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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Proposal (35) to conserve the name Festucion valesiacae [PDF]
Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS), 2023 For ninety years, the alliance name Festucion valesiacae has been widely and almost exclusively used to designate the alliance of steppic, xeric grasslands on deep soils from Central Europe to western Ukraine.
Jean-Paul Theurillat +3 more
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Montane mire vegetation of the New England Tablelands Bioregion of Eastern Australia [PDF]
Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS), 2020 Aims: To use unsupervised techniques to produce a hierarchical classification of montane mires of the study region. Study area: New England Tablelands Bioregion (NETB) of eastern Australia. Methods: A dataset of 280 vascular floristic survey plots placed
John T. Hunter, Vanessa H. Hunter
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AMS-VegBank: a new database of vegetation plots for the Italian territory [PDF]
Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS), 2022 The importance of collection, storage and exchange of georeferenced vegetation plot-based data has significantly grown in the recent decades, because of the new potentialities offered by ecoinformatics.
Nicola Alessi +13 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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