Authors
Gabriele Midolo, Tomáš Herben, Irena Axmanová, Corrado Marcenò, Ricarda Pätsch, Helge Bruelheide, Dirk Nikolaus Karger, Svetlana Aćić, Ariel Bergamini, Erwin Bergmeier, Idoia Biurrun, Gianmaria Bonari, Andraž Čarni, Alessandro Chiarucci, Michele De Sanctis, Olga Demina, Jürgen Dengler, Tetiana Dziuba, Giuliano Fanelli, Emmanuel Garbolino, Gianpietro Giusso del Galdo, Friedemann Goral, Behlül Güler, Guillermo Hinojos‐Mendoza, Florian Jansen, Borja Jiménez‐Alfaro, Attila Lengyel, Jonathan Lenoir, Aaron Pérez‐Haase, Remigiusz Pielech, Vadim Prokhorov, Valerijus Rašomavičius, Eszter Ruprecht, Solvita Rūsiņa, Urban Šilc, Željko Škvorc, Zvjezdana Stančić, Irina Tatarenko, Milan Chytrý
Publication date
2023/1
Journal
Global Ecology and Biogeography
Volume
32
Issue
1
Pages
24-34
Description
Motivation
Indicator values are numerical values used to characterize the ecological niches of species and to estimate their occurrence along gradients. Indicator values on climatic and edaphic niches of plant species have received considerable attention in ecological research, whereas data on the optimal positioning of species along disturbance gradients are less developed. Here, we present a new data set of disturbance indicator values identifying optima along gradients of natural and anthropogenic disturbance for 6382 vascular plant species based on the analysis of 736,366 European vegetation plots and using expert‐based characterization of disturbance regimes in 236 habitat types. The indicator values presented here are crucial for integrating disturbance niche optima into large‐scale vegetation analyses and macroecological studies.
Main types of variables contained
We set up five main continuous …
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G Midolo, T Herben, I Axmanová, C Marcenò, R Pätsch… - Global Ecology and Biogeography, 2023