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Beyond central-tendency: If we agree discrete vegetation communities do not exist, should we investigate other methods of clustering? [PDF]

Ecol Evol, 2023
Clustering is indispensable to the task of building robust vegetation classification systems, and yet the attribution of samples to clusters is notoriously unstable. The likelihood of a sample relocating to a new cluster (instability) upon the addition of new data is inversely proportional to the degree to which it is interconnected with other samples (
Tozer MG, Keith DA.
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The whole and its parts : why and how to disentangle plant communities and synusiae in vegetation classification [PDF]

, 2020
Most plant communities consist of different structural and ecological subsets, ranging from cryptogams to different tree layers. The completeness and approach with which these subsets are sampled have implications for vegetation classification.
Barkman J. J., Berg C., Berg C., Berg C., Boch S., Bültmann H., Chytrý M., Dengler J., Dierschke H., Dierßen K., Du Rietz G. E., Du Rietz G. E., Gillet F., Grattan‐Guinness I., Hobohm C., Husserl E., Hübschmann A., Janssen J. A. M., Julve P., Klement O., Marstaller R., Pavillard J., Schaminée J. H. J., Whitehead A. N., Wilmanns O., Wilmanns O., Wirth V.   +26 more
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Riparian woody plant communities in the Romanian Carpathians: Species diversity and community structure of Salix and Hippophaë communities. [PDF]

Ecol Evol
This article examines riparian woody plant communities in the Romanian Carpathians, focusing on Salix purpurea, S. alba, and Hippophaë rhamnoides communities in mountain regions. The study reveals a total of 174 plant species, with herbaceous species being the most abundant. Salix alba and S.
Bita-Nicolae C, Florescu LI, Purice D, Kaya O.   +3 more
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Heterogeneity of fern communities in riparian forest remnants from the South Brazilian Campos (Pampa) [PDF]

Brazilian Journal of Biology, 2019
Riparian forests present biotic and abiotic factors that influence environmental dissimilarity, which reflect specific fern distribution. The purpose of this this study was to evaluate the environmental heterogeneity associated to the terrestrial fern ...
V. L. Silva, C. R. Orlandi, L. Funck, M. C. Winhelmann, J. L. Schmitt, C. S. Fior, E. M. Freitas   +6 more
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Successional theories

Biological Reviews, Volume 98, Issue 6, Page 2049-2077, December 2023., 2023
ABSTRACT Succession is a fundamental concept in ecology because it indicates how species populations, communities, and ecosystems change over time on new substrate or after a disturbance. A mechanistic understanding of succession is needed to predict how ecosystems will respond to land‐use change and to design effective ecosystem restoration strategies.
Lourens Poorter, Lucy Amissah, Frans Bongers, Iris Hordijk, Jazz Kok, Susan G. W. Laurance, Madelon Lohbeck, Miguel Martínez‐Ramos, Tomonari Matsuo, Jorge A. Meave, Rodrigo Muñoz, Marielos Peña‐Claros, Masha T. van der Sande   +12 more
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Phytosociological research on temporary ponds in Apulia (southern Italy)

Mediterranean Botany, 2020
The ephemeral hygrophilous vegetation occurring in the temporary ponds of Apulia (southern Italy) weres studied following the phytosociological approach.
Valeria Tomaselli, Leonardo Beccarisi, Salvatore Brullo, Salvatore Cambria, Luigi Forte, Pietro Minissale, Giuseppe Veronico   +6 more
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The Plant Communities of the Class Isoëto-Nanojuncetea in Sicily

Plants, 2022
A syntaxonomical revision of the Isoëto-Nanojuncetea class for the Sicilian territory is provided. This syntaxon gathers the ephemeral herbaceous hygrophilous plant communities linked to periodically submerged soils, widely distributed in the European ...
Salvatore Brullo, Cristian Brullo, Saverio Sciandrello, Gianmarco Tavilla, Salvatore Cambria, Valeria Tomaselli, Vincenzo Ilardi, Gianpietro Giusso del Galdo, Pietro Minissale   +8 more
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RAD sequencing, morphometry and synecology clarify the taxonomy of the Melica ciliata (Poaceae) complex in France and Poland

Journal of Systematics and Evolution, Volume 61, Issue 5, Page 764-775, September 2023., 2023
Three types of markers were used to clarify the taxonomic status of Melica magnolii, Melica ciliata subsp. glauca, and Melica transsilvanica subsp. transsilvanica. RAD sequencing‐based phylogenetic analyses reveal the monophyletic nature of each taxon, which is congruent with morphometric clustering and habitat distinctions.
Sergio Castro, Audrey Muratet, Magdalena Szczepaniak, Julie Nguefack, Laurent Hardion   +4 more
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The Initiation of a Phytosociological Study on Certain Types of Medicinal Plants

Agriculture, 2022
The cultivation of medicinal plants represents great necessity and topicality these days, given that the pharmaceutical industry requires high quality raw materials in large quantities. Those are used for the production of food supplements/phytomedicines/
Emanuela Alice Luță, Manuela Ghica, Cerasela Elena Gîrd   +2 more
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The Historic Square Foot Dataset – Outstanding small‐scale richness in Swiss grasslands around the year 1900

Journal of Vegetation Science, Volume 34, Issue 5, September/October 2023., 2023
The Historic Square Foot Dataset comprises several hundred vegetation plots conducted between 1884 and 1931 in grassland habitats all over Switzerland. These data are unique in providing insights in how grasslands in Central Europe were composed, making them an important source of information for vegetation science and global‐change studies.
Susanne Riedel, Stefan Widmer, Manuel Babbi, Serge Buholzer, Andreas Grünig, Felix Herzog, Nina Richner, Jürgen Dengler   +7 more
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