification and Survey
2683-0671
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133-157
2021
10.3897/VCS/2021/68594
https://vcs.pensoft.net/article/68594/
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Aims: We studied the syntaxonomic position, biodiversity, ecological features, nature conservation value and current status of dry grasslands investigated by Josias Braun-Blanquet more than 60 years ago. Study area: Inner-alpine valleys of Austria. Methods: We sampled 67 plots of 10 m2, following the standardized EDGG methodology. We subjected our plots to an unsupervised classification with the modified TWINSPAN algorithm and interpreted the branches of the dendrogram syntaxonomically. Biodiversity, structural and ecological characteristics of the resulting vegetation units at association and order level were compared by ANOVAs. Results: All the examined grasslands belong to the class Festuco-Brometea. From ten distinguished clusters, we could assign four clusters to validly published associations, while the remaining six clusters were named tentatively. We classified them into three orders: Stipo-Festucetalia pallentis (Armerio elongatae-Potentilletum arenariae, Phleo phleoidis-Pulsatilletum nigricantis, Medicago minima-Melica ciliata community, Koelerio pyramidatae-Teucrietum montani), Festucetalia valesiacae (Sempervivum tectorum-Festuca valesiaca community); Brachypodietalia pinnati (Astragalo onobrychidis-Brometum erecti, Agrostis capillaris-Avenula adsurgens community, Anthericum ramosum-Brachypodium pinnatum community, Ranunculus bulbosus-Festuca rubra community, Carduus defloratus-Brachypodium pinnatum community). Conclusions: The ten distinguished dry grassland communities of the Austrian inner-alpine valleys differ in their ecological affinities as well as their vascular plant, bryophyte and lichen diversity. We point out their high nature conservation importance, as each of them presents a unique habitat of high value. Taxonomic reference: Names of vascular plants, bryophytes and lichens follow Fischer et al. (2008), Frahm and Frey (2004) and Nimis et al. (2018), respectively. Syntaxonomic reference: Names of orders and classes follow Mucina et al. (2016), references for associations and alliances are given in the text. Abbreviations: ANOVA = analysis of variance; DCA: detrended correspondence analyses; EDGG: Eurasian Dry Grassland Group; EIV: ecological indicator value; FL: Fließ; GR: Griffen; GU: Gulsen; KA: Kaunerberg; LA: Laudegg castle in Ladis; MA: Marin; NM: Neumarkt in der Steiermark; OM: Obermauern; PÖ: Pöls; PU: Puxer Loch; TWINSPAN = Two-way indicator species analysis; ZS: Zinizachspitze.
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biodiversity
Brachypodietalia pinnati
Festucetalia valesiacae
Festuco-Brometea
inner-alpine dry valley
semi-natural grassland
soil parameter
resurvey
Stipo-Festucetalia pallentis
syntaxonomy
vegetation classification
Xeric grasslands of the inner-alpine dry valleys of Austria – new insights into syntaxonomy, diversity and ecology
Research Paper
10.3897/VCS/2021/64759
2021-10-07
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Bolivian Catholic University “San Pablo”, Cochabamba, Bolivia
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Navarro-Sánchez, Gonzalo
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Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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Molina Abril, José Antonio
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4348-6015
2021-10-07
2021-10-07
2021
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The knowledge of biomes as large-scale ecosystem units has benefited from advances in the ecological and evolutionary sciences. Despite this, a universal biome classification system that also allows a standardized nomenclature has not yet been achieved. We propose a comprehensive and hierarchical classification method and nomenclature to define biomes based on a set of bioclimatic variables and their corresponding vegetation structure and ecological functionality. This method uses three hierarchical biome levels: Zonal biome (Macrobiome), Biome and Regional biome. Biome nomenclature incorporates both bioclimatic and vegetation characterization (i.e. formation). Bioclimate characterization basically includes precipitation rate and thermicity. The description of plant formations encompasses vegetation structure, physiognomy and foliage phenology. Since the available systems tend to underestimate the complexity and diversity of tropical ecosystems, we have tested our approach in the biogeographical area of the Neotropics. Our proposal includes a bioclimatic characterization of the main 16 Neotropical plant formations identified. This method provides a framework that (1) enables biome distribution and changes to be projected from bioclimatic data; (2) allows all biomes to be named according to a globally standardized scheme; and (3) integrates various ecological biome approaches with the contributions of the European and North American vegetation classification systems. Taxonomic reference: Jørgensen et al. (2014). Dedication: This work is dedicated to the memory of and in homage to Prof. Dr. Salvador Rivas-Martínez.
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biogeography
formations
geocatena
Neotropics
A novel biome concept and classification system based on bioclimate and vegetation – a Neotropical assay
Review and Synthesis
10.3897/VCS/2021/69118
2021-10-07
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Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
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Hájek, Michal
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Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
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Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
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Apostolova, Iva
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Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
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Sopotlieva, Desislava
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Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj Napoca, Romania
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Goia, Irina
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Institute of Botany, Plant Science and Biodiversity Center, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia
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2021-10-07
2021-10-07
2021
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Grantová Agentura České Republiky
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Question: Rich fens of the Sphagno warnstorfii-Tomentypnion nitentis alliance require a specific combination of base richness and climate to occur. Their rarity at the southeastern margins of their European range has previously prevented rigorous vegetation classification. We asked how many associations may be delimited here and whether some of them are restricted to the high Balkan Mountains showing high endemicity. Study area: Entire territories of Bulgaria and Romania. Methods: We compiled all available vegetation-plot records, including some hitherto unprocessed data. We classified them by both divisive (modified TWINSPAN) and agglomerative (beta-flexible clustering) numerical classification method, with OPTIMCLASS1 applied to set the number of clusters. A semi-supervised approach (k-means) was additionally applied to confirm the classification of Southern-Carpathian (Romania) rich fens, where some Balkan taxa occur. Differences in base richness and elevation were tested by one-way ANOVA with Tukey’s pairwise test. Results: Three associations were delimited and all three occur in Bulgaria, from where only one association had been previously reported. Two associations characterised by Sphagnum contortum and Balkan and Southern-European species occur in Bulgaria, but not in Romania, one at lower elevations around 1,200 m, and one at higher elevations around 2,000 m where pH is lower. One lower-elevation (around 1,300 m) association with S. warnstorfii and S. teres is shared between Romania, Bulgaria and Central Europe. Conclusions: We have described a new high-mountain association, with two subassociations that differ by successional stage and dominant peat moss species (S. contortum and S. warnstorfii, respectively). These subassociations could be reconsidered when more data from other Balkan countries are available. Rich fens in southeastern Europe are rare, have a diverse vegetation, and are deserving of the further attention of nature conservation authorities and vegetation scientists. Taxonomic reference: The nomenclature was harmonized following The Euro+Med PlantBase (Euro+Med 2021) for vascular plants and Hill et al. (2006) for bryophytes, except of Angelica pancicii that is accepted as a separate taxon in Bulgaria (Andreev et al. 1992; Delipavlov et al. 2003). Critical taxa, not always reliably differentiated in the field and in literary sources, were merged to aggregates: Alchemilla vulgaris agg. (all Alchemilla species), Anthoxanthum odoratum agg. (A. alpinum, A. odoratum), Molinia caerulea agg. (M. arundinacea subsp. arundinacea, M. arundinacea subsp. freyi, M. caerulea), Palustriella commutata agg. (P. commutata, P. falcata), Plagiomnium affine agg. (P. affine, P. elatum, P. ellipticum), Sphagnum palustre agg. (S. centrale, S. palustre). Syntaxonomic reference: Peterka et al. (2017) for alliances.
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Balkans
Bulgaria
endemic and relict species
mires
rich fens
Romania
Sphagno warnstorfii-Tomentypnion nitentis
vegetation survey
The vegetation of rich fens (Sphagno warnstorfii-Tomentypnion nitentis) at the southeastern margins of their European range
Research Paper
10.3897/VCS/2021/73498
2021-10-25
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University of Opole, Opole, Poland
Center for Biological Diversity Conservation, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa, Poland
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Nowak, Arkadiusz
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8638-0208
Center for Biological Diversity Conservation, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa, Poland
The Franciszek Górski Institute of Plant Physiology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków, Poland
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Świerszcz, Sebastian
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2035-0035
University of Opole, Opole, Poland
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Nowak, Sylwia
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2867-9839
National Research Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russia
Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
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Nobis, Marcin
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1594-2418
2021-10-25
2021-10-25
2021
Vegetation Classification and Survey
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10.3897/VCS/2021/73498
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We validate eleven syntaxa (eight associations and three alliances) of tall-forb vegetation that were published earlier as nomina provisoria according to the International Code of Phytosociological Nomenclature. The validation concerns syntaxa of tall-forb vegetation of the class Prangetea ulopterae Klein 1987 reported from Pamir-Alai and western Tian Shan Mountains (Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan). Taxonomic reference: Cherepanov (1995). Abbreviations: ICPN = International Code of Phytosociological Nomenclature.
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International Code of Phytosociological Nomenclature (ICPN)
Middle Asia
phytosociological nomenclature
Prangetea ulopterae
syntaxonomy
tall forb
validation
New syntaxa of tall-forb vegetation in the Pamir-Alai and western Tian Shan Mts. (Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, Middle Asia) – an addendum to Nowak et al. 2020
Short Communication
10.3897/VCS/2021/69614
2021-12-06
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Vegetation Classification and Survey
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Aims: To clarify the syntaxonomic position of the grasslands in Navarre, with special focus on the dry grasslands, and to characterise the resulting syntaxonomic units in terms of diagnostic species and ecological conditions. Study area: Navarre (northern Spain). Methods: We sampled 119 plots of 10 m2 following the standardised EDGG methodology and analysed them together with 839 plots of similar size recorded in the 1990. For the classification, we used the modified TWINSPAN algorithm, complemented by the determination of diagnostic species with phi coefficients of association, which led to the creation of an expert system. We conducted these steps in a hierarchical manner for each syntaxonomic rank. We visualised the position of the syntaxa along environmental gradients by means of NMDS. Species richness, and structural and ecological characteristics of the syntaxa were compared by ANOVAs. Results: We could clearly identify five phytosociological classes: Lygeo-Stipetea, Festuco-Brometea, Molinio-Arrhenatheretea, Nardetea strictae, and Elyno-Seslerietea. Within the Festuco-Brometea a xeric and a meso-xeric order could be distinguished, with two alliances each, and eight associations in total: Thymelaeo-Aphyllanthetum, Jurineo-Festucetum, Helianthemo-Koelerietum, Prunello-Plantaginetum, Carduncello-Brachypodietum, Helictotricho-Seslerietum, Calamintho-Seselietum and Carici-Teucrietum. Conclusions: The combination of numerical methods allowed a consistent and more objective classification of grassland types in Navarre than previous approaches. At the association level, we could largely reproduce the units previously described with traditional phytosociological methods. By contrast, at higher syntaxonomic level, our analyses suggest significant modifications. Most importantly, a major part of the units traditionally included in the Festuco-Ononidetea seem to fall within the Festuco-Brometea. We could show that bryophytes and lichens are core elements of these grasslands and particularly the Mediterranean ones of Lygeo-Stipetea, both in terms of biodiversity and of diagnostic species. We conclude that the combination of our different numerical methods is promising for deriving more objective and reproducible delimitations of syntaxa in a hierarchical manner. Taxonomic references: Euro+Med (2006–2021) for vascular plants, Hodges et al. (2020) for bryophytes and The British Lichen Society (2021) for lichens, except for Endocarpon loscosii, Heppia lutosa, Psora saviczii and P. vallesiaca, which follow Nimis and Martellos (2021), and Buellia zoharyi, Fulgensia poeltii, Lichenochora clauzadei and Toninia massata, which follow Llimona et al. (2001). Syntaxonomic reference: Mucina et al. (2016), except for those syntaxa specifically treated here and given with authorities. Abbreviations: ANOVA = analysis of variance; EDGG = Eurasian Dry Grassland Group; NMDS: non-metric multidimensional scaling; TWINSPAN = Two-Way Indicator Species Analysis.
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Elyno-Seslerietea
Festuco-Brometea
Festuco-Ononidetea
grassland
Lygeo-Stipetea
modified TWINSPAN
Molinio-Arrhenatheretea
Nardetea strictae
Navarre
vegetation classification
Grasslands of Navarre (Spain), focusing on the Festuco-Brometea: classification, hierarchical expert system and characterisation
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10.3897/VCS/2021/74046
2021-12-06
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Institute of Bioscience and Bioresources, Bari, Italy
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Terzi, Massimo
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8801-6733
Sapienza University of Roma, Roma, Italy
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Di Pietro, Romeo
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4983-8931
University of Geneva, Chambésy, Switzerland
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Theurillat, Jean Paul
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1843-5809
2021-12-06
2021-12-06
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The two alliances Xerobromion and Mesobromion derive from the change of rank of two suballiances of the Bromion Koch 1926 (Xerobromenion and Mesobromenion). Zoller (1954a) recognized that those suballiances could not belong to the same alliance (i.e. Bromion) and treated them as two separate alliances, although some doubts can be raised that he did not clearly adopted them at the rank of alliance. Zoller’s work having been overlooked, other authors proposed subsequently to rise the Xerobromenion and Mesobromenion to the rank of alliances. Accordingly, the alliances Xerobromion and Mesobromion are often cited with author citations other than Zoller 1954. The present paper requests a binding decision on the valid publication of the names Xerobromion and Mesobromion in Zoller (1954a). Abbreviations: EVC = EuroVegChecklist; ICPN = International Code of Phytosociological Nomenclature.
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Bromion erecti
Festuco-Brometea
ICPN
phytosociological nomenclature
syntaxonomy
Request (3) for a binding decision on the valid publication of the names Xerobromion and Mesobromion in Zoller 1954
Nomenclatural Proposal
10.3897/VCS/2021/71490
2021-12-06
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Institute of Forest Ecology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Zvolen, Slovakia
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Slezák, Michal
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6926-7139
Botanical Garden of Comenius University, Blatnica, Slovakia
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Kliment, Ján
Institute of Botany, Plant Science and Biodiversity Center, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia
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Valachovič, Milan
2021-12-06
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A list of vegetation units of Slovakia.
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Jarolímek
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2008
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Moravec
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We propose (i) to select Quercus robur as the name-giving taxon of the associations Molinio arundinaceae-Quercetum Samek 1962 and Molinio arundinaceae-Quercetum Neuhäusl et Neuhäuslová-Novotná 1967 and (ii) to conserve the younger name Molinio arundinaceae-Quercetum roboris Neuhäusl et Neuhäuslová-Novotná 1967, representing hygrophytic Central European acidophilous oak forests (Quercion roboris alliance). (28) Molinio arundinaceae-Quercetum Neuhäusl et Neuhäuslová-Novotná 1967: 17–23, table 2. Typus: Neuhäusl and Neuhäuslová-Novotná (1967), table 2, rel. 11 (lectotypus; Pallas 1996: 51). (H) Molinio arundinaceae-Quercetum Samek 1962: 134–135, table V on p. 156–160. Typus: Samek (1962), Table V, rel. 28 (lectotypus; Moravec 1998: 33). Taxonomic reference: Marhold et al. (1998). Abbreviations: ICPN = International Code of Phytosociological Nomenclature.
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Quercion roboris
syntaxonomy
vegetation classification
Request (4) and Proposal (28): to conserve the name Molinio arundinaceae-Quercetum roboris Neuhäusl et Neuhäuslová-Novotná 1967
Nomenclatural Proposal
10.3897/VCS/2021/71216
2021-12-06
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University of New England, Armidale, Australia
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Hunter, John
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5112-0465
Brisbane Botanic Gardens Mount Coot-tha, Queensland, Australia
James Cook University, Queensland, Australia
James Cook University, Queensland, Australia
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Addicott, Eda
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4806-9205
2021-12-06
2021-12-06
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A new classification of savanna plant communities on the igneous rock lowlands and Tertiary sandy plain landscapes of Cape York Peninsula bioregion.
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Addicott
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2018
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Keith
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Keith
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McCune
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Neldner
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10.3897/VCS/2021/71216
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Aims: Ecosystems nationally at risk in Australia are listed under the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Act (EPBC Act), and many cross State jurisdictional boundaries. The determination of these ecosystems across the State boundaries are based on expert knowledge. The International Vegetation Classification has the potential to be useful as a cross-jurisdictional hierarchy which also gives global perspective to ecosystems. Study Area: All bioregions that include Eucalyptus populnea as a dominant or major component of woodlands across the species known distribution. Methods: We use plot-based data (455 plots) from two states (Queensland and New South Wales) in eastern Australia and quantitative classification methods to assess the definition and description for the Poplar Box Woodland ecosystem type (hereafter “ecological community” or “community”) that is listed as endangered under the EPBC Act. Analyses were conducted using kR-CLUSTER methods to generate alliances. Within these alliances, analyses were undertaken to define associations using agglomerative hierarchical clustering and similarity profile testing (SIMPROF). We then explore how assigning this community into the IVC hierarchy may provide a mechanism for linking Australian communities, defined at the association and alliance levels, to international communities at risk. Results: We define three alliances and 23 associations based on the results of floristic analysis. Using the standard rule-set of the IVC system, we found that the IVC hierarchy was a useful instrument in correlating ecological communities across jurisdictional boundaries where different classification systems are used. It is potentially important in giving a broader understanding of communities that may be at risk continentally and globally. Conclusions: We conclude that the IVC hierarchy can incorporate Australian communities at the association level into useful units at higher levels, and provides a useful classification tool for Australian ecosystems. Taxonomic reference: PlantNET (http://plantnet/10rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/) [accessed June 2019]. Abbreviations: EPBC Act = Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Act; IVC = International Vegetation Classification; NMDS = non-metric multidimensional scaling; NSW = New South Wales; PCT = Plant Community Type; QLD = Queensland; RE = Regional Vegetation Community; SIMPER = similarity percentage analysis; SIMPROF = Similarity profile analysis.
