Classification of the Mediterranean lowland to submontane pine forest vegetation

Autor: Ali Kavgaci, Claudia Angiolini, Carlos Neto, T. Monteiro-Henriques, José Carlos Costa, Željko Škvorc, Erwin Bergmeier, Fotios Xystrakis, Jiří Danihelka, Gianmaria Bonari, Alicia Teresa Rosario Acosta, Emiliano Agrillo, Stephan M. Hennekens, Milan Chytrý, Ilona Knollová, Yakiv Didukh, Federico Fernández-González, Kryštof Chytrý, Coşkun Sağlam, Süleyman Çoban, Lubomír Tichý
Přispěvatelé: Bonari, Gianmaria, Fernández‐gonzález, Federico, Çoban, Süleyman, Monteiro‐henriques, Tiago, Bergmeier, Erwin, Didukh, Yakiv P., Xystrakis, Fotio, Angiolini, Claudia, Chytrý, Kryštof, Acosta, Alicia, Agrillo, Emiliano, Costa, José C., Danihelka, Jiří, Hennekens, Stephan M., Kavgacı, Ali, Knollová, Ilona, Neto, Carlos S., Sağlam, Coşkun, Škvorc, Željko, Tichý, Lubomír, Chytrý, Milan
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
Předmět:
0106 biological sciences
Mediterranean climate
iogeography
classification
expert system
forest
Mediterranean Basin
phytosociology
pine
Pinetea halepensis
Pinus
Quercetea ilicis
vegetation classification
vegetation-plot database
phytosociology
Bos- en Landschapsecologie
01 natural sciences
Mediterranean Basin
forest
Pinus brutia
Forest and Landscape Ecology
Pinaster
biogeography
classification
expert system
pine
Pinetea halepensis
Pinus
Quercetea ilicis
vegetation classification
vegetation-plot database
Diversity
Ecology
biology
Phytosociology
Vegetation
Management
Checklist
Geography
Formalized Classification
Vegetatie
Bos- en Landschapsecologie
Woodlands
Vegetation classification
Plantations
Conservation
Management
Monitoring
Policy and Law
010603 evolutionary biology
Dominance (ecology)
Vegetatie
Nature and Landscape Conservation
biogeography
classification expert system
forest
Mediterranean Basin
phytosociology
pine
Pinetea halepensis
Pinus
Quercetea ilicis
vegetation classification
vegetation-plot database
Forestry
15. Life on land
biology.organism_classification
Cluster Pine
Pinus pinaster
Halepensis
Vegetation
Forest and Landscape Ecology
010606 plant biology & botany
Zdroj: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal
Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP)
instacron:RCAAP
Applied Vegetation Science, 24(1)
Applied Vegetation Science 24 (2021) 1
ISSN: 1402-2001
Popis: 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. Department of Botany and Zoology, Masaryk University; Free University of Bozen-Bolzano [TN201H]; Czech Science FoundationGrant Agency of the Czech Republic [19-28491X]; Plan Propio of the UCLM [2020-GRIN-29214]; European Social Fund (POCH); National Funds (MCTES) through a Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia postdoctoral fellowship [SFRH/BPD/115057/2016, UIDB/04033/2020] GB was funded by the post-doc programme of the Department of Botany and Zoology, Masaryk University and by the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano through the CONplant project (TN201H), JD, IK, LT and MC by the Czech Science Foundation (19-28491X), FFG by the Plan Propio of the UCLM (2020-GRIN-29214), TMH by the European Social Fund (POCH), by National Funds (MCTES) through a Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia postdoctoral fellowship (SFRH/BPD/115057/2016) and project no. UIDB/04033/2020.
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