Assessing the habitat conservation status by soil parameters and plant ecoindicators

Sicuriello, F.; Nicola, Cristina De; Dowgiallo, G.; Testi, Anna Maria

doi:10.3832/ifor0963-007

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“…In the Web of Science database, 907 articles with the keywords (including words used in abstracts) 'Ellenberg' AND 'Indicator' were registered between 1 January 1974 and 30 June 2022, indicating their importance to plant ecologists. Several studies found a good agreement between community means (weighted or non-weighted) calculated from Ellenberg indicator values and values of environmental variables measured in situ (Ellenberg et al, 1992;Herzberger & Karrer, 1992;Hill & Carey, 1997;Ertsen et al, 1998;Schaffers & Sýkora, 2000;Wamelink et al, 2002;Diekmann, 2003;Chytrý et al, 2009;Sicuriello et al, 2014). Some authors also discussed the consistency of indicator values between different geographical areas (Diekmann & Lawesson, 1999;Gégout & Krizova, 2003;Godefroid & Dana, 2007;Wasof et al, 2013).…”

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Ellenberg‐type indicator values for European vascular plant species

Tichý

Axmanová

Dengler

et al. 2023

J Vegetation Science

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Aims: Ellenberg-type indicator values are expert-based rankings of plant species according to their ecological optima on main environmental gradients. Here we extend the indicator-value system proposed by Heinz Ellenberg and co-authors for Central Europe by incorporating other systems of Ellenberg-type indicator values (i.e., those using scales compatible with Ellenberg values) developed for other European regions. Our aim is to create a harmonized data set of Ellenberg-type indicator values applicable at the European scale.Methods: We collected European data sets of indicator values for vascular plants and selected 13 data sets that used the nine-, ten-or twelve-degree scales defined by Ellenberg for light, temperature, moisture, reaction, nutrients and salinity. We compared these values with the original Ellenberg values and used those that showed consistent trends in regression slope and coefficient of determination. We calculated the average value for each combination of species and indicator values from these data sets. Based on species' co-occurrences in European vegetation plots, we also calculated new values for species that were not assigned an indicator value. Results: We provide a new data set of Ellenberg-type indicator values for 8908European vascular plant species (8168 for light, 7400 for temperature, 8030 for

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Ellenberg‐type indicator values for European vascular plant species

Tichý

Axmanová

Dengler

et al. 2023

J Vegetation Science

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“…Most of the applications of Eiv in the Mediterranean region were aimed at ''fingerprinting'' the ecological context of plant communities described by floristic composition (Lucchese and Monterosso 1994;Pignatti 1998Pignatti , 1999Pignatti et al 1996Pignatti et al , 2001Guarino and Bernardini 2002;Fanelli 2002;Bianco et al 2003;Fanelli et al 2006a b;Gristina and Marcenò 2008;Mossa et al 2008;Brunialti et al 2010); however, the correlation between mean values with related environmental variables has been checked only in very few contributions (Fanelli et al 2006c;Testi et al 2009, Sicuriello et al 2014Guarino et al 2014) and for very limited vegetation units.…”

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A test on Ellenberg indicator values in the Mediterranean evergreen woods (Quercetea ilicis)

Marcenò

Guarino²

2015

Rend. Fis. Acc. Lincei

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The consistency and reliability of Ellenberg's indicator values (Eiv) as ecological descriptors of the Mediterranean evergreen vegetation ascribed to the phytosociological class Quercetea ilicis have been checked on a set of 859 phytosociological relevés 9 699 species. Diagnostic species were identified through a Twinspan analysis and their Eiv analyzed and related to the following independent variables: (1) annual mean temperatures, (2) annual rainfall. The results provided interesting insights to disentangle the current syntaxonomical framework at the alliance level demonstrating the usefulness of ecological indicator values to test the efficiency and predictivity of the phytosociological classification.