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ecological community
International Vegetation Classification
New South Wales
Queensland
woodland
Poplar box woodlands of Eastern Australia: an assessment of a threatened ecological community within the IVC framework
Research Paper
10.3897/VCS/2021/69101
2021-12-13
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Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW), Wädenswil, Switzerland
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Seiler, Hallie
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9333-5226
Life Science AG, Basel, Switzerland
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Küry, Daniel
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5207-9713
Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW), Wädenswil, Switzerland
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Billeter, Regula
University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW), Wädenswil, Switzerland
German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Leipzig, Germany
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Dengler, Jürgen
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3221-660X
2021-12-13
2021-12-13
2021
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10.3897/VCS/2021/69101
https://vcs.pensoft.net/article/69101/
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Aims: The spring habitats of Central Europe are insular biotopes of high ecological value. Although subject to severe exploitation pressures, they do not yet have a comprehensive protection status in Switzerland. Contributing to this challenge is the controversy involved with their syntaxonomic classification. In the context of the development of a regional conservation strategy and the establishment of a national inventory of Swiss springs, we carried out a regional survey of spring vegetation and aimed to translate this into a classification system. Study area: Montane and subalpine zones of Parc Ela (Grisons, Switzerland). Methods: We selected 20 springs to cover different regions, elevations and bedrock types within the park. In each of them we recorded complete vascular plant and bryophyte composition as well as a range of environmental variables in three 1-m² plots that were placed to reflect the heterogeneity within the spring. After running an unsupervised classification with modified TWINSPAN, the distinguished vegetation units were characterized in terms of diagnostic species, species richness and environmental variables and placed within the syntaxonomic system. Results: Species richness was high (total species 264, mean 21.7 species in 1 m2). The two most important environmental gradients of the ordination were elevation/water conductivity and insolation/water pH/soil reaction EIV. We distinguished seven communities within two main groups. Conclusions: All unshaded springs, including those over siliceous bedrock, could be assigned to a broadly defined Cratoneurion. The petrifying springs were not strongly distinguishable floristically from other base-rich springs. The forest springs, although often not clearly differentiated from their unshaded counterparts, could be provisionally divided into the alliances Caricion remotae and Lycopodo europaei-Cratoneurion commutati. As there is a certain threat to these habitats in the park due to anthropogenic influence, protection measures are recommended, most importantly the appropriate management of alpine pastures. Taxonomic reference: Juillerat et al. (2017) for vascular plants, Meier et al. (2013) for bryophytes. Abbreviations: ANOVA = analysis of variance; DCA = detrended correspondence analysis; EIV = ecological indicator value; FOEN = Federal Office of the Environment (Switzerland); NCHO = Ordinance on the Protection of Nature and Cultural Heritage; SD = standard deviation; TWINSPAN = Two Way Indicator Species Analysis; WPA = Federal Act on the Protection of Waters.
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bryophyte
helocrene
montane
Montio-Cardaminetea
Parc Ela
phytosociology
regional typology
rheocrene
spring vegetation
subalpine
Switzerland
unsupervised classification
Regional typology of spring vegetation in Parc Ela (Grisons, Switzerland)
Research Paper
10.3897/VCS/2021/71299
2021-12-13
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University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
author
Willner, Wolfgang
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1591-8386
NatureServe, Arlington, United States of America
NatureServe, Syracuse, United States of America
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Faber-Langendoen, Don
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2630-6898
2021-12-13
2021-12-13
2021
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10.3897/VCS/2021/71299
https://vcs.pensoft.net/article/71299/
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Aims: To link the Braun-Blanquet units of the EuroVegChecklist (EVC) with the upper levels of the International Vegetation Classification (IVC), and to propose a division level classification for Europe. Study area: Europe. Methods: We established a tabular linkage between EVC classes and IVC formations and identified mismatches between these two levels. We then proposed IVC division level units to organize EVC classes. Results: We organized the EVC classes into 21 formations and 30 divisions. We flagged classes that did not fit comfortably within an existing formation, either because its content corresponded to more than one formation or because it did not fit any formation description. In a few cases, we split EVC classes because they seemed too heterogenous to be assigned to a single formation. Conclusions: The IVC approach adds a set of physiognomic and ecological criteria that effectively organizes the EVC classes, which are already being increasingly informed by physiognomy. Therefore, the formation concepts are relatively natural extensions of concepts already embedded in the classes. However, physiognomic placement of Braun-Blanquet classes can be difficult when the sampling of the vegetation is at finer grain than usual in the respective formation (tall-scrub, annual pioneer communities). Some EVC classes seem too heterogenous to fit into the IVC formation system. Delimitation of these classes has often been a matter of debate for many decades, and the IVC perspective might help to solve these intricate issues. In other cases, mismatches between phytosociological classes and IVC formations might better be solved by emending the current formation concepts. Abbreviations: BB = Braun-Blanquet; EVC = EuroVegChecklist; IVC = International Vegetation Classification.
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class
division
EcoVeg approach
Europe
EuroVegChecklist
formation
International Vegetation Classification
macrogroup
Braun-Blanquet meets EcoVeg: a formation and division level classification of European phytosociological units
Review and Synthesis
10.3897/VCS/2021/77193
2021-12-30
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Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Wädenswil, Switzerland
University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
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Dembicz, Iwona
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6162-1519
Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Wädenswil, Switzerland
German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research, Leipzig, Germany
University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
author
Dengler, Jürgen
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3221-660X
Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté, Besançon, France
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Gillet, François
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3334-1069
Azorean Biodiversity Group and Universidade dos Açores, Açores, Portugal
University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
author
Matthews, Thomas
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7624-244X
University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
author
Steinbauer, Manuel J.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7142-9272
Institute of Ecology and Botany, Centre for Ecological Research, Vácrátót, Hungary
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Bartha, Sándor
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6331-7521
University of Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain
author
Campos, Juan Antonio
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5992-2753
Ghent University, Gontrode, Belgium
author
De Frenne, Pieter
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8613-0943
University of South Bohemia, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic
author
Dolezal, Jiri
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5829-4051
University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain
author
García-Mijangos, Itziar
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6642-7782
University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy
author
Guarino, Riccardo
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0106-9416
Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir,
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Güler, Behlül
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2638-4340
M.G. Kholodny Institute of Botany of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
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Kuzemko, Anna
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9425-2756
University of Mazandaran, Balbolsar, Iran
author
Naqinezhad, Alireza
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4602-6279
University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
author
Noroozi, Jalil
The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, United States of America
author
Peet, Robert K.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2823-6587
Institute of Bioscience and Bioresources, CNR, Bari, Italy
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Terzi, Massimo
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8801-6733
University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain
author
Biurrun, Idoia
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1454-0433
2021-12-30
2021-12-30
2021
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10.2307/2255763
10.21570/EDGG.PG.44.26-47
10.1111/jvs.13050
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Bolker
author
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2017
10.1111/jvs.12710
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Aims: To quantify how fine-grain (within-plot) beta diversity differs among biomes and vegetation types. Study area: Palaearctic biogeographic realm. Methods: We extracted 4,654 nested-plot series with at least four different grain sizes between 0.0001 m² and 1,024 m² from the GrassPlot database spanning broad geographic and ecological gradients. Next, we calculated the slope parameter (z-value) of the power-law species–area relationship (SAR) to use as a measure of multiplicative beta diversity. We did this separately for vascular plants, bryophytes and lichens and for the three groups combined (complete vegetation). We then tested whether z-values differed between biomes, ecological-physiognomic vegetation types at coarse and fine levels and phytosociological classes. Results: We found that z-values varied significantly among biomes and vegetation types. The explanatory power of area for species richness was highest for vascular plants, followed by complete vegetation, bryophytes and lichens. Within each species group, the explained variance increased with typological resolution. In vascular plants, adjusted R2 was 0.14 for biomes, but reached 0.50 for phytosociological classes. Among the biomes, mean z-values were particularly high in the Subtropics with winter rain (Mediterranean biome) and the Dry tropics and subtropics. Natural grasslands had higher z-values than secondary grasslands. Alpine and Mediterranean vegetation types had particularly high z-values whereas managed grasslands with benign soil and climate conditions and saline communities were characterised by particularly low z-values. Conclusions: In this study relating fine-grain beta diversity to typological units, we found distinct patterns. As we explain in a conceptual figure, these can be related to ultimate drivers, such as productivity, stress and disturbance, which can influence z-values via multiple pathways. The provided means, medians and quantiles of z-values for a wide range of typological entities provide benchmarks for local to continental studies, while calling for additional data from under-represented units. Syntaxonomic references: Mucina et al. (2016) for classes occurring in Europe; Ermakov (2012) for classes restricted to Asia. Abbreviations: ANOVA = analysis of variance; EDGG = Eurasian Dry Grassland Group; SAR = species-area relationship.
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Palaearctic grassland
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species–area relationship (SAR)
vascular plant
vegetation type
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2021-12-30
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Aims: Chilean vegetation has previously received considerable attention, and several classifications are currently available. The most recent of these was presented for the first time in 2006 and updated in 2017 by the authors. Although widely utilized by researchers both in Chile and Latin America, this information is only available in Spanish, which hampers its usefulness for a broader scientific audience. Here, we provide an overview of the methods and the resulting classification and propose a correspondence between Chilean classification and the International Vegetation Classification (IVC) following the EcoVeg scheme. Study area: Continental Chile. Methods: Based on the criteria of the EcoVeg approach, we established a linkage of zonal and azonal vegetation units to the macrogroup level and to the formation classes of the IVC. We also generated a map to facilitate crosswalk between the classifications. Results: We recognize 23 macrogroups, 13 divisions and 11 formations of zonal vegetation, including three newly proposed macrogroups, one division and one formation. We further recognize 23 macrogroups, 23 divisions and 17 formations of intrazonal vegetation. Together, they encompass all six formation classes of natural vegetation of the IVC. We highlight those units so far not mentioned for Chile in the IVC. Finally, we provide a map of macrogroups and discuss the limitations and prospects of this approach for the classification of Chilean vegetation. Conclusions: Chilean zonal vegetation was successfully accommodated in the IVC down to the macrogroup level. The process of linking Chilean zonal vegetation and macrogroups led us to a few suggestions that may be used to improve the IVC. Taxonomic reference: Zuloaga et al. (2008). Abbreviations: IVC = International Vegetation Classification
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formations
macrogroups
vegetation belts
zonal vegetation
The vegetation of Chile and the EcoVeg approach in the context of the International Vegetation Classification project
Research Paper
10.3897/VCS.67537
2022-02-15
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NatureServe, Boulder, CO, United States of America
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Comer, Patrick
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5869-2105
Unaffiliated, Longmont, CO, United States of America
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Hak, Jon
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center, Sioux Falls, SD, United States of America
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Dockter, Daryn
The Nature Conservancy, Jacksonville, FL, United States of America
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Smith, James
2022-02-15
2022-02-15
2022
Vegetation Classification and Survey
2683-0671
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29-43
2022
funder
U.S. Geological Survey
10.13039/100000203
10.3897/VCS.67537
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Aims: Natural resource management and biodiversity conservation rely on inventories of vegetation that span multiple management or political jurisdictions. However, while remote sensing data and analytical tools have enabled production of maps at increasing spatial resolution and reliability, there are limited examples where national or continental-scaled maps are produced to represent vegetation at high thematic detail. We illustrate two examples that have bridged the gap between traditional land cover mapping and modern vegetation classification. Study area: Our two case studies include national (USA) and continental (North and South America) vegetation and land cover mapping. These studies span conditions from subpolar to tropical latitudes of the Americas. Methods: Both case studies used a supervised modeling approach with the International Vegetation Classification (IVC) to produce maps that provide for greater thematic detail. Georeferenced locations for these vegetation types are used by machine learning algorithms to train a predictive model and generate a distribution map. Results: The USA LANDFIRE (Landscape Fire and Resource Management Planning Tools Project) case study illustrates how a history of vegetation-based classification and availability of key inputs can come together to generate standard map products covering more than 9.8 million km2 that are unsurpassed anywhere in the world in terms of spatial and thematic resolution. That being said, it also remains clear that mapping at the thematic resolution of the IVC Group and finer resolution require very large and spatially balanced inputs of georeferenced samples. Even with extensive prior data collection efforts, these remain a key limitation. The NatureServe effort for the Americas - encompassing 22% of the global land surface - demonstrates methods and outputs suitable for worldwide application at continental scales. Conclusions: Continued collection of input data used in the case studies could enable mapping at these spatial and thematic resolutions around the globe. Abbreviations: CART = Classification and Regression Tree; CONUS = Conterminous United States; DSWE = Dynamic Surface Water Extent; EPA = United States Environmental Protection Agency; FGDC = Federal Geographic Data Committee; IVC = International Vegetation Classification; LANDFIRE = Landscape Fire and Resource Management Planning Tools Project; LFRDB = LANDFIRE Reference Database; LiDAR = Light Detection and Ranging; NDVI = Normalized Difference Vegetation Index; NLCD = National Land Cover Database; USNVC = United States National Vegetation Classification; USA = United States of America; WWF = World Wildlife Fund or Worldwide Fund for Nature.
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America
distribution modeling
Random Forest
vegetation classification
vegetation mapping
Integration of vegetation classification with land cover mapping: lessons from regional mapping efforts in the Americas
Research Paper
10.3897/VCS.68006
2022-03-07
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CORBIDI, Lima, Peru
Universidad de La Serena, La Serena, Chile
author
Montenegro Hoyos, Angie Carol
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8685-3666
Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru
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Vega, Nanette
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8538-0409
Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, Lima, Peru
author
Linares-Palomino, Reynaldo
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7631-5549
2022-03-07
2022-03-07
2022
Vegetation Classification and Survey
2683-0671
3
53-66
2022
10.3897/VCS.68006
https://vcs.pensoft.net/article/68006/
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Aims: There is extensive documentation of the floristic composition and plant diversity patterns in the South American coastal deserts and the adjoining arid Puna. Surprisingly, the vegetation along the transition zone from these deserts in the coastal lowlands to the Puna highlands has been little studied. The main goal of this study was to characterize and compare the structure of plant communities in two localities in the Ica department, with the aim of contributing to the floristic knowledge of the desertic western Andean slopes along the lowlands to Andean transition zone. Study area: Huancacasa and La Bolivar localities located at approximately 740 and 3,000 m a.s.l. in the Ica department, Peru. Methods: We sampled 10 plots of 100 m × 60 m located between 740–1,600 m a.s.l. in La Bolivar and 15 modified Whittaker plots (MWPs) of 20 m × 5 m located between 2,800–3,000 m a.s.l. in Huancacasa and recorded species richness and abundance. We estimated alpha diversity, performed Non-Metric Multidimensional Scaling (NMDS) and one-way Similarity (ANOSIM) analyses and plotted rank-abundance curves. Results: We recorded 215 species and morphospecies with coastal and Andean distribution, including 43 species (21.3%) that are either considered endemic to Peru or have been considered under some form of threat by Peruvian or international standards. Both plant communities differed in terms of composition, species richness, abundance, and dominant growth form, with higher values in the communities located at higher elevations. We added 83 species as new records for the Ica department. Conclusions: Our research reinforced the need to increase exploration and documentation of the vegetation within the lowland to highland transition zone along the dry western slopes of the Andes. Our results from such a transition in Ica department in southern Peru, show that much of its plant diversity seems to be, as yet, largely unknown. Taxonomic reference: The Plant List (2013). Abbreviations: ANOSIM = one-way Analysis of Similarities; BMAP = Biodiversity Monitoring and Assessment Program; IUCN = International Union for Conservation of Nature; NMDS = Non-Metric Multidimensional Scaling; USM = Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (Herbarium).
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Andean biodiversity
Atacama
coastal desert
community structure
endemism
floristic records
mountain
southern Peru
threatened species
Plant diversity and structure in desert communities of the Andean piedmont in Ica, Peru
Research Paper
10.3897/VCS.72194
2022-03-07
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INRES, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany
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Alvarez, Miguel
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1500-1834
Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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Luebert, Federico
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2251-4056
2022-03-07
2022-03-07
2022
Vegetation Classification and Survey
2683-0671
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45-52
2022
10.3897/VCS.72194
https://vcs.pensoft.net/article/72194/
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Aims: The Braun-Blanquet approach has been widely implemented to generate classification schemes at the country level and Chile is not an exception. In spite of numerous studies, a revised system for the whole country is still missing and most of the current surveys are restricted to a small set of vegetation groups or specific study sites. To fill this gap, we established a vegetation-plot database and updated the classification into a single syntaxonomic scheme. We also performed a comparison of this scheme with the formation system following the EcoVeg approach. Study area: Continental Chile. Methods: We compiled a database of 1,582 plot observations, which are classified into 29 classes, 43 orders, 65 alliances, and 162 associations according to the Braun-Blanquet approach. Results: These observations were assigned to 7 formation classes, 10 subclasses and 19 formations in the EcoVeg approach. There are several mismatches between phytosociological classes and EcoVeg formations, which indicates some inconsistencies in the current stage of syntaxonomy in Chile. Besides a big contrast on bioclimatic conditions within the country’s territory, the occurrence of intrazonal vegetation may explain the high diversity of phytosociological associations recorded in this database. Conclusions: This work may constitute the basis for the implementation of the EcoVeg classification at the levels of alliance and association and can be extended for other countries in the South American sub-continent.
