Abstract Background In 1994, a “Pan-European Programme for Intensive and Continuous
Monitoring of Forest Ecosystems” started to contribute to a better understanding of the …

We introduce and provide a new data-set of species-specific ecological indicator values
(alternative 'Ellenberg values' for climatic variables, light, moisture, soil reaction/pH, salinity …

Topography is an important determinant of soil moisture (SM) distribution and thus drives the
functioning of terrestrial ecosystems, including vegetation composition and structure. To …

Lichens are considered to be among the most sensitive organisms for several types of
pollutants. In this work, we analyzed a dataset of 286 epiphytic lichen species observed on …

Question Does eutrophication drive vegetation change in pine forests on nutrient deficient
sites and thus lead to the homogenization of understorey species composition? Location …

Biodiversity surrogates are commonly used in conservation biology. Here we review how
fungi have been used as such in forest conservation, emphasizing proposed surrogate roles …

The aims of this research are to assess the relationship between the concepts of hemeroby
and naturalness of plant communities and to test the hypothesis about the ordinal nature of …

Ellenberg's indicator values (EIVs), as bioindicators of primary environmental traits, are
commonly applied in Europe; however, a problem exists with the appropriate interpretation …

We evaluated effects of atmospheric deposition of nitrogen on the composition of forest
understorey vegetation both in space and time, using repeated data from the European wide …

Plant indicator values are widely used in ecological studies, but they are not well developed
for cryptogams, what prevents their application in some environments such as lichen-rich …