TY - JOUR
T1 - What are the organismic elements of vegetation science?
AU - Berg, Gabriele
AU - Berg, Christian
AU - Ewald, Jörg
AU - Hobohm, Carsten
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - The recent inclusion of communities of planktonic algae and microbial crusts into the system of European vegetation types is critically discussed. It is argued that formal vegetation classification should be limited to plant taxa represented by macroscopic individuals within a plot, including all vascular plants, bryophytes, lichens, charophyta and macrophytic chlorophyta, rhodophyta or phaeophyta. In the interest of comparability and methodological stringency, all microscopic algae and all prokaryotes, including cyanobacteria, and the habitats dominated by such microorganisms (e.g. plankton, biofilms and crusts), should be excluded from vegetation classification.
AB - The recent inclusion of communities of planktonic algae and microbial crusts into the system of European vegetation types is critically discussed. It is argued that formal vegetation classification should be limited to plant taxa represented by macroscopic individuals within a plot, including all vascular plants, bryophytes, lichens, charophyta and macrophytic chlorophyta, rhodophyta or phaeophyta. In the interest of comparability and methodological stringency, all microscopic algae and all prokaryotes, including cyanobacteria, and the habitats dominated by such microorganisms (e.g. plankton, biofilms and crusts), should be excluded from vegetation classification.
U2 - 10.1111/avsc.12371
DO - 10.1111/avsc.12371
M3 - Article
SN - 1654-1103
VL - 21
SP - 341
EP - 344
JO - Journal of Vegetation Science
JF - Journal of Vegetation Science
IS - 2
ER -