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5. Relationship between extreme species richness and Holocene persistence of forest-steppe grasslands in Transylvania, Romania.

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Novák, Jan, Šamonil, Pavel, and Roleček, Jan

Subjects
SOIL structure, SOIL horizons, TEMPERATE forests, SOIL profiles, SOIL testing, GRASSLANDS
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The most species-rich grasslands worldwide are known from the Carpathian Mts and their periphery in East-Central Europe. They occur in forest-steppe regions, transitional between temperate forest and arid steppe biomes. Their climate, largely suitable for forests, raises questions about the origin of these grasslands. Have they been forested in the past, or locally maintained through a disturbance regime? We addressed these questions to contribute to the broader understanding of Holocene dynamics of open habitats in temperate Europe. We employed soil charcoal analysis and soil morphology to reconstruct past representation of woody species with fine spatial resolution. Our study area was Romanian Transylvania, a region renowned for a well-developed forest-steppe. Six soil profiles along a climatic gradient were assessed: four in forest-steppe grasslands, two in grasslands in adjacent forest region (forest grasslands). The results revealed profound differences between forest-steppe and forest grasslands. Forest-steppe profiles showed Phaeozems with low specific anthracomass of woody species and continuous dominance by Juniperus, suggesting a long-term presence of grasslands. Forest grasslands showed Luvisols with higher anthracomass and abundant charcoal of broad-leaved trees, indicating establishment after deforestation. The high radiocarbon ages of charcoals in basal soil horizons point to a glacial origin of soils and the link of forest-steppe grasslands to glacial forests. Siberian hemiboreal forests and related grasslands may be modern analogues of the reconstructed ecosystems, sharing many species with present day forest-steppe. We suggest that disturbances such as fire, herbivore grazing, and human activities have played an important role in shaping the forest-steppe over time, contributing to the formation of today's richest grasslands. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2024
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13. A comparative framework for broad-scale plot-based vegetation classification

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De Cáceres, Miquel, Chytrý, Milan, Agrillo, Emiliano, Attorre, Fabio, Botta-Dukát, Zoltán, Capelo, Jorge, Czúcz, Bálint, Dengler, Jürgen, Ewald, Jörg, Faber-Langendoen, Don, Feoli, Enrico, Franklin, Scott B., Gavilán, Rosario, Gillet, François, Jansen, Florian, Jiménez-Alfaro, Borja, Krestov, Pavel, Landucci, Flavia, Lengyel, Attila, Loidi, Javier, Mucina, Ladislav, Peet, Robert K., Roberts, David W., Roleček, Jan, Schaminée, Joop H.J., Schmidtlein, Sebastian, Theurillat, Jean-Paul, Tichý, Lubomír, Walker, Donald A., Wildi, Otto, Willner, Wolfgang, and Wiser, Susan K.

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2015

14. Soil erosion rates during the Holocene continuity in a forest‐steppe landscape.

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Püntener, Dario, Šamonil, Pavel, Tikhomirov, Dmitry, Daněk, Pavel, Christl, Marcus, Roleček, Jan, and Egli, Markus

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SOIL erosion, LAST Glacial Maximum, PLANT species diversity, HOLOCENE Epoch, FOREST biodiversity, SOIL management, ECOSYSTEMS, GRASSLAND soils, FOREST soils
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Despite a long‐term human impact, Central and Eastern Europe exhibit patches of steppe ecosystems having the highest plant species diversity worldwide. These unique ecosystems have persisted over millennia even though the local climatic conditions would support the formation of a closed forest. Several sources of disturbances have contributed to the persistence of the forest‐steppe landscape such as grazing, fire events and human impact. These disturbances have been recorded in local erosion rates. To gain a deeper understanding of the soil dynamics we aimed at deciphering the long‐ and short‐term erosion rates and the age of the soil mantle. The steppes in Transylvania, Romania, were studied to find evidence of a Holocene continuity of grasslands. Long‐term (millennia) average erosion rates were determined using meteoric 10Be in soils and in situ 10Be of rock outcrops (scarp). Long‐term rates were also estimated by the percolation theory. Short‐term (last few decades) erosion rates were obtained from 239+240Pu in soils. The soils started to form prior to the Last Glacial Maximum, probably during the Eemian Interglacial. The average, long‐term erosion rates varied between 0.18 and 0.63 t ha−1 yr−1. These rates are slightly elevated compared to expected soil erosion rates. The soils of the Transylvanian Plain formed over a long period and reached a quasi‐steady state (soil production equals denudation) that contributed to the maintenance of a biodiversity‐rich forest‐steppe landscape. The slightly elevated erosion rates are an effect of factors that contributed to the Holocene continuity (fire, grazing) and indicate open rather than a forested character of the landscape during soil development. During the last few decades, the erosion rates increased by a factor of 5–10, with values in the range of 1.31–4.05 t ha−1 yr−1. These large differences are caused by changes in human management of the soils. The biodiversity‐rich forest‐steppe landscapes are now under threat. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2023
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25. Tall herb-rich steppe in the peri-Carpathian region of Ukraine and Romania.

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Roleček, Jan, Dřevojan, Pavel, Iakushenko, Dmytro, and Hájek, Michal

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*STEPPES, *K-means clustering, *CLASSIFICATION algorithms, *SOIL acidity, *PHYSIOGNOMY
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Aim: Forest-steppe complexes in the peri-Carpathian region harbour specific vegetation dominated by tall herbs. Our aim was to provide new phytosociological data on this vegetation type from the Ukraine and adjacent parts of Romania, compare it with previously published data, discuss its position in broad ecological and biogeographical context and suggest its syntaxonomic treatment respecting both its physiognomy and species composition. Study area: Western Ukraine and Romania. Methods: We assembled a dataset of 711 relevés of thermophilous herb-rich vegetation (Trifolio-Geranietea) from the study area and adjacent regions of Eastern Poland and Slovakia using own field research, literature survey and large databases. Using intersection of three different classification algorithms (beta-flexible, modified TWINSPAN and K-means clustering) we identified a consensus delimitation of the vegetation type. NMDS ordination, analysis of diagnostic, constant and dominant species, and Didukh indicator values were used to characterize its species composition and habitat conditions. Results: Altogether 58 relevés from Western Ukraine and Romania were classified to a tall herb-dominated vegetation type that we identified with the association Trollio-Clematidetum recti Täuber et Weber 1976 described from Romania. We assigned it to the alliance Geranion sanguinei. It differs from other communities of this alliance in its preference for shady slopes, greater stand height and considerable representation of mesophilous and montane species. It is confined to calcareous bedrock with high soil pH and high mineral richness. Conclusions: We suggest that the studied tall herb-dominated vegetation is a specific steppe type, confined to relatively moist and nutrient rich sites in the peri-Carpathian area. Analogous vegetation occurs in the Alps, Balkans, hemiboreal Europe, South Urals and Western Siberia. Its species composition and biogeographical relationships provide further support for the hypothesis that steppe meadows of Central Europe, including tall herb-dominated stands, are linked to the Pleistocene and early-Holocene forest-steppe of temperate Eurasia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2022
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27. Long-term continuity of steppe grasslands in eastern Central Europe: Evidence from species distribution patterns and chloroplast haplotypes.

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Willner, Wolfgang, Moser, Dietmar, Plenk, Kristina, Aćić, Svetlana, Demina, Olga N., Höhn, Maria, Kuzemko, Anna, Roleček, Jan, Vassilev, Kiril, Vynokurov, Denys, and Kropf, Matthias

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SPECIES distribution, CHLOROPLAST DNA, STEPPES, GRASSLANDS, NATURE conservation, CONTINUITY
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Aim: The steppe grasslands of eastern Central Europe are exceptionally species rich and valuable from a nature conservation point of view. However, their historical biogeography is still poorly understood. Here we use the regional diversity of habitat specialists and chloroplast DNA data to investigate potential long-term refugia of steppe species in this region. Location: Pannonian Basin and adjacent regions; SW Russia. Taxon: Vascular plants. Methods: After identifying habitat specialists of the three main steppe types (meadow steppes, grass steppes and rocky steppes), we compiled their regional presence--absence in grid cells of 75 km x 75 km. We analysed the dependency of habitat specialist diversity to climate, topographic heterogeneity and geographical distance to potential refugia. For genetic analysis, we sampled three or four habitat specialists of each steppe type and used cpDNA markers to investigate intraspecific diversity and geographical distribution of haplotypes. We also tested for correspondence between the number of habitat specialists and haplotype diversity. Results: Climate and topography explained between 40% and 63% of the variance in habitat specialist diversity. Adding geographical distance to potential refugia increased the explained variance in the models for all steppe types. Chloroplast haplotypes featured a complex pattern across the study area. Several species showed a strong geographical differentiation, suggesting migration waves from multiple refugia with only limited subsequent genetic intermixture. Maximum haplotype diversity in a region showed a better correlation with the number of habitat specialists per steppe type than mean haplotype diversity. Main conclusions: We can clearly reject the scenario of a late-Holocene immigration of steppe species from areas outside the Pannonian Basin. Most species must have been present in the region since at least the early Holocene, highlighting the importance of the lower mountain ranges surrounding the Pannonian Basin as long-term refugia for European steppe species. Dispersal limitation and resulting migration lags seem to have a strong influence on the distribution of steppe species in Central Europe. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2021
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28. GrassPlot v. 2.00 : first update on the database of multi-scale plant diversity in Palaearctic grasslands

