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8. Classification of European and Mediterranean coastal dune vegetation

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Marcenò, Corrado, Guarino, Riccardo, Loidi, Javier, Herrera, Mercedes, Isermann, Maike, Knollová, Ilona, Tichý, Lubomír, Tzonev, Rossen T., Acosta, Alicia Teresa Rosario, FitzPatrick, Úna, Iakushenko, Dmytro, Janssen, John A. M., Jiménez-Alfaro, Borja, Kącki, Zygmunt, Keizer-Sedláková, Iva, Kolomiychuk, Vitaliy, Rodwell, John S., Schaminée, Joop H. J., Šilc, Urban, and Chytrý, Milan

Published
2018

9. Modelling the distribution and compositional variation of plant communities at the continental scale

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Jiménez-Alfaro, Borja, Suárez-Seoane, Susana, Chytrý, Milan, Hennekens, Stephan M., Willner, Wolfgang, Hájek, Michal, Agrillo, Emiliano, Álvarez-Martínez, Jose M., Bergamini, Ariel, Brisse, Henry, Brunet, Jörg, Casella, Laura, Dítě, Daniel, Font, Xavier, Gillet, François, Hajková, Petra, Jansen, Florian, Jandt, Ute, Kącki, Zygmunt, Lenoir, Jonathan, Rodwell, John S., Schaminée, Joop H. J., Sekulová, Lucia, Šibík, Jozef, Škvorc, Željko, and Tsiripidis, Ioannis

Published
2018

12. Alien plant invasions in European woodlands

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Wagner, Viktoria, Chytrý, Milan, Jiménez-Alfaro, Borja, Pergl, Jan, Hennekens, Stephan, Biurrun, Idoia, Knollová, Ilona, Berg, Christian, Vassilev, Kiril, Rodwell, John S., Škvorc, Željko, Jandt, Ute, Ewald, Jörg, Jansen, Florian, Tsiripidis, Ioannis, Botta-Dukát, Zoltán, Casella, Laura, Attorre, Fabio, Rašomavičius, Valerijus, Čušterevska, Renata, Schaminée, Joop H. J., Brunet, Jörg, Lenoir, Jonathan, Svenning, Jens-Christian, Kącki, Zygmunt, Petrášová-Šibíková, Mária, Šilc, Urban, Garía-Mijangos, Itziar, Campos, Juan Antonio, Fernández-González, Federico, Wohlgemuth, Thomas, Onyshchenko, Viktor, and Pyšek, Petr

Published
2017

13. Classification of European beech forests: a Gordian Knot?

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Willner, Wolfgang, Jiménez-Alfaro, Borja, Agrillo, Emiliano, Biurrun, Idoia, Campos, Juan Antonio, Čarni, Andraž, Casella, Laura, Csiky, János, Ćušterevska, Renata, Didukh, Yakiv P., Ewald, Jörg, Jandt, Ute, Jansen, Florian, Kącki, Zygmunt, Kavgacı, Ali, Lenoir, Jonathan, Marinšek, Aleksander, Onyshchenko, Viktor, Rodwell, John S., Schaminée, Joop H.J., Šibík, Jozef, Škvorc, Željko, Svenning, Jens-Christian, Tsiripidis, Ioannis, Turtureanu, Pavel Dan, Tzonev, Rossen, Vassilev, Kiril, Venanzoni, Roberto, Wohlgemuth, Thomas, and Chytrý, Milan

Published
2017

14. A higher-level classification of the Pannonian and western Pontic steppe grasslands (Central and Eastern Europe)

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Willner, Wolfgang, Kuzemko, Anna, Dengler, Jürgen, Chytrý, Milan, Bauer, Norbert, Becker, Thomas, Biƫă-Nicolae, Claudia, Botta-Dukát, Zoltán, Čarni, Andraž, Csiky, János, Igić, Ruzica, Kącki, Zygmunt, Korotchenko, Iryna, Kropf, Matthias, Krstivojević-Ćuk, Mirjana, Krstonošić, Daniel, Rédei, Tamás, Ruprecht, Eszter, Schratt-Ehrendorfer, Luise, Semenishchenkov, Yuri, Stančić, Zvjezdana, Vashenyak, Yulia, Vynokurov, Denys, and Janišová, Monika

Published
2017

15. Formalized classification of European fen vegetation at the alliance level

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Peterka, Tomáš, Hájek, Michal, Jiroušek, Martin, Jiménez-Alfaro, Borja, Aunina, Liene, Bergamini, Ariel, Dítě, Daniel, Felbaba-Klushyna, Ljuba, Graf, Ulrich, Hájková, Petra, Hettenbergerová, Eva, Ivchenko, Tatiana G., Jansen, Florian, Koroleva, Natalia E., Lapshina, Elena D., Lazarević, Predrag M., Moen, Asbjørn, Napreenko, Maxim G., Pawlikowski, Paweł, Plesková, Zuzana, Sekulová, Lucia, Smagin, Viktor A., Tahvanainen, Teemu, Thiele, Annett, Biƫǎ-Nicolae, Claudia, Biurrun, Idoia, Brisse, Henry, Ćušterevska, Renata, De Bie, Els, Ewald, Jörg, FitzPatrick, Úna, Font, Xavier, Jandt, Ute, Kącki, Zygmunt, Kuzemko, Anna, Landucci, Flavia, Moeslund, Jesper E., Pérez-Haase, Aaron, Rašomavičius, Valerijus, Rodwell, John S., Schaminée, Joop H.J., Šilc, Urban, Stančić, Zvjezdana, and Chytrý, Milan

Published
2017

16. Vegetation classification and biogeography of European floodplain forests and alder carrs

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Douda, Jan, Boublik, Karel, Slezák, Michal, Biurrun, Idoia, Nociar, Josef, Havrdová, Alena, Doudová, Jana, Aćić, Svetlana, Brisse, Henry, Brunet, Jörg, Chytrý, Milan, Claessens, Hugues, Csiky, János, Didukh, Yakiv, Dimopoulos, Panayotis, Dullinger, Stefan, FitzPatrick, Úna, Guisan, Antoine, Horchler, Peter J., Hrivnák, Richard, Jandt, Ute, Ka̢cki, Zygmunt, Kevey, Balázs, Landucci, Flavia, Lecomte, Hugues, Lenoir, Jonathan, Paal, Jaanus, Paternoster, David, Pauli, Harald, Pielech, Remigiusz, Rodwell, John S., Roelandt, Bart, Svenning, Jens-Christian, Šibík, Jozef, Šilc, Urban, Škvorc, Željko, Tsiripidis, Ioannis, Tzonev, Rossen T., Wohlgemuth, Thomas, and Zimmermann, Niklaus E.

Published
2016

17. European Vegetation Archive (EVA): an integrated database of European vegetation plots

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Chytrý, Milan, Hennekens, Stephan M., Jiménez-Alfaro, Borja, Knollová, Ilona, Dengler, Jürgen, Jansen, Florian, Landucci, Flavia, Schaminée, Joop H.J., Aćić, Svetlana, Agrillo, Emiliano, Ambarli, Didem, Angelini, Pierangela, Apostolova, Iva, Attorre, Fabio, Berg, Christian, Bergmeier, Erwin, Biurrun, Idoia, Botta-Dukát, Zoltán, Brisse, Henry, Campos, Juan Antonio, Carlón, Luis, Čarni, Andraž, Casella, Laura, Csiky, János, Ćušterevska, Renata, Stevanović, Zora Dajić, Danihelka, Jiří, De Bie, Els, de Ruffray, Patrice, DeSanctis, Michele, Dickoré, W. Bernhard, Dimopoulos, Panayotis, Dubyna, Dmytro, Dziuba, Tetiana, Ejrnæs, Rasmus, Ermakov, Nikolai, Ewald, Jörg, Fanelli, Giuliano, Fernández-González, Federico, FitzPatrick, Úna, Font, Xavier, García-Mijangos, Itziar, Gavilán, Rosario G., Golub, Valentin, Guarino, Riccardo, Haveman, Rense, Indreica, Adrian, Gürsoy, Deniz Işik, Jandt, Ute, Janssen, John A.M., Jiroušek, Martin, Kącki, Zygmunt, Kavgaci, Ali, Kleikamp, Martin, Kolomiychuk, Vitaliy, Ćuk, Mirjana Krstivojević, Krstonošić, Daniel, Kuzemko, Anna, Lenoir, Jonathan, Lysenko, Tatiana, Marcenò, Corrado, Martynenko, Vassiliy, Michalcová, Dana, Moeslund, Jesper Erenskjold, Onyshchenko, Viktor, Pedashenko, Hristo, Pérez-Haase, Aaron, Peterka, Tomáš, Prokhorov, Vadim, Rašomavičius, Valerijus, Rodríguez-Rojo, Maria Pilar, Rodwell, John S., Rogova, Tatiana, Ruprecht, Eszter, Rūsiņa, Solvita, Seidler, Gunnar, Šibík, Jozef, Šilc, Urban, Škvorc, Željko, Sopotlieva, Desislava, Stančić, Zvjezdana, Svenning, Jens-Christian, Swacha, Grzegorz, Tsiripidis, Ioannis, Dan Turtureanu, Pavel, Uğurlu, Emin, Uogintas, Domas, Valachovič, Milan, Vashenyak, Yulia, Vassilev, Kiril, Venanzoni, Roberto, Virtanen, Risto, Weekes, Lynda, Willner, Wolfgang, Wohlgemuth, Thomas, and Yamalov, Sergey

