Roadside vegetation in mediterranean France

Heindl, B.; Ullmann, I.

doi:10.1127/phyto/20/1991/111

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“…Our study provides an assembly-based approach for selecting suitable native plants on the basis of their traits that helps to fill this gap and has an important advantage as regards approaches based on species names already proposed for roadslopes in a large range of climatic conditions (i.e. Bochet et al, 2010b;Cilliers and Bredenkamp, 2000;Godefroid and Tanghe, 2001;Heindl and Ullmann, 1991;Ullmann et al, 1995). While lists of species names are site-specific and not easily comparable among sites, trait-based characterizations can be easily transferred and applied across restoration projects at a broader scale, whatever the regional settings and local species pools (Fischer et al, 2013;Pywell et al, 2003).…”

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Identifying plant traits: A key aspect for species selection in restoration of eroded roadsides in semiarid environments

Bochet

Garcı́a-Fayos

2015

Ecological Engineering

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a b s t r a c tSelecting suitable species for revegetation purposes represents a great challenge for practitioners and scientists, especially in semiarid regions where restoration projects often yield unsuccessful results. So far, little attention has been paid to plant traits related to species success in roadside ecosystems.We aimed at (1) identifying plant traits associated with species success on four roadside situations that span a gradient of productivity and erosion stress and (2) providing an ecological base for selecting suitable species on the basis of their functional traits, applied to semiarid environments.We tested the general hypothesis that trait distribution of successful roadslope colonizers results from a filtering process which is mainly controlled first by seed availability and dispersal and then by plant competition on north-facing roadfills and by environmental harshness on south-facing roadcuts. We analyzed the contribution of 10 plant traits selected as regards the prevailing limiting processes acting along the erosion-productivity gradient in semiarid roadslopes to species colonizing success.A large database of 296 species × 10 traits based on leaf, seed and root measurements is provided. Abundance in the neighbouring vegetation, ability of diaspores to long-dispersal and non-random trait filtering through abiotic and biotic filters, all influenced roadslope community assembly. Along the stressproductivity gradient, we observed strong shifts in the traits associated to species success. At the most productive end, species success was associated to a competitive-ruderal strategy (herbaceous successful species with high SLA and low LDMC values) and, at the harshest end, species success was related to seed resistance to removal by runoff and to resistance to drought (seed mucilage secretion and low index of seed susceptibility to removal).We provide an ecological basis for selecting suitable species on the basis of morphological and functional plant traits, which is potentially of great benefit to practitioners and policy makers involved in roadside restoration in semiarid environments.

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Identifying plant traits: A key aspect for species selection in restoration of eroded roadsides in semiarid environments

Bochet

Garcı́a-Fayos

2015

Ecological Engineering

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“…The deductive method is therefore most frequently used for syntaxonomic evaluation of anthropogenic communities, whose variability was only hardly renderable by the hitherto classification procedures of the Braun-Blanquet approach (Braakhekke & Ilsink 1976;Holzner 1978;Husdkovd 1988;Kopeck3~ 1974Kopeck3~ -1986Sandov~i 1978;Brandes 1981Brandes -1991Mucina 1982Mucina -1987Gr~ll 1982Gr~ll -1984Markovi6 1984;G6dde 1986;Ullmann & Heindl 1987;Stottele & Schmidt 1987;Sudnik-W6jcikowska 1987;Py~ek P. & Py~ek A. 1988;Arts et al 1988;Moravcov~i 1988;Vevle 1988;Asmus 1990;Bergmeier 1990;Koblihov~i 1990;Heindl & Ullmann 1991;Py~ek 1991;Vi~hdk 1989Vi~hdk -1991Griese 1991;Heindl 1992;Kopeck3~ & Hejn~ 1990, etc.). However, already the basic concept of the deductive method assumes that in the syntaxonomic evaluation of the anthropogenic and natural vegetation different methodic approaches cannot be used.…”

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The use of the deductive method of syntaxonomic classification in the system of vegetational units of the Braun-Blanquet approach

1995

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The work summarizes and discusses the basic conditions and rules for the use of the deductive method of syntaxonomic classification. This method develops and supplements classification procedures of the Braun-Blanquet approach. It enables to classify the communities which cannot be characterized by their own character-and differential-species. The deductive method incorporates into the inductively constructed system of abstract units of the Braun-Blanquet approach (classes, orders, alliances and associations) really existing communities on the basis of the presence or absence of diagnostic characters (character-and differential-species) of these abstract units. Some communities are incorporable only at the class level, others at the level of lower units.To objectify the process of incorporation of the communities represented by the respective phytocoenological relev6s, an algorithm of the deductive method was constructed which uniquely incorporates individual relev6s and groups of relev6s into the phytocoenological system on the basis of the presence, coverage and diagnostic value of species. The work includes a detailed description of this algorithm and examples of its application on concrete phytocoenological material. Examples of hitherto use of the deductive method are also discussed and its nomenclatural rules briefly explained.

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“…However, disturbed habitats could also function as a refuge for rare and endangered plants (Greenwood and Gemmell, 1978;Heindl and Ullmann, 1991;Ullmann et al, 1998;Brändle et al, 2003;Nowak, 2005Nowak, , 2006Esfeld et al, 2008;Kirpluk and Bomanowska, 2008;Reisch, 2006;van Kleef et al, 2012;Zielińska et al, 2016). Surprisingly, orchids are often found in the apophytes group, but they are still one of the most threatened plant groups in the world (Sharrock and Jones, 2009;Bliz et al, 2011;The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2015).…”

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Cities and Disturbed Areas as Man-made Shelters for Orchid Communities

Rewicz

Bomanowska

Shevera

et al. 2017

Not Bot Horti Agrobo

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Many species from the family Orchidaceae spread in anthropogenic habitats and numerous studies documenting this process are known. Unfortunately, such data are scattered throughout various papers and reports, sometimes fragmentary and hard to reach (the 'grey literature'). Scientific elaboration on this topic still lacks a comprehensive review and summary of the scale of this phenomenon. Therefore, the main aim of this study was to gather, review and analyse such data, seeking the answer to the question whether the man-made habitats can be considered as refugee for orchids. The paper summarises data on the occurrence of orchid species in man-made habitats in Europe originating from published and unpublished sources. The particular emphasis was placed in urban habitats. For this purpose, the floristically data from 42 European cities were used. The conducted studies showed that the apohytism phenomenon in the family Orchidaceae was more widespread than had been previously reported. As a result, 70 species of orchids in the distinguished man-made habitats were found. The majority of the species grow on sand and clay pits. The most common species were Epipactis helleborine and Dactylorhiza majalis. The gathered data have confirmed that man-made habitats become refugee for many orchid species in the aftermath of the loss of their natural habitats. Thus, protection of sites transformed by man with orchid occurrence should be taken into consideration. These sites can become a source of very useful information for biogeographically and phylo-geographically analyses of many valuable and endangered species.

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Roadside vegetation in mediterranean France

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Identifying plant traits: A key aspect for species selection in restoration of eroded roadsides in semiarid environments

Identifying plant traits: A key aspect for species selection in restoration of eroded roadsides in semiarid environments

The use of the deductive method of syntaxonomic classification in the system of vegetational units of the Braun-Blanquet approach

Cities and Disturbed Areas as Man-made Shelters for Orchid Communities

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