Phytosociological data give biased estimates of species richness

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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Phytosociological data give biased estimates of species richness
Original language description
Large phytosociological datasets of three types of grassland and three types of forest vegetation from the Czech Republic were analysed with a focus on plot size used in phytosociological sampling and on the species-area relationship. The datasets included altogether 12,975 relevés, sampled by different authors in different parts of the country between 1922-1999. It was shown that in the grassland datasets, the relevés sampled before the 1960s tended to have a larger plot size than the relevés made later. No temporal variation in plot sizes used was detected in forest relevés. Species-area curves fitted to the data showed unnatural shapes, with levelling-off or even decrease in plot sizes higher than average. This distortion is explained by the subjective, preferential method of field sampling used in phytosociology. When making relevés in species-poor vegetation, many researchers probably tend to use larger plots in order to obtain species-richer relevés. They seem to do that because
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
EH - Ecology - communities
OECD FORD branch
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Project
<a href="/en/project/GA206%2F99%2F1523" target="_blank" >GA206/99/1523: Parameterization of the phytosociological classification using large datasets</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2001
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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