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2016

18. GrassPlot - a Database of Multi-Scale Plant Diversity in Palaearctic Grasslands

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Dengler, Jurgen, Wagner, Victoria, Dembicz, Iwona, Garcfa-Mijangos, ltziar, Naqinezhad, Alireza, Boch, Steffen, Chiarucci, Alessandro, Conradi, Timo, Filibeck, Goffredo, Guarino, Riccardo, Janisova, Monika, Steinbauer, Manuel J, Acic, Svetlana, Acosta, Alicia T. R, Akasaka, Munemitsu, Allers, Marc-Andre, Apostolova, Iva, Axmanova, Irena, Bakan, Branko, Baranova, Alina, Bardy-Durchhalter, Manfred, Bartha, Sandor, Baumann, Esther, Becker, Thomas, Becker, Ute, Belonovskaya, Elena, Bengtsson, Karin, Alonso, Jose 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, Frenne, Pieter De, Deak, Balazs, Didukh, Yakiv P, Diekmann, Martin, Dolnik, Christian, Dupre, Cecilia, Ecker, Klaus, Ermakov, Nikolai, Erschbamer, Brigitta, Escudero, Adrian, Etayo, Javier, Fajmonova, Zuzana, Felde, Vivian A, Calzado, Maria Rosa Fernandez, Finckh, Manfred, Fotiadis, Georgios, Fracchiolla, Mariano, Ganeva, Anna, Garcfa-Magro, Daniel, Gavilan, Rosario G, Germany, Markus, Giladi, ltamar, Gillet, Francois, Galdo, Gian Pietro Giusso del, Gonzalez, Jose M, Grytnes, John-Arvid, Hajek, Michal, Hajkova, Petra, Helm, Aveliina, Herrera, Mercedes, Hettenbergerova, Eva, Hobohm, Carsten, Hullbusch, Elisabeth M, lngerpuu, Nele, Jandt, Ute, Jeltsch, Florian, Jensen, Kai, Jentsch, Anke, Jeschke, Michael, Jimenez-Alfaro, Borja, Kacki, Zygmunt, Kakinuma, Kaoru, Kapfer, Jutta, Kavgaci, Ali, Kelemen, Andras, Kiehl, Kathrin, Koyama, Asuka, Koyanagi, Tamayo F, Kozub, Lukasz, Kuzemko, Anna, Kyrkjeeide, Magni Olsen, Landi, Sara, Langer, Nancy, Lastrucci, Lorenzo, Lazzaro, Lorenzo, Lelli, Chiara, Leps, Jan, Lobel, Swantje, Luzuriaga, Arantzazu L, Maccherini, Simona, Magnes, Martin, Malicki, Marek, Marceno, Corrado, Mardari, Constantin, Mauchamp, Leslie, May, Felix, Michelsen, Ottar, Mesa, Joaquin Melero, Molnar, Zsolt, Moysiyenko, Ivan Y, Nakaga, Yuko K, Natcheva, Rayna, Noroozi, Jalil, Pakeman, Robin J, Palpurina, Salza, Partel, Meelis, Patsch, Ricarda, Pauli, Harald, Pedashenko, Hristo, Peet, Robert K, Pielech, Remigiusz, Pipenbaher, Natasa, Pirini, Chrisoula, Pleskova, Zuzana, Polyakova, Mariya A, Prentice, Honor C, Reinecke, Jennifer, Reitalu, Triin, Rodriguez-Rojo, Maria Pilar, Rolecek, Jan, Rankin, Vladimir, Rosati, Leonardo, Rosen, Ejvind, Ruprecht, Eszter, Rusina, Solvita, Sabovljevic, Marko, Sanchez, Ana Marfa, Savchenko, Galina, Schuhmacher, Oliver, Skornik, Sonja, Sperandii, Marta Gaia, Staniaszek-Kik, Monika, Stevanovic-Dajic, Zora, Stock, Marin, Suchrow, Sigrid, Sutcliffe, Laura M.E, Swacha, Grzegorz, Sykes, Martin, Szabo, Anna, Talebi, Amir, Tanase, Catalin, Terzi, Massimo, Tolgyesi, Csaba, Torca, Marta, Torok, Peter, Tothmeresz, Bela, Tsarevskaya, Nadezda, Tsiripidis, loannis, Tzonev, Rossen, Ushimaru, Atushi, Valko, Orsolya, Maarel, Eddy van der, Vanneste, Thomas, Vashenyak, luliia, Vassilev, Kiril, Viciani, Daniele, Villar, Luis, Virtanen, Risto, Kasie, Ivana Vitasovic, Wang, Yun, Weiser, Frank, Went, Julia, Wesche, Karsten, White, Hannah, Winkler, Manuela, Zaniewski, Piotr T, Zhang, Hui, Ziv, Varon, Znamenskiy, Sergey, and Biurrun, ldoia

Subjects
Geosciences (General), Documentation And Information Science
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 (releves) 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 m_) and on nested-plot series withat 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.

Published
2018
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20. sPlotOpen - An environmentally balanced, open-access, global dataset of vegetation plots

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Sabatini, Francesco Maria, Lenoir, Jonathan, Hattab, Tarek, Arnst, Elise Aimee, Chytry, Milan, Dengler, Juergen, De Ruffray, Patrice, Hennekens, Stephan M., Jandt, Ute, Jansen, Florian, Jimenez-Alfaro, Borja, Kattge, Jens, Levesley, Aurora, Pillar, Valerio D., Purschke, Oliver, Sandel, Brody, Sultana, Fahmida, Aavik, Tsipe, Acic, Svetlana, Acosta, Alicia T. R., Agrillo, Emiliano, Alvarez, Miguel, Apostolova, Iva, Arfin Khan, Mohammed A. S., Attorre, Fabio, Aubin, Isabelle, Banerjee, Arindam, Bauters, Marijn, Bergeron, Yves, Bergmeier, Erwin, Biurrun, Idoia, Bjorkman, Anne D., Bonari, Gianmaria, Bondareva, Viktoria, Brunet, Jörg, Carni, Andraz, Casella, Laura, Cayuela, Luis, Cerny, Tomas, Chepinoga, Victor, Csiky, Janos, Custerevska, Renata, De Bie, Els, de Gasper, Andre Luis, De Sanctis, Michele, Dimopoulos, Panayotis, Dolezal, Jiri, Dziuba, Tetiana, El-Sheikh, Mohamed Abd El-Rouf Mousa, Enquist, Brian, Fazayeli, Farideh, Field, Richard, Finckh, Manfred, Gachet, Sophie, Galan-de-Mera, Antonio, Garbolino, Emmanuel, Giorgis, Melisa, Golub, Valentin, Alsos, Inger Greve, Grytnes, John-Arvid, Guerin, Gregory Richard, Gutierrez, Alvaro G., Haider, Sylvia, Hatim, Mohamed Z., Herault, Bruno, Hoelzel, Norbert, Homeier, Juergen, Hubau, Wannes, Indreica, Adrian, Janssen, John A. M., Jedrzejek, Birgit, Jentsch, Anke, Juergens, Norbert, Kacki, Zygmunt, Kapfer, Jutta, Karger, Dirk Nikolaus, Kavgaci, Ali, Kearsley, Elizabeth, Kessler, Michael, Khanina, Larisa, Korolyuk, Andrey, Kreft, Holger, Kuehl, Hjalmar S., Kuzemko, Anna, Landucci, Flavia, Lengyel, Attila, Lens, Frederic, Lingner, Debora Vanessa, Liu, Hongyan, Lysenko, Tatiana, Mahecha, Miguel D., Marceno, Corrado, Martynenko, Vasiliy, Moeslund, Jesper Erenskjold, Monteagudo Mendoza, Abel, Mucina, Ladislav, Muller, Jonas V., Munzinger, Jerome, Noroozi, Jalil, Nowak, Arkadiusz, Onyshchenko, Viktor, Overbeck, Gerhard E., Partel, Meelis, Pauchard, Anibal, Peet, Robert K., Penuelas, Josep, Perez-Haase, Aaron, Peterka, Tomas, Petrik, Petr, Peyre, Gwendolyn, Phillips, Oliver L., Prokhorov, Vadim, Rasomavicius, Valerijus, Revermann, Rasmus, Rodwell, John S., Ruprecht, Eszter, Rusina, Solvita, Samimi, Cyrus, Schrodt, Franziska, Shan, Hanhuai, Shirokikh, Pavel, Sibik, Jozef, Silc, Urban, Sklenar, Petr, Skvorc, Zeljko, Sparrow, Ben, Sperandii, Marta Gaia, Stancic, Zvjezdana, Svenning, Jens-Christian, Tang, Zhiyao, Tang, Cindy Q., Tsiripidis, Ioannis, Vanselow, Kim Andre, Vassilev, Kiril, Venanzoni, Roberto, Vibrans, Alexander Christian, Violle, Cyrille, Virtanen, Risto, von Wehrden, Henrik, Wagner, Viktoria, Walker, Donald A., Waller, Donald M., Wang, Hua-Feng, Wesche, Karsten, Whitfeld, Timothy J. S., Willner, Wolfgang, Wiser, Susan K., Wohlgemuth, Thomas, Yamalov, Sergey, Zobel, Martin, and Bruelheide, Helge

