European Boreal Forest Vegetation                     Database

Jašková, Anni; Braslavskaya, Tatyana Yu.; Тихонова, Елена; Paal, Jaanus; Rūsiņa, Solvita; Laiviņš, Māris; Kucherov, I. B.; Геникова, Н. В.; Knollová, Ilona; Chernen’kova, T. V.; Churakova, E. Yu.; Diekmann, Martin; Halvorsen, Rune; Kirichok, E.I.; Коротков, В. Н.; Kryshen, Alexander; Lugovaya, D. L.; Морозова, О. В.; Potapov, Peter; Prokazina, T.S.; Schei, Fride Høistad; Semenishchenkov, Yury; Shevchenko, N. E.; Sidorova, Oksana; Smirnov, N.S.; Смирнова, О. В.; Tsvirko, Ruslan; Turubanova, Svetlana; Chytrý, Milan

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“…These databases contain vegetation plots inventoried by multiple observers (see e.g. Chytrý et al, 2016; Jašková et al, 2020). Quite inevitably, different skills and experience levels influence the quality and exhaustiveness of the vegetation plots, different plot sizes are used (Chytrý & Otýpková, 2003; Chytrý & Tichý, 2018), and this can theoretically affect the species richness associated to a vegetation plot.…”

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A limited number of species is sufficient to assign a vegetation plot to a forest vegetation unit

Maciejewsk

Pinto

Wurpillot

et al. 2022

Applied Vegetation Science

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Aims Inventorying the habitats composing Natura 2000 sites is mandatory in the European Union and is necessary to implement relevant conservation measures. Vegetation plots, recording the presence or abundance of all plant species co‐occurring within a plot, are currently used to identify terrestrial Natura 2000 habitat types, whose descriptions are mainly based on phytosociological units. However, vegetation plots are time‐consuming and frequently restricted to the growing season. Moreover, no vegetation plots can be regarded as exhaustive, and significant inter‐observer variation has been highlighted. We studied whether reducing the number of recorded species and the time spent carrying out a vegetation plot had an impact on vegetation unit assignment using species presence. We also studied if vegetation plots recorded in winter could be used for vegetation unit assignment. Location Mainland France. Methods We used 273 vegetation plots covering French temperate and mountainous forests. The time at which species were sighted was recorded. We also estimated whether a species was recognisable in winter. We used a classification program to compare assignments based on complete and incomplete vegetation plots. Results Ten species and five minutes were sufficient to assign a plot to an association, and to an alliance, seven species and four minutes. Vegetation unit assignment proved feasible in winter, especially at the alliance level. Conclusions We confirmed that a limited number of species is sufficient to assign vegetation plots to vegetation units. However, mapping habitats requires habitat identification and delimitation. This study confirms current field habits, particularly when creating a habitat map, usually based on a limited number of recorded species. Lastly, it confirms that the use of vegetation plots coming from a great variety of sources is relevant to create habitat time series, crucial tools for monitoring habitats at a national scale.

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A limited number of species is sufficient to assign a vegetation plot to a forest vegetation unit

Maciejewsk

Pinto

Wurpillot

et al. 2022

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“…The current trend in geobotany and forestry is the creation of large databases containing copies of national and regional vegetation-plot databases on a single software platform (Holland et al, 2015;Chytrý et al, 2016;Bonary et al, 2019;Jašková et al, 2020;Sabatini et al, 2021). These databases provide useful information on the abundance and projective cover of dwarf shrub species as well as herbaceous plants, lichens and mosses.…”

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“…These databases provide useful information on the abundance and projective cover of dwarf shrub species as well as herbaceous plants, lichens and mosses. In particular, the European Boreal Forest Vegetation Database includes vegetation-plot records of all types of forest communities in the boreal and semi-boreal zones from Iceland, Scotland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus and the European part of Russia between the 53 th and the 69 th parallel (Jašková et al, 2020).…”

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Supplementary material to "Reviews and syntheses: VOC emissions from soil cover in boreal and temperate natural ecosystems of the Northern Hemisphere "

Isidorov¹,

Zaitsev²

2022

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VOC emissions from soil cover in boreal and temperate natural ecosystems of the Northern Hemisphere Litter and LSC biomass distributionTo evaluate the role of the forest leaf litter and LSC in the emission of VOCs into the atmosphere, it is necessary to obtain data not only regarding their emission rates under environmental conditions but also on the mass of the soil cover, both its 'dead' and 'living' compartment. It may seem that the masses of these compartments of the forest floor are difficult to formalise, and therefore, it is difficult to include them in appropriate models.For use in atmospheric transport models, fairly accurate inventories of the foliar biomass densities for the main tree species have previously been made (Karl et al., 2009; Sindelarova et al., 2014). Taking as a first approximation that in autumn, all the foliage of deciduous trees falls to the ground, the results of these inventories can be used to determine the biomass of the litter of these species. It is likely that the data obtained should be corrected taking into account differences in the biomass values of photosynthetic and yellowed foliage, associated with the outflow of some of the metabolites and water. For species not included in early inventories, allometric ratios can be obtained or found in the literature, allowing one to obtain the required estimate of foliage/litter mass (

