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Classification of the Mediterranean lowland to submontane pine forest vegetation
Applied Vegetation Science · Ocak 2021
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Classification of the Mediterranean lowland to submontane pine forest vegetation
APPLIED VEGETATION SCIENCE · 2021 SCI-Expanded
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Makale Bilgileri
DergiApplied Vegetation Science
Yayın TarihiOcak 2021
Cilt / Sayfa24
Scopus ID2-s2.0-85099807861
Özet
Aim: Vegetation types of Mediterranean thermophilous pine forests dominated by Pinus brutia, Pinus halepensis, Pinus pinaster and Pinus pinea were studied in various areas. However, a comprehensive formal vegetation classification of these forests based on a detailed data analysis has never been developed. Our aim is to provide the first broad-scale classification of these pine forests based on a large data set of vegetation plots. Location: Southern Europe, North Africa, Levant, Anatolia, Crimea and the Caucasus. Methods: We prepared a data set of European and Mediterranean pine forest vegetation plots. We selected 7,277 plots dominated by the cold-sensitive Mediterranean pine species Pinus brutia, Pinus halepensis, Pinus pinaster and Pinus pinea. We classified these plots using TWINSPAN, interpreted the ecologically and biogeographically homogeneous TWINSPAN clusters as alliances, and developed an expert system for automatic vegetation classification at the class, order and alliance levels. Results: We described Pinetea halepensis as a new class for the Mediterranean lowland to submontane pine forests, included in the existing Pinetalia halepensis order, and distinguished 12 alliances of native thermophilous pine forests, including four newly described and three informal groups merging supposedly native stands and old-established plantations. The main gradients in species composition reflect elevational vegetation belts and the west–east, and partly north–south, biogeographical differences. Both temperature and precipitation seasonality co-vary with these gradients. Conclusions: We provide the first formal classification at the order and alliance levels for all the Mediterranean thermophilous pine forests based on vegetation-plot data. This classification includes traditional syntaxa, which have been critically revised, and a new class and four new alliances. We also outline a methodological workflow that might be useful for other vegetation classification syntheses. The expert system, which is jointly based on pine dominance and species composition, is a tool for applying this classification in research and nature conservation survey, monitoring and management.
Yazarlar (21)
1
Gianmaria Bonari
ORCID: 0000-0002-5574-6067
2
Federico Fernández-González
ORCID: 0000-0003-1234-4065
3
Süleyman Çoban
ORCID: 0000-0003-1570-9795
4
Tiago Monteiro-Henriques
ORCID: 0000-0002-4206-0699
5
Erwin Bergmeier
ORCID: 0000-0002-6118-4611
6
Yakiv P. Didukh
ORCID: 0000-0001-7619-0283
7
Fotios Xystrakis
ORCID: 0000-0002-3318-2686
8
Claudia Angiolini
ORCID: 0000-0002-9054-9480
9
Kryštof Chytrý
ORCID: 0000-0003-4113-6564
10
Alicia T.R. Acosta
ORCID: 0000-0001-6572-3187
11
Emiliano Agrillo
ORCID: 0000-0003-2346-8346
12
José C. Costa
ORCID: 0000-0002-7619-840X
13
Jiří Danihelka
ORCID: 0000-0002-2640-7867
14
Stephan M. Hennekens
15
Ali Kavgacı
ORCID: 0000-0002-4549-3668
16
Ilona Knollová
17
Carlos S. Neto
ORCID: 0000-0003-0912-0255
18
Coskun Saglam
19
Željko Škvorc
ORCID: 0000-0002-2848-1454
20
Lubomír Tichý
ORCID: 0000-0001-8400-7741
21
Milan Chytrý
ORCID: 0000-0002-8122-3075
Anahtar Kelimeler
biogeography
classification
expert system
forest
Mediterranean Basin
phytosociology
pine
Pinetea halepensis
Pinus
Quercetea ilicis
vegetation classification
vegetation-plot database
Kurumlar
Albrecht-von-Haller-Institut für Pflanzenwissenschaften
Gottingen Germany
Centro de Investigação e de Tecnologias Agroambientais e Biológicas
Vila Real Portugal
Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Bolzano Italy
Hellenic Agricultural Organization-DIMITRAADA
Athens Greece
Helsingin Yliopisto
Helsinki Finland
Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território da Universidade de Lisboa
Lisbon Portugal
Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa
Istanbul Turkey
Italian Institute for Environmental Protection and Research
Rome Italy
Karabük Üniversitesi
Karabuk Turkey
Masaryk University
Brno Czech Republic
M.G. Kholodny Institute of Botany
Kyiv Ukraine
Selçuk Üniversitesi
Selçuklu Turkey
Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha
Ciudad Real Spain
Universidade de Lisboa
Lisbon Portugal
Università degli Studi di Siena
Siena Italy
Università degli Studi Roma Tre
Rome Italy
University of Zagreb
Zagreb Croatia
Wageningen University & Research
Wageningen Netherlands
Metrikler
61
Atıf
21
Yazar
12
Anahtar Kelime