Subjects
Ecology
Abstract

Motivation Assessing biodiversity status and trends in plant communities is critical for understanding, quantifying and predicting the effects of global change on ecosystems. Vegetation plots record the occurrence or abundance of all plant species co-occurring within delimited local areas. This allows species absences to be inferred, information seldom provided by existing global plant datasets. Although many vegetation plots have been recorded, most are not available to the global research community. A recent initiative, called 'sPlot', compiled the first global vegetation plot database, and continues to grow and curate it. The sPlot database, however, is extremely unbalanced spatially and environmentally, and is not open-access. Here, we address both these issues by (a) resampling the vegetation plots using several environmental variables as sampling strata and (b) securing permission from data holders of 105 local-to-regional datasets to openly release data. We thus present sPlotOpen, the largest open-access dataset of vegetation plots ever released. sPlotOpen can be used to explore global diversity at the plant community level, as ground truth data in remote sensing applications, or as a baseline for biodiversity monitoring. Main types of variable contained Vegetation plots (n = 95,104) recording cover or abundance of naturally co-occurring vascular plant species within delimited areas. sPlotOpen contains three partially overlapping resampled datasets (c. 50,000 plots each), to be used as replicates in global analyses. Besides geographical location, date, plot size, biome, elevation, slope, aspect, vegetation type, naturalness, coverage of various vegetation layers, and source dataset, plot-level data also include community-weighted means and variances of 18 plant functional traits from the TRY Plant Trait Database. Spatial location and grain Global, 0.01-40,000 m(2). Time period and grain 1888-2015, recording dates. Major taxa and level of measurement 42,677 vascular plant taxa, plot-level records. Software format Three main matrices (.csv), relationally linked.

Published
2021

21. Benchmarking plant diversity of Palaearctic grasslands and other open habitats

Author

Biurrun, Idoia, Biurrun, Idoia, Pielech, Remigiusz, Dembicz, Iwona, Gillet, François, Kozub, Lukasz, 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, 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, Belonovskaya, Elena, Benito Alonso, José Luis, Berastegi, Asun, Bergamini, Ariel, Prasad Bhatta, Kuber, 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, Csergo, Anna Maria, Cykowska-Marzencka, Beata, Czarniecka-Wiera, Marta, Czarnocka-Cieciura, Marta, Czortek, Patryk, Danihelka, Jiri, de Bello, Francesco, Deák, Balázs, Demeter, László, Deng, Lei, Diekmann, Martin, Dolezal, Jiri, Dolnik, Christian, Drevojan, Pavel, Dupré, Cecilia, Ecker, Klaus, Ejtehadi, Hamid, Erschbamer, Brigitta, Etayo, Javier, Etzold, Jonathan, Farkas, Tünde, Farzam, Mohammad, Fayvush, George, Fernández Calzado, Maria Rosa, Finckh, Manfred, Fjellstad, Wendy, Fotiadis, Georgios, Garcia-Margo, Daniel, Garcia-Mijangos, Itziar, Gavilán, Rosario G., Germany, Markus, Ghafari, Sahar, Giusso del Galdo, Gian Pietro, Grytnes, John- Arvid, Güler, Behlül, Gutiérrez- Girón, Alba, Helm, Aveliina, Herrera, Mercedes, Hüllbusch, Elisabeth M., Ingerpuu, Nele, Jagerbrand, Annika K., Jandt, Ute, Janišová, Monika, Jeanneret, Philippe, Jeltsch, Florian, Jensen, Kai, Jentsch, Anke, Kacki, Zygmunt, Kakinuma, Kaoru, Kapfer, Jutta, Kargar, Mansoureh, Kelemen, Andras, 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, Lososova, Zdenka, Lustyk, Pavel, Luzuriaga, Arantzazu L., Ma, Wenhong, Maccherini, Simona, Magnes, Martin, Malicki, Marek, Manthey, Michael, Mardari, Constantin, May, Felix, Mayrhofer, Helmut, Seraina Meier, Eliane, Memariani, Farshid, Merunkova, Kristina, Michelsen, Ottar, Molero Mesa, Joaquin, 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, Rodriguez-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, Swierszcz, Sebastian, Talebi, Amir, Teleki, Balázs, Tichy, Lubomir, Tölgyesi, Csaba, Torca, Marta, Török, Péter, Tsarevskaya, Nadezda, Tsiripidis, Ioannis, Turisová, Ingrid, Ushimaru, Atushi, Valkó, Orsolya, Van Mechelen, Carmen, Vanneste, Thomas, Vasheniak, Iuliia, Vassilev, Kiril, Viciani, Daniele, Villar, Luis, Virtanen, Risto, Vitasović-Kosić, Ivana, Vojtkó, András, Vynokurov, Denys, 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, Biurrun, Idoia, Biurrun, Idoia, Pielech, Remigiusz, Dembicz, Iwona, Gillet, François, Kozub, Lukasz, 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, 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, Belonovskaya, Elena, Benito Alonso, José Luis, Berastegi, Asun, Bergamini, Ariel, Prasad Bhatta, Kuber, 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, Csergo, Anna Maria, Cykowska-Marzencka, Beata, Czarniecka-Wiera, Marta, Czarnocka-Cieciura, Marta, Czortek, Patryk, Danihelka, Jiri, de Bello, Francesco, Deák, Balázs, Demeter, László, Deng, Lei, Diekmann, Martin, Dolezal, Jiri, Dolnik, Christian, Drevojan, Pavel, Dupré, Cecilia, Ecker, Klaus, Ejtehadi, Hamid, Erschbamer, Brigitta, Etayo, Javier, Etzold, Jonathan, Farkas, Tünde, Farzam, Mohammad, Fayvush, George, Fernández Calzado, Maria Rosa, Finckh, Manfred, Fjellstad, Wendy, Fotiadis, Georgios, Garcia-Margo, Daniel, Garcia-Mijangos, Itziar, Gavilán, Rosario G., Germany, Markus, Ghafari, Sahar, Giusso del Galdo, Gian Pietro, Grytnes, John- Arvid, Güler, Behlül, Gutiérrez- Girón, Alba, Helm, Aveliina, Herrera, Mercedes, Hüllbusch, Elisabeth M., Ingerpuu, Nele, Jagerbrand, Annika K., Jandt, Ute, Janišová, Monika, Jeanneret, Philippe, Jeltsch, Florian, Jensen, Kai, Jentsch, Anke, Kacki, Zygmunt, Kakinuma, Kaoru, Kapfer, Jutta, Kargar, Mansoureh, Kelemen, Andras, 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, Lososova, Zdenka, Lustyk, Pavel, Luzuriaga, Arantzazu L., Ma, Wenhong, Maccherini, Simona, Magnes, Martin, Malicki, Marek, Manthey, Michael, Mardari, Constantin, May, Felix, Mayrhofer, Helmut, Seraina Meier, Eliane, Memariani, Farshid, Merunkova, Kristina, Michelsen, Ottar, Molero Mesa, Joaquin, 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, Rodriguez-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, Swierszcz, Sebastian, Talebi, Amir, Teleki, Balázs, Tichy, Lubomir, Tölgyesi, Csaba, Torca, Marta, Török, Péter, Tsarevskaya, Nadezda, Tsiripidis, Ioannis, Turisová, Ingrid, Ushimaru, Atushi, Valkó, Orsolya, Van Mechelen, Carmen, Vanneste, Thomas, Vasheniak, Iuliia, Vassilev, Kiril, Viciani, Daniele, Villar, Luis, Virtanen, Risto, Vitasović-Kosić, Ivana, Vojtkó, András, Vynokurov, Denys, Waldén, Emelie, Wang, Yun, Weiser, Frank, Wen, Lu, Wesche, Karsten, White, Hannah, Widmer, Stefan, Wolfrum, Sebastian, Wróbel, Anna, Yuan, Zuoqiang, Zelený, David, Zhao, Liqing, and Dengler, Jürgen

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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/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.

