Due to global climate change and increased forest transformation by humans, accounting for
the dynamics of forest ecosystems is becoming a central problem in forestry. We reviewed …

Environmental classifications are of paramount importance for assessing the impacts of land-
use changes, for prioritizing conservation efforts, and for develo** effective management …

Aims: To develop a consistent ecological indicator value system for Europe for five of the
main plant niche dimensions: soil moisture (M), soil nitrogen (N), soil reaction (R), light (L) …

Lagoecia cuminoides L. is a very rare and threatened taxon in Italy, never studied before for
its ecology and potential use for human consumption. Furthermore, few data are available …

The Palaearctic steppes range from the Mediterranean basin towards China, forming one of
the largest continuous terrestrial biomes. The literature on steppe ecology and conservation …

Abstract Aim The EUNIS Habitat Classification is a widely used reference framework for
European habitat types (habitats), but it lacks formal definitions of individual habitats that …

A biome is a key community ecological and biogeographical concept and, as such, has
profited from the overall progress of community ecology, punctuated by two major …

Motivation Although dispersal ability is one of the key features determining the spatial
dynamics of plant populations and the structure of plant communities, it is also one of the …

A new dataset of ecological indicator values for species, subspecies and some varieties,
hybrids and infrageneric species groups has been compiled for the vascular flora of the …

Sphagnum magellanicum has been viewed as being a predominantly circumpolar species
in the northern hemisphere, but it occurs in the southern hemisphere and was originally …