1. Description and validation of some European forest syntaxa - a supplement to the EuroVegChecklist.
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Willner, Wolfgang, Solomeshch, Ayzik, Čarni, Andraž, Bergmeier, Erwin, Ermakov, Nikolai, and Mucina, Ladislav
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FOREST plants , *VEGETATION classification , *CONIFEROUS forests , *SWAMPS , *XEROTHERMIC plants , *FORESTS & forestry - Abstract
In this paper we present nomenclatural adjustments and validations of syntaxa of the forest vegetation of Europe. We introduce a new, valid name of the class of nemoral coniferous or mixed forests ( Asaro europaei-Abietetea sibiricae) replacing the deciduous Carpino-Fagetea in the easternmost Europe and Siberia. We describe two new orders for birch and birch-poplar woodlands, formerly included in the Betulo pendulae-Populetalia tremulae. We validate the names of two alliances for the deciduous forests of the Southern Urals and the name of an alliance for hemiboreal forest swamps. The suballiance Ostryo-Tilienion, coined to accommodate the xerothermophilous ravine forests of SE Europe, is here elevated to the rank of alliance. Finally, we validate the name Quercion alnifoliae (evergreen oak forests of Cyprus). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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