Aims Vegetation‐plot records provide information on the presence and cover or abundance
of plants co‐occurring in the same community. Vegetation‐plot data are spread across …

Abstract The European Vegetation Archive (EVA) is a centralized database of European
vegetation plots developed by the IAVS Working Group European Vegetation Survey. It has …

Motivation Assessing biodiversity status and trends in plant communities is critical for
understanding, quantifying and predicting the effects of global change on ecosystems …

The worldwide bioclimatic classification system (WBCS) of Rivas-Martínez was applied to
the Italian territory and surrounding areas between latitudes 35° 47′–46° 60′ N and …

Levels of plant invasions in different habitat types were assessed in several regional studies,
but few of them were from the Mediterranean. Here we compare the levels of vascular plant …

This study provides a first step toward the knowledge of the alien-dominated and co-
dominated plant communities present in Italy. The first ever checklist of the alien …

In recent years, interest in availability of georeferenced vegetation plots has stimulated or
reinvigorated national initiatives to compile these data. In Italy, eleven vegetation databases …

Global patterns of regional (gamma) plant diversity are relatively well known, but whether
these patterns hold for local communities, and the dependence on spatial grain, remain …

Several international initiatives, including the European Biodiversity Strategy to 2020,
promote the identification and mapping of ecosystems as basic tools for the conservation of …

A historical overview of the phytosociological method in Europe is presented. Some
methodological and procedural differences in the application of the Braun-Blanquet …