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2021

22. EUNIS Habitat Classification: Expert system, characteristic species combinations and distribution maps of European habitats

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Chytry, Milan, Chytry, Milan, Tichy, Lubomir, Hennekens, Stephan M., Knollova, Ilona, Janssen, John, Rodwell, John S., Peterka, Tomas, Marceno, Corrado, Landucci, Flavia, Danihelka, Jiri, Hajek, Michal, Dengler, Juergen, Novak, Pavel, Zukal, Dominik, Jimenez-Alfaro, Borja, Mucina, Ladislav, Abdulhak, Sylvain, Aćić, Svetlana, Agrillo, Emiliano, Attorre, Fabio, Bergmeier, Erwin, Biurrun, Idoia, Boch, Steffen, Boloni, Janos, Bonari, Gianmaria, Braslavskaya, Tatiana, Bruelheide, Helge, Campos, Juan Antonio, Carni, Andraz, Casella, Laura, Cuk, Mirjana, Custerevska, Renata, De Bie, Els, Delbosc, Pauline, Demina, Olga, Didukh, Yakiv, Dite, Daniel, Dziuba, Tetiana, Ewald, Joerg, Gavilan, Rosario G., Gegout, Jean-Claude, del Galdo, Gian Pietro Giusso, Golub, Valentin, Goncharova, Nadezhda, Goral, Friedemann, Graf, Ulrich, Indreica, Adrian, Isermann, Maike, Jandt, Ute, Jansen, Florian, Jansen, Jan, Jaskova, Anni, Jirousek, Martin, Kacki, Zygmunt, Kalnikova, Veronika, Kavgaci, Ali, Khanina, Larisa, Korolyuk, Andrey Yu, Kozhevnikova, Mariya, Kuzemko, Anna, Kuzmić, Filip, Kuznetsov, Oleg L., Laivins, Maris, Lavrinenko, Igor, Lavrinenko, Olga, Lebedeva, Maria, Lososova, Zdenka, Lysenko, Tatiana, Maciejewski, Lise, Mardari, Constantin, Marinsek, Aleksander, Napreenko, Maxim G., Onyshchenko, Viktor, Perez-Haase, Aaron, Pielech, Remigiusz, Prokhorov, Vadim, Rasomavicius, Valerijus, Rodriguez Rojo, Maria Pilar, Rusina, Solvita, Schrautzer, Joachim, Sibik, Jozef, Silc, Urban, Skvorc, Željko, Smagin, Viktor A., Stancić, Zvjezdana, Stanisci, Angela, Tikhonova, Elena, Tonteri, Tiina, Uogintas, Domas, Valachović, Milan, Vassilev, Kiril, Vynokurov, Denys, Willner, Wolfgang, Yamalov, Sergey, Evans, Douglas, Lund, Mette Palitzsch, Spyropoulou, Rania, Tryfon, Eleni, Schaminee, Joop H.J., Chytry, Milan, Chytry, Milan, Tichy, Lubomir, Hennekens, Stephan M., Knollova, Ilona, Janssen, John, Rodwell, John S., Peterka, Tomas, Marceno, Corrado, Landucci, Flavia, Danihelka, Jiri, Hajek, Michal, Dengler, Juergen, Novak, Pavel, Zukal, Dominik, Jimenez-Alfaro, Borja, Mucina, Ladislav, Abdulhak, Sylvain, Aćić, Svetlana, Agrillo, Emiliano, Attorre, Fabio, Bergmeier, Erwin, Biurrun, Idoia, Boch, Steffen, Boloni, Janos, Bonari, Gianmaria, Braslavskaya, Tatiana, Bruelheide, Helge, Campos, Juan Antonio, Carni, Andraz, Casella, Laura, Cuk, Mirjana, Custerevska, Renata, De Bie, Els, Delbosc, Pauline, Demina, Olga, Didukh, Yakiv, Dite, Daniel, Dziuba, Tetiana, Ewald, Joerg, Gavilan, Rosario G., Gegout, Jean-Claude, del Galdo, Gian Pietro Giusso, Golub, Valentin, Goncharova, Nadezhda, Goral, Friedemann, Graf, Ulrich, Indreica, Adrian, Isermann, Maike, Jandt, Ute, Jansen, Florian, Jansen, Jan, Jaskova, Anni, Jirousek, Martin, Kacki, Zygmunt, Kalnikova, Veronika, Kavgaci, Ali, Khanina, Larisa, Korolyuk, Andrey Yu, Kozhevnikova, Mariya, Kuzemko, Anna, Kuzmić, Filip, Kuznetsov, Oleg L., Laivins, Maris, Lavrinenko, Igor, Lavrinenko, Olga, Lebedeva, Maria, Lososova, Zdenka, Lysenko, Tatiana, Maciejewski, Lise, Mardari, Constantin, Marinsek, Aleksander, Napreenko, Maxim G., Onyshchenko, Viktor, Perez-Haase, Aaron, Pielech, Remigiusz, Prokhorov, Vadim, Rasomavicius, Valerijus, Rodriguez Rojo, Maria Pilar, Rusina, Solvita, Schrautzer, Joachim, Sibik, Jozef, Silc, Urban, Skvorc, Željko, Smagin, Viktor A., Stancić, Zvjezdana, Stanisci, Angela, Tikhonova, Elena, Tonteri, Tiina, Uogintas, Domas, Valachović, Milan, Vassilev, Kiril, Vynokurov, Denys, Willner, Wolfgang, Yamalov, Sergey, Evans, Douglas, Lund, Mette Palitzsch, Spyropoulou, Rania, Tryfon, Eleni, and Schaminee, Joop H.J.

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Aim The EUNIS Habitat Classification is a widely used reference framework for European habitat types (habitats), but it lacks formal definitions of individual habitats that would enable their unequivocal identification. Our goal was to develop a tool for assigning vegetation-plot records to the habitats of the EUNIS system, use it to classify a European vegetation-plot database, and compile statistically-derived characteristic species combinations and distribution maps for these habitats. Location Europe. Methods We developed the classification expert system EUNIS-ESy, which contains definitions of individual EUNIS habitats based on their species composition and geographic location. Each habitat was formally defined as a formula in a computer language combining algebraic and set-theoretic concepts with formal logical operators. We applied this expert system to classify 1,261,373 vegetation plots from the European Vegetation Archive (EVA) and other databases. Then we determined diagnostic, constant and dominant species for each habitat by calculating species-to-habitat fidelity and constancy (occurrence frequency) in the classified data set. Finally, we mapped the plot locations for each habitat. Results Formal definitions were developed for 199 habitats at Level 3 of the EUNIS hierarchy, including 25 coastal, 18 wetland, 55 grassland, 43 shrubland, 46 forest and 12 man-made habitats. The expert system classified 1,125,121 vegetation plots to these habitat groups and 73,188 to other habitats, while 63,064 plots remained unclassified or were classified to more than one habitat. Data on each habitat were summarized in factsheets containing habitat description, distribution map, corresponding syntaxa and characteristic species combination. Conclusions EUNIS habitats were characterized for the first time in terms of their species composition and distribution, based on a classification of a European database of vegetation plots using the newly developed electronic expert

