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https://doi.org/10.1515/botcro-2017-0014

Vegetation of Croatia: Phytosociological classification of the high-rank syntaxa

Željko Škvorc orcid.org/0000-0002-2848-1454 ; University of Zagreb, Faculty of Forestry, Svetošimunska 25, HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia.
Nenad Jasprica orcid.org/0000-0001-9457-0300 ; University of Dubrovnik, Institute for Marine and Coastal Research, Kneza Damjana Jude 12, HR-20000 Dubrovnik, Croatia
Antun Alegro orcid.org/0000-0001-6193-2395 ; University of Zagreb, Faculty of Science, Department of Biology, Division of Botany, Marulićev trg 20/II, HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Sanja Kovačić orcid.org/0000-0003-0084-1638 ; University of Zagreb, Faculty of Science, Department of Biology, Botanical Garden, Marulićev trg 9a, HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia.
Jozo Franjić ; University of Zagreb, Faculty of Forestry, Svetošimunska 25, HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia.
Danijel Krstonošić orcid.org/0000-0002-6148-9247 ; University of Zagreb, Faculty of Forestry, Svetošimunska 25, HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia.
Ana Vraneša ; Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia, Runjaninova 2, HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Andraž Čarni orcid.org/0000-0002-8909-4298 ; Scientific Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Institute of Biology, Novi trg 2, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

Sažetak

Croatia is among the most ecologically diverse and floristically rich countries in Europe, with a great variety of communities. The vegetation elaboration according to the standard central European method was initiated in Croatia at the beginning of the 20th century. In previous overviews of Croatian vegetation, the number of classes and alliances was underrepresented in relation to the country’s floristic richness. Furthermore, the level of knowledge and the amount of available data varied greatly among the various types of vegetation. The aims of this paper are mainly to compile a stabile syntaxonomic list of classes, orders and alliances dominated by vascular plants in Croatia and to adjust Croatian vegetation to the new European syntaxonomic system (EuroVegChecklist). It introduces a consistent description of high-rank syntaxa in Croatian. In conclusion, the vegetation of Croatia comprises 66 classes, 121 orders and 201 alliances. The number of syntaxa shows vegetation diversity that is rather high compared to most other European countries; this is related to the high floristic richness and endemism. The list points out the obvious problems and gaps in our knowledge of vegetation in Croatia and can serve as a baseline for the future vegetation studies.

Ključne riječi

Braun-Blanquet approach; phytosociology; syntaxonomy; vegetation

Hrčak ID:

187260

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/187260

Datum izdavanja:

1.10.2017.

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