Structural, ecological and biogeographical attributes of European vegetation alliances

This is a database of structural, ecological and biogeographical attributes of 1115 European phytosociological alliances. The original version was published by Preislerová et al. (2024). This article also contained definitions and descriptions of individual attributes.

Version 2 of this dataset has been updated to match Version 3 of EuroVegChecklist (Mucina et al. 2016) published on https://floraveg.eu/download/. This version contains syntaxonomic changes in the vegetation of coastal dunes (classes Ammophiletea arundinaceae, Helichryso-Crucianelletea maritimae and Honckenyo peploidis-Leymetea arenarii), Mediterranean pine forests (order Pinetalia halepensis) and bogs (class Oxycocco-Sphagnetea) approved by the European Vegetation Classification Committee in January 2024 following the proposals published by Marcenò et al. (2018, 2024), Bonari et al. (2021) and Jiroušek et al. (2022), respectively.

The data are provided in two files with identical contents, one in the XLSX format, and the other in the TXT format with columns separated by tabs.

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Bonari G., Fernández‐González F., Çoban S., Monteiro‐Henriques T., Bergmeier E., Didukh Ya. P. … Chytrý, M. (2021). Classification of the Mediterranean lowland to submontane pine forest vegetation. Applied Vegetation Science, 24, e12544. https://doi.org/10.1111/avsc.12544

Jiroušek, M., Peterka, T., Chytrý, M., Jiménez-Alfaro, B., Kuznetsov, O.L., Pérez-Haase, A. … Hájek, M. (2022). Classification of European bog vegetation of the Oxycocco-Sphagnetea class. Applied Vegetation Science, 25, e12646. https://doi.org/10.1111/avsc.12646

Marcenò, C., Guarino, R., Loidi, J., Herrera, M., Isermann, M., Knollová, I. … Chytrý, M. (2018). Classification of European and Mediterranean coastal dune vegetation. Applied Vegetation Science, 21, 533–559. https://doi.org/10.1111/avsc.12379

Marcenò, C., Danihelka, J., Dziuba, T., Willner, W. & Chytrý, M. (2024). Nomenclatural revision of the syntaxa of European coastal dune vegetation. Vegetation Classification and Survey, 5, 27–37. https://doi.org/10.3897/VCS.108560

Mucina, L., Bültmann, H., Dierßen, K., Theurillat, J.-P., Raus, T., Čarni, A. … Tichý, L. (2016). Vegetation of Europe: Hierarchical floristic classification system of vascular plant, bryophyte, lichen, and algal communities. Applied Vegetation Science, 19(Suppl. 1.), 3–264. https://doi.org/10.1111/avsc.12257

Preislerová Z., Marcenò C., Loidi J., Bonari G., Borovyk D., Gavilán R.G., Golub V., Terzi M., Theurillat J.-P., Argagnon O., Bioret F., Biurrun I., Campos J.A., Capelo J., Čarni A., Çoban S., Csiky J., Ćuk M., Ćušterevska R., Dengler J., Didukh Ya., Dítě D., Fanelli G., Fernández-González F., Guarino R., Hájek O., Iakushenko D., Iemelianova S., Jansen F., Jašková A., Jiroušek M., Kalníková V., Kavgacı A., Kuzemko A., Landucci F., Lososová Z., Milanović Đ., Molina J.A., Monteiro-Henriques T., Mucina L., Novák P., Nowak A., Pätsch R., Perrin G., Peterka T., Rašomavičius V., Reczyńska K., Rūsiņa S., Sánchez Mata D., Santos Guerra A., Šibík J., Škvorc Ž., Stešević D., Stupar V., Świerkosz K., Tzonev R., Vassilev K., Vynokurov D., Willner W. & Chytrý M. (2024) Structural, ecological and biogeographical attributes of European vegetation alliances. Applied Vegetation Science, 27, e12766. https://doi.org/10.1111/avsc.12766