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2020

23. sPlot - A new tool for global vegetation analyses

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Bruelheide, Helge, Bruelheide, Helge, Dengler, Juergen, Jimenez-Alfaro, Borja, Purschke, Oliver, Hennekens, Stephan M., Chytry, Milan, Pillar, Valerio D., Jansen, Florian, Kattge, Jens, Sandel, Brody, Aubin, Isabelle, Biurrun, Idoia, Field, Richard, Haider, Sylvia, Jandt, Ute, Lenoir, Jonathan, Peet, Robert K., Peyre, Gwendolyn, Sabatini, Francesco Maria, Schmidt, Marco, Schrodt, Franziska, Winter, Marten, Aćić, Svetlana, Agrillo, Emiliano, Alvarez, Miguel, Ambarli, Didem, Angelini, Pierangela, Apostolova, Iva, Khan, Mohammed A.S.Arfin, Arnst, Elise, Attorre, Fabio, Baraloto, Christopher, Beckmann, Michael, Berg, Christian, Bergeron, Yves, Bergmeier, Erwin, Bjorkman, Anne D., Bondareva, Viktoria, Borchardt, Peter, Botta-Dukat, Zoltan, Boyle, Brad, Breen, Amy, Brisse, Henry, Byun, Chaeho, Cabido, Marcelo R., Casella, Laura, Cayuela, Luis, Cerny, Tomas, Chepinoga, Victor, Csiky, Janos, Curran, Michael, Custerevska, Renata, Dajić-Stevanović, Zora, De Bie, Els, de Ruffray, Patrice, De Sanctis, Michele, Dimopoulos, Panayotis, Dressler, Stefan, Ejrnaes, Rasmus, El-Sheikh, Mohamed Abd El-Rouf Mousa, Enquist, Brian, Ewald, Joerg, Fagundez, Jaime, Finckh, Manfred, Font, Xavier, Forey, Estelle, Fotiadis, Georgios, Garcia-Mijangos, Itziar, de Gasper, Andre Luis, Golub, Valentin, Gutierrez, Alvaro G., Hatim, Mohamed Z., He, Tianhua, Higuchi, Pedro, Holubova, Dana, Hoelzel, Norbert, Homeier, Juergen, Indreica, Adrian, Gursoy, Deniz Isik, Jansen, Steven, Janssen, John, Jedrzejek, Birgit, Jirousek, Martin, Juergens, Norbert, Kacki, Zygmunt, Kavgaci, Ali, Kearsley, Elizabeth, Kessler, Michael, Knollova, Ilona, Kolomiychuk, Vitaliy, Korolyuk, Andrey, Kozhevnikova, Maria, Kozub, Lukasz, Krstonosić, Daniel, Kuehl, Hjalmar, Kuehn, Ingolf, Kuzemko, Anna, Kuzmić, Filip, Landucci, Flavia, Lee, Michael T., Levesley, Aurora, Li, Ching-Feng, Liu, Hongyan, Lopez-Gonzalez, Gabriela, Lysenko, Tatiana, Macanović, Armin, Mahdavi, Parastoo, Manning, Peter, Marceno, Corrado, Martynenko, Vassiliy, Mencuccini, Maurizio, Minden, Vanessa, Moeslund, Jesper Erenskjold, Moretti, Marco, Mueller, Jonas V., Munzinger, Jerome, Niinemets, Ulo, Nobis, Marcin, Noroozi, Jalil, Nowak, Arkadiusz, Onyshchenko, Viktor, Overbeck, Gerhard E., Ozinga, Wim A., Pauchard, Anibal, Pedashenko, Hristo, Penuelas, Josep, Perez-Haase, Aaron, Peterka, Tomas, Petrik, Petr, Phillips, Oliver L., Prokhorov, Vadim, Rasomavicius, Valerijus, Revermann, Rasmus, Rodwell, John, Ruprecht, Eszter, Rusina, Solvita, Samimi, Cyrus, Schaminee, Joop H.J., Schmiedel, Ute, Sibik, Jozef, Silc, Urban, Skvorc, Željko, Smyth, Anita, Sop, Tenekwetche, Sopotlieva, Desislava, Sparrow, Ben, Stancić, Zvjezdana, Svenning, Jens-Christian, Swacha, Grzegorz, Tang, Zhiyao, Tsiripidis, Ioannis, Turtureanu, Pavel Dan, Ugurlu, Emin, Uogintas, Domas, Valachović, Milan, Vanselow, Kim Andre, Vashenyak, Yulia, Vassilev, Kiril, Velez-Martin, Eduardo, Venanzoni, Roberto, Vibrans, Alexander Christian, Violle, Cyrille, Virtanen, Risto, von Wehrden, Henrik, Wagner, Viktoria, Walker, Donald A., Wana, Desalegn, Weiher, Evan, Wesche, Karsten, Whitfeld, Timothy, Willner, Wolfgang, Wiser, Susan, Wohlgemuth, Thomas, Yamalov, Sergey, Zizka, Georg, Zverev, Andrei, Bruelheide, Helge, Bruelheide, Helge, Dengler, Juergen, Jimenez-Alfaro, Borja, Purschke, Oliver, Hennekens, Stephan M., Chytry, Milan, Pillar, Valerio D., Jansen, Florian, Kattge, Jens, Sandel, Brody, Aubin, Isabelle, Biurrun, Idoia, Field, Richard, Haider, Sylvia, Jandt, Ute, Lenoir, Jonathan, Peet, Robert K., Peyre, Gwendolyn, Sabatini, Francesco Maria, Schmidt, Marco, Schrodt, Franziska, Winter, Marten, Aćić, Svetlana, Agrillo, Emiliano, Alvarez, Miguel, Ambarli, Didem, Angelini, Pierangela, Apostolova, Iva, Khan, Mohammed A.S.Arfin, Arnst, Elise, Attorre, Fabio, Baraloto, Christopher, Beckmann, Michael, Berg, Christian, Bergeron, Yves, Bergmeier, Erwin, Bjorkman, Anne D., Bondareva, Viktoria, Borchardt, Peter, Botta-Dukat, Zoltan, Boyle, Brad, Breen, Amy, Brisse, Henry, Byun, Chaeho, Cabido, Marcelo R., Casella, Laura, Cayuela, Luis, Cerny, Tomas, Chepinoga, Victor, Csiky, Janos, Curran, Michael, Custerevska, Renata, Dajić-Stevanović, Zora, De Bie, Els, de Ruffray, Patrice, De Sanctis, Michele, Dimopoulos, Panayotis, Dressler, Stefan, Ejrnaes, Rasmus, El-Sheikh, Mohamed Abd El-Rouf Mousa, Enquist, Brian, Ewald, Joerg, Fagundez, Jaime, Finckh, Manfred, Font, Xavier, Forey, Estelle, Fotiadis, Georgios, Garcia-Mijangos, Itziar, de Gasper, Andre Luis, Golub, Valentin, Gutierrez, Alvaro G., Hatim, Mohamed Z., He, Tianhua, Higuchi, Pedro, Holubova, Dana, Hoelzel, Norbert, Homeier, Juergen, Indreica, Adrian, Gursoy, Deniz Isik, Jansen, Steven, Janssen, John, Jedrzejek, Birgit, Jirousek, Martin, Juergens, Norbert, Kacki, Zygmunt, Kavgaci, Ali, Kearsley, Elizabeth, Kessler, Michael, Knollova, Ilona, Kolomiychuk, Vitaliy, Korolyuk, Andrey, Kozhevnikova, Maria, Kozub, Lukasz, Krstonosić, Daniel, Kuehl, Hjalmar, Kuehn, Ingolf, Kuzemko, Anna, Kuzmić, Filip, Landucci, Flavia, Lee, Michael T., Levesley, Aurora, Li, Ching-Feng, Liu, Hongyan, Lopez-Gonzalez, Gabriela, Lysenko, Tatiana, Macanović, Armin, Mahdavi, Parastoo, Manning, Peter, Marceno, Corrado, Martynenko, Vassiliy, Mencuccini, Maurizio, Minden, Vanessa, Moeslund, Jesper Erenskjold, Moretti, Marco, Mueller, Jonas V., Munzinger, Jerome, Niinemets, Ulo, Nobis, Marcin, Noroozi, Jalil, Nowak, Arkadiusz, Onyshchenko, Viktor, Overbeck, Gerhard E., Ozinga, Wim A., Pauchard, Anibal, Pedashenko, Hristo, Penuelas, Josep, Perez-Haase, Aaron, Peterka, Tomas, Petrik, Petr, Phillips, Oliver L., Prokhorov, Vadim, Rasomavicius, Valerijus, Revermann, Rasmus, Rodwell, John, Ruprecht, Eszter, Rusina, Solvita, Samimi, Cyrus, Schaminee, Joop H.J., Schmiedel, Ute, Sibik, Jozef, Silc, Urban, Skvorc, Željko, Smyth, Anita, Sop, Tenekwetche, Sopotlieva, Desislava, Sparrow, Ben, Stancić, Zvjezdana, Svenning, Jens-Christian, Swacha, Grzegorz, Tang, Zhiyao, Tsiripidis, Ioannis, Turtureanu, Pavel Dan, Ugurlu, Emin, Uogintas, Domas, Valachović, Milan, Vanselow, Kim Andre, Vashenyak, Yulia, Vassilev, Kiril, Velez-Martin, Eduardo, Venanzoni, Roberto, Vibrans, Alexander Christian, Violle, Cyrille, Virtanen, Risto, von Wehrden, Henrik, Wagner, Viktoria, Walker, Donald A., Wana, Desalegn, Weiher, Evan, Wesche, Karsten, Whitfeld, Timothy, Willner, Wolfgang, Wiser, Susan, Wohlgemuth, Thomas, Yamalov, Sergey, Zizka, Georg, and Zverev, Andrei

Abstract

Aims Vegetation-plot records provide information on the presence and cover or abundance of plants co-occurring in the same community. Vegetation-plot data are spread across research groups, environmental agencies and biodiversity research centers and, thus, are rarely accessible at continental or global scales. Here we present the sPlot database, which collates vegetation plots worldwide to allow for the exploration of global patterns in taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity at the plant community level. Results sPlot version 2.1 contains records from 1,121,244 vegetation plots, which comprise 23,586,216 records of plant species and their relative cover or abundance in plots collected worldwide between 1885 and 2015. We complemented the information for each plot by retrieving climate and soil conditions and the biogeographic context (e.g., biomes) from external sources, and by calculating community-weighted means and variances of traits using gap-filled data from the global plant trait database TRY. Moreover, we created a phylogenetic tree for 50,167 out of the 54,519 species identified in the plots. We present the first maps of global patterns of community richness and community-weighted means of key traits. Conclusions The availability of vegetation plot data in sPlot offers new avenues for vegetation analysis at the global scale.