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Braun-Blanquet approach
cross-classification
EcoVeg formation
South America
syntaxonomy
taxlist
vegetation-plot database
vegtable
Chilean vegetation in the context of the Braun-Blanquet approach and a comparison with EcoVeg formations
Research Paper
10.3897/VCS.70200
2022-03-09
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University of Wrocław, Wroclaw, Poland
author
Świerkosz, Krzysztof
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5145-178X
University of Wrocław, Wroclaw, Poland
author
Reczyńska, Kamila
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0938-8430
2022-03-09
2022-03-09
2022
Vegetation Classification and Survey
2683-0671
3
67-86
2022
10.3897/VCS.70200
https://vcs.pensoft.net/article/70200/
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Aims: To describe the compositional and ecological diversity of Mulgedio-Aconitetea communities in the Sudetes Mts. and their foothills. Study area: The Sudetes Mts. (Southwestern Poland). Methods: A total of 399 vegetation relevés from own field studies and the literature were sorted into groups that match the higher syntaxa of the EuroVegChecklist and associations described in the literature. Diagnostic species of the so delimited associations were determined with the phi-coefficient of association, and maps of the associations produced. Direct ordination methods were applied to identify the main environmental gradients shaping the plant communities. Results: We distinguished nine associations, belonging to four alliances: submontane and colline communities (Petasition officinalis: Geranio phaei-Urticetum dioicae, Petasitetum hybridi, Chaerophyllo hirsuti-Petasitetum albi, Prenanthetum purpureae), upper montane nitrophilous communities (Rumicion alpini: Rumicetum alpini); subalpine communities with a dominance of graminoids and ferns (Calamagrostion villosae: Poo chaixii-Deschampsietum cespitosae, Crepido conyzifoliae-Calamagrostietum villosae, Athyrietum filicis-feminae) and subalpine tall-herb communities (Adenostylion alliariae: Cicerbitetum alpinae). Altitude, light availability, and bedrock type, which determines nutrient availability and soil reaction, played an important role in differentiating the studied communities. Conclusions: For convenience, we placed the four alliances in four separate orders as in the EuroVegChecklist. The fact that our ordination diagram separated only two main groups suggests the need of further research in this matter. Taxonomic reference: Euro+Med (2006-) for vascular plants. Syntaxonomic reference: Higher syntaxa follow Mucina et al. (2016). Abbreviations: db-RDA = distance-based redundancy analysis; EIV = Ellenberg indicator value; pANOVA = permutational analysis of variance; PCoA = principal coordinates analysis.
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Adenostylion alliariae
Calamagrostion villosae
Central Europe
hygrophilous species
montane vegetation
Mulgedio-Aconitetea
Petasition officinalis
Poland
Rumicion alpini
synecology
syntaxonomy
tall-herb community
Diversity of Mulgedio-Aconitetea communities in the Sudetes Mts. (SW Poland) in the Central European context
Research Paper
10.3897/VCS.65469
2022-04-12
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ABR, Inc.–Environmental Research & Services, Anchorage, United States of America
author
Wells, Aaron
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1313-0376
ABR, Inc.–Environmental Research & Services, Fairbanks, United States of America
author
Swingley, Christopher
ABR, Inc.–Environmental Research & Services, Anchorage, United States of America
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Ives, Susan
ABR, Inc.–Environmental Research & Services, Anchorage, United States of America
author
McNown, Robert
ABR, Inc.–Environmental Research & Services, Fairbanks, United States of America
author
Dissing, Dorte
2022-04-12
2022-04-12
2022
Vegetation Classification and Survey
2683-0671
3
87-117
2022
funder
ConocoPhillips
10.13039/100004677
funder
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
10.13039/100000202
funder
National Park Service
10.13039/100007516
10.3897/VCS.65469
https://vcs.pensoft.net/article/65469/
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Aims: The USNVC is the standard for vegetation classification in the US and is part of the broader IVC. Recent work on the USNVC in Alaska established macrogroups, groups and alliances. Here we incorporate tussock tundra and low and tall willow (Salix) groups and alliances for northwestern Arctic Alaska into the IVC and USNVC classification. Study Area: The study area encompasses the Seward Peninsula, the western Brooks Range, and the northwestern foothills and Arctic coastal plain of Alaska. Methods: We used data from 2,087 relevé plots collected between 1992 and 2019 from northwestern Arctic Alaska to prepare a draft association classification using cluster analysis, ordination, and sorted tables. The draft classification was subject to peer review and subsequently refined. We fit the tussock tundra and low and tall willow associations into the USNVC using NMDS and GAMs to evaluate the patterns of environmental gradients against the ordination axis scores. Results: We identified eight tussock tundra and 37 low and tall willow associations. The associations fit in two classes, two subclasses, two formations, two divisions, three macrogroups, four groups, and 13 alliances. A description of the alliances, and a field guide to the northwestern Arctic Alaska tussock tundra and low and tall willow associations, including a dichotomous key and descriptions, is provided. Conclusions: Many of the tussock tundra and low and tall willow associations fit seamlessly within the USNVC, while some alliances had yet to be defined, and we have proposed new alliances here. In still other cases, we proposed a new group and recommend broadening the concept of an existing group using a data-driven approach. Since not all available data from Arctic Alaska were used in this study, we suggest continuing with a more comprehensive analysis to fulfill the gap at the alliance and association levels for Arctic Alaska. Taxonomic reference: USDA NRCS (2021) for vascular plants, bryophytes, and lichens. Syntaxonomic reference: USNVC (2019). Abbreviations: AVA-AK = Alaska Arctic Vegetation Archive; AVPD = Alaska Vegetation Plots Database; BCP = Beaufort Coastal Plain; CAVM = Circumpolar Arctic Vegetation Map; CBVM = Circumboreal vegetation map; EC = Electrical conductivity; ELD = ELS Legacy Database; ELS = Ecological Land Survey; GAM = Generalized additive model; IVC = International vegetation classification; LPI = line-point intercept; NMDS = Non-metric multidimensional scaling; PAM = Partitioning Around Medoids; PESC = Proportionate ericaceous shrub cover; SM = Supplementary material; US = United States of America; USNVC = U.S. National Vegetation Classification.
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association
Eriophorum vaginatum
group
IVC
Salix
USNVC
Vegetation classification for northwestern Arctic Alaska using an EcoVeg approach: tussock tundra and low and tall willow groups and alliances
Research Paper
10.3897/VCS.83889
2022-05-13
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Conservatoire Botanique National Méditerranéen, Montferrier sur Lez, France
author
Argagnon, Olivier
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2069-7231
Conservatoire Botanique National Méditerranéen, Montferrier sur Lez, France
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De Barros, Guilhem
Conservatoire Botanique National Méditerranéen, Hyères, France
author
Noble, Virgile
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4430-4060
2022-05-13
2022-05-13
2022
Vegetation Classification and Survey
2683-0671
3
119-120
2022
10.3897/VCS.83889
https://vcs.pensoft.net/article/83889/
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The SIMETHIS-Flore-CBNMed database (GIVD EU-FR-006) is a regional database managed by the Conservatoire Botanique National Méditerranéen dealing with occurrence data of the vascular flora of Southeastern France. It covers the following departments: Pyrénées-Orientales, Aude, Hérault, Gard, Lozère, Vaucluse, Bouches-du-Rhône, Var and Alpes-Maritimes. It includes around 19,300 phytosociological relevés of various vegetation types from the mediterranean coastal area to the alpine vegetation belt. Vegetation plots are unpublished relevés as well as digitized data from bibliographic sources (around 310 references). Almost all relevés are geolocalized. The oldest ones date from 1915 and the most recent from 2021 and the integration of new data is done continuously. The taxonomical scheme follows the French national taxonomic repository TAXREF (currently v.15). The database is part of the European Vegetation Archive under semi-restricted regime and will be updated every year. Some of the bibliographic data featured in SIMETHIS-Flore-CBNMed may also be present in SOPHY database (EU-FR-003). All the bibliographic data of SIMETHIS-Flore-CBNMed undergo a curation process regarding georeferencing, taxonomic nomenclature updates and syntaxonomic interpretation. Abbreviations: CBNMed: Conservatoire Botanique National Méditerranéen.
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France
Mediterranean
relevé
submediterranean
vegetation database
SIMETHIS-Flore-CBNMed - Database of Southeastern France vegetation
Short Database Report
10.3897/VCS.72875
2022-06-29
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University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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Liu, Changcheng
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8933-8793
Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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Qiao, Xianguo
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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Guo, Ke
Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, China
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Zhao, Liqing
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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Pan, Qingmin
2022-06-29
2022-06-29
2022
Vegetation Classification and Survey
2683-0671
3
121-144
2022
10.3897/VCS.72875
https://vcs.pensoft.net/article/72875/
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Aims: The vegetation classification system of China (China-VCS) is not completed. Stipa steppes are the most important steppes in China. Here we made optimal use of available plot data to classify Stipa steppes into associations in a way that is consistent with International Vegetation Classification. Study Area: the Songnen Plain, Inner Mongolian Plateau, Loess Plateau, Tibetan Plateau, and the northwest mountain areas of China. Methods: We used 1337 plots to partition the Stipa steppes of China into clusters using hierarchical clustering. Supervised noise clustering was used to improve the classifications at the group, alliance, and association levels. Non-metric multidimensional scaling ordination was used to visualize the homogeneity of plots within each cluster, and we overlaid site and climatic vectors. Diagnostic species were identified for each cluster using Indicator Species Analysis. Results: We defined five biogeographic groups, 26 alliances, 91 associations, and 12 communities of Stipa steppes of China. The Stipa-dominated alliances in the framework of the current China-VCS were verified, but the four vegetation subformations of Tussock Steppe were not completely supported by this study. Conclusions: This is the first systematical and comprehensive classification for Stipa steppes in China based on plot data. Our classification used a set of dominant species and diagnostic species to define biogeogrpahic groups, alliances and associations, ensuring compatibility with the International Vegetation Classification. Taxonomic reference: Flora Reipublicae Popularis Sinicae, Flora of China Abbreviations: AMT = Annual Mean Temperature; AP = Annual Precipitation; China-VCS = vegetation classification system of China; IVC = international vegetation classification; MTCQ = Mean Temperature of Coldest Quarter; MTWQ = Mean Temperature of Warmest Quarter; NC = noise clustering; NMDS = non-metric multidimensional scaling; PDQ = Precipitation of Driest Quarter; PS = Precipitation Seasonality; PWQ = Precipitation of Wettest Quarter; TS = Temperature Seasonality
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alliance
association
China
Stipa
steppe
vegetation classification
Vegetation classification of Stipa steppes in China, with reference to the International Vegetation Classification
Research Paper
10.3897/VCS.76387
2022-07-15
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Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Lugo, Spain
author
RODRIGUEZ GUITIAN, Manuel Antonio
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
author
Amigo Vazquez, Javier
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8984-5899
2022-07-15
2022-07-15
2022
Vegetation Classification and Survey
2683-0671
3
145-148
2022
10.3897/VCS.76387
https://vcs.pensoft.net/article/76387/
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The association Omphalodo nitidae-Coryletum avellanae was defined by assembling relevés on (mainly) Corylus avellana woods on nutrient-rich substrates in the westernmost part of the Cantabrian Range (NW Spain). However, a mesophytic oak forest dominated by Quercus robur (with noteworthy amount of Corylus avellana in the undercanopy) was selected as its holotype. The most common interpretation of this association in the subsequent literature has been as seral Corylus avellana forests. For this reason, we propose the application of article 53 of the ICPN (4th ed.), which allows the name to be maintained with a new nomenclatural type based on the more recent interpretation of this syntaxon. (29) Omphalodo nitidae-Coryletum avellanae Amigo, G. Azcárate et Romero 1994, typus cons. propos. Typus: Amigo et al. (1994), table 2: rel. 4 (typus cons. propos.) Taxonomic reference: Castroviejo et al. (1986–2020). Syntaxonomic reference: Rivas-Martínez (2011). Abbreviations: ICPN = International Code of Phytosociological Nomenclature.
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calcicolous forest
conserved type
hazelnut-tree forest
nomenclature
NW Spain
seral forest
western Orocantabrian sector
Proposal (29) to conserve the name Omphalodo nitidae-Coryletum avellanae Amigo, G. Azcárate et Romero 1994 with a conserved type
Nomenclatural Proposal
10.3897/VCS.87068
2022-07-22
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University of Opole, Opole, Poland
Polish Academy of Sciences Botanical Garden, Warsaw, Poland
author
Nowak, Arkadiusz
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8638-0208
University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Bilbao, Spain
author
Biurrun, Idoia
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1454-0433
Institute of Botany, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia
author
Janišová, Monika
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6445-0823
Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Wädenswil, Switzerland
University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
author
Dengler, Jürgen
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3221-660X
2022-07-22
2022-07-22
2022
Vegetation Classification and Survey
2683-0671
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149-159
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2004
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606 pp
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Braun-Blanquet
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1961
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Hartmann
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With this editorial, we introduce the Special Collection “Classification of grasslands and other open vegetation types in the Palaearctic”. In searching the Web of Science for classification papers on Palaearctic grasslands, we found 207 studies from 1972–2021, including 106 typical classification works. These studies originated mainly from Europe, with only few from Asia and only one from Northern Africa. While Europe in the 20th century already had a strong tradition in regional classification studies, the launch of a common plot database (European Vegetation Archive, EVA) and a continental syntaxonomic reference list (EuroVegChecklist) have spurred the developments there in recent years. We then introduce the seven articles of the Special Collection. Four of them present regional studies of certain vegetation types, namely spring vegetation (Montio-Cardaminetea) in Grisons, Switzerland, dry grasslands (Festuco-Brometea) of the inneralpine valleys of Austria, montane to subalpine tall-herb vegetation (Mulgedio-Aconitetea) in the Sudetes Mts., Poland, and steppe depressions (Festuco-Brometea and Molinio-Arrhentatheretea) in Southern Ukraine. A new synthesis of the grassland vegetation of Navarre in Spain (all classes, focus on Festuco-Brometea), started with an unsupervised classification and translated it into a hierarchical expert system, while another study provided the first synthesis of the tall-herb vegetation (mainly Ulopteretea prangae) of Tajikistan. Finally, a study based on the GrassPlot database compared fine-grain beta-diversities across open vegetation types of the Palaearctic. Abbreviations: EDGG = Eurasian Dry Grassland Group, EVA = European Vegetation Archive, IAVS = International Association for Vegetation Science, WoS = Web of Science.
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Asia
beta diversity
grassland
open vegetation
Palaearctic
phytosociology
spring vegetation
syntaxonomy
tall-herb vegetation
vegetation classification
vegetation-plot database
Classification of grasslands and other open vegetation types in the Palaearctic – Introduction to the Special Collection
Editorial
10.3897/VCS.83045
2022-07-22
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University of New England, Armidale, Australia
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Aims: To develop an interim classification of the vegetation of the Northern Territory at the International Vegetation Classification (IVC) division (level 4) and macrogroup (level 5) levels. These types are produced to assist in the development of an integrated nationwide plot and floristically based classification of Australia allowing integration within a global perspective. Study Area: The Northern Territory of Australia covers an area of 1.42 million square kilometres, almost 20% of Australia’s land mass. It comprises three distinct climatic zones including tropical, subtropical and arid vegetation types. Methods: We used collated vegetation data held by two organisations: the Northern Territory Government, Department of Environment, Parks and Water Security and the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (a total of 45,710 plots used). We applied semi-supervised quantitative classification methods to define vegetation types at the IVC division and macrogroup levels. Analyses used kR-CLUSTER methods on presence/absence data. Macrogroups were characterised by taxa with the highest frequency of occurrence across plots. Additional analyses were conducted (cluster) to elucidate interrelationships between macrogroups and to assist in the assessment of division level typology. Results: We propose 21 macrogroups and place these within higher thematic levels of the IVC. Conclusions: We found that the IVC hierarchy and associated standard procedures and protocols provide a useful classification tool for Australian ecosystems. The divisions and macrogroups provide a valid framework for subsequent analysis of Northern Territory vegetation types at the detailed levels of the IVC. A consistent typology for the Northern Territory (and hopefully in future, for all of Australia) has numerous benefits, in that they can be used for various applications using a well-structured, systematic and authoritative description and classification that is placed in a continental and global context, readily enabling the one system to be used in studies from the local to global level. Taxonomic reference: Northern Territory Herbarium (2022). Abbreviations: DVT = Definitive Vegetation Type; IVC = International Vegetation Classification; nMDS = non-metric multidimensional scaling; NT = Northern Territory; NTVSD = Northern Territory Vegetation Site Database; NVIS = National Vegetation Information System; WA = Western Australia.
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Australia
Definitive Vegetation Type
International Vegetation Classification
National Vegetation Information System
Northern Territory
semi-arid
sub-tropical
tropical
A plot-based analysis of the vegetation of the Northern Territory, Australia: a first assessment within the International Vegetation Classification framework
Research Paper
10.3897/VCS.82824
2022-08-11
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South-Ural Botanical Garden-Institute, Ufa, Russia
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Golovanov, Yaroslav
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4790-8900
South-Ural Botanical Garden-Institute, Ufa, Russia
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Abramova, Larisa
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3196-2080
2022-08-11
2022-08-11
2022
Vegetation Classification and Survey
2683-0671
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175-176
2022
10.3897/VCS.82824
https://vcs.pensoft.net/article/82824/
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The Database of anthropogenic vegetation of Urals and adjacent territories (GIVD ID 00-RU-008) includes 4,327 vegetation plots of anthropogenic vegetation from 3 regions of the Russian Federation (the Republic of Bashkortostan, Orenburg, Chelyabinsk regions) and 1 region of the Republic of Kazakhstan (Aktobe region). All relevés were made between 1984 and 2021 AD. 1865 vegetation plots are from different literature sources (28 sources), 2462 are unpublished relevés from the authors. 94% of the relevés are geo-referenced. The ecological conditions were assessed by the use of average Landolt indicator values. The taxonomy of vascular species is given according to Cherepanov (1995). The vegetation plots in the database belong to nine vegetation classes. 7 anthropogenic (Sisymbrietea, Digitario sanguinalis-Eragrostietea minoris, Polygono-Poetea annuae, Artemisietea vulgaris, Epilobietea angustifolii, Bidentetea, Robinietea) and 2 semi-natural phytosociological classes: Molinio-Arrhenatheretea (anthropogenically transformed meadows, lawns, etc. of the union Cynosurion cristati Tx. 1947.) and Festuco-Brometea (anthropogenically transformed steppe communities found within human settlements). Vegetation plots include also invasive species (Acer negundo, Ambrosia trifida, Echinocystis lobata, Impatiens glandulifera, Solidago canadensis, Solidago gigantea, Heracleum sosnowskyi, Hordeum jubatum, Xanthium albinum etc.).
