Toward a framework of integrated knowledge of terrestrial vegetation system: The role of databases of phytosociological relevés

Feoli, Enrico; Ganis, Paola; Venanzoni, Roberto; Zuccarello, Vincenzo

doi:10.1080/11263504.2011.602739

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“…As such it represents a milestone in the Italian vegetation science and stands as a standard management system for botanical data at the national level (Feoli et al 2011).…”

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“…The results of the queries (by single species/localities/syntaxa/projects etc., or by a combination of them) are returned in html or text-file format, both as single relevés and tables, with tab-delimited fields that can be exported for further analysis or printed. The data can also be exported in a JUICE-compatible format (Tichý 2002, Tichý & Holt 2006 and other free or proprietary software such as TURBOVEG, VEGANA (http://biodiver.bio.ub.es/vegana/index.ht ml), MatEdit (Feoli et al 2011) and SYN-TAX (Podani 2007). Cluster analysis is also supported via web.…”

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“…In the light of this, the VegItaly project aims to inform the public about its existence and to serve as a reference point for the scientific community. (Panfili et al 2004, Venanzoni et al 2003, Venanzoni & Panfili 2010, Feoli et al 2011.…”

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“…As such it represents a milestone in the Italian vegetation science and stands as a standard management system for botanical data at the national level (Feoli et al 2011).…”

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“…Plant sociological databases, that are increasingly being integrated at the European level, have a wide range of application: from the assessment of the diversity of plant communities (Feoli et al 2011), to international initiatives in nature conservation, e.g., Natura2000 (Schaminee et al 2011).…”

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The role of plant sociology in the study and management of European forest ecosystems

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Forest composition is a faithful indicator of the stressors and disturbances that influence forest ecosystems, and it should be accounted for in Sustainable Forest Management policies. Indeed, the classification of forest ecosystems in forest types is considered as a key tool to improve the assessment and monitoring of forest biological diversity, and for the definition of management guidelines. Accordingly, the Ministerial Conference on the Protection of Forests in Europe has recognized the need of developing a pan-European forest classification in forest types, and has identified indicators of Sustainable Forest Management that should be applied by forest types. The classification of vegetation has always been among the main aims of the plant sociology. The quantitative and qualitative analysis of plant species composition, performed through the plant sociological approach, condenses compositional and structural information within a hierarchical system, and expresses all historical, sociological and habitat factors that influence the actual and potential vegetation. In a modern perspective the integration of plant sociology and ecological analysis represents a key to a hierarchical land classification and to the understanding of vegetation dynamics; furthermore the long history of plant sociology determined the availability of large datasets of vegetation data throughout Europe. Starting from these considerations, in this paper we briefly describe how plant sociology could represent a tool for the assessment of the indicators of SFM that should be applied by forest types, giving insights on how this discipline could contribute to the assessment of each of these indicators

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“…During the last 2 years, VegItaly grew both in number of stored vegetation plots and in popularity, at both the national and international scales. The citations of the database increased (Feoli et al 2011;Landucci et al 2011;Guarino et al 2012;Venanzoni et al 2012) and the project was often promoted in national and international congresses. It has been well acknowledged in Europe becoming a founding partner of the rising European Vegetation Archive (EVA; Chytrý et al 2012) and the main Southern European reference point for the creation of the European taxonomic standard list for vegetation studies named EuroSL .…”

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VegItaly: The Italian collaborative project for a national vegetation database

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Two years after its official start, the national vegetation database VegItaly, a collaborative project supported by the Italian scientific community and developed by a large group of scientists, is presented. This article offers a concise overview of the content of the database, currently consisting of 31,100 vegetation plot, including published and unpublished data. Some basic statistics are analysed; for example, data distribution in space and time, represented vegetation types expressed as physiognomic categories. Although rather young and still in progress, VegItaly already contains data from all the Italian regions and stands as an optimal candidate for the development of an Italian national vegetation database. Its main goals,theoretical basis, technical features, functionalities and recent progresses are outlined, showing glimpses of future prospects

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Toward a framework of integrated knowledge of terrestrial vegetation system: The role of databases of phytosociological relevés

Cited by 15 publications

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Toward an Italian national vegetation database: VegItaly

Toward an Italian national vegetation database: VegItaly

The role of plant sociology in the study and management of European forest ecosystems

VegItaly: The Italian collaborative project for a national vegetation database

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