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Biurrun, Idoia, Burrascano, Sabina, Dembicz, Iwona, Guarino, Riccardo, Kapfer, Jutta, Pielech, Remigiusz, Garcia-Mijangos, Itziar, Wagner, Viktoria, Palpurina, Salza, Mimet, Anne, Pellissier, Vincent, Marcenò, Corrado, Nowak, Arkadiusz, Bergamini, Ariel, Boch, Steffen, Csergő, Anna Mária, Grytnes, John-Arvid, Campos, Juan Antonio, Erschbamer, Brigitta, Jiménez-Alfaro, Borja, Kącki, Zygmunt, Kuzemko, Anna, Manthey, Michael, Meerbeek, Koenraad van, Swacha, Grzegorz, Afif, Elias, Alatalo, Juha M., Aleffi, Michele, Babbi, Manuel, Bátori, Zoltán, Belonovskaya, Elena, Berg, Christian, Bhatta, Kuber Prasad, Cancellieri, Laura, Ceulemans, Tobias, Deák, Balázs, Demeter, László, Deng, Lei, Doležal, Jiří, Dolnik, Christian, Dramstad, Wenche, Dřevojan, Pavel, Ecker, Klaus, Essl, Franz, Etzold, Jonathan, Filibeck, Goffredo, Fjellstad, Wendy, Güler, Behlül, Hájek, Michal, Hepenstrick, Daniel, Hodgson, John G., Honrado, João P., Jägerbrand, Annika K., Janišová, Monika, Jeanneret, Philippe, Kelemen, András, Kirschner, Philipp, Klichowska, Ewelina, Kolomiiets, Ganna, Kozub, Łukasz, Lepš, Jan, Lindborg, Regina, Löbel, Swantje, Lomba, Angela, Magnes, Martin, Mayrhofer, Helmut, Malicki, Marek, Mašić, Ermin, Meier, Eliane S., Mirin, Denis, Molau, Ulf, Moysiyenko, Ivan, Naqinezhad, Alireza, Ninot, Josep M., Nobis, Marcin, Pedersen, Christian, Pérez-Haase, Aaron, Peters, Jan, Pladevall-Izard, Eulàlia, Roleček, Jan, Ronkin, Vladimir, Savchenko, Galina, Shyriaieva, Dariia, Sickel, Hanne, Stevens, Carly, Świerszcz, Sebastian, Tölgyesi, Csaba, Tsarevskaya, Nadezda, Valkó, Orsolya, Mechelen, Carmen Van, Vashenyak, Iuliia, Vetaas, Ole Reidar, Vynokurov, Denys, Waldén, Emelie, Widmer, Stefan, Wolfrum, Sebastian, Wróbel, Anna, Zlotnikova, Ekaterina, and Dengler, Jürgen

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Palaearctic, scale dependence, GrassPlot, macroecology, Global Index of Vegetation-Plot Databases (GIVD), grassland vegetation, species-area relationship (SAR), nested plot, community ecology, Eurasian Dry Grassland Group (EDGG), biodiversity, vegetationplot database
Published
2019

29. Holocene plant diversity dynamics show a distinct biogeographical pattern in temperate Europe.

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Roleček, Jan, Abraham, Vojtěch, Vild, Ondřej, Svobodová Svitavská, Helena, Jamrichová, Eva, Plesková, Zuzana, Pokorný, Petr, and Kuneš, Petr

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*FOSSIL pollen, *HOLOCENE Epoch, *POLLEN, *VASCULAR plants, *K-means clustering, *GRASSLAND soils, *PLANT diversity
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Aim: Pollen has been used before to reconstruct Holocene plant diversity changes in broadly delimited regions such as continents and countries. In this study we ask whether finer‐scale differences in plant diversity, which are of interest to biogeographers and ecologists, are also detectable in the fossil pollen record coming from a single, biogeographically complex region of temperate Europe. Location: Central Europe (Czech Republic, Slovakia). Taxon: Vascular plants. Methods: Fossil pollen extracted from 18 high‐quality profiles was used as a proxy of past plant diversity. Pollen counts of tree taxa were corrected by pollen productivities and pollen assemblages were resampled to 100 grains per sample and 150 grains per 500‐year time window. SiZer analysis was used to test and visualize multi‐scale diversity patterns. SiZer maps were compared using principal coordinate analysis, and linear modelling was used to identify the best predictors. Pollen composition was analysed using non‐metric multidimensional scaling. K‐means clustering and indicator species analysis were used to interpret ordination results. Results: Mean Holocene plant diversity is significantly predicted by latitude, whilst its temporal pattern varies by biogeographical region. Major differences were found between the Mesic and Montane Hercynia (relatively low diversity, increasing only in the Late Holocene) and Pannonia, the Carpathians and the Warm Hercynia (higher diversity, increasing from the Early or Middle Holocene onwards). The low diversity in the Middle and Late Holocene is associated with the prevalence of woody and acidophilic taxa. High diversity is associated with numerous grassland and minerotrophic wetland taxa, crops and weeds. Main conclusions: Plant diversity and its changes during the Holocene are geographically structured across temperate Europe. The main causes appear to be differences between biogeographical regions in the dynamics of landscape openness and vegetation composition. The differences reflect spatial patterns in climate and human impact and their temporal changes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2021
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31. Relative pollen productivity estimates for vegetation reconstruction in central-eastern Europe inferred at local and regional scales.

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Kuneš, Petr, Abraham, Vojtěch, Werchan, Barbora, Plesková, Zuzana, Fajmon, Karel, Jamrichová, Eva, and Roleček, Jan

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POLLEN, TREE-rings, POLLEN dispersal, FOREST management, PLANTS, CULTURAL landscapes
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Understanding pollen-vegetation relationships is crucial for accurate land-cover and climate reconstructions, yet important parameters for quantifying past vegetation abundance are mostly unknown for large parts of Europe harbouring temperate thermophilous ecosystems. We collected pollen and vegetation data in central-eastern Europe, a region covered by patchy cultural landscapes of high biodiversity to estimate relative pollen productivity (RPP) for important pollen-equivalent taxa. Our study area was situated in the south-western part of the White Carpathians (Czechia–Slovakia borderland), where we collected 40 modern moss pollen samples scattered over 250 km2 and mapped vegetation within 100 m around each pollen site. Additional vegetation data were compiled from Forest management plans, Natura 2000 habitat mapping and floristic inventories over the entire area. We calculated RPP (referenced to Poaceae) by testing two approaches: the extended R-value (ERV) model by estimating relevant source area of pollen and the REVEALS-based productivity using regional scale vegetation estimates. Two models were applied to depict pollen dispersal: Lagrangian stochastic and the Gaussian plume (Prentice) models. We estimated RPP for 16 taxa using the ERV model and an additional nine taxa using REVEALS. Both approaches found Plantago lanceolata -type to be a high pollen producer, Quercus medium-to-high, Asteraceae subf. Cichorioideae, Anthemis -type, Ranunculus acris -type and Rubiaceae low-to-medium and Brassicaceae and Senecio -type as low pollen producers. Results for other, mainly tree taxa, significantly differed in both approaches mainly due to largely uneven representation in both local and regional vegetation. In comparison with other studies, our data demonstrate a high variability in the estimated RPPs which could be influenced by climatic conditions or potentially vegetation structure. We suggest that the accuracy of RPP estimates could be enhanced by comparing modern pollen data with large-scale vegetation data in the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2019
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32. Gradients, species richness and biogeographical links of steppe grasslands in Western Podolia (Ukraine).

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Roleček, Jan, Hájek, Michal, Dřevojan, Pavel, Prokešová, Helena, Fajmon, Karel, Těšitel, Jakub, Daněk, Pavel, Hájková, Petra, Jongepierová, Ivana, Novák, Pavel, Poluyanov, Aleksandr Vladimirovich, Shumska, Nadiia Vasylivna, and Chorney, Illia Illich

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Aims: Western Podolia is one of several regions in the Eurasian forest-steppe zone where diverse steppe vegetation has been relatively well preserved. Our aims were to describe compositional turnover of steppe vegetation along different environmental gradients, to identify the patterns of species richness and evenness across complete compositional gradients and to outline biogeographical links of Western Podolian forest-steppe, with the emphasis on the generally rare mesic steppe types. Study area: Western Podolia and adjacent regions of Western Ukraine. Methods: Two independent datasets of vegetation plots and environmental variables were classified using modified TWINSPAN and ordinated using DCA and CCA. Diagnostic, constant and dominant species were identified. Ecological elements were quantified using Didukh indicator values. Biogeographical analysis was based on an extensive review of literature and NMDS of species frequency data sourced from studies covering a large part of Central and Eastern Europe. Results: The main gradients in species composition correspond to ecological gradients of 1) topographically controlled moisture and nutrient availability and 2) disturbance and human impact. The first gradient ranges from low-productive dry stands dominated by narrow-leaved tufted grasses, through dry-mesic stands co-dominated by broad-leaved grasses and herbs, to highproductive dry-mesic to mesic stands co-dominated by tall herbs and broad-leaved grasses. The second gradient tends towards communities altered by intensive human use. Species richness of steppe grasslands may be extremely high and has a unimodal relationship with estimated productivity. It peaks at mesic sites, in places with high evenness of species abundances. Conclusions: The remaining steppe fragments in Western Podolia are nowadays partly burnt, partly grazed, rarely mown and partly unmanaged. They harbour a number of rare light-demanding species and species reaching their distributional limits within the study area. Exceptional diversity of the grasslands may originate from Early Holocene or Pleistocene forest-steppe communities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2019
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33. Soil charcoal elucidates the role of humans in the development of landscape of extreme biodiversity.

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Novák, Jan, Roleček, Jan, Dresler, Petr, and Hájek, Michal

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CHARCOAL, GRASSLAND soils, PLANT species diversity, CHERNOZEM soils, TOPSOIL, GRASSLAND restoration
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The south‐western White Carpathians (Czech Republic, Slovakia) are one of the few places in low‐elevation Central Europe where a diverse landscape, including extremely species rich meadows, scattered oak trees, and mixed oak woodlands, has escaped modern transformation. We studied C14‐dated and taxonomically identified macroscopic soil charcoal record to elucidate the genesis of this landscape. Thirteen soil profiles were sampled in grasslands along a gradient of elevation and history of human settlement. We identified clear pattern in the taxonomic composition of woody soil charcoal and anthracomass along this gradient, which we ascribe to different pathways of landscape development. Charcoal assemblages of chernozem‐like soils in the promontories of the mountain range have a low anthracomass and are dominated by heliophilous and semishade species (Quercus, Pinus), with the oldest charcoals dated to pre‐Neolithic times. Soils of the middle elevations have a high anthracomass and often show pronounced differences in charcoal composition at different soil depths; the oldest charcoal samples date back between the Neolithic and Early Middle Ages, and heliophilous species increase towards the topsoil. The soil of the summit area shows a medium anthracomass and charcoal assemblage dominated by shade‐tolerant trees; the charcoal dates from the Middle Ages. Our results suggest continuity of an open to semiopen landscape in lower elevations of the White Carpathians, whereas middle and higher elevations experienced a forested period. Humans and fire played an important role in landscape development, as indicated by both soil charcoal and available palaeoecological and archaeological evidence. Local meadows with extremely high biodiversity thus appear to be a continuation of an ancient forest‐steppe‐like ecosystem. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2019
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35. FIRST RECORD OF FESTUCA AMETHYSTINA L. FROM THE TRANSYLVANIAN BASIN (ROMANIA).