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“…However, the hemeroby index has been successfully applied to study the changes in community and species composition to assess the response of vegetation to disturbance (Yorkina et al, 2020). The plant ecoindicators represented by the Ellenberg bioindicator model and the hemeroby index were used to determine the relationship between soil and vegetation (Sicuriello et al, 2014). The phytoindication method in combination with the syntaxonomic classification of vegetation has been shown to be effective for assessing the condition of land disturbed by amber mining (Churilov et al, 2020).…”

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“…The hemeroby increases with increasing human impact (Zajicek & Wolter, 2018). The degree of hemeroby is measured by indicators such as the proportion of neophytic and therophytic species (Zinnen et al, 2021), morphological and chemical features of soils (Sicuriello et al, 2014), and land use types (Fehrenbach et al, 2015). The plant communities on degraded lands are highly hemerobic communities characterized by high specialization and pioneering nature.…”

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Which index is better for assessing the success of reclamation: Naturalness or hemeroby?

Podpriatova,

Kunakh,

Zhukov

2023

Biosys. divers.

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The destruction of soil and vegetation caused by mining, if not prevented through careful planning, is usually extreme, as the original ecosystems have been grossly disturbed or buried in the mining process. A radical reconstruction is therefore necessary. In nature, this happens through the well-known processes of primary succession, without human intervention. In the interests of the economy and the preservation of our natural resources, reclamation should try to involve the same processes. When planning reclamation, it is crucial to clearly define goals, objectives and success criteria to allow for systematic reclamation. The need for methods to assess the effectiveness in achieving environmental and social goals is increasing, especially if agricultural land is to be restored. Over time, reclamation goals may need to be modified depending on the direction of the reclamation succession. The reclamation of mined areas requires the application of monitoring tools to understand the achievement of potential success. This problem can be solved by studying the biodiversity of plant communities and soil factors of mining areas as habitats in industrialized post-mining landscapes. Thus, the reclamation of territories disturbed by industrial activities is planned with the need to correct the trajectory of the restoration process, so it requires indicators that can be used to monitor the success of the planned process. The article tests the following hypotheses: 1) the dynamics of the reclamation process can be monitored using the indices of naturalness and hemeroby; 2) at the initial stages of reclamation, the hemeroby index has an advantage due to its greater sensitivity in this range of anthropogenic transformation levels. The plant community formed as a result of spontaneous growth of the reclamation sites was represented by 70 species of vascular plants. The projective vegetation cover was 22.0 ± 0.30%. In one test plot, 8.4 ± 0.1 plant species were found. The analysis of the synoptic phytosociological table revealed that the vegetation cover of the reclamation site was represented by nine associations from the vegetation classes Artemisietea vulgaris and Stellarietea mediae. The hemeroby of the communities averaged 85.0 ± 0.22. The lowest level of hemeroby was found within the Cirsio-Lactucetum serriolae association. The average level of hemeroby was found for the associations Medicagini lupulinae-Agropyretum repentis, Ambrosio artemisiifoliae-Cirsietum setosi and Carduo acanthoidis-Onopordetum acanthi. The highest level of hemeroby was found for the associations Agropyretum repentis and Convolvulo arvensis-Agropyretum repentis. The highest level of hemeroby was observed in those plant communities formed on lithozems on the red-brown clays, and the lowest formed on the pedozems. A negative correlation was found between hemeroby and naturalness for all lithozems. No statistically significant correlation was found for pedozems. For the classification of associations, environmental factors such as salt content in the soil solution, nitrogen content, ombroclimate, light regime, and naturalness are of greatest importance. The traditional application of the hemeroby scale is to assess the level of anthropogenic transformation of an ecosystem, i.e. to quantify how far the ecosystem has deviated from its natural state. In our study, we use the hemeroby index to observe how the plant community returns to its natural state, which can be considered as a marker of the effectiveness of the reclamation process. This approach allows us to contrast the indicators of naturalness and hemeroby, which are formally symmetrical: the higher the hemeroby, the lower the naturalness should be. In a wide range of levels of anthropogenic pressure, this pattern is certainly true. The peculiarity of the naturalness index is that it is more sensitive in the range of anthropogenic transformation that occurs at the initial stages of deviation of the natural community from the natural state at low levels of anthropogenic impact. In turn, the hemeroby index is more sensitive to changes in the community under conditions of a high level of anthropogenic transformation.

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Assessing the habitat conservation status by soil parameters and plant ecoindicators

Cited by 10 publications

References 48 publications

Ellenberg‐type indicator values for European vascular plant species

Ellenberg‐type indicator values for European vascular plant species

A test on Ellenberg indicator values in the Mediterranean evergreen woods (Quercetea ilicis)

Which index is better for assessing the success of reclamation: Naturalness or hemeroby?

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