A concise methodological and conceptual overview of the present state of phytosociology,
100 years after its foundation, is presented. The fullness of phytosociology as a …

Background Fungi strongly influence ecosystem structure and functioning, playing a key role
in many ecological services as decomposers, plant mutualists and pathogens. The …

This article investigates whether the Braun‐Blanquet abundance/dominance (AD) scores
that commonly appear in phytosociological tables can properly be analysed by conventional …

Questions: Are ordinal data appropriately treated by multivariate methods in numerical
ecology? If not, what are the most common mistakes? Which dissimilarity coefficients …

The aquatic plant communities of the Tiber River basin have been examined to evaluate
their role as bioindicators of the water quality of the Italian peninsular rivers. The …

Aim Although the factors shaping plant species richness patterns across the islands of the
central Aegean are well known, the processes driving the assembly of these island …

The natural forest of Masha was studied to determine the species composition and
population structure of woody species in the area. A total of 130 plant species belonging 61 …

To investigate the differences in understorey composition and diversity between old-growth
and managed forests, we analyzed an old-growth and a managed beech stand in the same …

Following mineral sand mining near Eneabba, southwestern Australia, rehabilitation
managers have the difficult task of restoring shrubland communities of exceptional plant …

A morphometric study on five populations of the Onosma echioides complex was carried out
through univariate analysis, principal coordinate analysis and cluster analysis (the …