CHYTRÝ, Milan, Vít GRULICH, Lubomír TICHÝ and Martin KOUŘIL. Phytogeographical boundary between the Pannonicum and Hercynicum: a multivariate analysis of landscape in the Podyjí/Thayatal National Park, Czech Republic/Austria. Preslia. Praha: Česká botanická společnost, 1999, vol. 71, No 1, p. 1-19. ISSN 0032-7786.
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Original name Phytogeographical boundary between the Pannonicum and Hercynicum: a multivariate analysis of landscape in the Podyjí/Thayatal National Park, Czech Republic/Austria
Authors CHYTRÝ, Milan (203 Czech Republic, guarantor), Vít GRULICH (203 Czech Republic), Lubomír TICHÝ (203 Czech Republic) and Martin KOUŘIL.
Edition Preslia, Praha, Česká botanická společnost, 1999, 0032-7786.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study 10600 1.6 Biological sciences
Country of publisher Czech Republic
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
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RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14310/99:00001325
Organization unit Faculty of Science
Keywords in English Cluster analysis; detrended correspondence analysis; Ellenberg indicator values; flora; grid map; land classification; potential natural vegetation
Tags cluster analysis, detrended correspondence analysis, Ellenberg indicator values, Flora, grid map, land classification, potential natural vegetation
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Changed by Changed by: prof. RNDr. Milan Chytrý, Ph.D., učo 871. Changed: 19/3/2009 06:05.
Abstract
The phytogeographical boundary between two major Central European floristic regions is analysed at the landscape scale in the border area between the Czech Republic and Austria. A database of floristic records, potential natural vegetation types, selected environmental variables, and mean Ellenberg indicator values was compiled for a grid of 172 quadrats of approximately 1.2 x 1.1 km. The data on flora and vegetation were subjected to detrended correspondence analysis to reveal the main gradients, and to cluster analysis to suggest a regional land classification. The patterns revealed by these analyses were related to environmental variables, and cluster analysis of environmental variables was used to produce an environmental land classification. The results indicate that the Pannonicum and Hercynicum are separated by a transitional zone, located on the prominent deforested slope at the edge of the Bohemian Massif. Floristically, this zone is more closely related to the Hercynicum, but according to the environmental land classification it rather belongs to the Pannonicum. This zone possesses some additional unique features not shared with the two main regions, e.g. low proportion of nitrophilous species and occurrence of several species restricted to it. The Dyje/Thaya river valley, which runs roughly perpendicular to the main phytogeographical boundary, does not influence the regional phytogeographical subdivision and belongs to the same phytogeographical region as the adjacent landscape.
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GA206/96/0131, research and development projectName: Diverzita vegetace a flóry říčních údolí: modelování vlivu abiotických faktorů
Investor: Czech Science Foundation, Diversity patterns of vegetation and flora in the river valleys: environmental control modelling
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