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antropogenic vegetation
Kazakhstan
Russia
TURBOVEG
Urals
vegetation classification
vegetation plot
Database of anthropogenic vegetation of Urals and adjacent territories
Short Database Report
10.3897/VCS.85083
2022-08-23
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University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Italian Institute for Environmental Protection and Research, Roma, Italy
LifeWatch Italy, Lecce, Italy
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Alessi, Nicola
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4479-950X
University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
author
Bruzzaniti, Vanessa
University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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Buldrini, Fabrizio
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0376-6760
University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
author
Centomo, Emma
University of Camerino, Camerino, Italy
University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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Cervellini, Marco
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0853-2330
University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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Enea, Mirko
GREENARCO S.r.l, Spin-Off of the University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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Landi, Sara
University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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Lelli, Chiara
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0497-828X
University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
author
Montanari, Irene
University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
author
Nascimbene, Juri
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9174-654X
University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
author
Pezzi, Giovanna
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9739-3530
University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
author
Virzì, Gianmarco
University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
LifeWatch Italy, Lecce, Italy
author
Zannini, Piero
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2466-4402
University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
author
Chiarucci, Alessandro
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1160-235X
2022-08-23
2022-08-23
2022
Vegetation Classification and Survey
2683-0671
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177-185
2022
10.3897/VCS.85083
https://vcs.pensoft.net/article/85083/
https://vcs.pensoft.net/article/85083/download/pdf/
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The importance of collection, storage and exchange of georeferenced vegetation plot-based data has significantly grown in the recent decades, because of the new potentialities offered by ecoinformatics. In this article we introduce the Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna vegetation database (AMS-VegBank; GIVD code EU-IT-021) compiling 17,505 georeferenced vegetation-plot observations within a time span of 90 years. This database includes 337,799 occurrence data of vascular plant species, belonging to many different habitat types. The historical relevance of the presented database is highlighted by the presence of some of the most ancient vegetation-plot observations in Europe (years 1930–1938). The geographic coverage of the database is mostly for Italian territory but it includes also data from other countries. The thematic focuses represented in the database are various, such as small Mediterranean islands, the Dolomite Mountains and the Italian National Parks. The large amount of historical plots available for the country not previously included in existing databases, combined with the constant action to improve the georeferencing of existing data and the addition of new data, highlight the uniqueness of this database. AMS-VegBank represents thus an important tool for studying plant biodiversity within the context of continental and global vegetation plot databases. Taxonomic reference: All plant names reported in this article follow the nomenclature by Pignatti et al. (2017–2019). Abbreviations: EVA = European Vegetation Archive; GIVD = Global Index of Vegetation-Plot Databases.
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European Vegetation Archive
floristic record
Global Index of Vegetation-Plot Databases
historical plot
Italy
relevé
TURBOVEG
vegetation plot
vegetation survey
AMS-VegBank: a new database of vegetation plots for the Italian territory
Long Database Report
10.3897/VCS.86799
2022-08-25
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University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Bilbao, Spain
author
Loidi, Javier
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3163-2409
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (USC), Santiago de Compostela, Spain
author
Amigo Vazquez, Javier
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8984-5899
Unaffiliated, Llanes, Spain
author
Bueno, Álvaro
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1000-0886
University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Bilbao, Spain
author
Herrera, Mercedes
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2812-8666
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (USC), Lugo, Spain
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RODRIGUEZ GUITIAN, Manuel Antonio
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5647-7594
2022-08-25
2022-08-25
2022
Vegetation Classification and Survey
2683-0671
3
187-189
2022
10.3897/VCS.86799
https://vcs.pensoft.net/article/86799/
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Abstract: The association Polysticho setiferi-Fraxinetum excelsioris was described as a meso-eutrophic thermophilic forest dominated by common oak (Quercus robur) with a distribution that includes the Oviedo district in Asturias and the Basque-Cantabrian area (N Spain and SW France). However, when a lectotype was chosen to comply with Article 19 of the ICPN, a relevé dominated by beech was selected, which leads to interpretive problems. Given that the most widespread interpretation of this association in the phytosociological literature is the one established by its original authors (i.e., a meso-eutrophic oak-ash forest), we consider that this name should be retained, but its type should be changed to a conserved neotypus according to Article 53 of the 4th edition of the ICPN. (30) Polysticho setiferi-Fraxinetum excelsioris (Tüxen et Oberdorfer 1958) Rivas-Martínez ex Díaz et Fernández Prieto 1994 Typus: see below (typus cons. propos.) Taxonomic reference: Castroviejo et al. (1986–2021). Syntaxonomic reference: Rivas-Martínez (2011). Abbreviations: ICPN = International Code of Phytosociological Nomenclature.
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Basque-Cantabrian area
common oak-ash forest
conserved type
meso-eutrophic forest
nomenclature
northern Spain
Oviedo district
southwestern France
Proposal (30) to conserve the name Polysticho setiferi-Fraxinetum excelsioris (Tüxen et Oberdorfer 1958) Rivas-Martínez ex Díaz et Fernández Prieto 1994 with a conserved type
Nomenclatural Proposal
10.3897/VCS.84418
2022-10-24
vcs
Complutense University, Madrid, Spain
author
Oliveira, Jaime
Complutense University, Madrid, Spain
author
Molina, José
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4348-6015
Bolivian Catholic University “San Pablo”, Cochabamba, Bolivia
author
Navarro-Sánchez, Gonzalo
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9890-5112
2022-10-24
2022-10-24
2022
Vegetation Classification and Survey
2683-0671
3
191-197
2022
10.3897/VCS.84418
https://vcs.pensoft.net/article/84418/
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Bolivia is a country exceptionally rich in biodiversity and home to about 20,000 vascular plant species and 15 plant formations. Therefore, it is particularly important to document the biodiversity of this territory. The aim of the Bolivian Vegetation Ecology Database (BOVEDA; GIVD ID SA-BO-005) is to record floristic and ecological data of Bolivian vegetation. In the first stage, the database hosts 320 relevés from one of the most unique biogeographical units in the country, the Chaco. In total, 633 species belonging to 114 families have been recorded. Data on vegetation structure, soil, flooding regime and geomorphology have also been stored. The following nine vegetation structural types were identified: (1) deciduous forests of alluvial plains on well to moderately well drained soils; (2) deciduous to semideciduous Chaco forests transitional to the Andes; (3) deciduous and sclerophyllous Cerrado thorn-woodlands and shrublands transitional to the Chaco (Abayoy); (4) xeromorphic thorn shrubland and thickets on vertic, poorly drained soils; (5) woodlands and savannas on sand dunes and aeolian surfaces; (6) freshwater swamp forests; (7) saltwater swamp forests; (8) phreatophytic forests; (9) deciduous to semideciduous Chaco forests transitional to the Chiquitania. Further steps will be to incorporate new types of vegetation already recorded in the field such as Altiplano shrublands, Andean wetlands, Andean Polylepis forests, and vegetation of the dry inter-Andean valleys. Taxonomic reference: Jørgensen et al. (2015). Abbreviations: BOVEDA = Bolivian Vegetation Ecology Database; GIVD = Global Index of Vegetation-Plot Databases.
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Bolivia
Chaco
database
dry forest
Neotropics
phytosociology
soil-vegetation relationship
vegetation classification
BOVEDA, the Bolivian Vegetation Ecology Database: first stage, the Chacoan forests
Long Database Report
10.3897/VCS.85209
2022-11-03
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University of South Africa, Florida, South Africa
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Brown, Leslie R.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1026-5438
University of South Africa, Florida, South Africa
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Magagula, Itumeleng
University of South Africa, Florida, South Africa
author
Barrett, Alan
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8433-6828
2022-11-03
2022-11-03
2022
Vegetation Classification and Survey
2683-0671
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199-219
2022
funder
University of South Africa
10.13039/501100008227
10.3897/VCS.85209
https://vcs.pensoft.net/article/85209/
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Aims: This study identified, classified and mapped the different plant communities found on the Telperion Nature Reserve. Study area: Telperion Nature Reserve, Mpumulanga, South Africa. Methods: Using a 1:10,000 aerial photograph, Telperion was delineated into homogenous physiognomic-physiographic units. 294 sample plots (100 m2) were placed in a randomly stratified manner within identified homogenous units. Plant species present in sample plots were recorded and allocated a modified Braun-Blanquet cover abundance scale value. Sample plot data were captured into TURBOVEG and exported for editing, classification and processing in JUICE. A modified TWINSPAN classification was applied to derive a first approximation of the plant communities in a synoptic table that was refined using Braun-Blanquet procedures. Species were manually arranged into groups. Diagnostic, constant and dominant species were statistically determined from the synoptic table. Threshold values for fidelity, frequency and canopy cover were set and a final phytosociological table was produced for describing the plant species composition for the different plant communities. Results: 22 plant communities were identified for Telperion. Five were major communities, 14 were sub-communities and 13 were variants. The five major plant communities were Cyathea dregei–Ilex mitis ravine woodland, Paspalum urvillei–Phragmites australis valley bottom wetland, Diospyros lycioides–Combretum erythrophyllum riparian woodland, Eragrostis curvula–Seriphium plumosum midslope plateau grassland, and Combretum molle–Englerophytum magalismontanum rocky ridge woodland. The plant communities were also described and mapped. Conclusions: The classification, description and mapping of Telperion’s vegetation provides a basis for management decision making about wildlife stocking rates, fire planning, and vegetation management. Findings indicate that Bankenveld vegetation is heterogeneous with a variety of habitats including woodland and grassland components. Telperion has a variety of plant communities and a high plant species diversity, making it a reservoir for plant species and an important conservation area. Taxonomic reference: SA-Plant Checklist-2019–2020, South African National Biodiversity Institute, 2020, Botanical Database of Southern Africa (BODATSA) (http://posa.sanbi.org/) [accessed January 2022]. Abbreviations: BB = Braun-Blanquet; m a.s.l. = metres above sea level; TWINSPAN = Two-way indicator species analysis.
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Braun-Blanquet
diversity
habitat type
modified TWINSPAN
plant community
Telperion
A vegetation classification and description of Telperion Nature Reserve, Mpumalanga, South Africa
Research Paper
10.3897/VCS.96011
2022-11-14
vcs
University of Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland
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Świerkosz, Krzysztof
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5145-178X
University of Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland
author
Reczyńska, Kamila
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0938-8430
2022-11-14
2022-11-14
2022
Vegetation Classification and Survey
2683-0671
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221-222
2022
10.3897/VCS.96011
https://vcs.pensoft.net/article/96011/
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“VESTA - resurvey of natural, non-forest vegetation (Central Europe)” is a thematic, resurvey database focused on documentation of changes in natural, non-forest communities. Currently, the database includes 549 relevés (231 replots for 84 sites) corresponding to the classes Asplenietea trichomanis (incl. Polypodietea), Koelerio-Corynephoretea (rocky grasslands), Loiseleurio-Vaccinietea and Betulo carpaticae-Alnetea viridis. The project is continuous in character. It is based on the phytosociological relevés from own field studies which have been carried out in the Sudetes Mts. and their foothills since 1989. The subject of research have been all types of rocky communities (chasmophytic, grasslands, thickets), mountain and submountain tall-herb communities, subalpine thickets and heathlands. Relevés are collected according to the standard Braun-Blanquet method (species coverage scale: r, +, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) and on rectangular or square-shaped surfaces with possible adjustment to the shape of the rocky outcrops. Initially (until 2008), the location of plots was marked on maps and field sketches. However, the fact that all relevés were collected by the owners of the database made it easier to revisit all plots and assigned a location compatible with GPS with SiRFstar III chipset. The accuracy of position measurements varies between 2 and 15 meters (on average 10 meters). Aspect is determined using electronic compass linked to GPS. Altitude is obtained from Google Earth and corrected with landmarks from topographical maps if necessary. The shading of the plots has been visually assessed so far. The bedrock type is derived from a Detailed Geological Map of the Sudetes (http://sudety.pgi.gov.pl/). Subsequent resurveys of the plots are conducted during field visits planned specifically for this purpose or during other research carried out in the same area.
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Betulo carpaticae-Alnetea viridis
Asplenietea trichomanis
chasmophytic vegetation
Koelerio-Corynephoretea
Loiseleurio-Vaccinietea
non-forest vegetation
Poland
replot vegetation database
rocky grasslands
Sudetes mountains
VESTA – resurvey of natural, non-forest vegetation (Central Europe)
Short Database Report
10.3897/VCS.94256
2022-12-07
vcs
Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal (CONICET-UNC), Córdoba, Argentina
Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina
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Giorgis, Melisa A.
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6126-6660
Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal (CONICET-UNC), Córdoba, Argentina
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Cabido, Marcelo
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6168-7537
Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal (CONICET-UNC), Córdoba, Argentina
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Cingolani, Ana M.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6173-1814
Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal (CONICET-UNC), Córdoba, Argentina
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Palchetti, Virginia
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0442-8640
Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal (CONICET-UNC), Córdoba, Argentina
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Zeballos, Sebastián
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0899-7928
Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto (UNRC), Río Cuarto, Argentina
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Cantero, Juan José
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1193-6050
Università degli Studi di Roma Tre, Roma, Italy
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Acosta, Alicia Teresa Rosario
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6572-3187
2022-12-07
2022-12-07
2022
Vegetation Classification and Survey
2683-0671
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223-230
2022
funder
Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
10.13039/501100002923
funder
Neotropical Grassland Conservancy
10.13039/100014263
10.3897/VCS.94256
https://vcs.pensoft.net/article/94256/
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The ArgVeg is a repository of vegetation-plots data registered in the Global Index of Vegetation Databases (GIVD ID: SA-AR-002). This report presents its main characteristics, potential uses, and future perspectives. In September 2022, the database contained 1092 vegetation-plot records, including 1184 valid native and non-native vascular plants. The database covers the main vegetation types of nine vegetation units of the Chaco, Espinal and Pampean phytogeographic provinces in central Argentina. Those types include native forests, shrublands, grasslands, halophytic vegetation and non-native woody communities present in either lowlands or mountain areas. This database represents a significant improvement in the availability of floristic information from subtropical and warm temperate areas in South America, which still represents a major knowledge gap worldwide. ArgVeg reflects the outstanding plant diversity of central Argentina and it is managed by the Plant Ecology and Phytogeography Group at the Multidisciplinary Institute of Plant Biology (Córdoba, Argentina). Not only the high biodiversity but also the complex landscape heterogeneity are the most important characteristics of the vegetation in this region. We hope to increase the number of plots in the near future and to strengthen regional and global networks to enhance the conservation and management of these endangered ecosystems.
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Argentina
forest
grassland
seasonally dry ecosystem
shrubland
South America
sPlot
ArgVeg – Database of Central Argentina
Long Database Report
10.3897/VCS.86102
2022-12-19
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University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain
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Loidi, Javier
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3163-2409
Bolivian Catholic University, Cochabamba, Bolivia
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Navarro-Sánchez, Gonzalo
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9890-5112
University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain
M.G. Kholodny Institute of Botany, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
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Vynokurov, Denys
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7003-6680
2022-12-19
2022-12-19
2022
Vegetation Classification and Survey
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231-271
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Question: Is it feasible to establish a classification of large biotic units of the world related to climatic types? Study area: The world. Methods: A total of 616 localities have been selected, their climatic parameters calculated and subjected to a PCA. The climatic characterization of biomes and subbiomes has been completed after data analysis. Results: A hierarchical classification is proposed for the biotic units within four main domains: Cryocratic, Mesocratic, Xerocratic and Thermocratic, divided into 7 ecozones, 9 biomes and 20 subbiomes linked to climatically defined territories. Most of the units are intercontinental. The mountains represent an abbreviated version of the latitudinal zonation and the altitudinal belts are related to the corresponding units of the lowlands. For the bioclimatic units, a parallel classification is proposed to fit with that of the biotic units: 4 Macrobioclimates and 10 bioclimates. Furthermore, 7 ombrotypes and 7 thermotypes are recognized to frame the climatic variation within each climatic territory due to terrain ruggedness, particularly in relation to large or medium sized mountains. Conclusions: The southern hemisphere is substantially more oceanic than the northern hemisphere. This is due to the distribution of the land masses and the modifying effect they have on the flow of air and marine currents. As a result, there is one biome and one subbiome exclusively found in the northern hemisphere (6. Biome of the steppe, and 5.b Continental scrub and woodlands subbiome) and two others which are almost confined to it (2. Biome of the boreal forest, and 3. Biome of the temperate deciduous forests). The 7. Biome of the deserts and 5. Biome of the temperate aridiestival evergreen forests and shrublands occur on the western side of the continents and expand in their interior favoured by rain shadow and continentality effects. Taxonomic reference: The Plant List (2013). Abbreviations: ITCZ = Inter Tropical Convergence Zone; NH = Northern Hemisphere; PCA = Principal Component Analysis; SH = Southern Hemisphere.
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large scale vegetation units
potential natural vegetation
subbiome
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Climatic definitions of the world’s terrestrial biomes
Review and Synthesis
10.3897/VCS.95767
2022-12-20
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Polish Academy of Sciences Botanical Garden – Center for Biological Diversity Conservation in Powsin, Warszawa, Poland
Franciszek Górski Institute of Plant Physiology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków, Poland
University of Opole, Opole, Poland
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Świerszcz, Sebastian
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2035-0035
University of Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland
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Swacha, Grzegorz
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6380-2954
Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Wrocław, Poland
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Raduła, Małgorzata W.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9578-6135
University of Opole, Opole, Poland
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Nowak, Sylwia
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2867-9839
2022-12-20
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Aims: Landscapes of Middle Asia are exposed to human influence due to long-lasting pastoral tradition, and now are largely dominated by non-forest vegetation. Graminoids perform key ecosystem functions, and constitute an important feed source for livestock. We studied the distribution patterns of graminoids cover under climatic and grazing pressure gradients in different open vegetation types. Study area: Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan. Methods: 1,525 vegetation plots representing five open vegetation types (mires, salt marshes, tall-forb communities, pseudosteppes and steppes) were extracted from the Vegetation of Middle Asia Database. We assessed the relative cover of graminoid species in each vegetation type. The importance of mean annual temperature, sum of annual precipitation, aridity and livestock density as drivers of relative cover of graminoids contribution patterns in the five vegetation types were explored with use of polynomial functions and commonality analysis. Results: Open ecosystems of Middle Asia are characterized by different graminoid contributions. The highest relative cover of graminoids was found for steppes, pseudosteppes and mires. Comparison of model fits for relationship between the graminoids cover, climatic parameters and livestock pressure indicated advantage of polynomial models. The best-fitting models for pseudosteppes were for mean annual temperature, Aridity Index and livestock density, for steppes mean annual temperature and Aridity Index, and for salt marshes mean annual temperature. For mires and tall-forb communities, the models showed a poor fit or no effect of the variables studied. Conclusions: Our study shows that climate and livestock pressure have an impact on the contribution of graminoids in open vegetation types, but a general pattern is difficult to describe. Ongoing climate change may influence the share of graminoids in salt marshes, steppes and pseudosteppes. Grazing (with a common effect of climatic factors) is the most important factor influencing graminoids contribution on pseudosteppes, confirming the secondary origin of this vegetation type. Taxonomic reference: The nomenclature of the vascular plants follows Plants of the World Online (POWO 2022) and problematic taxonomic issues were based on The World Flora Online (WFO 2022). Nomenclature of Stipa spp. follows Nobis et al. (2020).
