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Ecological Indicator Values for Europe (EIVE) 1.0

Dengler, Jürgen ; Jansen, Florian ; Chusova, Olha ; Hüllbusch, Elisabeth ; Nobis, Michael P. ; Van Meerbeek, Koenraad ; Axmanová, Irena ; Bruun, Hans Henrik LU ; Chytrý, Milan and Guarino, Riccardo , et al. (2023) In Vegetation Classification and Survey 4. p.7-29
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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) and temperature (T). Study area: Europe (and closely adjacent regions). Methods: We identified 31 indicator value systems for vascular plants in Europe that contained assessments on at least one of the five aforementioned niche dimensions. We rescaled the indicator values of each dimension to a continuous scale, in which 0 represents the minimum and 10 the maximum value present in Europe. Taxon names were harmonised to the Euro+Med Plantbase. For each of the five dimensions, we calculated European values for niche position and niche width by combining... (More)

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) and temperature (T). Study area: Europe (and closely adjacent regions). Methods: We identified 31 indicator value systems for vascular plants in Europe that contained assessments on at least one of the five aforementioned niche dimensions. We rescaled the indicator values of each dimension to a continuous scale, in which 0 represents the minimum and 10 the maximum value present in Europe. Taxon names were harmonised to the Euro+Med Plantbase. For each of the five dimensions, we calculated European values for niche position and niche width by combining the values from the individual EIV systems. Using T values as an example, we externally validated our European indicator values against the median of bioclimatic conditions for global occurrence data of the taxa. Results: In total, we derived European indicator values of niche position and niche width for 14,835 taxa (14,714 for M, 13,748 for N, 14,254 for R, 14,054 for L, 14,496 for T). Relating the obtained values for temperature niche position to the bioclimatic data of species yielded a higher correlation than any of the original EIV systems (r = 0.859). The database: The newly developed Ecological Indicator Values for Europe (EIVE) 1.0, together with all source systems, is available in a flexible, harmonised open access database. Conclusions: EIVE is the most comprehensive ecological indicator value system for European vascular plants to date. The uniform interval scales for niche position and niche width provide new possibilities for ecological and macroecological analyses of vegetation patterns. The developed workflow and documentation will facilitate the future release of updated and expanded versions of EIVE, which may for example include the addition of further taxonomic groups, additional niche dimensions, external validation or regionalisation.

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bioindication, ecological indicator value, Ellenberg indicator value, Europe, light, moisture, niche position, niche width, nitrogen, pH, temperature, vascular plant
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Vegetation Classification and Survey
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4
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23 pages
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Pensoft Publishers
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2683-0671
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10.3897/VCS.98324
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English
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  author       = {{Dengler, Jürgen and Jansen, Florian and Chusova, Olha and Hüllbusch, Elisabeth and Nobis, Michael P. and Van Meerbeek, Koenraad and Axmanová, Irena and Bruun, Hans Henrik and Chytrý, Milan and Guarino, Riccardo and Karrer, Gerhard and Moeys, Karlien and Raus, Thomas and Steinbauer, Manuel J. and Tichý, Lubomir and Tyler, Torbjörn and Batsatsashvili, Ketevan and Bita-Nicolae, Claudia and Didukh, Yakiv and Diekmann, Martin and Englisch, Thorsten and Fernández-Pascual, Eduardo and Frank, Dieter and Graf, Ulrich and Hájek, Michal and Jelaska, Sven D. and Jiménez-Alfaro, Borja and Julve, Philippe and Nakhutsrishvili, George and Ozinga, Wim A. and Ruprecht, Eszter Karolina and Šilc, Urban and Theurillat, Jean Paul and Gillet, François}},
  issn         = {{2683-0671}},
  keywords     = {{bioindication; ecological indicator value; Ellenberg indicator value; Europe; light; moisture; niche position; niche width; nitrogen; pH; temperature; vascular plant}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  pages        = {{7--29}},
  publisher    = {{Pensoft Publishers}},
  series       = {{Vegetation Classification and Survey}},
  title        = {{Ecological Indicator Values for Europe (EIVE) 1.0}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/VCS.98324}},
  doi          = {{10.3897/VCS.98324}},
  volume       = {{4}},
  year         = {{2023}},
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