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ROLEČEK, Jan, DŘEVOJAN, Pavel, and ŠMARDA, Petr

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FESCUE, PLOIDY, SPECIES distribution, FLOW cytometry, TURFGRASSES, PHYTOGEOGRAPHY
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2019
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37. Experimental restoration of coppice-with-standards: Response of understorey vegetation from the conservation perspective.

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Vild, Ondřej, Roleček, Jan, Hédl, Radim, Kopecký, Martin, and Utinek, Dušan

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FOREST restoration, COPPICE forest ecology, FOREST plants, FOREST conservation, OAK, PLANT species, FOREST management
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Highlights: [•] Coppice-with-standards restoration experiment was conducted in oak-dominated forest. [•] Vegetation response was positively correlated with tree thinning intensity. [•] Conservation-valued light-demanding oligotrophic species increased. [•] Ruderal species increased significantly after more intense thinning. [•] A wider but cautious restoration of this management is recommended. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

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2013
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38. Foliar N concentration and δ15N signature reflect the herb layer species diversity and composition in oak-dominated forests.

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Hofmeister, Jeňýk, Hošek, Jan, Bůzek, František, Roleček, Jan, and Verheyen, Kris

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Questions Is the herb layer species diversity and composition in species-rich oak-dominated forests related to the (i) soil nitrogen (N) pool, (ii) foliar N concentration, and (iii) foliar 15N/14N isotope ratio (δ15N), as indicators of the N status in ecosystems? How do they correspond to the Ellenberg indicator value for N ( EIV-N) of the herb layer vegetation? Location Three areas in central Bohemia ( Czech Republic) underlain by different geological substrates. Methods We assessed the herb layer species composition in nine oak-dominated forests growing on different substrates, in relation to both soil nutrient pools and oak leaf nutrient concentrations. Data on the herb layer vegetation composition were collected in 16 square plots (25 m2 each) distributed according to a fixed stratified random design at each site. Soil nutrient pools were calculated on the basis of nutrient concentration and weight of quantitative soil samples taken from six defined depth strata at each of two or three 0.5-m2 pits at each site. Foliar analyses were based on samples of 150 leaves from the upper part of the canopy of five oaks at each site. Results The mean Shannon diversity index of herb layer vegetation was negatively related to the mean foliar Ntot. concentration, whereas the mean recovery rate ( RR) of herb layer species was strongly positively related to foliar δ15N signatures and, less markedly, to the soil Ntot. pool. Similarly, both the foliar δ15N and the soil Ntot. pool were positively correlated with mean-weighted EIV-N in the herb layer vegetation. Conclusions The herb layer species diversity and composition was significantly related to N availability at our study sites. Foliar N concentration and the δ15N signature may reliably indicate: (i) the current N status of oak-dominated forests, in accordance with previous published findings; and (ii) the consequences of that N status for the herb layer species diversity and composition. Foliar δ15N may also be used to detect the susceptibility of an ecosystem to the spread of a few species with high colonization ability in the herb layer, at the expense of other forest species. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2012
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39. Formerly coppiced old growth stands act as refugia of threatened biodiversity in a managed steppic oak forest.

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Roleček, Jan and Řepka, Radomír

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DEAD trees, OAK, FOREST declines, FOREST management, BIODIVERSITY, SPECIES diversity, BIODIVERSITY conservation, VASCULAR plants
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• Old coppices in steppic oak forests have high biodiversity. • Establishment of oak plantations has profound effects on biodiversity. • Site preparation and competitive exclusion in young stands may be more detrimental than clear-cutting. • Preservation of old coppices combined with traditional management may aid conservation. Forest vegetation is dominated by long-lived species in the tree layer, which facilitates its relatively high inertia and ability to conserve traces of its history in its structure and species composition. Central European lowland forests have been the subject of diverse human use for millennia and some of the present stands still show remnants of historical management forms practised before the onset of modern forestry. In the past decades, biodiversity decline has become a major concern, and restoration of historical uses has been proposed as a nature-friendly alternative for forest management. We explored the consequences of the transformation of an old oak coppice, historically linked to ancient wood pasture system, to oak plantation. We focused on vascular plant species richness and differences in ecological spectra of the plant assemblages, with the goal of evaluating the consequences for biodiversity conservation and identifying possible environmental drivers behind the observed patterns. The study was performed in the best preserved complex of lowland steppic oak forests in the Czech Republic, protected as a Site of Community Importance. We fully inventoried plant species in 135 oak stands classified into three management-age classes: (1) clear-cuts, (2) young growth stands after area-wide site preparation, and (3) old growth stands. For some analyses, old growth stands were divided into those showing signs of past coppicing and the others. We found that species richness was the highest in clear-cuts, the lowest in young growth stands, and intermediate in old growth stands. Clear-cuts showed the highest uniqueness in species composition, with a high share of ruderal species. Young growth stands showed the lowest uniqueness, with a high proportion of competitive species. Old growth stands showed intermediate uniqueness and the coppiced ones had a high share of stress-tolerant species, often of high conservation value. While it is hardly surprising that the establishment of oak plantations has profound effects on biodiversity, we suggest that clear-cutting itself may not be a key issue. Destructive site preparation in clear-cuts, and competition for resources in dense young oak stands are suggested as the main factors threatening the survival of ancient biota of steppic oak forests in our study area. In contrast, continuity of site conditions in formerly coppiced old growth stands facilitates species survival. We suggest that restoration of historical management forms such as coppicing and wood pasture may support this continuity. Where oak planting is still applied, we advise minimising site preparation and applying early thinning of young growth stands. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2020
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40. Benchmarking plant diversity of Palaearctic grasslands and other open habitats

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Biurrun, Idoia, Pielech, Remigiusz, Dembicz, Iwona, Gillet, François, Kozub, Łukasz, Marcenò, Corrado, Reitalu, Triin, Van Meerbeek, Koenraad, Guarino, Riccardo, Chytrý, Milan, Pakeman, Robin J., Herrera, Mercedes, Hüllbusch, Elisabeth M., Ingerpuu, Nele, Jägerbrand, Annika K., Jandt, Ute, Janišová, Monika, Jeanneret, Philippe, Jeltsch, Florian, Jensen, Kai, Jentsch, Anke, Preislerová, Zdenka, Kącki, Zygmunt, Kakinuma, Kaoru, Kapfer, Jutta, Kargar, Mansoureh, Kelemen, András, Kiehl, Kathrin, Kirschner, Philipp, Koyama, Asuka, Langer, Nancy, Lazzaro, Lorenzo, Axmanová, Irena, Lepš, Jan, Li, Ching‐Feng, Li, Frank Yonghong, Liendo, Diego, Lindborg, Regina, Löbel, Swantje, Lomba, Angela, Lososová, Zdeňka, Lustyk, Pavel, Luzuriaga, Arantzazu L., Burrascano, Sabina, Ma, Wenhong, Maccherini, Simona, Magnes, Martin, Malicki, Marek, Manthey, Michael, Mardari, Constantin, May, Felix, Mayrhofer, Helmut, Meier, Eliane Seraina, Memariani, Farshid, Bartha, Sándor, Merunková, Kristina, Michelsen, Ottar, Molero Mesa, Joaquín, Moradi, Halime, Moysiyenko, Ivan, Mugnai, Michele, Naqinezhad, Alireza, Natcheva, Rayna, Ninot, Josep M., Nobis, Marcin, Boch, Steffen, Noroozi, Jalil, Nowak, Arkadiusz, Onipchenko, Vladimir, Palpurina, Salza, Pauli, Harald, Pedashenko, Hristo, Pedersen, Christian, Peet, Robert K., Pérez‐Haase, Aaron, Peters, Jan, Bruun, Hans Henrik, Pipenbaher, Nataša, Pirini, Chrisoula, Pladevall‐Izard, Eulàlia, Plesková, Zuzana, Potenza, Giovanna, Rahmanian, Soroor, Rodríguez‐Rojo, Maria Pilar, Ronkin, Vladimir, Rosati, Leonardo, Ruprecht, Eszter, Conradi, Timo, Rusina, Solvita, Sabovljević, Marko, Sanaei, Anvar, Sánchez, Ana M., Santi, Francesco, Savchenko, Galina, Sebastià, Maria Teresa, Shyriaieva, Dariia, Silva, Vasco, Škornik, Sonja, De Frenne, Pieter, Šmerdová, Eva, Sonkoly, Judit, Sperandii, Marta Gaia, Staniaszek‐Kik, Monika, Stevens, Carly, Stifter, Simon, Suchrow, Sigrid, Swacha, Grzegorz, Świerszcz, Sebastian, Talebi, Amir, Essl, Franz, Teleki, Balázs, Tichý, Lubomír, Tölgyesi, Csaba, Torca, Marta, Török, Péter, Tsarevskaya, Nadezda, Tsiripidis, Ioannis, Turisová, Ingrid, Ushimaru, Atushi, Valkó, Orsolya, Filibeck, Goffredo, Van Mechelen, Carmen, Vanneste, Thomas, Vasheniak, Iuliia, Vassilev, Kiril, Viciani, Daniele, Villar, Luis, Virtanen, Risto, Vitasović‐Kosić, Ivana, Vojtkó, András, Vynokurov, Denys, Hájek, Michal, Waldén, Emelie, Wang, Yun, Weiser, Frank, Wen, Lu, Wesche, Karsten, White, Hannah, Widmer, Stefan, Wolfrum, Sebastian, Wróbel, Anna, Yuan, Zuoqiang, Jiménez‐Alfaro, Borja, Zelený, David, Zhao, Liqing, Dengler, Jürgen, Kuzemko, Anna, Molnár, Zsolt, Pärtel, Meelis, Pätsch, Ricarda, Prentice, Honor C., Roleček, Jan, Sutcliffe, Laura M. E., Terzi, Massimo, Winkler, Manuela, Wu, Jianshuang, Aćić, Svetlana, Acosta, Alicia T. R., Afif, Elias, Akasaka, Munemitsu, Alatalo, Juha M., Aleffi, Michele, Aleksanyan, Alla, Ali, Arshad, Apostolova, Iva, Ashouri, Parvaneh, Bátori, Zoltán, Baumann, Esther, Becker, Thomas, Bello, Francesco, Belonovskaya, Elena, Benito Alonso, José Luis, Berastegi, Asun, Bergamini, Ariel, Bhatta, Kuber Prasad, Bonini, Ilaria, Büchler, Marc‐Olivier, Budzhak, Vasyl, Bueno, Álvaro, Buldrini, Fabrizio, Campos, Juan Antonio, Cancellieri, Laura, Carboni, Marta, Ceulemans, Tobias, Chiarucci, Alessandro, Chocarro, Cristina, Conti, Luisa, Csergő, Anna Mária, Cykowska‐Marzencka, Beata, Czarniecka‐Wiera, Marta, Czarnocka‐Cieciura, Marta, Czortek, Patryk, Danihelka, Jiří, Deák, Balázs, Demeter, László, Deng, Lei, Diekmann, Martin, Dolezal, Jiri, Dolnik, Christian, Dřevojan, Pavel, Dupré, Cecilia, Ecker, Klaus, Ejtehadi, Hamid, Erschbamer, Brigitta, Etayo, Javier, Etzold, Jonathan, Farkas, Tünde, Farzam, Mohammad, Fayvush, George, Fernández Calzado, María Rosa, Finckh, Manfred, Fjellstad, Wendy, Fotiadis, Georgios, García‐Magro, Daniel, García‐Mijangos, Itziar, Gavilán, Rosario G., Germany, Markus, Ghafari, Sahar, Giusso del Galdo, Gian Pietro, Grytnes, John‐Arvid, Güler, Behlül, Gutiérrez‐Girón, Alba, and Helm, Aveliina

