All Outputs (6)

Diversity of European habitat types is correlated with geography more than climate and human pressure (2021)
Journal Article

Habitat richness, that is, the diversity of ecosystem types, is a complex, spatially explicit aspect of biodiversity, which is affected by bioclimatic, geographic, and anthropogenic variables. The distribution of habitat types is a key component for... Read More about Diversity of European habitat types is correlated with geography more than climate and human pressure.

Impacts of Forest Fire on Understory Species Diversity in Canary Pine Ecosystems on the Island of La Palma (2021)
Journal Article

Forest fires are drivers of spatial patterns and temporal dynamics of vegetation and biodiversity. On the Canary Islands, large areas of pine forest exist, dominated by the endemic Canary Island pine, Pinus canariensis C. Sm. These mostly natural for... Read More about Impacts of Forest Fire on Understory Species Diversity in Canary Pine Ecosystems on the Island of La Palma.

sPlotOpen – An environmentally balanced, open-access, global dataset of vegetation plots (2021)
Journal Article

Motivation: Assessing biodiversity status and trends in plant communities is critical for understanding, quantifying and predicting the effects of global change on ecosystems. Vegetation plots record the occurrence or abundance of all plant species c... Read More about sPlotOpen – An environmentally balanced, open-access, global dataset of vegetation plots.

Different sets of traits explain abundance and distribution patterns of European plants at different spatial scales (2021)
Journal Article

Aim: Plant functional traits summarize the main variability in plant form and function across taxa and biomes. We assess whether geographic range size, climatic niche size, and local abundance of plants can be predicted by sets of traits (trait syndr... Read More about Different sets of traits explain abundance and distribution patterns of European plants at different spatial scales.

The relationship between niche breadth and range size of beech (Fagus) species worldwide (2021)
Journal Article

Aim: This work explores whether the commonly observed positive range size–niche breadth relationship exists for Fagus, one of the most dominant and widespread broad-leaved deciduous tree genera in temperate forests of the Northern Hemisphere. Additio... Read More about The relationship between niche breadth and range size of beech (Fagus) species worldwide.

Co-occurrence frequency in vegetation patches decreases towards the harsh edge along an arid volcanic elevational gradient (2021)
Journal Article

Positive plant-plant interactions are thought to drive vegetation patterns in harsh environments, such as semi-arid areas. According to the stress-gradient hypothesis (SGH), the role of positive interactions between species (facilitation) is expected... Read More about Co-occurrence frequency in vegetation patches decreases towards the harsh edge along an arid volcanic elevational gradient.