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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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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A phytosociological survey of aquatic vegetation in the main freshwater lakes of Greece [PDF]
Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS), 2020 Aims: This study aims to contribute to the knowledge of European freshwater lake ecosystems with updated and new information on aquatic plant communities, by conducting national-scale phytosociological research of freshwater lake vegetation in Greece ...
Dimitrios Zervas +3 more
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Are natural disturbances represented in strictly protected areas in Germany?
Global Ecology and Conservation, 2021 Natural disturbances are largely suppressed in Central European landscapes due to economic and human safety concerns. European goals to increase the extent of secondary wilderness areas have the potential to support the restoration of threatened habitats
Sebastian Brackhane +3 more
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Vegetation Classification Exercise for the Pawnee National Grasslands, USA [PDF]
Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS), 2020 Aims: Vegetation classifications are useful for a variety of management purposes as well as scientific exploration. Local classifications are common throughout the United States but only recently have been integrated into a national classification system,
Scott B. Franklin +2 more
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A vector map of the world’s terrestrial biotic units: subbiomes, biomes, ecozones and domains [PDF]
Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS), 2023 A vector map of biotic units encompassing the entire terrestrial area of the earth is provided. It contains a hierarchical system of domains, ecozones, biomes and subbiomes, as a large-scale description of the terrestrial ecosystems.
Javier Loidi +2 more
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Ecological Indicator Values for Europe (EIVE) 1.0 [PDF]
Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS), 2023 Aims: To develop a consistent ecological indicator value system for Europe for five of the main plant niche dimensions: soil moisture (M), soil nitrogen (N), soil reaction (R), light (L) and temperature (T).
Jürgen Dengler +33 more
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Proposal (29) to conserve the name Omphalodo nitidae-Coryletum avellanae Amigo, G. Azcárate et Romero 1994 with a conserved type [PDF]
Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS), 2022 The association Omphalodo nitidae-Coryletum avellanae was defined by assembling relevés on (mainly) Corylus avellana woods on nutrient-rich substrates in the westernmost part of the Cantabrian Range (NW Spain).
Manuel A. Rodríguez-Guitián +1 more
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Classification of grasslands and other open vegetation types in the Palaearctic – Introduction to the Special Collection [PDF]
Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS), 2022 With this editorial, we introduce the Special Collection “Classification of grasslands and other open vegetation types in the Palaearctic”. In searching the Web of Science for classification papers on Palaearctic grasslands, we found 207 studies from ...
Arkadiusz Nowak +3 more
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Proposal (32) to conserve the name Agrostion castellanae with a conserved type [PDF]
Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS), 2023 The alliance name Agrostion castellanae has been widely used for nearly sixty years to indicate a type of acidophilic perennial grasslands occurring in the Iberian Peninsula.
Massimo Terzi +3 more
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