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2. Zero hunger, Species–area relationship, Vascular plant, GrassPlot Diversity Explorer, Open habitat, 333.7: Landflächen, Naturerholungsgebiete, Lichen, 15. Life on land, Benchmark, Grassland, Vegetation plot, Fine-grain biodiversity, Scale dependence, Palaearctic, 580: Pflanzen (Botanik), Bryophyte
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Aims: Understanding fine-grain diversity patterns across large spatial extents is fundamental for macroecological research and biodiversity conservation. Using the GrassPlot database, we provide benchmarks of fine-grain richness values of Palaearctic open habitats for vascular plants, bryophytes, lichens and complete vegetation (i.e., the sum of the former three groups). Location: Palaearctic biogeographic realm. Methods: We used 126,524 plots of eight standard grain sizes from the GrassPlot database: 0.0001, 0.001, 0.01, 0.1, 1, 10, 100 and 1,000 m2 and calculated the mean richness and standard deviations, as well as maximum, minimum, median, and first and third quartiles for each combination of grain size, taxonomic group, biome, region, vegetation type and phytosociological class. Results: Patterns of plant diversity in vegetation types and biomes differ across grain sizes and taxonomic groups. Overall, secondary (mostly semi-natural) grasslands and natural grasslands are the richest vegetation type. The open-access file ”GrassPlot Diversity Benchmarks” and the web tool “GrassPlot Diversity Explorer” are now available online (https://edgg.org/datab ases/Grass landD ivers ityEx plorer) and provide more insights into species richness patterns in the Palaearctic open habitats. Conclusions: The GrassPlot Diversity Benchmarks provide high-quality data on species richness in open habitat types across the Palaearctic. These benchmark data can be used in vegetation ecology, macroecology, biodiversity conservation and data quality checking. While the amount of data in the underlying GrassPlot database and their spatial coverage are smaller than in other extensive vegetation-plot databases, species recordings in GrassPlot are on average more complete, making it a valuable complementary data source in macroecology.

41. Robinia pseudoacacia-dominated vegetation types of Southern Europe: Species composition, history, distribution and management.

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Vítková, Michaela, Sádlo, Jiří, Roleček, Jan, Petřík, Petr, Sitzia, Tommaso, Müllerová, Jana, and Pyšek, Petr

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• Five vegetation types reflect an oceanity-continentality gradient in South Europe. • Robinia stands have specific species composition and high structural diversity. • The main drivers of invasion is large-scale and long-term cultivation. • The most invaded habitats are human-made, e.g. urban, agrarian and mining areas. • Stratified management on regional and local scales should be favoured. Knowledge of the species composition of invaded vegetation helps to evaluate an ecological impact of aliens and design an optimal management strategy. We link a new vegetation analysis of a large dataset to the invasion history, ecology and management of Robinia pseudoacacia stands across Southern Europe and provide a map illustrating Robinia distribution. Finally, we compare detected relationships with Central Europe. We show that regional differences in Robinia invasion, distribution, habitats and management are driven both by local natural conditions (climate and soil properties, low competitive ability with native trees) and socioeconomic factors (traditional land-use). Based on the classification of 467 phytosociological relevés we distinguished five broad vegetation types reflecting an oceanity−continentality gradient. The stands were heterogeneous and included 824 taxa, with only 5.8% occurring in more than 10% of samples, representing mainly hemerobic generalists of mesophilous, nutrient-rich and semi-shady habitats. The most common were dry ruderal stands invading human-made habitats. Among native communities, disturbed mesic and alluvial forests were often invaded throughout the area, while dry forests and scrub dominated in Balkan countries. Continuous, long-term and large-scale cultivation represent a crucial factor driving Robinia invasions in natural habitats. Its invasion should be mitigated by suitable management taking into account adjacent habitats and changing cultivation practices to select for native species. Robinia invasion has a comparable pattern in Central and Southern Europe, but there is a substantial difference in management and utilization causing heterogeneity of many South-European stands. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2020
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42. Benchmarking plant diversity of Palaearctic grasslands and other open habitats

