Published December 13, 2022 | Version v3
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Disturbance indicator values for European plants

Creators

  • 1. Department of Botany and Zoology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
  • 2. Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republiczech Republic
  • 3. Department of Chemistry, Biology and Biotechnology, University of Perugia, Italy
  • 4. Institute of Biology/Geobotany and Botanical Garden, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
  • 5. WSL Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
  • 6. Department of Botany, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
  • 7. Department of Vegetation & Phytodiversity Analysis, University of Göttingen, Germany
  • 8. Plant Biology and Ecology, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Bilbao, Spain
  • 9. Faculty of Science and Technology, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy
  • 10. Institute of Biology, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • 11. BIOME Lab, Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
  • 12. Department of Environmental Biology, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
  • 13. Karachaevsk, Russia
  • 14. Vegetation Ecology Research Group, Institute of Natural Resource Sciences (IUNR), Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW), Wädenswil, Switzerland
  • 15. Department of Geobotany and Ecology, M.G. Kholodny Institute of Botany, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
  • 16. Climpact Data Science (CDS), Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France
  • 17. Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, University of Catania, Italy
  • 18. Biology Education, Dokuz Eylul University, Buca, İzmir, Turkey
  • 19. ASES Ecological and Sustainable Services, Aubenas, France
  • 20. Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, University of Rostock, Germany
  • 21. Department of Organisms and Systems Biology and Research Unit of Biodiversity (UMIB, UO-CSIC-PA), University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain
  • 22. Centre for Ecological Research, Institute of Ecology and Botany, Vácrátót, Hungary
  • 23. UMR CNRS 7058 Ecologie et Dynamique des Systèmes Anthropisés (EDYSAN) Université de Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens, France
  • 24. Department of Biosciences, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of Vic - Central University of Catalonia, Vic, Barcelona, Spain
  • 25. Department of Forest Biodiversity, Faculty of Forestry, University of Agriculture in Kraków, Poland
  • 26. Kazan, Russia
  • 27. Nature Research Centre, Institute of Botany, Vilnius, Lithuania
  • 28. Hungarian Department of Biology and Ecology, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
  • 29. Faculty of Geography and Earth Sciences, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia
  • 30. ZRC SAZU, Institute of Biology, Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • 31. University of Zagreb, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Zagreb, Croatia
  • 32. Faculty of Geotechnical Engineering, University of Zagreb, Varaždin, Croatia
  • 33. School of Environment, Earth and Ecosystem Sciences, STEM, Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

Description

We report a data set of disturbance indicator values identifying mean optima along gradients of natural and anthropogenic disturbance for 6,382 vascular plant species based on the analysis of 736,366 European vegetation plots and using an expert-based characterization of disturbance regimes in 236 habitat types. The indicator values presented here are crucial for integrating disturbance niche optima in large-scale assessments of vegetation and macroecological studies.

The data set contains five main continuous indicator values for European plants: disturbance severity, disturbance frequency, mowing frequency, grazing pressure and soil disturbance. The first two indicators are provided separately for the whole community and the herb layer.

Reference:
Midolo, G., Herben, T., Axmanová, I., Marcenò, C., Pätsch, R., Bruelheide, H., Karger D.N., Aćić, S., Bergamini, A., Bergmeier, E., Biurrun, I., Bonari, G., Čarni, A., Chiarucci, A., De Sanctis, M., Demina, O., Dengler, J., Dziuba, T., Fanelli, G., Garbolino, E., Giusso del Galdo, G., Goral, F., Güler, B., Hinojos-Mendoza, G., Jansen, F., Jiménez-Alfaro, B., Lengyel, A., Lenoir, J., Pérez-Haase, A., Pielech, R., Prokhorov, V., Rašomavičius, V., Ruprecht, E., Rusina, S., Šilc, U., Škvorc, Ž., Stancic, Z., Tatarenko, I., & Chytrý, M. (2022). Disturbance indicator values for European plants. Global Ecology and Biogeography (Accepted for publication)

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