Oak-hornbeam forests of central Europe: a formalized classification and syntaxonomic revision

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216224:14310/20:00114151

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.23855/preslia.2020.001" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.23855/preslia.2020.001</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.23855/preslia.2020.001" target="_blank" >10.23855/preslia.2020.001</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Oak-hornbeam forests of central Europe: a formalized classification and syntaxonomic revision

Original language description

Oak-hornbeam forests (order Caminetalia) are a widespread vegetation type in central Europe. As vegetation ecologists focused on them since the pioneering times of vegetation research, many syntaxonomic units are described. However, classification systems used in various central-European countries suffer from inconsistencies and overlaps of the concepts of particular associations. Currently there is no consistent syntaxonomic system based on numerical analysis of vegetation plots that would be valid for the whole of central Europe. Therefore, the main goal of this study is to provide a revised syntaxonomic system of oak-hornbeam forests across central Europe, develop formal definitions of the associations and include these definitions in a classification expert system. We recognized 13 associations, 9 from the alliance Carpinion bet all (central-European oak-hornbeam forests) and four from the alliance Dythronio-Carpinion (Illyrian and northern Italian oak-hornbeam forests). We prepared an expert system that classified 55% of the releves in a central-European oak-hornbeam forest dataset (n = 6212) at the association level. To stabilize the Carpinion befall association names, we selected nomenclatural type releves for associations that have not been typified so far. In addition. two association names (Poo chaixii-Caminetam and Pseudostellario-Carpinetum) were validated. Ordination revealed the main drivers of species diversity in these forests, including a complex gradient of soil moisture, nutrient availability and geographical position (mainly latitude). Among the climate variables, annual temperature amplitude and mean annual temperature were most closely correlated with species composition.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10611 - Plant sciences, botany

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA17-15168S" target="_blank" >GA17-15168S: Next generation expert systems for vegetation classification on a continental scale</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Preslia

ISSN

0032-7786

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

92

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

34

Pages from-to

1-34

UT code for WoS article

000519983500001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85085067286