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Monika Janišová, Georgios Fotiadis, Honor C. Prentice, Farshid Memariani, Ivan I. Moysiyenko, Pavel Lustyk, Zdenka Preislerová, Hristo Pedashenko, Francesco Santi, Atushi Ushimaru, Steffen Boch, Galina Savchenko, Fabrizio Buldrini, Irena Axmanová, Milan Chytrý, Jiri Dolezal, Denys Vynokurov, Marta Czarniecka-Wiera, Zdeňka Lososová, Robert K. Peet, Simon Stifter, Ricarda Pätsch, Koenraad Van Meerbeek, Alba Gutiérrez-Girón, Simona Maccherini, András Kelemen, Thomas Becker, Michal Hájek, Christian Pedersen, Stefan Widmer, Remigiusz Pielech, Vladimir Ronkin, Kai Jensen, Anna Wróbel, Cristina Chocarro, Sebastian Świerszcz, Lei Deng, Arkadiusz Nowak, Luisa Conti, Eulàlia Pladevall-Izard, Swantje Löbel, Jonathan Etzold, Jan Peters, Hans Henrik Bruun, Elisabeth M. Hüllbusch, Anna Kuzemko, Martin Magnes, Rayna Natcheva, Riccardo Guarino, Joaquín Molero Mesa, Vasco Silva, Pavel Dřevojan, Iuliia Vasheniak, Jan Lepš, Péter Török, Timo Conradi, Marcin Nobis, Aaron Pérez-Haase, Yun Wang, María Rosa Fernández Calzado, Ilaria Bonini, Massimo Terzi, Meelis Pärtel, Liqing Zhao, Csaba Tölgyesi, Frank Weiser, Philipp Kirschner, Juan Antonio Campos, Zuzana Plesková, László Demeter, George Fayvush, Asun Berastegi, Behlül Güler, Diego Liendo, Nancy Langer, Manfred Finckh, Martin Diekmann, Florian Jeltsch, Anke Jentsch, Robin J. Pakeman, Tobias Ceulemans, Javier Etayo, Orsolya Valkó, Carly J. Stevens, Kaoru Kakinuma, Michele Aleffi, Jiří Danihelka, Alicia Teresa Rosario Acosta, Balázs Teleki, Laura M. E. Sutcliffe, Solvita Rusina, Rosario G. Gavilán, Pieter De Frenne, Michele Mugnai, Arantzazu L. Luzuriaga, Marc Olivier Büchler, Lubomír Tichý, Soroor Rahmanian, Zsolt Molnár, Itziar García-Mijangos, Jürgen Dengler, Harald Pauli, Asuka Koyama, Anvar Sanaei, Cecilia Dupré, Parvaneh Ashouri, Vladimir G. Onipchenko, Ute Jandt, Zoltán Bátori, François Gillet, Alla Aleksanyan, Ariel Bergamini, Corrado Marcenò, Constantin Mardari, Nadezda Tsarevskaya, José Luis Benito Alonso, Łukasz Kozub, Ottar Michelsen, Felix May, Goffredo Filibeck, Jan Roleček, Jalil Noroozi, Karsten Wesche, Eva Šmerdová, Michael Manthey, Triin Reitalu, Ana M. Sánchez, Eszter Ruprecht, Regina Lindborg, Idoia Biurrun, Risto Virtanen, Gianpietro Giusso del Galdo, Helmut Mayrhofer, Annika K. Jägerbrand, Mansoureh Kargar, Chrisoula B. Pirini, Dariia Shyriaieva, Sabina Burrascano, Esther Baumann, Christian Dolnik, Kristina Merunková, Ching-Feng Li, Eliane S. Meier, Kuber Prasad Bhatta, Mercedes Herrera, Klaus Ecker, Mohammad Farzam, Marta Torca, Nele Ingerpuu, Philippe Jeanneret, Francesco de Bello, Alireza Naqinezhad, Tünde Farkas, Elena Belonovskaya, Josep M. Ninot, Elias Afif, Munemitsu Akasaka, Lorenzo Lazzaro, András Vojtkó, Leonardo Rosati, Jianshuang Wu, Arshad Ali, Sándor Bartha, Zuoqiang Yuan, Wenhong Ma, Patryk Czortek, Marta Carboni, Franz Essl, Hannah J. White, Carmen Van Mechelen, Brigitta Erschbamer, Marek Malicki, Vasyl Budzhak, Jutta Kapfer, Manuela Winkler, Angela Lomba, Hamid Ejtehadi, Judit Sonkoly, Ingrid Turisová, Thomas Vanneste, Laura Cancellieri, Sonja Škornik, David Zelený, Zygmunt Kącki, Alessandro Chiarucci, Salza Palpurina, Sigrid Suchrow, Kathrin Kiehl, Amir Talebi, Beata Cykowska-Marzencka, Borja Jiménez-Alfaro, Nataša Pipenbaher, Frank Yonghong Li, Wendy Fjellstad, Ivana Vitasović-Kosić, Maria Pilar Rodríguez-Rojo, Álvaro Bueno, Daniele Viciani, Juha M. Alatalo, Emelie Waldén, Sahar Ghafari, Grzegorz Swacha, Anna Mária Csergő, Lu Wen, Balázs Deák, Ioannis Tsiripidis, Luis Villar, Maria-Teresa Sebastià, Svetlana Aćić, Halime Moradi, Kiril Vassilev, Daniel García-Magro, Sebastian Wolfrum, Iva Apostolova, Marko Sabovljevic, Giovanna Potenza, Monika Staniaszek-Kik, Iwona Dembicz, Aveliina Helm, Marta Czarnocka-Cieciura, Marta Gaia Sperandii, John-Arvid Grytnes, Laboratoire Chrono-environnement - CNRS - UBFC (UMR 6249) (LCE), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Franche-Comté (UFC), Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC)-Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC), Biurrun I., Pielech R., Dembicz I., Gillet F., Kozub L., Marceno C., Reitalu T., Van Meerbeek K., Guarino R., Chytry M., Pakeman R.J., Preislerova Z., Axmanova I., Burrascano S., Bartha S., Boch S., Bruun H.H., Conradi T., De Frenne P., Essl F., Filibeck G., Hajek M., Jimenez-Alfaro B., Kuzemko A., Molnar Z., Partel M., Patsch R., Prentice H.C., Rolecek J., Sutcliffe L.M.E., Terzi M., Winkler M., Wu J., Acic S., Acosta A.T.R., Afif E., Akasaka M., Alatalo J.M., Aleffi M., Aleksanyan A., Ali A., Apostolova I., Ashouri P., Batori Z., Baumann E., Becker T., Belonovskaya E., Benito Alonso J.L., Berastegi A., Bergamini A., Bhatta K.P., Bonini I., Buchler M.-O., Budzhak V., Bueno A., Buldrini F., Campos J.A., Cancellieri L., Carboni M., Ceulemans T., Chiarucci A., Chocarro C., Conti L., Csergo A.M., Cykowska-Marzencka B., Czarniecka-Wiera M., Czarnocka-Cieciura M., Czortek P., Danihelka J., de Bello F., Deak B., Demeter L., Deng L., Diekmann M., Dolezal J., Dolnik C., Drevojan P., Dupre C., Ecker K., Ejtehadi H., Erschbamer B., Etayo J., Etzold J., Farkas T., Farzam M., Fayvush G., Fernandez Calzado M.R., Finckh M., Fjellstad W., Fotiadis G., Garcia-Magro D., Garcia-Mijangos I., Gavilan R.G., Germany M., Ghafari S., Giusso del Galdo G.P., Grytnes J.-A., Guler B., Gutierrez-Giron A., Helm A., Herrera M., Hullbusch E.M., Ingerpuu N., Jagerbrand A.K., Jandt U., Janisova M., Jeanneret P., Jeltsch F., Jensen K., Jentsch A., Kacki Z., Kakinuma K., Kapfer J., Kargar M., Kelemen A., Kiehl K., Kirschner P., Koyama A., Langer N., Lazzaro L., Leps J., Li C.-F., Li F.Y., Liendo D., Lindborg R., Lobel S., Lomba A., Lososova Z., Lustyk P., Luzuriaga A.L., Ma W., Maccherini S., Magnes M., Malicki M., Manthey M., Mardari C., May F., Mayrhofer H., Meier E.S., Memariani F., Merunkova K., Michelsen O., Molero Mesa J., Moradi H., Moysiyenko I., Mugnai M., Naqinezhad A., Natcheva R., Ninot J.M., Nobis M., Noroozi J., Nowak A., Onipchenko V., Palpurina S., Pauli H., Pedashenko H., Pedersen C., Peet R.K., Perez-Haase A., Peters J., Pipenbaher N., Pirini C., Pladevall-Izard E., Pleskova Z., Potenza G., Rahmanian S., Rodriguez-Rojo M.P., Ronkin V., Rosati L., Ruprecht E., Rusina S., Sabovljevic M., Sanaei A., Sanchez A.M., Santi F., Savchenko G., Sebastia M.T., Shyriaieva D., Silva V., Skornik S., Smerdova E., Sonkoly J., Sperandii M.G., Staniaszek-Kik M., Stevens C., Stifter S., Suchrow S., Swacha G., Swierszcz S., Talebi A., Teleki B., Tichy L., Tolgyesi C., Torca M., Torok P., Tsarevskaya N., Tsiripidis I., Turisova I., Ushimaru A., Valko O., Van Mechelen C., Vanneste T., Vasheniak I., Vassilev K., Viciani D., Villar L., Virtanen R., Vitasovic-Kosic I., Vojtko A., Vynokurov D., Walden E., Wang Y., Weiser F., Wen L., Wesche K., White H., Widmer S., Wolfrum S., Wrobel A., Yuan Z., Zeleny D., Zhao L., Dengler J., Biurrun, Idoia, Pielech, Remigiusz, Dembicz, Iwona, Gillet, Françoi, Kozub, Łukasz, Marcenò, Corrado, Reitalu, Triin, Van Meerbeek, Koenraad, Guarino, Riccardo, Chytrý, Milan, Pakeman, Robin J., Preislerová, Zdenka, Axmanová, Irena, Burrascano, Sabina, Bartha, Sándor, Boch, Steffen, Bruun, Hans Henrik, Conradi, Timo, De Frenne, Pieter, Essl, Franz, Filibeck, Goffredo, Hájek, Michal, Jiménez‐Alfaro, Borja, Kuzemko, Anna, Molnár, Zsolt, Pärtel, Meeli, Pätsch, Ricarda, Prentice, Honor C., Roleček, Jan, Sutcliffe, Laura M.E., Terzi, Massimo, Winkler, Manuela, Wu, Jianshuang, Aćić, Svetlana, Acosta, Alicia T.R., Afif, Elia, Akasaka, Munemitsu, Alatalo, Juha M., Aleffi, Michele, Aleksanyan, Alla, Ali, Arshad, Apostolova, Iva, Ashouri, Parvaneh, Bátori, Zoltán, Baumann, Esther, Becker, Thoma, Belonovskaya, Elena, Benito Alonso, José Lui, Berastegi, Asun, Bergamini, Ariel, Bhatta, Kuber Prasad, Bonini, Ilaria, Büchler, Marc‐Olivier, Budzhak, Vasyl, Bueno, Álvaro, Buldrini, Fabrizio, Campos, Juan Antonio, Cancellieri, Laura, Carboni, Marta, Ceulemans, Tobia, Chiarucci, Alessandro, Chocarro, Cristina, Conti, Luisa, Csergő, Anna Mária, Cykowska‐Marzencka, Beata, Czarniecka‐Wiera, Marta, Czarnocka‐Cieciura, Marta, Czortek, Patryk, Danihelka, Jiří, de Bello, Francesco, Deák, Baláz, Demeter, László, Deng, Lei, Diekmann, Martin, Dolezal, Jiri, Dolnik, Christian, Dřevojan, Pavel, Dupré, Cecilia, Ecker, Klau, Ejtehadi, Hamid, Erschbamer, Brigitta, Etayo, Javier, Etzold, Jonathan, Farkas, Tünde, Farzam, Mohammad, Fayvush, George, Fernández Calzado, María Rosa, Finckh, Manfred, Fjellstad, Wendy, Fotiadis, Georgio, García‐Magro, Daniel, García‐Mijangos, Itziar, Gavilán, Rosario G., Germany, Marku, Ghafari, Sahar, Giusso del Galdo, Gian Pietro, Grytnes, John‐Arvid, Güler, Behlül, Gutiérrez‐Girón, Alba, Helm, Aveliina, Herrera, Mercede, Hüllbusch, Elisabeth M., Ingerpuu, Nele, Jägerbrand, Annika K., Jandt, Ute, Janišová, Monika, Jeanneret, Philippe, Jeltsch, Florian, Jensen, Kai, Jentsch, Anke, Kącki, Zygmunt, Kakinuma, Kaoru, Kapfer, Jutta, Kargar, Mansoureh, Kelemen, Andrá, Kiehl, Kathrin, Kirschner, Philipp, Koyama, Asuka, Langer, Nancy, Lazzaro, Lorenzo, Lepš, Jan, Li, Ching‐Feng, Li, Frank Yonghong, Liendo, Diego, Lindborg, Regina, Löbel, Swantje, Lomba, Angela, Lososová, Zdeňka, Lustyk, Pavel, Luzuriaga, Arantzazu L., Ma, Wenhong, Maccherini, Simona, Magnes, Martin, Malicki, Marek, Manthey, Michael, Mardari, Constantin, May, Felix, Mayrhofer, Helmut, Meier, Eliane Seraina, Memariani, Farshid, Merunková, Kristina, Michelsen, Ottar, Molero Mesa, Joaquín, Moradi, Halime, Moysiyenko, Ivan, Mugnai, Michele, Naqinezhad, Alireza, Natcheva, Rayna, Ninot, Josep M., Nobis, Marcin, Noroozi, Jalil, Nowak, Arkadiusz, Onipchenko, Vladimir, Palpurina, Salza, Pauli, Harald, Pedashenko, Hristo, Pedersen, Christian, Peet, Robert K., Pérez‐Haase, Aaron, Peters, Jan, Pipenbaher, Nataša, Pirini, Chrisoula, Pladevall‐Izard, Eulàlia, Plesková, Zuzana, Potenza, Giovanna, Rahmanian, Soroor, Rodríguez‐Rojo, Maria Pilar, Ronkin, Vladimir, Rosati, Leonardo, Ruprecht, Eszter, Rusina, Solvita, Sabovljević, Marko, Sanaei, Anvar, Sánchez, Ana M., Santi, Francesco, Savchenko, Galina, Sebastià, Maria Teresa, Shyriaieva, Dariia, Silva, Vasco, Škornik, Sonja, Šmerdová, Eva, Sonkoly, Judit, Sperandii, Marta Gaia, Staniaszek‐Kik, Monika, Stevens, Carly, Stifter, Simon, Suchrow, Sigrid, Swacha, Grzegorz, Świerszcz, Sebastian, Talebi, Amir, Teleki, Baláz, Tichý, Lubomír, Tölgyesi, Csaba, Torca, Marta, Török, Péter, Tsarevskaya, Nadezda, Tsiripidis, Ioanni, Turisova, Ingrid, Ushimaru, Atushi, Valkó, Orsolya, Van Mechelen, Carmen, Vanneste, Thoma, Vasheniak, Iuliia, Vassilev, Kiril, Viciani, Daniele, Villar, Lui, Virtanen, Risto, Vitasović‐Kosić, Ivana, Vojtkó, Andrá, Vynokurov, Deny, Waldén, Emelie, Wang, Yun, Weiser, Frank, Wen, Lu, Wesche, Karsten, White, Hannah, Widmer, Stefan, Wolfrum, Sebastian, Wróbel, Anna, Yuan, Zuoqiang, Zelený, David, Zhao, Liqing, Dengler, Jürgen, Bavarian Research Foundation, International Association for Vegetation Science, Eusko Jaurlaritza, Czech Science Foundation, Estonian Research Council, Scottish Government's Rural and Environment Science and Analytical Services, Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca, Agencia Estatal de Investigación (España), Science and Technology Center in Ukraine, Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning, Swedish Institute, Foundation for Introducing Talent of Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Hebei Province, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Tyrolean Science Fund, Austrian Academy of Sciences, University of Innsbruck, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España), Comunidad de Madrid, National Geographic Society, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portugal), National Science Centre (Poland), Russian Science Foundation, University of Latvia Foundation, Slovenian Research Agency, Biurrun, I, Pielech, R, Dembicz, I, Gillet, F, Kozub, L, Marceno, C, Reitalu, T, Van Meerbeek, K, Guarino, R, Chytry, M, Pakeman, RJ, Preislerova, Z, Axmanova, I, Burrascano, S, Bartha, S, Boch, S, Bruun, HH, Conradi, T, De Frenne, P, Essl, F, Filibeck, G, Hajek, M, Jimenez-Alfaro, B, Kuzemko, A, MOLNAR, Zsolt, Partel, M, Patsch, R, Prentice, HC, Rolecek, J, Sutcliffe, LME, Terzi, M, Winkler, M, Wu, JS, Acic, S, Acosta, ATR, Afif, E, Akasaka, M, Alatalo, JM, Aleffi, M, Aleksanyan, A, Ali, A, Apostolova, I, Ashouri, P, Batori, Z, Baumann, E, BECKER, T, Belonovskaya, E, Alonso, JLB, Berastegi, A, Bergamini, A, Bhatta, KP, Bonini, I, Buchler, MO, Budzhak, V, Bueno, A, Buldrini, F, Campos, JA, Cancellieri, L, Carboni, M, Ceulemans, T, Chiarucci, A, Chocarro, C, Conti, L, Csergo, AM, Cykowska-Marzencka, B, Czarniecka-Wiera, M, Czarnocka-Cieciura, M, Czortek, P, Danihelka, J, Bello, F, Deak, B, Demeter, L, Deng, L, Diekmann, M, Dolezal, J, Dolnik, C, Drevojan, P, Dupre, C, Ecker, K, Ejtehadi, H, Erschbamer, B, Etayo, J, Etzold, J, Farkas, T, Farzam, M, Fayvush, G, Calzado, MRF, Finckh, M, Fjellstad, W, Fotiadis, G, Garcia-Magro, D, Garcia-Mijangos, I, Gavilan, RG, Germany, M, Ghafari, S, del Galdo, GPG, Grytnes, JA, Guler, B, Gutierrez-Giron, A, Helm, A, Herrera, M, Hullbusch, EM, Ingerpuu, N, Jagerbrand, AK, Jandt, U, Janisova, M, Jeanneret, P, Jeltsch, F, Jensen, K, Jentsch, A, Kacki, Z, Kakinuma, K, Kapfer, J, Kargar, M, Kelemen, A, Kiehl, K, Kirschner, P, Koyama, A, Langer, N, Lazzaro, L, Leps, J, Li, CF, Li, FY, Liendo, D, Lindborg, R, Lobel, S, Lomba, A, Lososova, Z, Lustyk, P, Luzuriaga, AL, Ma, WH, Maccherini, S, Magnes, M, Malicki, M, Manthey, M, Mardari, C, May, F, Mayrhofer, H, Meier, ES, Memariani, F, Merunkova, K, Michelsen, O, Mesa, JM, Moradi, H, Moysiyenko, I, Mugnai, M, Naqinezhad, A, Natcheva, R, Ninot, JM, Nobis, M, Noroozi, J, Nowak, A, Onipchenko, V, Palpurina, S, Pauli, H, Pedashenko, H, Pedersen, C, Peet, RK, Perez-Haase, A, Peters, J, Pipenbaher, N, Pirini, C, Pladevall-Izard, E, Pleskova, Z, Potenza, G, Rahmanian, S, Rodriguez-Rojo, MP, Ronkin, V, Rosati, L, Ruprecht, E, Rusina, S, Sabovljevic, M, Sanaei, A, Sanchez, AM, Santi, F, Savchenko, G, Sebastia, MT, Shyriaieva, D, Silva, V, Skornik, S, Smerdova, E, Sonkoly, J, Sperandii, MG, Staniaszek-Kik, M, Stevens, C, Stifter, S, Suchrow, S, Swacha, G, Swierszcz, S, Talebi, A, Teleki, B, Tichy, L, Tolgyesi, C, Torca, M, Torok, P, Tsarevskaya, N, Tsiripidis, I, Turisova, I, Ushimaru, A, Valko, O, VAN MECHELEN, Carmen, Vanneste, T, Vasheniak, I, Vassilev, K, Viciani, D, Villar, L, Virtanen, R, Vitasovic-Kosic, I, Vojtko, A, Vynokurov, D, Walden, E, Wang, Y., Weiser, F, Wen, L, Wesche, K, White, H, Widmer, S, Wolfrum, S, Wrobel, A, Yuan, ZQ, Zeleny, D, Zhao, LQ, Dengler, J., Jiménez‐alfaro, Borja, Sutcliffe, Laura M. E., Acosta, Alicia, Büchler, Marc‐olivier, Cykowska‐marzencka, Beata, Czarniecka‐wiera, Marta, Czarnocka‐cieciura, Marta, Bello, Francesco, García‐magro, Daniel, García‐mijangos, Itziar, Grytnes, John‐arvid, Gutiérrez‐girón, Alba, Li, Ching‐feng, Pérez‐haase, Aaron, Pladevall‐izard, Eulàlia, Rodríguez‐rojo, Maria Pilar, Staniaszek‐kik, Monika, Turisová, Ingrid, and Vitasović‐kosić, Ivana