Published
2019

24. Formalized classification of semi-dry grasslands in central and eastern Europe

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Willner, Wolfgang, Willner, Wolfgang, Rolecek, Jan, Korolyuk, Andrey, Dengler, Juergen, Chytry, Milan, Janisova, Monika, Lengyel, Attila, Aćić, Svetlana, Becker, Thomas, Cuk, Mirjana, Demina, Olga, Jandt, Ute, Kacki, Zygmunt, Kuzemko, Anna, Kropf, Matthias, Lebedeva, Mariya, Semenishchenkov, Yuri, Silc, Urban, Stancić, Zvjezdana, Staudinger, Markus, Vassilev, Kiril, Yamalov, Sergey, Willner, Wolfgang, Willner, Wolfgang, Rolecek, Jan, Korolyuk, Andrey, Dengler, Juergen, Chytry, Milan, Janisova, Monika, Lengyel, Attila, Aćić, Svetlana, Becker, Thomas, Cuk, Mirjana, Demina, Olga, Jandt, Ute, Kacki, Zygmunt, Kuzemko, Anna, Kropf, Matthias, Lebedeva, Mariya, Semenishchenkov, Yuri, Silc, Urban, Stancić, Zvjezdana, Staudinger, Markus, Vassilev, Kiril, and Yamalov, Sergey

Abstract

European semi-dry grasslands are among the most species-rich vegetation types in the northern hemisphere and form an important part of the habitat mosaics in the forest-steppe zone. However. there is no comprehensive evaluation of the variation in their composition and the phytosocio-logical classification of these grasslands. For the syntaxonomic revision, we used a dataset of 34,173 vegetation plot records (releves) from central and eastern Europe. which were assigned to the class Fesiuco-Bromeiea using the diagnostic species listed in the EuroVegChecklist. To determine the diagnostic species of the orders, we used a TWINSPAN classification of the whole dataset. Of the total dataset, 15,449 releves were assigned to the order Brachypodietalia pinnati. which corresponds to semi-dry grasslands. This subset was again classified using TWINSPAN. Formal definitions of the following alliances were established: Mesobromion erecti, Cirsio-Brachypodion pinnati (incl. Fragario-Trifolion montani. Agrosiio-Avenulion schellianae, Scabioso ochroleucae-Poion angustifoliae and Adonido vernalis-Stipion iirsae), Scorzonerion villosae and Chrysopogono-Danshonion. Another alliance, Armerion elongatae (=Koelerio-Phleion phleoidis p.p.). is transitional towards the class Koelerio-Corynephoreiea and its status needs further evaluation. We also established formal definitions of all of the associations of Mesobromion and Cirsio-Brachypodion within the area studied. Associations were identified using (i) a TWINSPAN classification of the whole order, (ii) TWINSPAN classifications of regionally restricted data sets (usually all Brachypodietalia plots in one country) and (iii) existing national classification schemes. All formal definitions were written in the expert system language of the JUICE program. To obtain a more complete picture of the floristic similarities and gradients. we performed a DCA ordination of the associations. Our results revealed that meadow steppes in the forest-steppe z

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2019

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

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Dengler, Juergen, Wagner, Viktoria, Dembicz, Iwona, Garcia-Mijangos, Itziar, Naqinezhad, Alireza, Boch, Steffen, Chiarucci, Alessandro, Conradi, Timo, Filibeck, Goffredo, Guarino, Riccardo, Janisova, Monika, Steinbauer, Manuel J., Acic, Svetlana, Acosta, Alicia T. R., Akasaka, Munemitsu, Allers, Marc-Andre, Apostolova, Iva, Axmanova, Irena, Bakan, Branko, Baranova, Alina, Bardy-Durchhalter, Manfred, Bartha, Sandor, Baumann, Esther, Becker, Thomas, Becker, Ute, Belonovskaya, Elena, Bengtsson, Karin, Benito Alonso, Jose Luis, Berastegi, Asun, Bergamini, Ariel, Bonini, Ilaria, Bruun, Hans Henrik, Budzhak, Vasyl, Bueno, Alvaro, Antonio Campos, Juan, Cancellieri, Laura, Carboni, Marta, Chocarro, Cristina, Conti, Luisa, Czarniecka-Wiera, Marta, De Frenne, Pieter, Deak, Balazs, Didukh, Yakiv P., Diekmann, Martin, Dolnik, Christian, Dupre, Cecilia, Ecker, Klaus, Ermakov, Nikolai, Erschbamer, Brigitta, Escudero, Adrian, Etayo, Javier, Fajmonova, Zuzana, Felde, Vivian A., Fernandez Calzado, Maria Rosa, Finckh, Manfred, Fotiadis, Georgios, Fracchiolla, Mariano, Ganeva, Anna, Garcia-Magro, Daniel, Gavilan, Rosario G., Germany, Markus, Giladi, Itamar, Gillet, Francois, Giusso del Galdo, Gian Pietro, Gonzalez, Jose M., Grytnes, John-Arvid, Hajek, Michal, Hajkova, Petra, Helm, Aveliina, Herrera, Mercedes, Hettenbergerova, Eva, Hobohm, Carsten, Huellbusch, Elisabeth M., Ingerpuu, Nele, Jandt, Ute, Jeltsch, Florian, Jensen, Kai, Jentsch, Anke, Jeschke, Michael, Jimenez-Alfaro, Borja, Kacki, Zygmunt, Kakinuma, Kaoru, Kapfer, Jutta, Kavgaci, Ali, Kelemen, Andras, Kiehl, Kathrin, Koyama, Asuka, Koyanagi, Tomoyo F., Kozub, Lukasz, Kuzemko, Anna, Kyrkjeeide, Magni Olsen, Landi, Sara, Langer, Nancy, Lastrucci, Lorenzo, Lazzaro, Lorenzo, Lelli, Chiara, Leps, Jan, Loebel, Swantje, Luzuriaga, Arantzazu L., Maccherini, Simona, Magnes, Martin, Malicki, Marek, Marceno, Corrado, Mardari, Constantin, Mauchamp, Leslie, May, Felix, Michelsen, Ottar, Mesa, Joaquin Molero, Molnar, Zsolt, Moysiyenko, Ivan Y., Nakaga, Yuko K., Natcheva, Rayna, Noroozi, Jalil, Pakeman, Robin J., Palpurina, Salza, Partel, Meelis, Paetsch, Ricarda, Pauli, Harald, Pedashenko, Hristo, Peet, Robert K., Pielech, Remigiusz, Pipenbaher, Natasa, Pirini, Chrisoula, Pleskova, Zuzana, Polyakova, Mariya A., Prentice, Honor C., Reinecke, Jennifer, Reitalu, Triin, Pilar Rodriguez-Rojo, Maria, Rolecek, Jan, Ronkin, Vladimir, Rosati, Leonardo, Rosén, Ejvind, Ruprecht, Eszter, Rusina, Solvita, Sabovljevic, Marko, Maria Sanchez, Ana, Savchenko, Galina, Schuhmacher, Oliver, Skornik, Sonja, Sperandii, Marta Gaia, Staniaszek-Kik, Monika, Stevanovic-Dajic, Zora, Stock, Marin, Suchrow, Sigrid, Sutcliffe, Laura M. E., Swacha, Grzegorz, Sykes, Martin, Szabo, Anna, Talebi, Amir, Tanase, Catalin, Terzi, Massimo, Tolgyesi, Csaba, Torca, Marta, Torok, Peter, Tothmeresz, Bela, Tsarevskaya, Nadezda, Tsiripidis, Ioannis, Tzonev, Rossen, Ushimaru, Atushi, Valko, Orsolya, van der Maarel, Eddy, Vanneste, Thomas, Vashenyak, Iuliia, Vassilev, Kiril, Viciani, Daniele, Villar, Luis, 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, Dengler, Juergen, Wagner, Viktoria, Dembicz, Iwona, Garcia-Mijangos, Itziar, Naqinezhad, Alireza, Boch, Steffen, Chiarucci, Alessandro, Conradi, Timo, Filibeck, Goffredo, Guarino, Riccardo, Janisova, Monika, Steinbauer, Manuel J., Acic, Svetlana, Acosta, Alicia T. R., Akasaka, Munemitsu, Allers, Marc-Andre, Apostolova, Iva, Axmanova, Irena, Bakan, Branko, Baranova, Alina, Bardy-Durchhalter, Manfred, Bartha, Sandor, Baumann, Esther, Becker, Thomas, Becker, Ute, Belonovskaya, Elena, Bengtsson, Karin, Benito Alonso, Jose Luis, Berastegi, Asun, Bergamini, Ariel, Bonini, Ilaria, Bruun, Hans Henrik, Budzhak, Vasyl, Bueno, Alvaro, Antonio Campos, Juan, Cancellieri, Laura, Carboni, Marta, Chocarro, Cristina, Conti, Luisa, Czarniecka-Wiera, Marta, De Frenne, Pieter, Deak, Balazs, Didukh, Yakiv P., Diekmann, Martin, Dolnik, Christian, Dupre, Cecilia, Ecker, Klaus, Ermakov, Nikolai, Erschbamer, Brigitta, Escudero, Adrian, Etayo, Javier, Fajmonova, Zuzana, Felde, Vivian A., Fernandez Calzado, Maria Rosa, Finckh, Manfred, Fotiadis, Georgios, Fracchiolla, Mariano, Ganeva, Anna, Garcia-Magro, Daniel, Gavilan, Rosario G., Germany, Markus, Giladi, Itamar, Gillet, Francois, Giusso del Galdo, Gian Pietro, Gonzalez, Jose M., Grytnes, John-Arvid, Hajek, Michal, Hajkova, Petra, Helm, Aveliina, Herrera, Mercedes, Hettenbergerova, Eva, Hobohm, Carsten, Huellbusch, Elisabeth M., Ingerpuu, Nele, Jandt, Ute, Jeltsch, Florian, Jensen, Kai, Jentsch, Anke, Jeschke, Michael, Jimenez-Alfaro, Borja, Kacki, Zygmunt, Kakinuma, Kaoru, Kapfer, Jutta, Kavgaci, Ali, Kelemen, Andras, Kiehl, Kathrin, Koyama, Asuka, Koyanagi, Tomoyo F., Kozub, Lukasz, Kuzemko, Anna, Kyrkjeeide, Magni Olsen, Landi, Sara, Langer, Nancy, Lastrucci, Lorenzo, Lazzaro, Lorenzo, Lelli, Chiara, Leps, Jan, Loebel, Swantje, Luzuriaga, Arantzazu L., Maccherini, Simona, Magnes, Martin, Malicki, Marek, Marceno, Corrado, Mardari, Constantin, Mauchamp, Leslie, May, Felix, Michelsen, Ottar, Mesa, Joaquin Molero, Molnar, Zsolt, Moysiyenko, Ivan Y., Nakaga, Yuko K., Natcheva, Rayna, Noroozi, Jalil, Pakeman, Robin J., Palpurina, Salza, Partel, Meelis, Paetsch, Ricarda, Pauli, Harald, Pedashenko, Hristo, Peet, Robert K., Pielech, Remigiusz, Pipenbaher, Natasa, Pirini, Chrisoula, Pleskova, Zuzana, Polyakova, Mariya A., Prentice, Honor C., Reinecke, Jennifer, Reitalu, Triin, Pilar Rodriguez-Rojo, Maria, Rolecek, Jan, Ronkin, Vladimir, Rosati, Leonardo, Rosén, Ejvind, Ruprecht, Eszter, Rusina, Solvita, Sabovljevic, Marko, Maria Sanchez, Ana, Savchenko, Galina, Schuhmacher, Oliver, Skornik, Sonja, Sperandii, Marta Gaia, Staniaszek-Kik, Monika, Stevanovic-Dajic, Zora, Stock, Marin, Suchrow, Sigrid, Sutcliffe, Laura M. E., Swacha, Grzegorz, Sykes, Martin, Szabo, Anna, Talebi, Amir, Tanase, Catalin, Terzi, Massimo, Tolgyesi, Csaba, Torca, Marta, Torok, Peter, Tothmeresz, Bela, Tsarevskaya, Nadezda, Tsiripidis, Ioannis, Tzonev, Rossen, Ushimaru, Atushi, Valko, Orsolya, van der Maarel, Eddy, Vanneste, Thomas, Vashenyak, Iuliia, Vassilev, Kiril, Viciani, Daniele, Villar, Luis, 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, and Biurrun, Idoia

