Global overview of plot-based vegetation classification approaches

DE CACERES, Miquel, Scott B. FRANKLIN, John T. HUNTER, Flavia LANDUCCI, Jurgen DENGLER, David W. ROBERTS a DW. Global overview of plot-based vegetation classification approaches. Phytocoenologia. Stuttgart: Gebrüder Berntraeger., 2018, roč. 48, č. 2, s. 101-112. ISSN 0340-269X. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1127/phyto/2018/0256.

Základní údaje

• Originální název: Global overview of plot-based vegetation classification approaches
• Autoři: DE CACERES, Miquel, Scott B. FRANKLIN, John T. HUNTER, Flavia LANDUCCI, Jurgen DENGLER, David W. ROBERTS a DW.
• Vydání: Phytocoenologia, Stuttgart, Gebrüder Berntraeger. 2018, 0340-269X.

Další údaje

• Originální jazyk: angličtina
• Typ výsledku: Článek v odborném periodiku (nerecenzovaný)
• Obor: 10511 Environmental sciences
• Stát vydavatele: Německo
• Utajení: není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství
• WWW: URL
• Impakt faktor: Impact factor: 1.750
• Organizační jednotka: Přírodovědecká fakulta
• Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1127/phyto/2018/0256
• UT WoS: 000431268500001
• Klíčová slova anglicky: approach; association; community ecology; concept; global; International Association for Vegetation Classification (IAVS); methodology; procedure; releve; vegetation classification; Vegetation Classification Working Group (VCWG); vegetation-plot data

Anotace

While classification of vegetation can be conducted in many ways, international homogenization of procedures and typologies is desirable for human societies that are highly connected in terms of sharing biodiversity information. This Special Issue of Phytocoenologia includes 12 papers that document several of the plot-based classification approaches currently used throughout the world. The issue includes approaches from five continents, but noticeable gaps are South America, middle-eastern countries, northern Africa and southeastern Asia. We include in this editorial a brief synthesis of the papers included in the Special Issue, with respect to (1) the amount of vegetation-plot data and characteristics of the classification systems developed in different areas and (2) the concepts and procedures of classification approaches. One of the most important common attributes among the classification approaches is the need to define vegetation units at a low level of abstraction. 'Association' (and perhaps 'alliance' too) may be a classification level for which international homogenization of procedures would be most easy to achieve, perhaps establishing different consistent classification sections depending on ecological conditions. Several papers in this issue demonstrate that multiple approaches may coexist for higher levels, as long as they abstract vegetation from the same low level units by focusing on a specific set of concepts and defined from the perspective of applications.