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Vascular plant, SURROGATE, 333.7: Landflächen, Naturerholungsgebiete, Biome, Lichen, open habitat, Plant Science, DATABASES, Benchmark, Grassland, Scale dependence, benchmark, RICHNESS HOTSPOTS, Vegetation type, Taxonomic rank, SCALE, Macroecology, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, 2. Zero hunger, bryophyte, GLOBAL PATTERNS, geography.geographical_feature_category, Ecology, Open habitat, vascular plant, Forestry, ichen, Vegetation, Vegetation plot, Palaearctic, 580: Pflanzen (Botanik), Geography, Habitat, scale dependence, fine-grain biodiversity, grassland, GrassPlot Diversity Explorer, lichen, species–area relationship, vegetation plot, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, CONSERVATION, Environmental Sciences & Ecology, Fine-grain biodiversity, benchmark, bryophyte, fine-grain biodiversity, grassland, GrassPlot Diversity Explorer, lichen, open habitat, Palaearctic, scale dependence, species–area relationship, vascular plant, vegetation plot, species-area relationship, benchmark, bryophyte, fine-grain biodiversity, grassland, GrassPlot Diversity Explorer, lichen, open habitat, Palaearctic, scale dependence, species-area relationship, vascular plant, vegetation plot, Species–area relationship, Science & Technology, Plant Sciences, Biology and Life Sciences, 15. Life on land, plant diversity, 13. Climate action, Bryophyte, SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIPS, VASCULAR PLANTS, BIODIVERSITY, Species richness, [SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology, BRYOPHYTES
Abstract

© 2021 The Authors., Aims: Understanding fine-grain diversity patterns across large spatial extents is fundamental for macroecological research and biodiversity conservation. Using the GrassPlot database, we provide benchmarks of fine-grain richness values of Palaearctic open habitats for vascular plants, bryophytes, lichens and complete vegetation (i.e., the sum of the former three groups). Location: Palaearctic biogeographic realm. Methods: We used 126,524 plots of eight standard grain sizes from the GrassPlot database: 0.0001, 0.001, 0.01, 0.1, 1, 10, 100 and 1,000 m and calculated the mean richness and standard deviations, as well as maximum, minimum, median, and first and third quartiles for each combination of grain size, taxonomic group, biome, region, vegetation type and phytosociological class. Results: Patterns of plant diversity in vegetation types and biomes differ across grain sizes and taxonomic groups. Overall, secondary (mostly semi-natural) grasslands and natural grasslands are the richest vegetation type. The open-access file ”GrassPlot Diversity Benchmarks” and the web tool “GrassPlot Diversity Explorer” are now available online (https://edgg.org/databases/GrasslandDiversityExplorer) and provide more insights into species richness patterns in the Palaearctic open habitats. Conclusions: The GrassPlot Diversity Benchmarks provide high-quality data on species richness in open habitat types across the Palaearctic. These benchmark data can be used in vegetation ecology, macroecology, biodiversity conservation and data quality checking. While the amount of data in the underlying GrassPlot database and their spatial coverage are smaller than in other extensive vegetation-plot databases, species recordings in GrassPlot are on average more complete, making it a valuable complementary data source in macroecology., GrassPlot development has been supported by the Bavarian Research Alliance (BayIntAn_UBT_2017_58), the Eurasian Dry Grassland Group (EDGG) and the International Association for Vegetation Science (IAVS); IB, CorM, JAC, IGM, DGM, MHe, DL and MTo were supported by the Basque Government (IT936‐16); CorM, IAx, MCh, JDa, PD, MHá, ZL, ZPr, EŠ and LT were supported by the Czech Science Foundation (19‐28491X); TR was supported by the Estonian Research Council (PUT1173); RJP was funded by the Strategic Research Programme of the Scottish Government’s Rural and Environmental Science and Analytical Services Division”; SBa was supported by the GINOP‐2.3.2‐15‐2016‐00019 project; GFi was partially supported by the MIUR initiative “Department of excellence” (Law 232/2016)"; BJA was funded by the Spanish Research Agency (grant AEI/ 10.13039/501100011033); AK, VB, IM, DS, IV and DV were supported by the National Research Foundation of Ukraine (2020.01/0140); MP and AH were supported by the Estonian Research Council (PRG874, PRG609), and the European Regional Development Fund (Centre of Excellence EcolChange); Data collection of HCP was funded by FORMAS (Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Science and Spatial Planning) and The Swedish Institute; JR was supported by the Czech Science Foundation (grant No. 20‐09895S) and the long‐term developmental project of the Czech Academy of Sciences (RVO 67985939); ATRA was funded by the Grant of Excellence Departments, MIUR‐Italy (ARTICOLO 1, COMMI 314 – 337 LEGGE 232/2016); JMA was supported by Carl Tryggers stiftelse för vetenskaplig forskning and Qatar Petroleum; AAli was supported by the Jiangsu Science and Technology Special Project (Grant No. BX2019084), and Metasequoia Faculty Research Startup Funding at Nanjing Forestry University (Grant No. 163010230), and he is currently supported by Hebei University through Faculty Research Startup Funding Program; ZB was supported by the NKFI K 124796 grant; The GLORIA‐ Aragón project of JLBA was funded by the Dirección General de Cambio Climático del Gobierno de Aragón (Spain); MCs and LDem were supported by DG Environment through the European Forum on Nature Conservation and Pastoralism and Barbara Knowles Fund, in collaboration with Pogány‐havas Association, Romania; JDa was partially supported by long‐term research development project no. RVO 67985939 of the Czech Academy of Sciences; BD and OV were supported by the NKFI KH 126476, NKFI KH 130338, NKFI FK 124404 and NKFI FK 135329 grants; BD, OV and AKe were supported by the Bolyai János Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences; BE was funded by the Environmental Department of the Tyrolean Federal State Government, the MAB Programme of the Austrian Academy of Science, the Mountain Agriculture Research Unit and the Alpine Research Centre Obergurgl of Innsbruck University. The GLORIA projects of BE were funded by the EU project no. EVK2‐CT‐2000‐00056, the Earth System Sciences Program of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (project MEDIALPS), the Amt für Naturparke, Autonome Provinz Bozen‐Südtirol, the Südtiroler Wissenschaftsfonds and the Tiroler Wissenschaftsfonds; RGG was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Research to sample GLORIA sites in central Spain (CGL 2008‐00901/BOS) and present works by the Autonomous Region of Madrid (REMEDINAL TE‐CM, S2018/EMT‐4338); MJ was supporteLatviaed by Latvia Grant No. 194051; NP and SŠ were partly supported by the Slovenian Research Agency, core fundings P1‐0403 and J7‐1822.