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aridity
climate
Cyperaceae
grassland
hot-spot
Juncaceae
Kyrgyzstan
Middle Asia
open habitat
Poaceae
steppe
Tajikistan
Distribution of graminoids in open habitats in Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan
Research Paper
10.3897/VCS.95750
2022-12-30
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Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia
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Peyre, Gwendolyn
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1977-7181
Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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Montesinos-Tubée, Daniel B.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4439-5089
Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia
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Giraldo, Daniela
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2983-1348
Universidad San Pablo-CEU, Madrid, Spain
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Galán de Mera, Antonio
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1652-5931
Universität Trier, Trier, Germany
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Ruthsatz, Barbara
Universidad de Chile, Santiago de Chile, Chile
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Luebert, Federico
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2251-4056
Instituto Argentino de Investigaciones de las Zonas Áridas, Mendoza, Argentina
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Ontivero, Marcela
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1888-3422
Universidad de Chile, Santiago de Chile, Chile
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Garcia, Nicolás
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9003-1510
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany
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Alvarez, Miguel
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1500-1834
Universidad Católica del Norte, Antofagasta, Chile
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Meneses, Rosa Isela
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8779-2757
Universidad Estatal Amazónica, Puyo, Ecuador
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Lozano, Pablo
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0857-8141
University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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León, Daniela
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7295-8256
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany
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Weigend, Maximilian
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0813-6650
AMAP, Univ Montpellier, IRD, CIRAD, CNRS, INRAE, Montpellier, France
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Anthelme, Fabien
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6249-995X
Universidad de Panama, Panama City, Panama
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Palma, Milagro
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0380-750X
Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia
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Rodríguez, Carolina
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5373-7880
2022-12-30
2022-12-30
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In the era of Big Data, Latin American countries and biomes remain underrepresented. To remediate this issue, promoting repositories for biodiversity data focused on Latin America is a main priority. VegAndes -Dpt the vegetation database for the Latin American highlands (GIVD: SA-00-005), is a novel dataset for georeferenced and standardized information on vascular pants in the region. The database compiles 5,340 vegetation plots sampled above the montane treeline and below the permanent snowline in 11 Latin American countries and spanning over seven decades. VegAndes currently encompasses 5,804 taxon names, corresponding to 3,858 accepted names, as well as 136 syntaxon names. The database is nested within a scientific consortium of Latin American experts on highland vegetation and piloted from the University of the Andes (Colombia). Because the VegAndes data can support multi-scale studies in botany, ecology and biogeography, the database makes an essential contribution to biodiversity research and management perspectives in Latin America. Taxonomic reference: TROPICOS (preferential source, www.tropicos.org/), World Flora Online (secondary source, www.worldfloraonline.org/).
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flora
highland
Mesoamerica
phytosociology
plot data
South America
vegetation
VegAndes: the vegetation database for the Latin American highlands
Long Database Report
10.3897/VCS.100394
2023-01-13
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University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW), Wädenswil, Switzerland
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Dengler, Jürgen
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3221-660X
University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Bilbao, Spain
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Biurrun, Idoia
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1454-0433
University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany
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Jansen, Florian
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0331-5185
University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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Willner, Wolfgang
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1591-8386
2023-01-13
2023-01-13
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10.3897/VCS.100394
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We report on the completed third volume of Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS). VCS has been included in the Scopus bibliometric database and will receive its first CiteSore in mid-2023. We announce the 2022 Editors’ Award for a paper selected from the four papers nominated for Editors’ Choice during 2022. We selected Liu et al. (2022; Vegetation Classification and Survey 3: 121–144) for the Editors’ Award. This author team developed a comprehensive hierarchical classification system for the steppe vegetation over China. We present five Special Collections (two concluded and three ongoing) which form a backbone for VCS. Apart from Research Papers, Long and Short Database Reports were the prevailing article category in 2022. By contrast, there were no VCS Methods paper in 2022, and thus we encourage submissions particularly in this category. Finally, we welcome new members to the Editorial Board and open a call for free applications for our Editorial Review Board or as a Linguistic Editor. Abbreviations: APC = article processing charge; IAVS = International Association for Vegetation Science; VCS = Vegetation Classification and Survey.
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Editorial Review Board
Editors’ Award
gold open access
International Association for Vegetation Science (IAVS)
publication trend
scientific journal
Scopus
vegetation classification
Web of Science
Vegetation Classification and Survey in the third year
Editorial
10.3897/VCS.98324
2023-01-13
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University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW), Wädenswil, Switzerland
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Dengler, Jürgen
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3221-660X
University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany
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Jansen, Florian
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0331-5185
Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW), Wädenswil, Switzerland
M.G. Kholodny Institute of Botany of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
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Chusova, Olha
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8081-9918
University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN), Bonn, Germany
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Hüllbusch, Elisabeth
Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
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Nobis, Michael P.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3285-1590
KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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Van Meerbeek, Koenraad
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9260-3815
Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
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Acmanová, Irena
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9440-7976
University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Bruun, Hans Henrik
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0674-2577
Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
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Chytrý, Milan
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8122-3075
Palermo University, Palermo, Italy
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Guarino, Riccardo
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0106-9416
University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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Karrer, Gerhard
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5172-2319
KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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Moeys, Karlien
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7404-6034
Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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Raus, Thomas
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5778-4705
University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
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Steinbauer, Manuel
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7142-9272
Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
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Tichý, Lubomír
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8400-7741
Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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Tyler, Torbjörn
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7886-7603
Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia
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Batsatsashvili, Ketevan
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7654-3720
Institute of Biology Bucharest, Romanian Academy, Bukarest, Romania
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Bita-Nicolae, Claudia
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3949-1989
M.G. Kholodny Institute of Botany of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
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Didukh, Yakiv
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5661-3944
University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
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Diekmann, Martin
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8482-0679
Populationsökologie und Naturschutzforschung, Vienna, Austria
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Englisch, Thorsten
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8616-6217
University of Oviedo, Uviéu, Spain
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Fernández Pascual, Eduardo
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4743-9577
Environment Agency Saxony-Anhalt (LAU), Halle, Germany
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Frank, Dieter
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8602-9570
Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
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Graf, Ulrich
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6459-3034
Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
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Hájek, Michal
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5201-2682
University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
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Jelaska, Sven
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3834-002X
University of Oviedo, Mieres, Spain
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Jimenez-Alfaro, Borja
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6601-9597
FGES/ Université Catholique de Lille, Lille, France
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Julve, Philippe
Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia
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Nakhutsrishvili, George
Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, Netherlands
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Ozinga, Wim
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6369-7859
Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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Ruprecht, Eszter
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0122-6282
ZRC SAZU, Institute of Biology, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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Silc, Urban
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3052-699X
University of Geneva, Chambésy, Switzerland
Fondation J.-M. Aubert, Champex-Lac, Switzerland
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Theurillat, Jean Paul
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1843-5809
Université de Franche-Comté, Besançon, France
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Gillet, François
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3334-1069
2023-01-13
2023-01-13
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10.3897/VCS.98324
https://vcs.pensoft.net/article/98324/
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Aims: To develop a consistent ecological indicator value system for Europe for five of the main plant niche dimensions: soil moisture (M), soil nitrogen (N), soil reaction (R), light (L) and temperature (T). Study area: Europe (and closely adjacent regions). Methods: We identified 31 indicator value systems for vascular plants in Europe that contained assessments on at least one of the five aforementioned niche dimensions. We rescaled the indicator values of each dimension to a continuous scale, in which 0 represents the minimum and 10 the maximum value present in Europe. Taxon names were harmonised to the Euro+Med Plantbase. For each of the five dimensions, we calculated European values for niche position and niche width by combining the values from the individual EIV systems. Using T values as an example, we externally validated our European indicator values against the median of bioclimatic conditions for global occurrence data of the taxa. Results: In total, we derived European indicator values of niche position and niche width for 14,835 taxa (14,714 for M, 13,748 for N, 14,254 for R, 14,054 for L, 14,496 for T). Relating the obtained values for temperature niche position to the bioclimatic data of species yielded a higher correlation than any of the original EIV systems (r = 0.859). The database: The newly developed Ecological Indicator Values for Europe (EIVE) 1.0, together with all source systems, is available in a flexible, harmonised open access database. Conclusions: EIVE is the most comprehensive ecological indicator value system for European vascular plants to date. The uniform interval scales for niche position and niche width provide new possibilities for ecological and macroecological analyses of vegetation patterns. The developed workflow and documentation will facilitate the future release of updated and expanded versions of EIVE, which may for example include the addition of further taxonomic groups, additional niche dimensions, external validation or regionalisation. Abbreviations: EIV = Ecological indicator value; EIVE = Ecological Indicator Values for Europe; EVA = European Vegetation Archive; GBIF = Global Biodiversity Information Facility; i = index for taxa; j = index for EIV systems; L = ecological indicator for light; M = ecological indicator for moisture; N = ecological indicator for nitrogen availability; R = ecological indicator for reaction; T = ecological indicator for temperature.
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ecological indicator value
Ellenberg indicator value
Europe
light
moisture
niche position
niche width
nitrogen
pH
temperature
vascular plant
Ecological Indicator Values for Europe (EIVE) 1.0
VCS Methods
10.3897/VCS.86024
2023-02-28
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University of Abdelmalek Essaadi, Tétouan, Morocco
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Chakkour, Soufian
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3052-4265
University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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Bergmeier, Erwin
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6118-4611
University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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Meyer, Stefan
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1395-5004
University of Abdelmalek Essaadi, Tétouan, Morocco
National Institute of agronomic Research, INRA, CRRA, Marrakech, Morocco
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Kassout, Jalal
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3702-2751
University of Abdelmalek Essaadi, Tétouan, Morocco
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Kadiri, Mohamed
University of Abdelmalek Essaadi, Tétouan, Morocco
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Ater, Mohammed
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2637-8215
2023-02-28
2023-02-28
2023
Vegetation Classification and Survey
2683-0671
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31-45
2023
10.3897/VCS.86024
https://vcs.pensoft.net/article/86024/
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Questions: While globalisation favours intensive yield-maximizing agriculture with cropping practices that entail agrobiodiversity loss, extensive production systems still exist in areas of marginal lands such as in mountainous regions or islands. It is overdue to study such systems, their sustainability and ecology as potential models for decentralized environmentally balanced land-use. For that purpose, we investigated the composition of the wild arable (segetal) flora in traditional thermo- to mesomediterranean cereal-growing agroecosystems of northwestern Morocco. Study area: The Tingitane (Tangier) Peninsula in the Northwest of Morocco. Methods: A sample of 94 relevés was collected in six areas in the foreland of the Rif Mountains. Results: We found 209 species in 150 genera and 41 families, a mean of 22 species per relevé and a Shannon index of 3.04±0.06. A TWINSPAN classification revealed a high level of similarity between the areas, with the plant communities corresponding to the order Brometalia rubenti-tectorum, but also differences in species composition as a result of climatic, soil and land-use effects. Therophytes dominated, but biennial and perennial herbs indicating shallow tillage and fields under fallow were also common. Almost half of the species found were agrestal species (confined to arable fields), and almost a third were apophytes (native species occurring in fields but also in natural habitats). Twenty-nine species (14%) of the segetal flora were regional endemics and six are considered nationally rare. Although there is evidence of recent structural and floristic diversity decline, traditional agroecosystems tend to favour native species including some of particular conservation interest. Conclusions: The traditional agroecosystems of the Rif Mountains fulfil criteria of High Nature Value agriculture but, in view of recent socio-economic change, require support by policy for their maintenance. Taxonomic reference: Euro+Med PlantBase (http://www.europlusmed.org) [accessed 26 Nov 2022]. Syntaxonomic reference: EuroVegChecklist (Mucina et al. 2016). Abbreviations: TWINSPAN = Two Way Indicator Species Analysis.
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agriculture
arable fields
Brometalia rubenti-tectorum
life form
northwestern Africa
segetal flora
species richness
taxonomic diversity
vegetation classification
weed
Plant diversity in traditional agroecosystems of North Morocco
Research Paper
10.3897/VCS.95779
2023-02-28
vcs
Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, Tucumán, Argentina
author
Casagranda, María Elvira
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9859-4406
Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina
Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, Tucumán, Argentina
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Izquierdo, Andrea
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0520-3248
2023-02-28
2023-02-28
2023
Vegetation Classification and Survey
2683-0671
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47-58
2023
funder
Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
10.13039/501100002923
10.3897/VCS.95779
https://vcs.pensoft.net/article/95779/
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Aims: The aim of this work was to model the distribution of suitable environmental conditions of vegas with specific floristic characteristics. Vegas are high Andean wetlands that represent the main sequestered carbon stocks, biodiversity hotspots, and water regulating systems in the region. In these wetlands, plant communities are the main biological factor that determines functional processes, and plant species assemblages are associated with different ecogeographic features. Study area: Argentine Central Andean Puna ecoregion. Methods: For two different floristic assemblages of vegas, we develop ecological niche models of n-dimensional minimum volume ellipsoids through NicheToolBox, then obtain potential distribution maps. One floristic assemblage was dominated by the cushion-structured plant Oxychloe andina (Juncaceae) and the other by plants of the Cyperaceae family. Results: Elevation and precipitation were the main environmental factors determining the distribution of the two floristic assemblages. Juncaceae dominated vegas tend to be located in high, humid, and cold places, while Cyperaceae vegas are found at a lower elevation, with less humidity, and higher temperatures. According to the dominant climatic gradient in the region, potential distribution maps show that vegas of Juncaceae are commonly found towards the Northeast of the Puna while Cyperaceae vegas are more frequent at lower elevations to the South of the region. Conclusions: This study represents the first approach to niche modeling based on plant communities in vegas of the Argentine Puna, providing knowledge on the environmental factors that limit their distribution. This information could serve as a planning tool in a region exposed to growing perturbations such as mining and climate change. Taxonomic reference: Zuloaga et al. (2019). Abbreviations: AUC = Area Under the ROC Curve; NDVI = Normalized Difference Vegetation Index; ROC = Receiver Operating Characteristic.
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Central Puna ecoregion
Cyperaceae
floristic assemblages
Juncaceae
niche models
plant communities
vegas
vegetation distribution
Modeling the potential distribution of floristic assemblages of high Andean wetlands dominated by Juncaceae and Cyperaceae in the Argentine Puna
Research Paper
10.3897/VCS.99167
2023-03-16
vcs
University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Bilbao, Spain
author
Loidi, Javier
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3163-2409
Bolivian Catholic University, Cochabamba, Bolivia
author
Navarro-Sánchez, Gonzalo
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9890-5112
University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Bilbao, Spain
M.G. Kholodny Institute of Botany, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
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Vynokurov, Denys
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7003-6680
2023-03-16
2023-03-16
2023
Vegetation Classification and Survey
2683-0671
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59-61
2023
10.3897/VCS.99167
https://vcs.pensoft.net/article/99167/
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A vector map of biotic units encompassing the entire terrestrial area of the earth is provided. It contains a hierarchical system of domains, ecozones, biomes and subbiomes, as a large-scale description of the terrestrial ecosystems. The map can be used for different analysis, including monitoring of climate change.
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biogeography
biome
biotic unit
climate
domain
Earth
ecozone
GIS vector map
subbiome
A vector map of the world’s terrestrial biotic units: subbiomes, biomes, ecozones and domains
Report
10.3897/VCS.100985
2023-04-11
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Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW), Wädenswil, Switzerland
University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
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Dengler, Jürgen
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3221-660X
University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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Willner, Wolfgang
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1591-8386
2023-04-11
2023-04-11
2023
Vegetation Classification and Survey
2683-0671
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63-68
2023
10.3897/VCS.100985
https://vcs.pensoft.net/article/100985/
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After a nomenclatural review of the available names for the order of mesoxeric grasslands within the class Festuco-Brometea, we propose the conservation of the name Brachypodietalia pinnati (with a conserved type) against the names Brometalia erecti and Scorzoneretalia villosae. In syntaxonomic concepts not accepting a single order for the mesoxeric grasslands of Europe, the latter names could still be used, as they are based on different nomenclatural types. (31) Brachypodietalia pinnati Korneck 1974: 123 nom. cons. propos. Typus: Cirsio-Brachypodion pinnati Hadač & Klika in Klika and Hadač 1944 (lectotypus; Dengler et al. 2003: 608; typus cons. propos.). (=) Brometalia erecti W. Koch 1926: 20. Typus: Bromion erecti W. Koch 1926: 121 (holotypus). (=) Scorzoneretalia villosae Kovačević 1959: 7 Typus: Scorzonerion villosae Horvatić ex Kovačević 1959 (holotypus) Syntaxonomic reference: Mucina et al. (2016). Abbreviations: ICPN = International Code of Phytosociological Nomenclature, 4th edn (Theurillat et al. 2021).
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Brachypodietalia pinnati
Brometalia erecti
dry grassland
Europe
Festuco-Brometea
nomen ambiguum
nomen conservandum
phytosociological nomenclature
Scorzoneretalia villosae
syntaxonomy
Proposal (31) to conserve the name Brachypodietalia pinnati Korneck 1974 as a nomen conservandum with a conserved type
Nomenclatural Proposal
10.3897/VCS.101114
2023-05-02
vcs
Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, Netherlands
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Janssen, John
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4561-2372
Carmabi Foundation, Willemstad, Netherlands Antilles
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Houtepen, Erik
Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, Netherlands
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Van Proosdij, Andre
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0084-090X
Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, Netherlands
author
Hennekens, Stephan
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1221-0323
2023-05-02
2023-05-02
2023
Vegetation Classification and Survey
2683-0671
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69-74
2023
10.3897/VCS.101114
https://vcs.pensoft.net/article/101114/
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The vegetation database CACTUS (registered in GIVD under SA-00-004) aims to bring together all plot-based relevés from the Dutch Caribbean Islands that are available from literature, unpublished resources, and recent field surveys. The database currently contains 2,701 vegetation descriptions. The database is used for vegetation classification, to investigate vegetation change over time, to assist in the planning of vegetation surveys, as a source for plant species distribution maps, and to inform nature conservation and policy. Taxonomic references: Van Proosdij (2012) for the Leeward Islands, Axelrod (2017, 2021) for the Windward Islands, except for St. Martin (Howard 1974-1989).