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“…Fennoscandian countries themselves. These include the Nordic Vegetation Survey network (Lawesson, Diekmann, Eilertsen, Fosaa, & Heikkilä, 1997;Lawesson, 2003), which was active in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and the European Vegetation Survey (EVS 2019) with its EVA database , which includes several vegetation-plot databases storing Fennoscandian data (e.g., Hájek & Jiménez-Alfaro, 2015; EU-00-027, European Boreal Forest Vegetation Database - Jašková et al, 2019). Although a considerable amount of Fennoscandian data is already available in EVA databases, the transformation of scales is partly inconsistent and adds unintentional heterogeneity to the datasets.…”

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“…There have been promising initiatives to strengthen the previously limited collaboration in vegetation survey between Fennoscandian and other European countries and between Fennoscandian countries themselves. These include the Nordic Vegetation Survey network (Lawesson, Diekmann, Eilertsen, Fosaa, & Heikkilä, ; Lawesson, ), which was active in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and the European Vegetation Survey (EVS ) with its EVA database (Chytrý et al., ), which includes several vegetation‐plot databases storing Fennoscandian data (e.g., EU‐00‐002, Nordic‐Baltic Grassland Vegetation Database — Dengler et al., ; 00‐00‐004, Vegetation Database of Eurasian Tundra — Virtanen, ; EU‐00‐018, The Nordic Vegetation Database; EU‐00‐22, European Mire Vegetation Database — Peterka, Jiroušek, Hájek & Jiménez‐Alfaro, ; EU‐00‐027, European Boreal Forest Vegetation Database — Jašková et al., ). Although a considerable amount of Fennoscandian data is already available in EVA databases, the transformation of scales is partly inconsistent and adds unintentional heterogeneity to the datasets.…”

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Making them visible and usable — vegetation‐plot observations from Fennoscandia based on historical species‐quantity scales

Pätsch

Jašková

Chytrý

et al. 2019

Applied Vegetation Science

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Aims Present‐day large‐scale and plot‐based vegetation analyses contribute to the transnational characterization and interpretation of biodiversity patterns and to habitat typologies which are important for planning, monitoring and decision making in nature conservation. Many historical vegetation surveys applied cover abundance, relative occurrence or density scales (species‐quantity scales) that are nowadays poorly known and consequently disregarded or misinterpreted. Therefore, it is worthwhile to put effort into making them compatible with the datasets sampled using mainstream methods. Within Europe, this especially applies to historical data from Fennoscandia. Here, we aim to propose how to transform the species‐quantity scales frequently used in Fennoscandia into percentage cover scales, based on the conversion of their individual grades. Study area Fennoscandia, including Norway, Sweden, Finland and the Fennoscandian part of Russia (Republic of Karelia, Karelian Isthmus, Murmansk Region). Methods and results We inventoried Fennoscandian vegetation‐plot studies and identified that the most frequently applied species‐quantity scales were those of Norrlin, Hult–Sernander and Drude. We reviewed the definitions and applications of these scales in the literature and, if not available, calculated hypothetical species covers to approximate realistic conversions to the percentage scale. As a result, we propose alternative ways of conversion of the individual scale grades to mid‐percentage cover values. Conclusion Historical vegetation plot data from Fennoscandia can be used as quantitative information for vegetation research if their grades are consistently transformed into percentage cover values using the proposals presented in this paper.

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A limited number of species is sufficient to assign a vegetation plot to a forest vegetation unit

A limited number of species is sufficient to assign a vegetation plot to a forest vegetation unit

Supplementary material to "Reviews and syntheses: VOC emissions from soil cover in boreal and temperate natural ecosystems of the Northern Hemisphere "

Making them visible and usable — vegetation‐plot observations from Fennoscandia based on historical species‐quantity scales

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A limited number of species is sufficient to assign a vegetation plot to a forest vegetation unit

A limited number of species is sufficient to assign a vegetation plot to a forest vegetation unit

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Making them visible and usable — vegetation‐plot observations from Fennoscandia based on historical species‐quantity scales

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Supplementary material to "Reviews and syntheses: VOC emissions from soil cover in boreal and temperate natural ecosystems of the Northern Hemisphere "