Published
2021

43. GrassPlot – a database of multi-scale plant diversity in Palaearctic grasslands

Author

Jürgen, Dengler, Viktoria, Wagner, Iwona, Dembicz, Itziar, García-Mijangos, Alireza, Naqinezhad, Steffen, Boch, Alessandro, Chiarucci, Timo, Conradi, Goffredo, Filibeck, Riccardo, Guarino, Monika, Janišová, Steinbauer, Manuel J., Svetlana, Aćić, Acosta, Alicia T. R., Munemitsu, Akasaka, Marc-Andre, Allers, Iva, Apostolova, Irena, Axmanová, Branko, Bakan, Alina, Baranova, Manfred, Bardy-Durchhalter, Sándor, Bartha, Esther, Baumann, Thomas, Becker, Ute, Becker, Elena, Belonovskaya, Karin, Bengtsson, José Luis Benito Alonso, Asun, Berastegi, Ariel, Bergamini, Ilaria, Bonini, Hans Henrik Bruun, Vasyl, Budzhak, Alvaro, Bueno, Juan Antonio Campos, Laura, Cancellieri, Marta, Carboni, Cristina, Chocarro, Luisa, Conti, Marta, Czarniecka-Wiera, Pieter De Frenne, Balázs, Deák, Didukh, Yakiv P., Martin, Diekmann, Christian, Dolnik, Cecilia, Dupré, Klaus, Ecker, Nikolai, Ermakov, Brigitta, Erschbamer, Adrián, Escudero, Javier, Etayo, Zuzana, Fajmonová, Felde, Vivian A., Maria Rosa Fernández Calzado, Manfred, Finckh, Georgios, Fotiadis, Mariano, Fracchiolla, Anna, Ganeva, Daniel, García-Magro, Gavilán, Rosario G., Markus, Germany, Itamar, Giladi, François, Gillet, GIUSSO DEL GALDO, Gianpietro, González, Jose M., John-Arvid, Grytnes, Michal, Hájek, Petra, Hájková, Aveliina, Helm, Mercedes, Herrera, Eva, Hettenbergerová, Carsten, Hobohm, Hüllbusch, Elisabeth M., Nele, Ingerpuu, Ute, Jandt, Florian, Jeltsch, Kai, Jensen, Anke, Jentsch, Michael, Jeschke, Borja, Jiménez-Alfaro, Zygmunt, Kącki, Kaoru, Kakinuma, Jutta, Kapfer, Ali, Kavgacı, András, Kelemen, Kathrin, Kiehl, Asuka, Koyama, Koyanagi, Tomoyo F., Łukasz, Kozub, Anna, Kuzemko, Magni Olsen Kyrkjeeide, Sara, Landi, Nancy, Langer, Lorenzo, Lastrucci, Lorenzo, Lazzaro, Chiara, Lelli, Jan, Lepš, Swantje, Löbel, Luzuriaga, Arantzazu L., Simona, Maccherini, Martin, Magnes, Marek, Malicki, Marceno', Corrado, Constantin, Mardari, Leslie, Mauchamp, Felix, May, Ottar, Michelsen, Joaquín Molero Mesa, Zsolt, Molnár, Moysiyenko, Ivan Y., Nakaga, Yuko K., Rayna, Natcheva, Jalil, Noroozi, Pakeman, Robin J., Salza, Palpurina, Meelis, Pärtel, Ricarda, Pätsch, Harald, Pauli, Hristo, Pedashenko, Peet, Robert K., Remigiusz, Pielech, Nataša, Pipenbaher, Chrisoula, Pirini, Zuzana, Plesková, Polyakova, Mariya A., Prentice, Honor C., Jennifer, Reinecke, Triin, Reitalu, Maria Pilar Rodríguez-Rojo, Jan, Roleček, Vladimir, Ronkin, Leonardo, Rosati, Ejvind, Rosén, Eszter, Ruprecht, Solvita, Rusina, Marko, Sabovljević, Ana María Sánchez, Galina, Savchenko, Oliver, Schuhmacher, Sonja, Škornik, Marta Gaia Sperandii, Monika, Staniaszek-Kik, Zora, Stevanović-Dajić, Marin, Stock, Sigrid, Suchrow, Sutcliffe, Laura M. E., Grzegorz, Swacha, Martin, Sykes, Anna, Szabó, Amir, Talebi, Cătălin, Tănase, Massimo, Terzi, Csaba, Tölgyesi, Marta, Torca, Péter, Török, Béla, Tóthmérész, Nadezda, Tsarevskaya, Ioannis, Tsiripidis, Rossen, Tzonev, Atushi, Ushimaru, Orsolya, Valkó, Eddy van der Maarel, Thomas, Vanneste, Iuliia, Vashenyak, Kiril, Vassilev, Daniele, Viciani, Luis, Villar, Risto, Virtanen, Ivana Vitasović Kosić, Yun, Wang, Frank, Weiser, Julia, Went, Karsten, Wesche, Hannah, White, Manuela, Winkler, Zaniewski, Piotr T., Hui, Zhang, Yaron, Ziv, Sergey Znamenskiy &amp, Idoia Biurrun, Dengler, Jürgen, Wagner, Viktoria, Dembicz, Iwona, García-Mijangos, Itziar, Naqinezhad, Alireza, Boch, Steffen, Chiarucci, Alessandro, Conradi, Timo, Filibeck, Goffredo, Guarino, Riccardo, Janišová, Monika, Steinbauer, Manuel J., Acic, Svetlana, Acosta, Alicia T.R., Akasaka, Munemitsu, Allers, Marc-Andre, Apostolova, Iva, Axmanová, Irena, Bakan, Branko, Baranova, Alina, Bardy-Durchhalter, Manfred, Bartha, Sándor, Baumann, Esther, Becker, Thoma, Becker, Ute, Belonovskaya, Elena, Bengtsson, Karin, Alonso, José Luis Benito, Berastegi, Asun, Bergamini, Ariel, Bonini, Ilaria, Bruun, Hans Henrik, Budzhak, Vasyl, Bueno, Alvaro, Campos, Juan Antonio, Cancellieri, Laura, Carboni, Marta, Chocarro, Cristina, Conti, Luisa, Czarniecka-Wiera, Marta, De Frenne, Pieter, Deák, Baláz, Didukh, Yakiv P., Diekmann, Martin, Dolnik, Christian, Dupré, Cecilia, Ecker, Klau, Ermakov, Nikolai, Erschbamer, Brigitta, Escudero, Adrián, Etayo, Javier, Fajmonová, Zuzana, Felde, Vivian A., Calzado, Maria Rosa Fernández, Finckh, Manfred, Fotiadis, Georgio, Fracchiolla, Mariano, Ganeva, Anna, García-Magro, Daniel, Gavilán, Rosario G., Germany, Marku, Giladi, Itamar, Gillet, Françoi, del Galdo, Gian Pietro Giusso, González, Jose M., Grytnes, John-Arvid, Hájek, Michal, Hájková, Petra, Helm, Aveliina, Herrera, Mercede, Hettenbergerová, Eva, Hobohm, Carsten, Hüllbusch, Elisabeth M., Ingerpuu, Nele, Jandt, Ute, Jeltsch, Florian, Jensen, Kai, Jentsch, Anke, Jeschke, Michael, Jiménez-Alfaro, Borja, Kacki, Zygmunt, Kakinuma, Kaoru, Kapfer, Jutta, Kavgaci, Ali, Kelemen, Andrá, Kiehl, Kathrin, Koyama, Asuka, Koyanagi, Tomoyo F., Kozub, Lukasz, Kuzemko, Anna, Kyrkjeeide, Magni Olsen, Landi, Sara, Langer, Nancy, Lastrucci, Lorenzo, Lazzaro, Lorenzo, Lelli, Chiara, Lepš, Jan, Löbel, Swantje, Luzuriaga, Arantzazu L., Maccherini, Simona, Magnes, Martin, Malicki, Marek, Marcenò, Corrado, Mardari, Constantin, Mauchamp, Leslie, May, Felix, Michelsen, Ottar, Mesa, Joaquín Molero, Molnár, Zsolt, Moysiyenko, Ivan Y., Nakaga, Yuko K., Natcheva, Rayna, Noroozi, Jalil, Pakeman, Robin J., Palpurina, Salza, Pärtel, Meeli, Pätsch, Ricarda, Pauli, Harald, Pedashenko, Hristo, Peet, Robert K., Pielech, Remigiusz, Pipenbaher, Nataša, Pirini, Chrisoula, Plesková, Zuzana, Polyakova, Mariya A., Prentice, Honor C., Reinecke, Jennifer, Reitalu, Triin, Rodríguez-Rojo, Maria Pilar, Rolecek, Jan, Ronkin, Vladimir, Rosati, Leonardo, Rosén, Ejvind, Ruprecht, Eszter, Rusina, Solvita, Sabovljevic, Marko, Sánchez, Ana María, Savchenko, Galina, Schuhmacher, Oliver, Škornik, Sonja, Sperandii, Marta Gaia, Staniaszek-Kik, Monika, Stevanovic-Dajic, Zora, Stock, Marin, Suchrow, Sigrid, Sutcliffe, Laura M.E., Swacha, Grzegorz, Sykes, Martin, Szabó, Anna, Talebi, Amir, Tanase, Catalin, Terzi, Massimo, Tölgyesi, Csaba, Torca, Marta, Török, Péter, Tóthmérész, Béla, Tsarevskaya, Nadezda, Tsiripidis, Ioanni, Tzonev, Rossen, Ushimaru, Atushi, Valkó, Orsolya, van der Maarel, Eddy, Vanneste, Thoma, Vashenyak, Iuliia, Vassilev, Kiril, Viciani, Daniele, Villar, Lui, Virtanen, Risto, Kosic, Ivana Vitasovic, Wang, Yun, Weiser, Frank, Went, Julia, Wesche, Karsten, White, Hannah, Winkler, Manuela, Zaniewski, Piotr T., Zhang, Hui, Ziv, Yaron, Znamenskiy, Sergey, Biurrun, Idoia, Aćić, Svetlana, Acosta, Alicia T. R., Luis Benito Alonso, José, Henrik Bruun, Han, Antonio Campos, Juan, Rosa Fernández Calzado, Maria, Pietro Giusso del Galdo, Gian, Kącki, Zygmunt, Kavgacı, Ali, Kozub, Łukasz, Olsen Kyrkjeeide, Magni, Molero Mesa, Joaquín, Pilar Rodríguez-Rojo, Maria, Roleček, Jan, Sabovljević, Marko, María Sánchez, Ana, Sperandii, MARTA GAIA, Stevanović-Dajić, Zora, Sutcliffe, Laura M. E., Tănase, Cătălin, Vitasović Kosić, Ivana, Znamenskiy &amp, Sergey, Goffredo, Filibeck, and Benito Alonso, José Lui