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 (releves) 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 m(2)) 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 vegetationplot 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.

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2018
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27. Global trait–environment relationships of plant communities

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Bruelheide, Helge, Dengler, Juergen, Purschke, Oliver, Lenoir, Jonathan, Jimenez-alfaro, Borja, Hennekens, Stephan M., Botta-dukat, Zoltan, Chytry, Milan, Field, Richard, Jansen, Florian, Kattge, Jens, Pillar, Valerio D., Schrodt, Franziska, Mahecha, Miguel D., Peet, Robert K., Sandel, Brody, Van Bodegom, Peter, Altman, Jan, Alvarez-davila, Esteban, Khan, Mohammed A. S. Arfin, Attorre, Fabio, Aubin, Isabelle, Baraloto, Christopher, Barroso, Jorcely G., Bauters, Marijn, Bergmeier, Erwin, Biurrun, Idoia, Bjorkman, Anne D., Blonder, Benjamin, Carni, Andraz, Cayuela, Luis, Cerny, Tomas, Cornelissen, J. Hans C., Craven, Dylan, Dainese, Matteo, Derroire, Geraldine, De Sanctis, Michele, Diaz, Sandra, Dolezal, Jiri, Farfan-rios, William, Feldpausch, Ted R., Fenton, Nicole J., Garnier, Eric, Guerin, Greg R., Gutierrez, Alvaro G., Haider, Sylvia, Hattab, Tarek, Henry, Greg, Herault, Bruno, Higuchi, Pedro, Hoelzel, Norbert, Homeier, Juergen, Jentsch, Anke, Juergens, Norbert, Kacki, Zygmunt, Karger, Dirk N., Kessler, Michael, Kleyer, Michael, Knollova, Ilona, Korolyuk, Andrey Y., Kuehn, Ingolf, Laughlin, Daniel C., Lens, Frederic, Loos, Jacqueline, Louault, Frederique, Lyubenova, Mariyana, I, Malhi, Yadvinder, Marceno, Corrado, Mencuccini, Maurizio, Mueller, Jonas, V, Munzinger, Jerome, Myers-smith, Isla H., Neill, David A., Niinemets, Ulo, Orwin, Kate H., Ozinga, Wim A., Penuelas, Josep, Perez-haase, Aaron, Petrik, Petr, Phillips, Oliver L., Partel, Meelis, Reich, Peter B., Roemermann, Christine, Rodrigues, Arthur, V, Sabatini, Francesco Maria, Sardans, Jordi, Schmidt, Marco, Seidler, Gunnar, Silva Espejo, Javier Eduardo, Silveira, Marcos, Smyth, Anita, Sporbert, Maria, Svenning, Jens-christian, Tang, Zhiyao, Thomas, Raquel, Tsiripidis, Ioannis, Vassilev, Kiril, Violle, Cyrille, Virtanen, Risto, Weiher, Evan, Welk, Erik, Wesche, Karsten, Winter, Marten, Wirth, Christian, Jandt, Ute, Bruelheide, Helge, Dengler, Juergen, Purschke, Oliver, Lenoir, Jonathan, Jimenez-alfaro, Borja, Hennekens, Stephan M., Botta-dukat, Zoltan, Chytry, Milan, Field, Richard, Jansen, Florian, Kattge, Jens, Pillar, Valerio D., Schrodt, Franziska, Mahecha, Miguel D., Peet, Robert K., Sandel, Brody, Van Bodegom, Peter, Altman, Jan, Alvarez-davila, Esteban, Khan, Mohammed A. S. Arfin, Attorre, Fabio, Aubin, Isabelle, Baraloto, Christopher, Barroso, Jorcely G., Bauters, Marijn, Bergmeier, Erwin, Biurrun, Idoia, Bjorkman, Anne D., Blonder, Benjamin, Carni, Andraz, Cayuela, Luis, Cerny, Tomas, Cornelissen, J. Hans C., Craven, Dylan, Dainese, Matteo, Derroire, Geraldine, De Sanctis, Michele, Diaz, Sandra, Dolezal, Jiri, Farfan-rios, William, Feldpausch, Ted R., Fenton, Nicole J., Garnier, Eric, Guerin, Greg R., Gutierrez, Alvaro G., Haider, Sylvia, Hattab, Tarek, Henry, Greg, Herault, Bruno, Higuchi, Pedro, Hoelzel, Norbert, Homeier, Juergen, Jentsch, Anke, Juergens, Norbert, Kacki, Zygmunt, Karger, Dirk N., Kessler, Michael, Kleyer, Michael, Knollova, Ilona, Korolyuk, Andrey Y., Kuehn, Ingolf, Laughlin, Daniel C., Lens, Frederic, Loos, Jacqueline, Louault, Frederique, Lyubenova, Mariyana, I, Malhi, Yadvinder, Marceno, Corrado, Mencuccini, Maurizio, Mueller, Jonas, V, Munzinger, Jerome, Myers-smith, Isla H., Neill, David A., Niinemets, Ulo, Orwin, Kate H., Ozinga, Wim A., Penuelas, Josep, Perez-haase, Aaron, Petrik, Petr, Phillips, Oliver L., Partel, Meelis, Reich, Peter B., Roemermann, Christine, Rodrigues, Arthur, V, Sabatini, Francesco Maria, Sardans, Jordi, Schmidt, Marco, Seidler, Gunnar, Silva Espejo, Javier Eduardo, Silveira, Marcos, Smyth, Anita, Sporbert, Maria, Svenning, Jens-christian, Tang, Zhiyao, Thomas, Raquel, Tsiripidis, Ioannis, Vassilev, Kiril, Violle, Cyrille, Virtanen, Risto, Weiher, Evan, Welk, Erik, Wesche, Karsten, Winter, Marten, Wirth, Christian, and Jandt, Ute

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2018
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28. Towards a Revised Classification of Pontic- Pannonian Steppe Grasslands

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Willner, Wolfgang, Kuzemko, Anna, Bauer, Norbert, Becker, Thomas, Bita-Nicola, Claudia, Botta-Dukát, Zoltán, Chytrý, Milan, Dengler, Jürgen, Igic, Ruzica, Janišová, Monika, Kacki, Zygmunt, Korotchenko, Iryna, Krstivojevic, Mirjana, Ruprecht, Eszter, Schratt-Ehrendorfer, Luise, Semenishchenkov, Yuri, Stancic, Zvjezdana, Vashenyak, Yulia, Vynokurov, Denis, and Volkova, Elena

