Biogeography of plant communities
Spatial properties of vegetation
The diversity of vegetation is linked to the distribution and abundance of plant species and their co-occurrence in plant communities as a response to biotic and abiotic factors. These communities change at the landscape scale, but they also may look similar in different regions under similar environmental constraints. These patterns are governed by historical and environmental factors across multiple ecological and spatial scales.
From: Jiménez-Alfaro et al (2018) Nature Ecology & Evolution 2: 483-490
Using observation data from vegetation databases at national (SIVIM), continental (EVA) and global (sPlot) scales, we root on the community assembly theory to address.
Central topics refer to the taxonomic, functional or phylogenetic diversity of habitats subjected to glacial history and refugia, like alpine grasslands (see the ALPVEG network), mires (with the Peatland Research Group) or mountain forests
Central topics refer to the taxonomic, functional or phylogenetic diversity of habitats subjected to glacial history and refugia, like alpine grasslands (see the ALPVEG network), mires (with the Peatland Research Group) or mountain forests
