Published June 12, 2024 | Version 2.0
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Structural, ecological and biogeographical attributes of European vegetation alliances

Creators

  • 1. Department of Botany and Zoology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
  • 2. University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy
  • 3. Department of Plant Biology and Ecology, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Bilbao, Spain
  • 4. M.G. Kholodny Institute of Botany, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
  • 5. Botany Unit, Department of Pharmacology, Pharmacognosy and Botany, Complutense University, Madrid, Spain
  • 6. Togliatti, Russia
  • 7. Institute of Bioscience and Bioresources, CNR, Bari, Italy
  • 8. Centre Alpien de Phytogéographie, Fondation J.-M. Aubert, Champex-Lac, Switzerland
  • 9. Department of Botany and Plant Biology, University of Geneva, Chambésy, Switzerland
  • 10. Conservatoire Botanique National Méditerranéen, Hyères, France
  • 11. Geoarchitecture, University of Western Brittany, Brest, France
  • 12. ECOCHANGE, CIBIO-InBIO - Research Centre in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources, University of Porto, Oporto, Portugal
  • 13. Jovan Hadži Institute of Biology, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • 14. School for Viticulture and Enology, University of Nova Gorica, Nova Gorica, Slovenia
  • 15. Department of Silviculture, Faculty of Forestry, Istanbul University-Cerrahpaşa, Turkey
  • 16. Department of Ecology, University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary
  • 17. Department of Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Science, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia
  • 18. Institute of Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius, Skopje, North Macedonia
  • 19. Vegetation Ecology, Institute of Natural Resource Sciences (IUNR), Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW), Wädenswil, Switzerland
  • 20. Plant Ecology, Bayreuth Center of Ecology and Environmental Research (BayCEER), University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
  • 21. Institute of Botany, Plant Science and Biodiversity Center, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia
  • 22. Department of Environmental Biology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
  • 23. Institute of Environmental Sciences (ICAM), University of Castilla-La Mancha, Toledo, Spain
  • 24. Department STEBICEF, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy
  • 25. Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Zielona Góra, Zielona Góra, Poland
  • 26. Landscape Ecology, Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany
  • 27. Department of Plant Biology, Faculty of AgriSciences, Mendel University in Brno, Brno, Czech Republic
  • 28. Beskydy Protected Landscape Area Administration, Rožnov pod Radhoštěm, Czech Republic
  • 29. Burdur Food, Agriculture and Livestock Vocational School, Burdur Mehmet Akif Ersoy University, Burdur, Turkey
  • 30. Department of Forest Ecology, Faculty of Forestry, University of Banja Luka, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • 31. Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
  • 32. Centre for the Research and Technology of Agro-Environmental and Biological Sciences (CITAB), University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro (UTAD), Vila Real, Portugal
  • 33. Global Change and Conservation Lab (GCC), Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
  • 34. Iluka Chair in Vegetation Science & Biogeography, Harry Butler Institute, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Perth, Australia
  • 35. Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa
  • 36. Botanical Garden, Center for Biological Diversity Conservation, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa, Poland
  • 37. Botanical Garden, University of Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland
  • 38. Institute of Botany, Nature Research Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
  • 39. Department of Botany, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland
  • 40. Faculty of Geography and Earth Sciences, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia
  • 41. Jardín de Aclimatación de La Orotava-ICIA, Puerto de La Cruz, Tenerife, Spain
  • 42. Faculty of Forestry, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
  • 43. Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, University of Montenegro, Podgorica, Montenegro
  • 44. Museum of Natural History, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland
  • 45. Department of Ecology and Environmental Protection, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", Sofia, Bulgaria
  • 46. Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
  • 47. Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Description

This is a database of structural, ecological and biogeographical attributes of 1115 European phytosociological alliances. The original version was published by Preislerová et al. (2024). This article also contained definitions and descriptions of individual attributes.

Version 2 of this dataset has been updated to match Version 3 of EuroVegChecklist (Mucina et al. 2016) published on https://floraveg.eu/download/. This version contains syntaxonomic changes in the vegetation of coastal dunes (classes Ammophiletea arundinaceae, Helichryso-Crucianelletea maritimae and Honckenyo peploidis-Leymetea arenarii), Mediterranean pine forests (order Pinetalia halepensis) and bogs (class Oxycocco-Sphagnetea) approved by the European Vegetation Classification Committee in January 2024 following the proposals published by Marcenò et al. (2018, 2024), Bonari et al. (2021) and Jiroušek et al. (2022), respectively.

The data are provided in two files with identical contents, one in the XLSX format, and the other in the TXT format with columns separated by tabs.

References

  • Bonari G., Fernández‐González F., Çoban S., Monteiro‐Henriques T., Bergmeier E., Didukh Ya. P. … Chytrý, M. (2021). Classification of the Mediterranean lowland to submontane pine forest vegetation. Applied Vegetation Science, 24, e12544. https://doi.org/10.1111/avsc.12544
  • Jiroušek, M., Peterka, T., Chytrý, M., Jiménez-Alfaro, B., Kuznetsov, O.L., Pérez-Haase, A. … Hájek, M. (2022). Classification of European bog vegetation of the Oxycocco-Sphagnetea class. Applied Vegetation Science, 25, e12646. https://doi.org/10.1111/avsc.12646
  • Marcenò, C., Guarino, R., Loidi, J., Herrera, M., Isermann, M., Knollová, I. … Chytrý, M. (2018). Classification of European and Mediterranean coastal dune vegetation. Applied Vegetation Science, 21, 533–559. https://doi.org/10.1111/avsc.12379
  • Marcenò, C., Danihelka, J., Dziuba, T., Willner, W. & Chytrý, M. (2024). Nomenclatural revision of the syntaxa of European coastal dune vegetation. Vegetation Classification and Survey, 5, 27–37. https://doi.org/10.3897/VCS.108560
  • Mucina, L., Bültmann, H., Dierßen, K., Theurillat, J.-P., Raus, T., Čarni, A. … Tichý, L. (2016). Vegetation of Europe: Hierarchical floristic classification system of vascular plant, bryophyte, lichen, and algal communities. Applied Vegetation Science, 19(Suppl. 1.), 3–264. https://doi.org/10.1111/avsc.12257
  • Preislerová Z., Marcenò C., Loidi J., Bonari G., Borovyk D., Gavilán R.G., Golub V., Terzi M., Theurillat J.-P., Argagnon O., Bioret F., Biurrun I., Campos J.A., Capelo J., Čarni A., Çoban S., Csiky J., Ćuk M., Ćušterevska R., Dengler J., Didukh Ya., Dítě D., Fanelli G., Fernández-González F., Guarino R., Hájek O., Iakushenko D., Iemelianova S., Jansen F., Jašková A., Jiroušek M., Kalníková V., Kavgacı A., Kuzemko A., Landucci F., Lososová Z., Milanović Đ., Molina J.A., Monteiro-Henriques T., Mucina L., Novák P., Nowak A., Pätsch R., Perrin G., Peterka T., Rašomavičius V., Reczyńska K., Rūsiņa S., Sánchez Mata D., Santos Guerra A., Šibík J., Škvorc Ž., Stešević D., Stupar V., Świerkosz K., Tzonev R., Vassilev K., Vynokurov D., Willner W. & Chytrý M. (2024) Structural, ecological and biogeographical attributes of European vegetation alliances. Applied Vegetation Science, 27, e12766. https://doi.org/10.1111/avsc.12766

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