A higher-level classification of the Pannonian and western Pontic steppe grasslands (Central and Eastern Europe).

ABSTRACT:

Questions

What are the main floristic patterns in the Pannonian and western Pontic steppe grasslands? What are the diagnostic species of the major subdivisions of the class Festuco-Brometea (temperate Euro-Siberian dry and semi-dry grasslands)?

Location

Carpathian Basin (E Austria, SE Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Slovenia, N Croatia and N Serbia), Ukraine, S Poland and the Bryansk region of W Russia.

Methods

We applied a geographically stratified resampling to a large set of relevés containing at least one indicator species of steppe grasslands. The resulting data set of 17 993 relevés was classified using the TWINSPAN algorithm. We identified groups of clusters that corresponded to the class Festuco-Brometea. After excluding relevés not b

SUBMITTER: Willner W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5348766 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature