Category: Behind the paper

An introduction to human impact indicators

Posted on March 21, 2021March 28, 2021 by David Zeleny

The post provided by Jack Zinnen, Jeffrey W. Matthews & Greg Spyreas

The areas in North America (left) and Europe (right) where the three human impact indicator values are used. Adapted from Fig. 1 in the paper (Zinnen et al. 2021).

Broad-scale classification of Mediterranean lowland to submontane pine forest vegetation relies on forest structure for high ranks

Posted on February 17, 2021February 17, 2021 by David Zeleny

The post provided by Gianmaria Bonari

*Pinus brutia* forest understory in the surroundings of Yamanlar, Turkey, 2019. Photo credit Milan Chytrý.

This Behind the paper post refers to the article Classification of the Mediterranean lowland to submontane pine forest vegetation by Gianmaria Bonari and colleagues, published in Applied Vegetation Science (https://doi.org/10.1111/avsc.12544…

How does the Kalahari vegetation response to seasonal climate and herbivory?

Posted on November 4, 2020November 4, 2020 by David Zeleny

The post provided by Ute Schmiedel

One of our permanent plots in the Kalahari, South Africa, at the peak of the growing season during an average rainfall season (2013) and after several years of very low rainfall (2015). The grazing herbivores removed most of the grass biomass and provided vegetation gaps for the new plants to grow.

The ecological filters in restoration practice

Posted on October 19, 2020October 19, 2020 by David Zeleny

The post provided by Paweł Waryszak

Paweł Waryszak, the main author of this study, records seedlings emergence on restoration study site after topsoil transfer. Photo credit: William Fowler.

This post refers to the article Best served deep: the seedbank from salvaged topsoil underscores the role of the dispersal filter in restoration practice by Waryszak et al.…

Drivers of biodiversity depend on spatial grain and plant group: new paper from the EDGG Field Workshop to Bulgarian dry grasslands

Posted on October 9, 2020October 9, 2020 by David Zeleny

Prepared by Jürgen Dengler & Iwona Dembicz

A thorough sampling of an “EDGG Biodiversity Plot” is a time-consuming and almost meditative procedure. Photo credit: Jürgen Dengler.

This Behind the paper post refers to the article by Dembicz et al. Drivers of plant diversity in Bulgarian dry grasslands vary across spatial scales and functional-taxonomic groups, published in the Journal of Vegetation Science (https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.12935…

High diversity in Armenian grasslands: EDGG Field Workshop provides standardized data for the first time

Posted on September 4, 2020September 4, 2020 by David Zeleny

The post provided by Jürgen Dengler & Idoia Biurrun

The expedition team on the Selim pass. Photo credit: Jürgen Dengler.

Behind the paper post referring to the article Biodiversity of dry grasslands in Armenia: First results from the 13th EDGG Field Workshop in Armenia by Aleksanyan et al.…

Filling empty boxes with hard data: Scientific background for European habitat classification (EUNIS)

Posted on August 21, 2020August 31, 2020 by David Zeleny

Prepared by Milan Chytrý

Examples of EUNIS habitats: N17 Black Sea coastal dune grassland (grey dune) in south-eastern Bulgaria, R1A Semi-dry perennial calcareous grassland (meadow steppe) with *Filipendula vulgaris* and *Salvia nutans* in western Ukraine, S33 Lowland to montane temperate and submediterranean genistoid scrub with *Cytisus balansae* in Catalonian Pyrenees, T3G *Pinus sylvestris* light taiga in southern Sweden.

Yunnan Pine forest: types and dynamics

Posted on June 11, 2020June 11, 2020 by David Zeleny

The post provided by Cindy Q. Tang

Yunnan Pine forests by the Tianchi Lake in the Tianchi National Nature Reserve. Photo credit: Rong-Wei Li.

This Behind the paper post refers to the article Forest characteristics, population structure and growth trends of Pinus yunnanensis in Tianchi National Nature Reserve of Yunnan, southwestern China, by Cindy Q.…