Vegetation Classification and Survey: development and diversification [PDF]
Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS), 2022 We report on the completed second volume of Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS), whose content grew by 41% compared to the first volume. We were able to diversify article types, geographic coverage, authors and editorial team, the latter now ...
Jürgen Dengler +3 more
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Chilean vegetation in the context of the Braun-Blanquet approach and a comparison with EcoVeg formations [PDF]
Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS), 2022 Aims: The Braun-Blanquet approach has been widely implemented to generate classification schemes at the country level and Chile is not an exception. In spite of numerous studies, a revised system for the whole country is still missing and most of the ...
Miguel Alvarez, Federico Luebert
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UK National Vegetation Classification Database [PDF]
Biodiversity & Ecology, 2012 The UK National Vegetation Classification Database (GIVD ID GB-001) holds the encoded data for 35,000 releves from the UK NVC programme. The NVC is a phytosociological classification of all vegetation types of natural, semi-natural and major artificial habitats in England, Scotland and Wales.
J. S. Rodwell
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The Alaska vegetation classification. [PDF]
, 1992 Viereck, L.A.; Dyrness, C.T.; Batten, A.R.; Wenzlick, K.J. 1992. The Alaska vegetation classification. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-286. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 278 p. The Alaska vegetation classification presented here is a comprehensive, statewide system that has been under ...
Leslie A. Viereck +3 more
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Vegetation Classification and Survey is performing well [PDF]
Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS)On the occasion of the completion of the fourth volume of Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS), we have analysed the performance of the journal since its inception. The number of papers and pages show a moderate increase over the years.
Jürgen Dengler +3 more
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Proposals (26–27): to conserve the names Nanocyperetalia Klika 1935 and Isoetetalia Braun-Blanquet 1936 [PDF]
Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS), 2021 After a nomenclatural revision of the higher rank syntaxa of the class Isoeto-Nanojuncetea, the conservation of the order name Nanocyperetalia against Nanocypero-Polygonetalia and a conserved type for the order Isoetetalia are proposed.
Federico Fernández-González +2 more
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Grassland with tradition: sampling across several scientific disciplines [PDF]
Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS), 2021 The traditional, low-input use of grassland in Central and Eastern Europe has provided high-quality food, clothing and manure for millennia. As an outcome of sustainable low-intensity agriculture, some rural areas have globally significant species ...
Monika Janišová +3 more
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Plant diversity and structure in desert communities of the Andean piedmont in Ica, Peru [PDF]
Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS), 2022 Aims: There is extensive documentation of the floristic composition and plant diversity patterns in the South American coastal deserts and the adjoining arid Puna.
Angie Montenegro-Hoyos +2 more
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Fine-grain beta diversity in Palaearctic open vegetation: variability within and between biomes and vegetation types [PDF]
Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS), 2021 Aims: To quantify how fine-grain (within-plot) beta diversity differs among biomes and vegetation types. Study area: Palaearctic biogeographic realm. Methods: We extracted 4,654 nested-plot series with at least four different grain sizes between 0.0001 ...
Iwona Dembicz +17 more
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Invasive species over-stabilise the vegetation of a mobile dunefield, Manawatū, New Zealand, disrupting natural succession [PDF]
Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS), 2023 Aims: Mobile, coastal dunefields around the world are under threat from invasive plants, which may out-compete native plant species. These aliens may also accelerate stabilisation of the dunes, to the complete exclusion of early successional native flora.
Gillian L. Rapson +2 more
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