Subjects
dry grasslands, Europe
Abstract

We studied the main phytosociological subdivision of Pontic-Pannonian steppe grasslands using a large dataset of vegetation plots covering the whole Carpathian Basin (Eastern Austria, Moravia, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, N Croatia, N Serbia) as well as Ukraine and adjacent regions in southern Poland and south-western Russia (Bryansk region). Altogether 43 706 relevés from 11 countries were gathered. Species taxonomy and nomenclature was unified according to the Euro Med Checklist. Critical species were merged to aggregates. From this initial data set, we selected all relevés with the presence of at least one (of 143 pre-defined) diagnostic species of the target vegetation types (steppe meadows, meadow steppes and grass steppes), of rocky steppes or of Pannonian sand steppes. Thus, we included all units traditionally included or closely related to the class Festuco–Brometea. Relevés with a plot size 100 m², and relevés with a shrub or tree layer covering >10% were excluded. To avoid biases due to oversampling of some areas, we applied a heterogeneity-constrained random resampling. The resampled data set was classified using TWINSPAN. Higher syntaxa (classes, orders, alliances) were identified and diagnostic species for the different syntaxonomic levels were calculated using various fidelity measures (phi coefficient, constancy ratio, total cover ratio). Finally, we re-assigned the plots using the summarised cover of diagnostic species. As next step, a detailed classification on the association level of the units corresponding to steppe meadows, meadow steppes and grass steppes will follow.

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2014

29. Vegetation of Middle Asia – the project state of art after ten years of survey and future perspectives

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Nowak, Arkadiusz, Nobis, Marcin, Nowak, Sylwia, Nobis, Agnieszka, Swacha, Grzegorz, and Kacki, Zygmunt

Abstract

Abstract Middle Asia is one of the most diverse regions on earth with high endemism of vascular plants and remarkable habitat richness, mainly due to the considerable altitudinal range (300–7,500 m a.s.l.). The region is considered as one of the 34 global biodiversity hotspots. This paper presents the Vegetation of Middle Asia database (VMA; GIVD ID: AS-00-003; http://www.givd.info/ID/AS-00-003) which is the regional database that covers the area of Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. The database contains phytosociological relevés collected between the years 2006 and 2016 in different vegetation types with the use of the Braun-Blanquet method. The covered vegetation types include: deciduous forests, rocks, steppes, mires, fens, screes, littoral, segetal and ruderal vegetation. Currently the database contains 2,513 geo-referenced relevés that are already published (approx. 85%) or remain as unpublished data (approx. 15%) with updated nomenclature. Here we present the database structure and descriptive statistics regarding the attributes of the relevés. The VMA is still not fully representative in terms of the geographical distribution of the relevés and habitat diversification. Particularly for Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and southern Kazakhstan, there remains a lack of comprehensive and sufficient phytosociological data. However, we trust that the database will continue to grow in scientific significance via new data addition and cooperation with local researchers.? Nomenclature: Cherepanov (1995) for vascular plants and Ignatov et al. (2006) and Ros et al. (2013) for mosses. Abbreviation: ?GIVD = Global Index of Vegetation-Plot Databases; VMA = Vegetation of Middle Asia Database. Submitted: 25 April 2017; first decision: 12 June 2017; accepted: 14 June 2017

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2017
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31. Classification of Molinia meadows in Poland using a hierarchical expert system

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Swacha, Grzegorz, Kacki, Zygmunt, and Zaluski, Tomasz

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Aims: A hierarchical expert system provides an opportunity to perform a formalized classification of vegetation at different syntaxonomical levels. Creating formal definitions for higher vegetation units is quite new to vegetation science. This approach was used for the delimitation of high-rank vegetation units consisting of species occurring almost exclusively in that particular type of vegetation and rarely found elsewhere. No formal definitions have been published so far for higher vegetation units of the class Molinio-Arrhenatheretea. In this study we used a hierarchical expert system to classify one of the most complex and heterogeneous vegetation type from this class, namely Molinion alliance, which combines taxa from different habitats and vegetation units. Location: Poland Methods: The classification was carried out based on 53,541 relevés from the Polish Vegetation Database (PVD). We applied a formal definition of the alliance Molinion to a geographically stratified data set. The resulting set of 586 relevés formed a group of relevés representing Molinion meadows for further detailed delimitation of units at the level of association. Results: Using Cocktail definitions we delimited four associations belonging to the alliance Molinion and made the first attempt to create a formal definition of this alliance. We determined diagnostic species for each vegetation unit, both at alliance and association levels. The presented Cocktail definition of the alliance Molinion can be used for explicit identification of Natura 2000 habitat – Molinia meadows on calcareous, peaty or clayey-silt-laden soils (6410) in Poland. Conclusions: We consider creating formal definitions for higher vegetation units as the efficient way of delimiting broader vegetation types. Once the alliance group is defined, it becomes a reference data subset for a detailed classification of low-rank vegetation units (i.e.associations). Creating formal definitions for alliances also seems to be of fundamental importance in terms of nature conservation.

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2016
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32. Classification of European and Mediterranean coastal dune vegetation

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Milan Chytrý, Iva Keizer-Sedláková, Alicia Teresa Rosario Acosta, Úna FitzPatrick, Riccardo Guarino, Borja Jiménez-Alfaro, Rossen Tzonev, Maike Isermann, John S. Rodwell, Javier Loidi, Zygmunt Kącki, Ilona Knollová, Joop H.J. Schaminée, John Janssen, Lubomír Tichý, Vitaliy Kolomiychuk, Urban Šilc, Dmytro Iakushenko, Corrado Marcenò, Mercedes Herrera, Marcenò, Corrado, Guarino, Riccardo, Loidi, Javier, Herrera, Mercede, Isermann, Maike, Knollová, Ilona, Tichý, Lubomír, Tzonev, Rossen T., Acosta, Alicia Teresa Rosario, FitzPatrick, Úna, Iakushenko, Dmytro, Janssen, John A. M., Jiménez-Alfaro, Borja, Kącki, Zygmunt, Keizer-Sedláková, Iva, Kolomiychuk, Vitaliy, Rodwell, John S., Schaminée, Joop H. J., Šilc, Urban, Chytrý, Milan, Fitzpatrick, Úna, and Kacki, Zygmunt

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0106 biological sciences, Mediterranean climate, Ammophiletea, Vegetation classification, phytosociology, Bos- en Landschapsecologie, Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, 010603 evolutionary biology, 01 natural sciences, Mediterranean Basin, Sand dune stabilization, Honckenyo-Elymetea, Koelerio-Corynephoretea canescentis, Forest and Landscape Ecology, 14. Life underwater, Expert system, Vegetatie, biogeography, vegetation classification, Nature and Landscape Conservation, expert system, Sand dune, Vegetation, Ecology, Phytosociology, Species diversity, 15. Life on land, PE&RC, Koelerio-Corynephoretea canescenti, Biogeography, Settore BIO/03 - Botanica Ambientale E Applicata, Plantenecologie en Natuurbeheer, Vegetatie, Bos- en Landschapsecologie, Ordination, Vegetation, Forest and Landscape Ecology, Physical geography, sand dune, 010606 plant biology & botany
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Aims: Although many phytosociological studies have provided detailed local and regional descriptions of coastal dune vegetation, a unified classification of this vegetation in Europe and the Mediterranean Basin has been missing. Our aim is to produce a formalized classification of this vegetation and to identify the main factors driving its plant species composition at a continental scale. LocationAtlantic and Baltic coasts of Europe, Mediterranean Basin and the Black Sea region. - Methods: We compiled a database of 30,759 plots of coastal vegetation, which were resampled to reduce unbalanced sampling effort, obtaining a data set of 11,769 plots. We classified these plots with TWINSPAN, interpreted the resulting clusters and used them for developing formal definitions of phytosociological alliances of coastal dune vegetation, which were included in an expert system for automatic vegetation classification. We related the alliances to climatic factors and described their biogeographic features and their position in the coastal vegetation zonation. We examined and visualized the floristic relationships among these alliances by means of DCA ordination. - Results: We defined 18 alliances of coastal dune vegetation, including the newly described Centaureo cuneifoliae-Verbascion pinnatifidi from the Aegean region. The main factors underlying the differentiation of these alliances were biogeographic and macroclimatic contrasts between the Atlantic-Baltic, Mediterranean and Black Sea regions, along with ecological differences between shifting and stable dunes. The main difference in species composition was between the Atlantic-Baltic and Mediterranean-Black Sea regions. Within the former region, the main difference was driven by the different ecological conditions between shifting and stable dunes, whereas within the latter, the main difference was biogeographic between the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. - Conclusions: The first formal classification of the European coastal dune vegetation was established, accompanied by an expert system containing the formal definitions of alliances, which can be applied to new data sets. The new classification system critically revised the previous concepts and integrated them into a consistent framework, which reflects the main gradients in species composition driven by biogeographic influences, macroclimate and the position of the sites in the coast-inland zonation of the dune systems. A revision of the class concept used in EuroVegChecklist is also proposed.

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2018

33. 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

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