This paper features the first comprehensive and critical account of European syntaxa and synthesizes more than 100 yr of classification effort by European phytosociologists. It aims to document and stabilize the concepts and nomenclature of syntaxa for practical uses, such as calibration of habitat classification used by the European Union, standardization of terminology for environmental assessment, management and conservation of nature areas, landscape planning and education. The presented classification systems provide a baseline for future development and revision of European syntaxonomy.
COBISS.SI-ID: 41157933
In this paper we present nomenclatural adjustments and validations of syntaxa of the forest vegetation of Europe. We introduce a new, valid name of the class of nemoral coniferous or mixed forests (Asaro europaei-Abietetea sibiricae) replacing the deciduous Carpino-Fagetea in the easternmost Europe and Siberia. We describe two new orders for birch and birch-poplar woodlands, formerly included in the Betulo pendulae-Populetalia tremulae. We validate the names of two alliances for the deciduous forests of the Southern Urals and the name of an alliance for hemiboreal forest swamps. The suballiance Ostryo-Tilienion, coined to accommodate the xerothermophilous ravine forests of SE Europe, is here elevated to the rank of alliance. Finally, we validate the name Quercion alnifoliae (evergreen oak forests of Cyprus).
COBISS.SI-ID: 39595565
Applying the standard Central-European method we studied the phytosociology of riverine forests along the rivers Vipava, Lijak, Branica, Raša and Reka with its tributaries in southwestern Slovenia and compared them to similar riverine forests along some other Slovenian rivers (Soča, Sava Bohinjka, Krka, Mirna, Sava, Drava, Mura, Rašica, Dragonja), and with similar communities in Austria and northeastern Italy. Based on this comparison we described the following syntaxa: Lamio orvalae-Salicetum albae ass. nov., with two new subassociations: -caricetosum pendulae and -ranunculetosum lanuginosae, Lamio orvalae-Alnetum glutinosae ass. nov. Ornithogalo pyrenaici-Carpinetum betuli lamietosum orvalae subass. nov. and Pseudostellario-Carpinetum betuli leucojetosum aestivi subass. nov
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The objectives of this study were to identify invasive alien plant species (IAS) in the main Natura 2000 forest habitat types (FHT), including FHT 91E0* (Alluvial forests with Alnus glutinosa and Fraxinus excelsior), along the Mura River in Slovenia, and to estimate their abundance and cover. We found FHT 91E0* as the most prone to invasion of IAS. The increasing presence of IAS in the study areas seriously affects natural regeneration, stability, and continuity of floodplain forests in all other FHTs in the study area.
COBISS.SI-ID: 4991398