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Caribbean region
islands
Neotropics
plant species
syntaxonomy
vegetation
vegetation database
vegetation plot
CACTUS – Vegetation database of the Dutch Caribbean Islands
Long Database Report
10.3897/VCS.96710
2023-05-11
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Universidad Católica Boliviana “San Pablo”, Cochabamba, Bolivia
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Navarro-Sánchez, Gonzalo
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9890-5112
Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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Luebert, Federico
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2251-4056
Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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Molina Abril, José Antonio
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4348-6015
2023-05-11
2023-05-11
2023
Vegetation Classification and Survey
2683-0671
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75-114
2023
10.3897/VCS.96710
https://vcs.pensoft.net/article/96710/
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The classic and current perception of biome in its various meanings is fundamentally based on vegetation types that are considered as discrete or independent and fragmented entities in the landscape. Vegetation units are characterized by their physiognomy, which is based on the dominant life forms and mainly determined by climatic conditions. However, vegetation units are associated and mutually interacting at a landscape level. They are determined by local or regional, climatic, topographic and edaphic gradients within a given territory or geographic area. In this work, we propose a new conceptual and methodological approach aiming to better understand the biome concept in a landscape framework, developing ideas already partially advanced by us. In this sense, we consider the biome as a landscape complex (geocomplex), that spatially includes one to several vegetation geoseries which, in turn, each comprise the following possible geomorphologically linked vegetation series: i) the potential natural climatophilic vegetation (zonal vegetation) and their seral successional stages which occur repeatedly in the landscape; ii) edapho-xerophyllous vegetation (azonal vegetation such as occurs on rocky outcrops or sandy soils); and iii) edapho-hygrophilic vegetation (azonal vegetation such as flooded vegetation on river banks). Based on surveys and field data (more than ca. 300 transects) obtained by the authors in most South American countries from 1990 to the present, 33 South American geocomplex biomes and 16 macrobiomes were identified and synoptically characterized, through graphic general zonation models (phyto-topographic type-profiles) extrapolated from numerous observations along representative bioclimatical, geomorphological and biogeographically stratified transects. Field data and transect-plots are currently being processed to be included into the “GIVD database”. Taxonomic reference: Tropicos.org, Missouri Botanical Garden (https://tropicos.org) [accessed 1 Feb 2023]. In Memoriam: Salvador Rivas-Martínez
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biome
catena
geocomplex
geoseries
South America
zonation
South American terrestrial biomes as geocomplexes: a geobotanical landscape approach
Review and Synthesis
10.3897/VCS.86310
2023-07-07
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University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa
Agricultural Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa
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Samuels, Mogamat Igshaan
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5594-2623
Benghazi University, Benghazi, Libya
Benghazi University, Benghazi, Libya
Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa
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Saaed, Manam Wafi Barrani
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3740-4274
Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa
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Jacobs, Shayne
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1829-7650
University of South Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa
South African National Parks, Pretoria, South Africa
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Masubelele, Mmoto
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3656-1347
South African Environmental Observation Network, Kimberley, South Africa
University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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Van der Merwe, Helga
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7677-5123
University of South Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa
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Khomo, Lesego
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8977-8008
2023-07-07
2023-07-07
2023
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https://vcs.pensoft.net/article/86310/
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Study area: The study was conducted in the Tankwa Karoo National Park, one of the driest areas in South Africa. Historic overgrazing has resulted in the poor and often degraded state of vegetation in large parts of the Tanqua Karoo region. Aim: This study assessed the spatial variation of vegetation structure and composition in the three main vegetation types namely: Tanqua Karoo (TK), Tanqua Wash Riviere (TWR) and Tanqua Escarpment Shrubland (TES), along an elevational gradient. Method: Using the point intercept survey method, vegetation cover, plant height, species diversity, life forms, proportions of perennials and annuals were examined in 43 sites, widely distributed in these vegetation types. Results: There were 150 vascular plant species belonging to 83 genera and 29 families recorded across all sites. The most diverse vegetation type was TES with 96 species belonging to 61 genera and 26 families. The vegetation structure was comprised mainly of shrubs and dwarf shrubs with a high proportion of leaf and stem succulent species. The mean perennial vegetation cover throughout the study area was 28 and annuals covered 22%, but this cover varied significantly between the vegetation types. The most dominant life forms were chamaephytes, which comprised 64% of all species, with cryptophytes (18%), therophytes (16%) and nanophanerophytes (2%) less abundant. Surveyed sites in the TES showed a clear association with each other but there was an overlap in the species composition and environmental conditions between some TWR and TK sites. This study highlighted the important role of elevation and topography as drivers of vegetation characteristics. Conclusion: The findings from this study can be used as a vegetation baseline to identify and prioritise degraded areas for active restoration in order to limit further degradation. Considering climate change, elevational studies may provide additional insight into species dynamics across landscapes. Taxonomic reference: Plants of Southern Africa Checklist (South African National Biodiversity Institute 2016). Abbreviations: ANOVA = analysis of variance; GPS = Global Positioning System; LFA = Landscape Function Assessment; NDVI = Normalized difference vegetation index; PCA = principal component analysis; PCo-A = principal co-ordinate analysis; TES = Tanqua Escarpment Shrubland; TK = Tanqua Karoo; TKNP = Tankwa Karoo National Park; TWR = Tanqua Wash Riviere.
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arid environment
land degradation
life form
spatial variation
Succulent Karoo
vegetation composition
vegetation types
Vegetation structure and composition at different elevational intervals in the arid Tankwa Karoo National Park, South Africa
Research Paper
10.3897/VCS.105269
2023-07-07
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Institute of Bioscience and Bioresources, CNR, Bari, Italy
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Terzi, Massimo
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8801-6733
University of Castilla-La Mancha, Toledo, Spain
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Fernández-González, Federico
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1234-4065
Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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Di Pietro, Romeo
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4983-8931
Fondation J.-M. Aubert, Chambésy, Switzerland
University of Geneva, Champex-Lac, Switzerland
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Theurillat, Jean Paul
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1843-5809
2023-07-07
2023-07-07
2023
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127-130
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10.3897/VCS.105269
https://vcs.pensoft.net/article/105269/
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The alliance name Agrostion castellanae has been widely used for nearly sixty years to indicate a type of acidophilic perennial grasslands occurring in the Iberian Peninsula. At present, the alliance is classified in the order Agrostietalia castellanae, and the class Stipo giganteae-Agrostietea castellanae. However, the nomenclatural type (lectotype) of the Agrostion castellanae is a therophytic grassland, namely the association Holco setiglumis-Anthoxanthetum aristati, that was consistently classified for two decades by Iberian authors within the therophytic class Helianthemetea guttati. In order to preserve the name Agrostion castellanae in its current use, we propose to designate the association Festuco amplae-Agrostietum castellanae as the conserved type of the alliance. (32) Agrostion castellanae Rivas Goday 1958 corr. 1964: 353 nom. cons. propos. Typus: Festuco amplae-Agrostietum castellanae Rivas-Martínez et Belmonte 1986: 418 (typus cons. propos.). (≡) Agrostion castellano-tenuis Rivas-Goday 1958: 626 nom. inept. Taxonomic reference: Euro+Med (2023). Syntaxonomic reference: Mucina et al. (2016). Abbreviations: EVC = EuroVegChecklist (Mucina et al. 2016); ICPN = 4th edition of the International Code of Phytosociological Nomenclature (Theurillat et al. 2021).
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Agrostion castellanae
conserved name
conserved type
Mediterranean grasslands
Iberian Peninsula
nomenclature
phytosociology
Proposal (32) to conserve the name Agrostion castellanae with a conserved type
Nomenclatural Proposal
10.3897/VCS.98379
2023-07-07
vcs
Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW), Wädenswil, Switzerland
University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
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Dengler, Jürgen
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3221-660X
University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
author
Dembicz, Iwona
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6162-1519
2023-07-07
2023-07-07
2023
Vegetation Classification and Survey
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131-138
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10.3897/VCS.98379
https://vcs.pensoft.net/article/98379/
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Question: We explored the error resulting from different methods for recording the cover of plants in vegetation plots, specifically the direct estimation of percent cover vs. the use of ordinal cover scales (7-step Braun-Blanquet and 5-step Hult-Sernander-Du Rietz). Methods: We simulated 121 plant species of different cover, sampled with 13 different levels of estimation precision. Estimation precision was either based on a constant coefficient of variation (0.1–1.0) across all cover values or on empirical data from Hatton et al. (1986, Journal of Range Management 39: 91–92) (× 0.5, × 1.0, × 1.5). Each sampling was repeated 10 times. Subsequently, we determined the mean relative and absolute errors that occurred in the data used for ensuing numerical analyses. Results: Except for few cases with unrealistic settings (very high estimation error and ignorance of species with lower cover values), direct estimation in percent yielded better results than the use of ordinal scales. Based on the empirical values of estimation accuracy, the use of ordinal scales inflated the mean absolute and relative errors nearly 2-fold in case of the 7-step Braun-Blanquet scale and about 1.5-fold in case of the Hult-Sernander-Du Rietz scale if only considering cover values above 1%. Conclusions: From our personal experience, the careful application of an ordinal scale is not faster than the direct estimation of percent cover. For this reason, we see no plausible argument supporting the use of ordinal cover scales when essentially all subsequent analyses are numeric. Abbreviations: Br.-Bl. = 7-step variant of the Braun-Blanquet scale and its numerical replacement as in Table 2; CV = coefficient of variation; H.-S. = Hult-Sernander-Du Rietz scale and its numerical replacement as shown in Table 1.
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Braun-Blanquet scale
estimation
Hult-Sernander-Du Rietz scale
numerical analysis
observer error
ordinal scale
percent estimate
plant cover
simulation
species abundance
transformation
vegetation-plot record
Should we estimate plant cover in percent or on ordinal scales?
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10.3897/VCS.91126
2023-07-19
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Université de Parakou, Parakou, Benin
University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
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Assede, Emeline
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7228-0641
Université de Parakou, Parakou, Benin
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Biaou, S. S. Honoré
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8836-8229
Université de Parakou, Parakou, Benin
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OROU, Hidirou
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2411-9527
University of Abomey-Calavi, Abomey-Calavi, Benin
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Madjidou, Oumorou
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7157-7101
University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
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Geldenhuys, Coert J
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3593-5247
University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
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Chirwa, Paxie
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7544-973X
University of Abomey-Calavi, Abomey-Calavi, Benin
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Sinsin, Brice
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2993-5382
2023-07-19
2023-07-19
2023
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Aims: This study aims to: i) differentiate the plant associations in the Biosphere Reserve of Pendjari (BRP), ii) determine the ecological characteristics of their habitats and iii) present distribution maps on different soil types. Study area: The BRP, located in the Sudanian Zone of Benin. Methods: 202 phytosociological relevés were sampled according to the Braun-Blanquet method within the BRP. Ordination was performed using Detrended Correspondence Analysis to evaluate vegetation patterns. Soil parameters were used to characterize the vegetation types. Results: The numerical analysis of 202 plots and 249 plant species showed two major floristic groups that correlated with a moisture gradient: drylands versus wetlands. The dryland group was a mixture of woodland and shrub savanna, the dominant ecosystems of the study area. The wetland group encompassed species primarily from riparian forest, tree savanna and grass savanna on floodplains. Syntaxonomical analysis of the dryland group showed rocky and gravelly soil associations (Burkeo africanae-Detarietum microcarpi) and soils associated with or without fine gravels (Andropogono gayani-Terminalietum avicennioidis, Andropogono gayani-Senegalietum dudgeonii and Terminalietum leiocarpae). Syntaxonomical analysis of the wetland group showed riparian forest associations on sandy-clay soil (Coletum laurifoliae, Borassetum aethiopi and Hyparrhenio glabriusculae-Mitragynetum inermis) and floodplain associations on silt-clay soil (Terminalio macropterae-Mitragynetum inermis, Brachiario jubatae-Terminalietum macropterae, Sorghastro bipennati-Vachellietum hockii). Conclusions: Eleven new associations were identified in this study. If the distribution of plant associations was determined by different soil properties, the soil humidity would be one of the main ecological factors determining the establishment of plant species and thus plant association development. Taxonomic reference: Akoègninou et al. (2006), Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants (APG IV, 2016). Abbreviations: BRP = Biosphere Reserve of Pendjari; CBD = Convention on Biological Diversity; CCA = Constrained Correspondence Analysis; DCA = Detrended Correspondence Analysis; GPS UTM = Global Positioning System Universal Transverse Mercator.
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association
ecology
vegetation pattern
Pendjari reserve
woodland
Sudanian zone
Benin
Ecological and structural differentiation of the Sudanian woodlands in the Biosphere Reserve of Pendjari, Benin
Research Paper
10.3897/VCS.100532
2023-07-24
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Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal (UNC – CONICET), Córdoba, Argentina
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Zeballos, Sebastián
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0899-7928
Universitá degli Studi di Roma Tre, Rome, Italy
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Acosta, Alicia Teresa Rosario
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6572-3187
Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria, Chamical, La Rioja, Argentina
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Agüero, Walter
Laboratorio de Teledetección y SIG, Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria, Catamarca, Argentina
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Ahumada, Rodrigo
Universidad Nacional de San Juan, San Juan, Argentina
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Almirón, Martín
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3473-219X
Centro de Ecología y Recursos Naturales Renovables (FCEFyN – UNC), Córdoba, Argentina
Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal (UNC – CONICET), Córdoba, Argentina
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Argibay, Daihana Soledad
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2797-2750
Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria, San Luis, Argentina
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Arroyo, Daniel
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5397-9107
Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria, La Rioja, Argentina
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Blanco, Lisandro
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7176-3895
Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria, Chamical, La Rioja, Argentina
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Biurrun, Fernando
Departamento de Biología Aplicada, Facultad de Agronomía y Veterinaria, UNRC, Río Cuarto, Argentina
Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal (UNC – CONICET), Córdoba, Argentina
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Cantero, Juan José
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1193-6050
Universidad Nacional de San Juan, San Juan, Argentina
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Márquez, Justo
Universidad Nacional de Catamarca, Catamarca, Argentina
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Quiroga, Alejandro
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3391-6042
Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria, EEA Catamarca, Catamarca, Argentina
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Quiroga, Raúl
Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal (UNC – CONICET), Córdoba, Argentina
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Cabido, Marcelo
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6168-7537
2023-07-24
2023-07-24
2023
Vegetation Classification and Survey
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167-188
2023
10.3897/VCS.100532
https://vcs.pensoft.net/article/100532/
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Aims: We address the following questions: 1) Which are the main vegetation types that currently occur in the Arid Chaco? 2) Do those vegetation types differ in terms of floristic composition, endemism, chorotypes and life forms? and 3) Is there any spatial association between the vegetation types and the environmental heterogeneity of the Arid Chaco? Study area: The southwestern extreme of the Gran Chaco, in Central-Western Argentina. Methods: The survey was based on a dataset comprising 654 relevés collected according to the Braun-Blanquet method. Data were classified by the hierarchical ISOmetric feature mapping and Partition Around Medoids (ISOPAM), and ordinated through isometric feature mapping (ISOMAP). Bioclimatic and edaphic variables were related to the ISOMAP ordination. Results: We recorded 439 vascular plant species, 62 endemic at the national level and 22 endemic species restricted to the study and surrounding environments in Central-Western Argentina. A total of nine vegetation types, belonging to four major clusters, were identified. The most prominent chorotypes included species distributed in the Chaco region and in the Arid Chaco/Monte phytogeographic units. The predominant life forms were micro- and nano-phanerophytes, followed by hemicryptophytes, chamaephytes and mesophanerophytes. Conclusions: Major results highlighted that xerophytic shrublands are the most common vegetation types in this area as a result of the historical and present use, while old growth forests were constrained to areas with low anthropogenic disturbance in the last decades or to protected areas. Most vegetation types (with the exception of halophytic environments) are poorly differentiated from a floristic point of view; however, they clearly differ in physiognomy. The floristic composition of the vegetation types described revealed numerous species in common with other sectors of the Chaco of northern Argentina, Bolivia and Paraguay. Although the number of species restricted to the Arid Chaco was quite low, the most relevant chorotype included species with Western and Eastern Chaco distribution, conferring a clear Chaquenian identity to this area and discriminating it from other phytogeographic units. Taxonomic reference: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Cono Sur (Zuloaga et al. 2008) and its online update (http://www.darwin.edu.ar). Abbreviations: ISOMAP = isometric feature mapping; ISOPAM = isometric partitioning around medoids.
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Arid Chaco
Aspidosperma forest
chorotype
endemism
halophytic succulent
shrubland
species richness
vegetation classification
Vegetation types of the Arid Chaco in Central-Western Argentina
Research Paper
10.3897/VCS.89746
2023-07-24
vcs
University of Abomey Calavi, Abomey-Calavi, Benin
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AYEKO, Denise
University of Abomey Calavi, Abomey-Calavi, Benin
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TOYI, Sêwanoudé Scholastique Mireille
University of Abomey Calavi, Abomey-Calavi, Benin
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Assogbadjo, Achille
University of Abomey Calavi, Abomey-Calavi, Benin
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Sinsin, Brice
2023-07-24
2023-07-24
2023
Vegetation Classification and Survey
2683-0671
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189-202
2023
10.3897/VCS.89746
https://vcs.pensoft.net/article/89746/
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Aims: Land cover change in inselbergs and adjacent areas was studied from 2003 to 2018 in a region facing anthropogenic pressures to assess dynamics and preserve rare endemic species. Study area: Inselbergs and their adjacent areas in the Sudano-Guinean zone of Benin are included in this study. Methods: Land cover classes of inselbergs and adjacent areas were obtained through supervised classification of Sentinel-2 (2018) and Spot 5 (2003) satellite images. A Chi-square test was used to compare protected and unprotected LULC classes of inselbergs, with 10 m spatial resolution. Results: The results showed that forest and woodland decreased respectively from 8.55% to 3.05% and from 17.63% to 4.79% between 2003 and 2018 while tree and shrub savanna, and grassland increased respectively from 6.52% to 9.49% and from 7.60% to 16.69%. Field and fallow increased from 5.57% in 2003 to 26.12% in 2018 and tree plantation from 6.05% to 13.47%. The analysis of spatial comparisons using the chi-square test showed that the presence of inselbergs in a protected area has no significant effect on their land use. Conclusions: Natural vegetation in inselbergs and adjacent areas is being converted into human-made landscapes by farmers. An urgent conservation plan is needed, including awareness campaigns, tree planting, and sustainable forest management. Taxonomic reference: Akoègninou et al. (2006). Abbreviations: DEM = Digital Elevation Model; GCP = Ground Control Point; LULC = Land Use/Land Cover; ROI = Region of Interest; SRTM = Satellite imagery data, Shuttle radar topography mission.
