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

• Published in: Applied Vegetation Science
• Main Authors: Pätsch, Ricarda, Jašková, Anni, Chytrý, Milan, Kucherov, Ilya B., Schaminée, Joop H.J., Bergmeier, Erwin, Janssen, John A.M.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Drude scale; European vegetation; Hult–Sernander scale; Norrlin scale; cover abundance scales; data standardization; north European countries; phytosociology; plant density measures; scale transformation; species abundance; vegetation records; Hult; Murmansk; Norway; Fennoscandia; Fennoscandian; karelia*; karelian; Republic of Karelia
• Online Access: https://research.wur.nl/en/publications/making-them-visible-and-usable-vegetation-plot-observations-from-; https://doi.org/10.1111/avsc.12452

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...