RT Journal Article
T1 EUNIS Habitat Classification: Expert system, characteristic species combinations and distribution maps of European habitats
A1 Chytry, Milan
A1 Tichy, Lubomir
A1 Hennekens, Stephan M.
A1 Knollová, Ilona
A1 Janssen, John A. M.
A1 Rodwell, John S.
A1 Peterka, Tomáš
A1 Marcenò, Corrado
A1 Landucci, Flavia
A1 Danihelka, Jiří
A1 Hájek, Michal
A1 Dengler, Jürgen
A1 Novák, Pavel
A1 Zukal, Dominik
A1 Jiménez-Alfaro, Borja
A1 Mucina, Ladislav
A1 Abdulhak, Sylvain
A1 Aćić, Svetlana
A1 Agrillo, Emiliano
A1 Attorre, Fabio
A1 Bergmeier, Erwin
A1 Biurrun, Idoia
A1 Boch, Steffen
A1 Bölöni, János
A1 Bonari, Gianmaria
A1 Braslavskaya, Tatiana
A1 Bruelheide, Helge
A1 Campos, Juan Antonio
A1 Čarni, Andraž
A1 Casella, Laura
A1 Ćuk, Mirjana
A1 Ćušterevska, Renata
A1 de Bie, Els
A1 Delbosc, Pauline
A1 Demina, Olga
A1 Didukh, Yakiv
A1 Dítě, Daniel
A1 Dziuba, Tetiana
A1 Ewald, Jörg
A1 Gavilán García, Rosario Gloria
A1 Gégout, Jean-Claude
A1 Giusso del Galdo, Gian Pietro
A1 Golub, Valentin
A1 Goncharova, Nadezhda
A1 Goral, Friedemann
A1 Graf, Ulrich
A1 Indreica, Adrian
A1 Isermann, Maike
A1 Jandt, Ute
A1 Jansen, Florian
A1 Jansen, Jan
A1 Jašková, Anni
A1 Jiroušek, Martin
A1 Kącki, Zygmunt
A1 Kalníková, Veronika
A1 Kavgacı, Ali
A1 Khanina, Larisa
A1 Yu. Korolyuk, Andrey
A1 Kozhevnikova, Mariya
A1 Kuzemko, Anna
A1 Küzmič, Filip
A1 Kuznetsov, Oleg L.
A1 Laiviņš, Māris
A1 Lavrinenko, Igor
A1 Lavrinenko, Olga
A1 Lebedeva, Maria
A1 Lososová, Zdeňka
A1 Lysenko, Tatiana
A1 Maciejewski, Lise
A1 Mardari, Constantin
A1 Marinšek, Aleksander
A1 Napreenko, Maxim G.
A1 Onyshchenko, Viktor
A1 Pérez-Haase, Aaron
A1 Pielech, Remigiusz
A1 Prokhorov, Vadim
A1 Rašomavičius, Valerijus
A1 Rodríguez Rojo, María Pilar
A1 Rūsiņa, Solvita
A1 Schrautzer, Joachim
A1 Šibík, Jozef
A1 Šilc, Urban
A1 Škvorc, Željko
A1 Smagin, Viktor A.
A1 Stančić, Zvjezdana
A1 Stanisci, Angela
A1 Tikhonova, Elena
A1 Tonteri, Tiina
A1 Uogintas, Domas
A1 Valachovič, Milan
A1 Vassilev, Kiril
A1 Vynokurov, Denys
A1 Willner, Wolfgang
A1 Yamalov, Sergey
A1 Evans, Douglas
A1 Palitzsch Lund, Mette
A1 Spyropoulou, Rania
A1 Tryfon, Eleni
A1 Schaminée, Joop H. J.
A2 Schmidtlein, Sebastian
AB 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 would enable their unequivocal identification. Our goal was to develop a tool for assigning vegetation-plot records to the habitats of the EUNIS system, use it to classify a European vegetation-plot database, and compile statistically-derived characteristic species combinations and distribution maps for these habitats.Location: Europe.Methods: We developed the classification expert system EUNIS-ESy, which contains definitions of individual EUNIS habitats based on their species composition and geographic location. Each habitat was formally defined as a formula in a computer language combining algebraic and set-theoretic concepts with formal logical operators. We applied this expert system to classify 1,261,373 vegetation plots from the European Vegetation Archive (EVA) and other databases. Then we determined diagnostic, constant and dominant species for each habitat by calculating species-to-habitat fidelity and constancy (occurrence frequency) in the classified data set. Finally, we mapped the plot locations for each habitat.Results: Formal definitions were developed for 199 habitats at Level 3 of the EUNIS hierarchy, including 25 coastal, 18 wetland, 55 grassland, 43 shrubland, 46 forest and 12 man-made habitats. The expert system classified 1,125,121 vegetation plots to these habitat groups and 73,188 to other habitats, while 63,064 plots remained unclassified or were classified to more than one habitat. Data on each habitat were summarized in factsheets containing habitat description, distribution map, corresponding syntaxa and characteristic species combination.Conclusions: EUNIS habitats were characterized for the first time in terms of their species composition and distribution, based on a classification of a European database of vegetation plots using the newly developed electronic expert system EUNISESy. The data provided and the expert system have considerable potential for future use in European nature conservation planning, monitoring and assessment.
PB Wiley
SN 1654-109X
YR 2020
FD 2020-07-17
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/97709
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/97709
LA eng
NO Czech Science Foundation
NO Gobierno Vasco
NO Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation
NO European Environment Agency to Wageningen Environmental Research
NO Masaryk University
DS Docta Complutense
RD 6 abr 2025