Subjects
0106 biological sciences, Biodiversity, Plant Science, computer.software_genre, 01 natural sciences, Grassland, SAMPLING-DESIGN, RICHNESS, Ecoinformatics, ddc:550, biodiversity, European Vegetation Archive (EVA), Eurasian Dry Grassland Group (EDGG), grassland vegetation, GrassPlot, macroecology, multi-taxon, nested plot, scale-dependence, species-area relationship (SAR), sPlot, vegetation-plot database, Macroecology, 2. Zero hunger, SCALE DEPENDENCE, geography.geographical_feature_category, Database, Vegetation, Geography, Institut für Geowissenschaften, EUROPE, nested plot, scale-dependence, 010603 evolutionary biology, 577: Ökologie, METAANALYSIS, ENVIRONMENT, Data collection, grass- land vegetation, DRY GRASSLANDS, 15. Life on land, biodiversity • European Vegetation Archive (EVA) • Eurasian Dry Grassland Group (EDGG) • grassland vegetation • GrassPlot • macroecology • multi-taxon • nested plot • scale-dependence • species-area relationship (SAR) • sPlot • vegetation-plot database, Metadata, PATTERNS, SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIPS, Nested plot, scale-dependence, VEGETATION, Species richness, computer, 010606 plant biology & botany
Abstract

GrassPlot is a collaborative vegetation-plot database organised by the Eurasian Dry Grassland Group (EDGG) and listed in the Global Index of Vegetation-Plot Databases (GIVD ID EU-00-003). GrassPlot collects plot records (relevés) from grasslands and other open habitats of the Palaearctic biogeographic realm. It focuses on precisely delimited plots of eight standard grain sizes (0.0001; 0.001; ... 1,000 m²) and on nested-plot series with at least four different grain sizes. The usage of GrassPlot is regulated through Bylaws that intend to balance the interests of data contributors and data users. The current version (v. 1.00) contains data for approximately 170,000 plots of different sizes and 2,800 nested-plot series. The key components are richness data and metadata. However, most included datasets also encompass compositional data. About 14,000 plots have near-complete records of terricolous bryophytes and lichens in addition to vascular plants. At present, GrassPlot contains data from 36 countries throughout the Palaearctic, spread across elevational gradients and major grassland types. GrassPlot with its multi-scale and multi-taxon focus complements the larger international vegetation-plot databases, such as the European Vegetation Archive (EVA) and the global database “sPlot”. Its main aim is to facilitate studies on the scale- and taxon-dependency of biodiversity patterns and drivers along macroecological gradients. GrassPlot is a dynamic database and will expand through new data collection coordinated by the elected Governing Board. We invite researchers with suitable data to join GrassPlot. Researchers with project ideas addressable with GrassPlot data are welcome to submit proposals to the Governing Board. Abbreviations: EDGG = Eurasian Dry Grassland Group; EVA = European Vegetation Archive; GrassPlot = Database of Scale-Dependent Phytodiversity Patterns in Palaearctic Grasslands; SAR = species-area relationship.

Published
2018

44. Red List of Habitats of the Czech Republic.

Author

Chytrý, Milan, Hájek, Michal, Kočí, Martin, Pešout, Pavel, Roleček, Jan, Sádlo, Jiří, Šumberová, Kateřina, Sychra, Jan, Boublík, Karel, Douda, Jan, Grulich, Vít, Härtel, Handrij, Hédl, Radim, Lustyk, Pavel, Navrátilová, Jana, Novák, Pavel, Peterka, Tomáš, Vydrová, Alena, and Chobot, Karel

Subjects
*EUTROPHICATION, *HABITATS, *SMALL states, *LISTS, *CLIMATE change, *NATURE conservation, *PHOSPHORUS cycle (Biogeochemistry)
Abstract

• The IUCN Red List of Ecosystems criteria were applied at the national scale. • 157 types of natural and semi-natural habitats of the Czech Republic were assessed. • Two habitats were Collapsed, 14 Critically Endangered, 33 Endangered, 33 Vulnerable. • Natural succession after abandonment, eutrophication and drought are major threats. • IUCN Red List of Ecosystems criteria are applicable in small countries or regions. The Red List of Habitats of the Czech Republic assesses the risk of collapse for 157 types of natural and semi-natural habitats defined in the second edition of the Habitat Catalogue of the Czech Republic. The assessment followed the guidelines for the IUCN Red List of Ecosystems as used in the European Red List of Habitats project, using the criteria of habitat reduction in quantity, restricted geographic distribution, and reduction in abiotic and biotic quality. Quantitative data for the assessment were partly taken from a detailed field habitat mapping at the national scale, and where no quantitative information was available, the values were estimated by summarizing independent judgements of 17 experts. In addition to the criteria involved in the Red List assessment, the experts also assessed various types of threatening factors and their importance for each habitat. Of 157 assessed habitats, 2 were Collapsed (CO), 14 Critically Endangered (CR), 32 Endangered (EN), 33 Vulnerable (VU), 30 Near Threatened (NT) and 46 Least Concern (LC). The largest proportion of CR + EN habitats was in the habitat group of springs and mires and in the group of wetlands. The threatening factors evaluated as the most important were successional changes after cessation of traditional management, eutrophication due to atmospheric nutrient deposition and pollution from agriculture, and increased drought in water-dependent habitats due to climate change or changes in local hydrological regime. The study shows that the IUCN criteria for Red List assessment of habitats, although developed for the global scale, are also applicable within small countries or regions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2019
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45. Environmental gradients during Late Glacial in Central Europe

Author

Petr, Libor, Sádlo, Jiří, Magyari, Eniko, and Roleček, Jan

Subjects
pozdní glaciál, raný holocén, paleoecology, Early Holocene, paleoekologie, Late Glacial, střední Evropa, Central Europe
Abstract

The Lateglacial and Early Holocene are key periods with respect to the understanding of the present-day vegetation and environment. An interdisciplinary approach is important for the study of these changes. Only by interlinking biological and geoscience evidence can we obtain a more comprehensive picture of this key period. It is not possible to interpret any pollen spectrum in the sedimentary record without knowledge of the history of the locality and its vicinity. Rapid climate changes had a crucial effect on the environment and vegetation. Continentality of the climate and a deficit of precipitation amplify the effect of local conditions. Vegetation, as in the case of vertebrates and molluscs, comprises a combination of species of a continental steppe, mountain biotopes and disturbed habitats. This facilitated contact among species and populations that are biogeographically separated at present. Vegetation of the Lateglacial period in the Czech Republic ranges in character from frost barrens in the mountains, through steppe-tundra vegetation at medium altitudes to a continental steppe in the lowlands and pine woodlands constrained to a moist floodplain. The Western Carpathians were covered by a taiga. In the Pannonian Lowland, there were open forests with conifers and broadleaved woody plants....

Published
2013

46. Vegetation of fir- and calcicolous beech forests of the Czech Republic

Author

Boublík, Karel, Sádlo, Jiří, Roleček, Jan, Ewald, Jörg, and Walentowski, Helge

Abstract

Boublík K. (2009): Vegetation of fir- and calcicolous beech forests of the Czech Republic. - Ms., 104 p. [PhD thesis; depon. in: Library of the Department of Botany, Faculty of Sciences, Charles University, Prague] The thesis proposes Braun-Blanquet phytosociological classification of calcicolous beech forests and fir forests of the Czech Republic. Calcicolous forests dominated by Fagus sylvatica (Fagion, Cephalanthero-Fagenion) were defined with the help of two approaches: (i) selection on the basis of correspondence of species composition with an expert delimited species group and (ii) the formalized and supervised Cocktail method. In the case of the Cocktail method, the definitions of associations were created by combinations of sociological species groups using logical operators. Dominance of single species was included in the definitions of associations. Only one association (Cephalanthero-Fagetum) was distinguished. This association usually occurs on limestone, calcareous sandstone and calcareous sandy marlite. However, it can be found also on basalt and phonolite. TWINSPAN analysis distinguished three vegetation types within Czech calcicolous beech forests which are interpreted as subassociations of Cephalanthero- Fagetum: (i) Cephalanthero-Fagetum seslerietosum caeruleae occurring on...

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2010

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