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dynamic trend
inselberg
land use/land cover
protected and unprotected inselberg
Sentinel-2
Spot 5
Dynamics of inselberg landscapes and their adjacent areas in the Sudano-Guinean zone of Benin through remote sensing analysis
Research Paper
10.3897/VCS.108769
2023-09-25
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University of Castilla-La Mancha, Toledo, Spain
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Fernández-González, Federico
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1234-4065
Institute of Bioscience and Bioresources, Bari, Italy
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Terzi, Massimo
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8801-6733
Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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Di Pietro, Romeo
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4983-8931
University of Geneva, Chambésy, Switzerland
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Theurillat, Jean Paul
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1843-5809
2023-09-25
2023-09-25
2023
Vegetation Classification and Survey
2683-0671
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203-207
2023
10.3897/VCS.108769
https://vcs.pensoft.net/article/108769/
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The alliance name Poo-Astragalion has been widely used by Iberian phytosociologists for nearly fifty years to indicate a type of sheep pastures thriving on base-rich substrates. This alliance is currently classified in the order Poetalia bulbosae and class Poetea bulbosae. However, the revision of its original diagnosis highlights that this alliance name must be considered as an alternative name to the largely disused name Medicagini-Brachypodion distachyi. In order to stabilize the nomenclature, we propose the conservation of the traditionally used name Poo-Astragalion. On the other hand, the type association of the alliance (Poo-Astragaletum sesamei) turns out to be a superfluous name for another association neglected in the syntaxonomical literature, the Astragalo scorpioidis-Medicaginetum truncatulae. Hence, with the same objective of stabilizing the nomenclature, we propose the designation of a conserved neotype for the Poo-Astragaletum sesamei and the conservation of this name against the earlier heterotypic synonym in case of union of both associations. At the same time, we propose to complete the two names Poo-Astragalion and Poo-Astragaletum sesamei by selecting Poa bulbosa and Astragalus sesameus as the name-giving taxa, and to invert the name Poo-Astragaletum in accordance with its neotype (Astragalo sesamei-Poetum bulbosae). (33) Poo-Astragalion Rivas Goday et Ladero 1970: 165–169, nom. cons. propos. Typus: Poo-Astragaletum sesamei Rivas-Goday et Ladero 1970: 166–170 (holotypus). (≡) Medicagini-Brachypodion distachyi Rivas-Goday et Rivas-Martínez in Rivas Goday et Ladero 1970: 165–166 (alternative name) [original form: “Medicago-Brachypodion”] (34) Poo-Astragaletum sesamei Rivas-Goday et Ladero 1970: 166–170, nom. cons. et typus cons. propos. [original forms: “Poo-Astragaletum”, ”Poeto-Astragaletum sesamei”] Typus cons. propos.: neotypus hoc loco (see below). (=) Astragalo scorpioidis-Medicaginetum truncatulae Rivas Goday et Borja 1959 nom. corr. [original form: Astragalo scorpioidis-Medicaginetum tribuloidis nom. inept. (Rivas Goday and Borja 1959: 475, table 2)] Taxonomic reference: Euro+Med (2023). Syntaxonomic reference: Mucina et al. (2016). Abbreviations: EVC = EuroVegChecklist (Mucina et al. 2016); ICPN = 4th edition of the International Code of Phytosociological Nomenclature (Theurillat et al. 2021).
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conserved name
conserved type
Iberian Peninsula
Mediterranean grasslands
nomenclature
phytosociology
Poetea bulbosae
Poo-Astragaletum sesamei
Poo-Astragalion
Proposals (33–34) to conserve the name Poo-Astragalion and to conserve the name Poo-Astragaletum sesamei with a conserved type, and requests (5–7) for a binding decision on the name-giving taxa in the same names and the inversion of the name Poo-Astragaletum sesamei
Nomenclatural Proposal
10.3897/VCS.105300
2023-10-02
vcs
University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany
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Bürger, Jana
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3898-6664
ZRC SAZU, Jovan Hadži Institute of Biology, Ljubljana, Slovenia
author
Küzmič, Filip
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3894-7115
2023-10-02
2023-10-02
2023
Vegetation Classification and Survey
2683-0671
4
209-218
2023
10.3897/VCS.105300
https://vcs.pensoft.net/article/105300/
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Aims: Understand and illustrate differences and common methods in surveys of arable weed vegetation from the two scientific disciplines Vegetation science and Weed science; analyse the relationship between study aims and the employed methodology; assess in how much detail methodologies are reported and whether this changed over time. Study area: Europe. Methods: Literature review, classification of studies according to their reported aims and according to the journal scope. Results: Survey methods were reported in greater detail in studies aiming to describe management effects on weed vegetation compared to phytosociological studies. Methods employed in vegetation science and weed science differ in plot sizes, surveyed field parts and the seasonal timing of the survey. Conclusions: We recommend for future weed surveys to record and report on plot size and position relative to field limits, recording date, abundance scale, as well as the crop grown in a field. This information should also be retained when digitising published data and compiling large databases. A data standard should be developed in an interdisciplinary process.
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arable
agriculture
field edge
phytosociology
plot size
segetal
vegetation survey
weed
weed survey
Vegetation survey methodology in arable weeds is reported with less detail from vegetation science than weed science
Review and Synthesis
10.3897/VCS.110296
2023-10-02
vcs
Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW), Wädenswil, Switzerland
University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
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Dengler, Jürgen
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3221-660X
2023-10-02
2023-10-02
2023
Vegetation Classification and Survey
2683-0671
4
219-229
2023
10.3897/VCS.110296
https://vcs.pensoft.net/article/110296/
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With this Forum contribution I wish to shed light on the problematic developments in scientific publishing resulting from the strong push of science funders towards gold open access (OA). This has given rise to numerous “predatory” journals, that maximise profit at the expense of scientific quality. With a bibliometric analysis in the field of ecology I demonstrate that over the period 2014–2022 the publication numbers in “predatory” OA journals have grown exponentially (+44% annually), while in all other journal types, article numbers were stagnating or even decreasing since a few years. Then I highlight how different OA publication models from society-owned journals to publisher-owned “predatory” journals, differ in the prices authors pay and how the income is split between effective costs, pure profit and money transferred back to science. To help with the recognition of the different journal types, I provide a list journals in the fields of ecology and organismal botany that are owned by academic societies, as well as a list of criteria to recognize “predatory” journals. Authors, reviewers and editors should consider carefully where they submit papers or provide volunteer service. My suggestion is to prioritize society-owned journals, while avoiding cooperation with “predatory” journals. Science funders and libraries have played a major role in the negative developments reviewed in this paper, but at the same time they have the capacity to change the course, mainly by two steps: In the short term they should link the payment of article processing charges (APCs) to strict quality criteria, while in the medium term, they should overcome the gold OA system towards a diamond OA system that would avoid the inflation of low-quality publications and remove barriers not only from readers, but also from authors, while at the same time likely reducing the overall costs. Abbreviations: APC = article processing charge; AVS = Applied Vegetation Science; IAVS = International Association for Vegetation Science; COVID-19 = Coronavirus disease 2019; DOAJ = Directory of Open Access Journals; JIF = 2-year Journal Impact Factor of the Web of Science; JVS = Journal of Vegetation Science; OA = open access; VCS = Vegetation Classification and Survey; WoS = Web of Science Core Collection.
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bibliometrics
diamond open access
ecology
gold open access
impact factor
International Association for Vegetation Science (IAVS)
peer review
predatory publishing
publication ethics
scholarly publishing
society-owned journal
subscription journal
Priorities in journal selection for authors, reviewers, editors, librarians and science funders
Forum Paper
10.3897/VCS.105521
2023-10-16
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Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
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Novák, Pavel
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3758-5757
Beskydy Protected Landscape Area Administration, Rožnov pod Radhoštěm, Czech Republic
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Kalníková, Veronika
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2361-0816
Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
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Szokala, Daniel
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3593-1791
Department of Geobotany and Ecological Physiology of the Institute of Botany after the name of A. Takhtajan NAS RA, Yerevan, Armenia
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Aleksanyan, Alla
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4073-1812
Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia
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Batsatsashvili, Ketevan
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7654-3720
Department of Geobotany and Ecological Physiology of the Institute of Botany after the name of A. Takhtajan NAS RA, Yerevan, Armenia
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Fayvush, George
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9710-2200
National Botanical Garden of Georgia, Tbilisi, Georgia
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Kolbaia, Sandro
https://orcid.org/0009-0003-3602-3773
Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia
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Nakhutsrishvili, George
Unaffiliated, Moravská Třebová, Czech Republic
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Sedláček, Vojtěch
https://orcid.org/0009-0001-2631-5612
Forest Management Institute, Brno, Czech Republic
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Štěrba, Tadeáš
https://orcid.org/0009-0004-4829-6792
Unaffiliated, Seninka, Czech Republic
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Zukal, Dominik
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3248-5703
2023-10-16
2023-10-16
2023
Vegetation Classification and Survey
2683-0671
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231-240
2023
funder
Grantová Agentura České Republiky
10.13039/501100001824
10.3897/VCS.105521
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The Caucasus is a hotspot of global biodiversity. However, even in the era of big data, this region remains underrepresented in public vegetation-plot databases. The Transcaucasian Vegetation Database (GIVD code AS-00-005) is a novel dataset which primarily aims to compile, store and share vegetation-plot records sampled by the Braun-Blanquet approach and originating from Transcaucasia (the Southern Caucasus), i.e. the countries of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia. The database currently contains 2,882 vegetation plots. The oldest plots originate from 1929, the newest from 2022, and their collection is ongoing. The data include mesophilous forests (phytosociological class Carpino-Fagetea) and various alpine and subalpine communities (e.g. Carici-Kobresietea, Loiseleurio-Vaccinietea) – selected other habitats are also represented. Most of the plots (84%) are georeferenced, 36% with high precision of 25 m or less. The database includes 2,500 taxon names; Asteraceae, Poaceae, Fabaceae and Rosaceae represent the most common families. Vascular plants are recorded in all plots, while data on species composition of bryophytes are available for 11% of plots. The database intends to contribute to the complex biodiversity research of this biologically unique territory. The data might be used in diverse projects in botany, biogeography, ecology and nature protection. Taxonomic reference: The Plant List (http://www.theplantlist.org/ [Accessed 10 Jan 2023]). Syntaxonomic reference: Mucina et al. (2016). Abbreviations: TVD = Transcaucasian Vegetation Database.
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biodiversity hotspot
Caucasus
database
European Vegetation Archive
Global Index of Vegetation-Plot Databases
phytosociology
southwestern Eurasia
vegetation survey
Transcaucasian Vegetation Database – a phytosociological database of the Southern Caucasus
Long Database Report
10.3897/VCS.99045
2023-10-24
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Namibia University of Science and Technology, Windhoek, Namibia
National Botanical Research Institute, Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Forestry, Windhoek, Namibia
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Strohbach, Ben
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1542-1989
Unaffiliated, Johannesburg, South Africa
National Botanical Research Institute, Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Forestry, Windhoek, Namibia
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Strohbach, Marianne
2023-10-24
2023-10-24
2023
Vegetation Classification and Survey
2683-0671
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241-284
2023
funder
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
10.13039/501100002347
10.3897/VCS.99045
https://vcs.pensoft.net/article/99045/
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Aims: The Karstveld in Namibia has been recognized as an area of high plant diversity. However, this area is also recognised as a hotspot of various forms of degradation including bush encroachment. Minimal baseline data on the composition and diversity of vegetation in this area is available, therefore this paper is a first attempt to rectify this data deficiency. Study area: The Karstveld in Namibia is formed around the Otavi Mountain Range in northern Central Namibia, consisting of strongly karstified carbonate bedrock, rising up to 2000 m a.s.l. The Karstveld includes the Ovambo Basin plains with shallow calcrete soils north of the range, up to the Omuramba Ovambo. Because of orographic effects, the area receives some of the highest rainfall in Namibia, with up to 600 mm per year. Methods: A set of 889 relevés with 868 species was selected from the GVID ID AF-NA-001 database. A partial data set, using trees, shrubs, dwarf shrubs and grasses only, was used for the classification with modified TWINSPAN. The initial result yielded four main groups, according to which the data was split and further classified. Several vegetation types observed during field surveys were not reflected in the classification results; these were refined using Cocktail with known characteristic species. Results: The four main units represented wetlands and grasslands with six associations, a Thornbush savanna – Karstveld transition zone with four associations, Kalahari vegetation with four associations and the Karstveld proper with eight associations. The latter are grouped together as the Terminalietea prunioides, with two orders and three alliances recognised under them. We describe 16 associations according to the ICPN. Conclusions: Although the associations presented in this paper are clearly defined, there exists a high degree of diversity within these. The Karstveld is also extraordinary species rich within the context of the arid to semi-arid Namibian environment. Taxonomic reference: Klaassen and Kwembeya (2013) for vascular plants, with the exception of the genus Acacia s.l. (Fabaceae), for which Kyalangalilwa et al. (2013) was followed. Abbreviations: ga = annual grass; gp = perennial grass; GPS = Global Positioning System, referring to a hand-held ground receiver; hl = herb layer, containing all hemicryptophytes, therophytes and geophytes, but excluding grasses (Poaceae); ICPN = International Code of Phytosociological Nomenclature (Theurillat et al. 2021); MAP = mean annual precipitation; NMS = nonmetric multidimensional scaling (Kruskal 1964); RDL = Red Data List (IUCN Species Survival Commission 2001); s1 = tall shrubs, i.e. multi-stemmed phanerophytes between 1 and 5 m; s2 = short shrubs, i.e. chamaephytes or ‘dwarf shrubs’ below 1 m; SOTER = Global and National Soils and Terrain Digital Database (FAO 1993); t1 = tall trees, > 10 m; t2 = short trees, between 5 and 10 m; t3 = low trees, i.e. single-stemmed phanerophytes between 2 and 5 m; TWINSPAN = Two Way Indicator Species Analysis (Roleček et al. 2009); WGS84 = World Geodetic System, 1984 ensemble.
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Braun-Blanquet
Karst vegetation
Karstveld
modified TWINSPAN
Namibia
Otavi Mountains
syntaxonomy
Terminalietea prunioides
vegetation classification
A first syntaxonomic description of the vegetation of the Karstveld in Namibia
Research Paper
10.3897/VCS.101648
2023-11-24
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University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Bilbao, Spain
author
Loidi, Javier
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3163-2409
2023-11-24
2023-11-24
2023
Vegetation Classification and Survey
2683-0671
4
285-290
2023
funder
Eusko Jaurlaritza
10.13039/501100003086
10.3897/VCS.101648
https://vcs.pensoft.net/article/101648/
https://vcs.pensoft.net/article/101648/download/pdf/
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To reduce the typological inflation observed in some territories where intensive phytosociological studies have been carried out and numerous descriptive papers have been published, an outline of the biogeographical amplitude of the different syntaxonomic ranks is proposed. Phytosociological classes are divided into five main vegetation clusters: 1. Zonal vegetation, determined mainly by climatic conditions; 2. Azonal coastal and saline vegetation; 3. Azonal rocky vegetation; 4. Azonal wetland and aquatic vegetation; 5. Highly disturbed anthropogenic vegetation. In each of these, the various ranks (class, order, alliance, association and subassociation) have a particular range which is expressed by the biogeographical territory in which they most likely occur. This area can refer to different respective categories: kingdom, region, province, sector and district. Some additional comments about typological inflation are made in order to focus on two phenomena: desire for fame and geographic drift.
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association
biogeographical territories
class
desire for fame
order
subassociation
typological inflation
Syntaxonomic ranks, biogeography and typological inflation
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10.3897/VCS.102634
2023-11-24
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Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Wrocław, Poland
Center for Biological Diversity Conservation, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa, Poland
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Świerszcz, Sebastian
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2035-0035
Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
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Nobis, Marcin
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1594-2418
University of Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland
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Swacha, Grzegorz
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6380-2954
University of Opole, Opole, Poland
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Nowak, Sylwia
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2867-9839
University of Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland
Center for Biological Diversity Conservation, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa, Poland
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Nowak, Arkadiusz
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8638-0208
2023-11-24
2023-11-24
2023
Vegetation Classification and Survey
2683-0671
4
291-317
2023
10.3897/VCS.102634
https://vcs.pensoft.net/article/102634/
https://vcs.pensoft.net/article/102634/download/pdf/
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Aims: To complete the syntaxonomic scheme of subalpine forb steppes in the Pamir-Alai Mountains in Tajikistan with some remarks on its environmental predictors. Study area: Tajikistan. Methods: A total of 149 relevés were sampled in 2014 and 2021 using the seven-degree cover-abundance scale of the Braun-Blanquet scheme. These were classified with a modified TWINSPAN algorithm with pseudospecies cut-off levels of 0%, 2%, 5% and 25%, and total inertia as a measure of cluster heterogeneity. Diagnostic species were determined using the phi coefficient as a fidelity measure. Detrended Correspondence Analysis (DCA) was used to show compositional differences between the distinguished alpine and subalpine grassland units. Results: Our classification revealed 12 clusters of alpine and subalpine grassland vegetation in Middle Asia. A total of nine new associations and three communities were distinguished. New vegetation types at potential class rank for Irano-Turanian subalpine and alpine grasslands have been proposed: forb steppes with Eremogone griffithii and Nepeta podostachys in subalpine and alpine belts and alpine grasslands with Festuca alaica and Festuca kryloviana for mesic habitats in the alpine belt. The main factors differentiating the species composition were the mean diurnal temperature range, the sum of annual precipitation, precipitation seasonality and the minimum temperature of the coldest month. Conclusions: Our study sheds light on the open habitat vegetation in the Pamir-Alai Mountains and has contributed to the consistent hierarchical classification of the vegetation of the eastern Irano-Turanian region. Subalpine and alpine forb steppes are a very interesting and distinct grassland type in Middle Asia. The syntaxonomic position of some of the distinguished communities is still unclear and further research on this type of alpine and subalpine vegetation within the mountains of Middle Asia is needed. Taxonomic references: The nomenclature of the vascular plants follows Plants of the World Online (POWO 2023) and problematic taxonomic issues were solved according to The World Flora Online (WFO 2023). Nomenclature of Stipa spp. follows Nobis et al. (2020, 2022) and of Geranium spp. Cherepanov (1995). The nomenclature of bryophytes follows Ignatov et al. (2006). Abbreviations: DCA = Detrended Correspondence Analysis.
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forb
Middle Asia
Pamir-Alai
phytogeography
grassland
syntaxonomy
Syntaxonomic classification of forb steppes and related vegetation of subalpine and alpine belts in the Pamir-Alai Mountains (Tajikistan, Middle Asia)
Research Paper
10.3897/VCS.104301
2023-12-11
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Laboratory of Floristics and Geobotany, Institute of General and Experimental Biology, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ulan-Ude, Russia
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Anenkhonov, Oleg
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8633-7154
2023-12-11
2023-12-11
2023
Vegetation Classification and Survey
2683-0671
4
319-321
2023
funder
Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation
10.13039/501100012190
10.3897/VCS.104301
https://vcs.pensoft.net/article/104301/
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The name Pino sibiricae-Laricion sibiricae was introduced in 1988 by Dostálek et al. and then again in 2004 by Ermakov. Further, the latter name, despite of homonymy, has been accepted in several Russian literature sources on the basis of a misapplication of ICPN Art. 37. The validity and legitimacy of the name introduced by Dostálek et al. are discussed and clarified, whereas Ermakov’s illegitimate homonym must be rejected according to Art. 31. Taxonomic reference: Catalogue of Life Checklist, Version COL23.5 (https://doi.org/10.48580/dfs6) [accessed 16 November 2023]. Abbreviations: ICPN = International Code of Phytosociological Nomenclature (Theurillat et al. 2021).
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homonym
nomenclature
North Asia
phytosociology
syntaxon
taiga
Vaccinio-Piceetea
Nomenclatural comments on the alliance Pino sibiricae-Laricion sibiricae
Short Communication
10.3897/VCS.108437
2023-12-11
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Centre Alpien de Phytogéographie, Fondation J.-M. Aubert, Champex-Lac, Switzerland
University of Geneva, Chambésy, Switzerland
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Theurillat, Jean Paul
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1843-5809
Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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Di Pietro, Romeo
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4983-8931
Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, Hungary
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Bauer, Norbert
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6037-0773
Institute of Bioscience and Bioresources, CNR, Bari, Italy
author
Terzi, Massimo
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8801-6733
2023-12-11
2023-12-11
2023
Vegetation Classification and Survey
2683-0671
4
323-327
2023
10.3897/VCS.108437
https://vcs.pensoft.net/article/108437/
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For ninety years, the alliance name Festucion valesiacae has been widely and almost exclusively used to designate the alliance of steppic, xeric grasslands on deep soils from Central Europe to western Ukraine. However, there is an earlier, hardly used heterotypic synonym, the Festucion sulcatae, that would be the correct name according to the rules [recte: Festucion rupicolae nom. corr.]. In order to preserve a well-established name, we propose to conserve the name Festucion valesiacae against the name Festucion sulcatae. In addition, we typify the name Festucion rupicolae Soó 1930 nom. corr. with the association Festuco rupicolae-Stipetum pennatae Soó 1930 nom. corr., for which we also select a neotype. This proposal is supported by the fact that the alliance Festucion valesiacae is the conserved type of the order Festucetalia valesiacae. (35) Festucion valesiacae Klika 1931 Typus: Ranunculo illyrici-Festucetum valesiacae Klika 1931 (lectotypus designated by Toman 1975: 131) (=) Festucion rupicolae Soó 1930 nom. corr. (≡ Festucion sulcatae Soó 1930 nom. inept.) Typus: Festuco rupicolae-Stipetum pennatae Soó 1930 nom. corr. (lectotypus hoc loco) Taxonomic reference: Euro+Med (2023) unless otherwise indicated. Syntaxonomic reference: Mucina et al. (2016). Abbreviations: EVC = EuroVegChecklist (Mucina et al. 2016); ICPN = 4th edition of the International Code of Phytosociological Nomenclature (Theurillat et al. 2021).
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Festucion rupicolae
Festucion valesiacae
Festucetalia valesiacae
Festuco-Brometea
conserved name
nomenclature
phytosociology
Proposal (35) to conserve the name Festucion valesiacae
Nomenclatural Proposal
10.3897/VCS.100796
2023-12-13
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Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, Toluca, Mexico
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Avila-Akerberg, Victor
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5369-0920
Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, Toluca, Mexico
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Rosaliano-Evaristo, Ruben
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4752-2848
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
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Martinez, Tanya
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4593-9586
Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, Toluca, Mexico
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Pichardo-Garcia, Brayan
Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, Toluca, Mexico
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Serrano-Gonzalez, Diana
2023-12-13
2023-12-13
2023
Vegetation Classification and Survey
2683-0671
4
329-341
2023
10.3897/VCS.100796
https://vcs.pensoft.net/article/100796/
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Aims: To analyze and synthesize the principal contributions to the creation of a classification of established forests in sub-humid, temperate climatic regions in Mexico. Methods: Documentary analysis and review of works on the classification of the vegetation of Mexico, with emphasis from 1950 to the present. To identify and analyze the terms frequently used to refer to these plant communities, the following was done: literature search, analysis of frequencies and co-occurrences of these terms that appeared in the titles of the documents. A list of associations of these communities was compiled through a documentary review. Results: Vegetation classification proposals, both nationally and internationally, tend towards the standardization of criteria and nested hierarchical integration at various levels based on physiognomic, climatic, phenological and floristic attributes. The two highest levels of organization in these proposals are based on major vegetation, defined by vegetation forms and climatic criteria as “temperate forests”. Meanwhile lower levels, including the level of associations, are based on their floristic composition. The most frequently used term to refer to these plant communities, according to the documents used in the search, is “temperate forest”, although other terms frequently used are “coniferous forest”, “pine forest”, and “oak forest”. Conclusions: Knowledge about the classification of vegetation in Mexico dates back to pre-Hispanic times. However, it was not until the second half of the 20th century that solid proposals that are influential today were put forward. Given the high biological diversity of the country, it is still a pending task to characterize and make an inventory of the diversity at the level of associations that form this type of temperate forests. Taxonomic reference: Villaseñor (2016). Abbreviations: FVT = Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt; SECLAVEMEX = Mexican Vegetation Classification System; SMO = Sierra Madre Oriental; SMOc = Sierra Madre Occidental; SMS = Sierra Madre del Sur (SMS).
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broadleaf forest
conifer forest
Pinus forest
Quercus forest
sub-humid temperate vegetation
Classification and nomenclature of temperate forest types in Mexico
Research Paper
10.3897/VCS.98391
2023-12-22
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Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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Rapson, Gillian
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8108-9577
Fauna Science Team, Christchurch, New Zealand
Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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Murphy, Ashley
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8463-1357
Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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Smith, Angelina
2023-12-22
2023-12-22
2023
Vegetation Classification and Survey
2683-0671
4
343-360
2023
10.3897/VCS.98391
https://vcs.pensoft.net/article/98391/
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Aims: Mobile, coastal dunefields around the world are under threat from invasive plants, which may out-compete native plant species. These aliens may also accelerate stabilisation of the dunes, to the complete exclusion of early successional native flora. In a mobile dunefield we examine the impact of the increasing abundance of alien species on substrate stability and successional trends of the native vegetation. Study area: Tawhirihoe Scientific Reserve, Manawatū, New Zealand. Methods: We recorded species’ covers and environmental factors in quadrats placed randomly over the mobile dunefield, and analysed the vegetation and its successional patterns via multivariate analysis. We explored the degrees of stabilisation and nativeness, referencing changes over the last three decades. Results: Our analysis reveals seven vegetation types, three with a high native component and following an established successional trend, and the others becoming dominated by alien grasses and herbs, and associated with increasing dune stability. Biodiversity is trending towards aliens, especially behind the foredunes, and aliens occupy nearly double the area of the mobile dunefield as do natives. Coverage of unvegetated or mobile sand has declined to 21 % and is projected to decline further. Conclusions: Only the foredunes and dune-slack wetlands are now in a mostly natural state, while native rear dune vegetation is becoming rare, and natural succession appears to be interrupted. Alien species over-stabilise the dunefield, facilitating further alien invasion, the longer-term implications of which are unknown. Intervention to destabilise the dunefield seems the most viable management option. Taxonomic reference: Nga Tipu o Aotearoa (http://nzflora.landcareresearch.co.nz) [accessed 10 Jan 2023].
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community
dynamic
ephemeral
exotic
grass
invader
stabilise
weed
wetland
Invasive species over-stabilise the vegetation of a mobile dunefield, Manawatū, New Zealand, disrupting natural succession
Research Paper
10.3897/VCS.118454
2024-01-19
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Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW), Wädenswil, Switzerland
University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
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Dengler, Jürgen
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3221-660X
University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Bilbao, Spain
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Biurrun, Idoia
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1454-0433
University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany
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Jansen, Florian
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0331-5185
Vienna Institute for Nature Conservation and Analyses (VINCA), Vienna, Austria
University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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Willner, Wolfgang
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1591-8386
2024-01-19
2024-01-19
2024
Vegetation Classification and Survey
2683-0671
5
1-10
2024
10.3897/VCS.118454
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On the occasion of the completion of the fourth volume of Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS), we have analysed the performance of the journal since its inception. The number of papers and pages show a moderate increase over the years. VCS has been included in the Scopus database for more than a year and received its first CiteScore of 2.0 in summer 2023 but is not yet included in the Web of Science Core Edition. We therefore used data from the Scopus database to compare the citation impact of articles in VCS with that of 29 other ecological journals. By calculating normalized citation rates per journal and publication year, we found that VCS started at the bottom of the rankings in the first two years (28th out of 30) but improved to 26th in 2022 and 14th in 2023. Together with the known time lag and the strong positive relationships between the different citation metrics, this allows a projection of the future development of the CiteScores and, after inclusion in the Web of Science, the Journal Impact Factor (JIF). Using the Field-Weighted Citation Impact (FWCI) from the Scopus database, we identified the top 12 out of 95 VCS articles published in the first four years that received more citations than expected for their age and field. We also present the four Editors’ Choice papers of 2023, among which Strohbach and Strohbach (2023; Vegetation Classification and Survey 4: 241–284) received the Editors’ Award in 2023. We conclude that VCS is on the right track, supported by the fact that in 2024 most authors will still be charged no or very low article processing charges (APCs). Abbreviations: APC = article processing charge; IAVS = International Association for Vegetation Science; JIF = Journal Impact Factor; OA = open access; VCS = Vegetation Classification and Survey; WoS = Web of Science Core Edition.
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article processing charge (APC)
bibliometry
CiteScore
Field-Weighted Citation Impact (FWCI)
gold open access
high-impact paper
International Association for Vegetation Science (IAVS)
normalized citation rate
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10.3897/VCS.103154
2024-03-01
vcs
Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
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Hájek, Michal
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5201-2682
Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
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Peterka, Tomas
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5488-8365
Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic
Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
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Hájková, Petra
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1434-7825
Landesamt für Natur, Umwelt und Verbraucherschutz NRW, Recklinghausen, Germany
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Hinterlang, Dirk
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5434-1228
University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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Zechmeister, Harald
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6578-7244
Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
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Chytrý, Milan
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8122-3075
2024-03-01
2024-03-01
2024
Vegetation Classification and Survey
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11-15
2024
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According to the International Code of Phytosociological Nomenclature, a younger name of a syntaxon may be conserved against its older name to improve the stability of the nomenclature and avoid misunderstandings in scientific communication. Here, we propose conserving the name Philonotidion seriatae Hinterlang 1992 for arctic-alpine, bryophyte-dominated, non-calcareous spring vegetation against the names Cardamino-Montion Braun-Blanquet 1925, Cardamino-Montion Braun-Blanquet 1926, and Montion Maas 1959. In current vegetation classification systems, the two name-giving taxa of Cardamino-Montion no longer indicate the character of the vegetation corresponding to the nomenclatural type of this alliance and are instead characteristic of other currently distinguished alliances. Maintaining the oldest name Cardamino-Montion in strict adherence to the Code would be a source of errors. In the current vegetation classification systems, two similar but counter-intuitive names would then have to be used: Cardamino-Montion for arctic-alpine springs (although the name-giving taxa are more indicative of montane springs) and Epilobio nutantis-Montion for montane springs (although the name-giving taxon Epilobium nutans is indicative of arctic-alpine vegetation). Hence, there is a risk that the name Cardamino-Montion may gradually become ambiguous. We also propose conserving the name Philonotidion seriatae against Mniobryo-Epilobion hornemannii Nordhagen 1943 to prevent confusion in case of a merger of these alliances. (36) Philonotidion seriatae Hinterlang 1992 Typus: Cratoneuro-Philonotidetum Geissler 1976 (holotypus) (=) Cardamino-Montion Braun-Blanquet 1925 Typus: Bryetum schleicheri Braun-Blanquet 1925 [≡ Montio fontanae-Bryetum schleicheri Braun-Blanquet 1925 nom. corr. et invers. (alternative name)] (holotypus) (=) Cardamino-Montion Braun-Blanquet 1926 nom. superfl. [≡ Cardamino-Montion Braun-Blanquet 1925] (=) Mniobryo-Epilobion hornemannii Nordhagen 1943 Typus: Mniobryo-Epilobietum hornemannii Nordhagen 1943 (lectotypus selected by Zechmeister & Mucina 1994) (=) Montion Maas 1959 nom. superfl. [≡ Cardamino-Montion Braun-Blanquet 1925] Taxonomic reference: Euro+Med PlantBase (http://europlusmed.org; accessed 4 January 2024)
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Proposal (36) to conserve the name Philonotidion seriatae Hinterlang 1992 for the species-poor, bryophyte-dominated, non-calcareous arctic-alpine spring vegetation of Europe
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10.3897/VCS.117703
2024-03-01
vcs
University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Vienna Institute for Nature Conservation & Analyses, Vienna, Austria
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Willner, Wolfgang
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1591-8386
2024-03-01
2024-03-01
2024
Vegetation Classification and Survey
2683-0671
5
17-26
2024
10.3897/VCS.117703
https://vcs.pensoft.net/article/117703/
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Aims: Inconsistent treatment of the vegetation layers is one of the main problems in the floristic classification of forests. In this study I investigate whether a classification based solely on woody species leads to units similar to the Braun-Blanquet system or to something completely different. Study area: Austria (Central Europe) and adjacent regions. Methods: 23,681 forest relevés from the Austrian Vegetation Database were classified using TWINSPAN. Spruce and pine plantations and stands with a cover of non-native woody species > 5% were excluded from the dataset. Only native tree and shrub species were used in the classification while herbs, dwarf shrubs, cryptogams and all records of woody species in the herb layer were omitted. Results: The TWINSPAN classification revealed elevation (i.e., climate) as the main floristic gradient in the data set. Within lowland communities, soil moisture was the dominant factor. The higher units of the Braun-Blanquet system were mostly well reproduced. Conclusions: The higher levels of the phytosociological forest classification (class, order, partly also alliance) can basically be defined by taking only the shrub and tree layer into account. However, all past and current classifications suffer from arbitrary exceptions to this rule. This leads to many inconsistencies and blurs the main biogeographical patterns within European forests. Here I argue that using the tree and shrub species for defining the higher levels and the understorey species for defining the lower ones is best suited to meet the properties that users would expect from a good forest classification. Taxonomic reference: Fischer et al. (2008). Syntaxonomic reference: Mucina et al. (2016) if not stated otherwise. Abbreviations: EVC = EuroVegChecklist (Mucina et al. 2016).
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How to classify forests? A case study from Central Europe
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10.3897/VCS.108560
2024-03-15
vcs
University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy
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Marcenò, Corrado
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4361-5200
Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Botany, Průhonice, Czech Republic
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Danihelka, Jiří
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2640-7867
M.G. Kholodny Institute of Botany, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
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Dziuba, Tetiana
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8621-0890
University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Vienna Institute for Nature Conservation & Analyses, Vienna, Austria
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Willner, Wolfgang
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1591-8386
Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
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Chytrý, Milan
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8122-3075
2024-03-15
2024-03-15
2024
Vegetation Classification and Survey
2683-0671
5
27-37
2024
10.3897/VCS.108560
https://vcs.pensoft.net/article/108560/
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This manuscript provides a review of the phytosociological nomenclature of the European syntaxa included in the classes Ammophiletea arundinaceae, Honckenyo peploidis-Elymetea arenarii, and Koelerio glaucae-Corynephoretea canescentis. The nomenclature has been refined and updated following the 4th edition of the International Code of Phytosociological Nomenclature (ICPN). In the Appendix, we submit two proposals (37, 38) to conserve the names Ammophilion arundinaceae Braun-Blanquet 1933 and Medicagini marinae-Ammophiletum arundinaceae Braun-Blanquet 1933. Taxonomic reference: see references in the main text. Syntaxonomic reference: see references in the main text. Abbreviations: EVCC = European Vegetation Classification Committee; ICPN = 4th edition of the International Code of Phytosociological Nomenclature (Theurillat et al. 2021).
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coastal dune
Europe
nomenclature
nomen conservandum
plant community
syntaxonomy
vegetation
Nomenclatural revision of the syntaxa of European coastal dune vegetation
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