TY - JOUR
T1 - Ecological Indicator Values for Europe (EIVE) 1.0
AU - Dengler, Jürgen
AU - Jansen, Florian
AU - Chusova, Olha
AU - Hüllbusch, Elisabeth
AU - Nobis, Michael P.
AU - Van Meerbeek, Koenraad
AU - Axmanová, Irena
AU - Bruun, Hans Henrik
AU - Chytrý, Milan
AU - Guarino, Riccardo
AU - Karrer, Gerhard
AU - Moeys, Karlien
AU - Raus, Thomas
AU - Steinbauer, Manuel J.
AU - Tichý, Lubomir
AU - Tyler, Torbjörn
AU - Batsatsashvili, Ketevan
AU - Bita-Nicolae, Claudia
AU - Didukh, Yakiv
AU - Diekmann, Martin
AU - Englisch, Thorsten
AU - Fernández-Pascual, Eduardo
AU - Frank, Dieter
AU - Graf, Ulrich
AU - Hájek, Michal
AU - Jelaska, Sven D.
AU - Jiménez-Alfaro, Borja
AU - Julve, Philippe
AU - Nakhutsrishvili, George
AU - Ozinga, Wim A.
AU - Ruprecht, Eszter Karolina
AU - Šilc, Urban
AU - Theurillat, Jean Paul
AU - Gillet, François
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright Jürgen Dengler et al.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Aims: To develop a consistent ecological indicator value system for Europe for five of the main plant niche dimensions: soil moisture (M), soil nitrogen (N), soil reaction (R), light (L) and temperature (T). Study area: Europe (and closely adjacent regions). Methods: We identified 31 indicator value systems for vascular plants in Europe that contained assessments on at least one of the five aforementioned niche dimensions. We rescaled the indicator values of each dimension to a continuous scale, in which 0 represents the minimum and 10 the maximum value present in Europe. Taxon names were harmonised to the Euro+Med Plantbase. For each of the five dimensions, we calculated European values for niche position and niche width by combining the values from the individual EIV systems. Using T values as an example, we externally validated our European indicator values against the median of bioclimatic conditions for global occurrence data of the taxa. Results: In total, we derived European indicator values of niche position and niche width for 14,835 taxa (14,714 for M, 13,748 for N, 14,254 for R, 14,054 for L, 14,496 for T). Relating the obtained values for temperature niche position to the bioclimatic data of species yielded a higher correlation than any of the original EIV systems (r = 0.859). The database: The newly developed Ecological Indicator Values for Europe (EIVE) 1.0, together with all source systems, is available in a flexible, harmonised open access database. Conclusions: EIVE is the most comprehensive ecological indicator value system for European vascular plants to date. The uniform interval scales for niche position and niche width provide new possibilities for ecological and macroecological analyses of vegetation patterns. The developed workflow and documentation will facilitate the future release of updated and expanded versions of EIVE, which may for example include the addition of further taxonomic groups, additional niche dimensions, external validation or regionalisation.
AB - Aims: To develop a consistent ecological indicator value system for Europe for five of the main plant niche dimensions: soil moisture (M), soil nitrogen (N), soil reaction (R), light (L) and temperature (T). Study area: Europe (and closely adjacent regions). Methods: We identified 31 indicator value systems for vascular plants in Europe that contained assessments on at least one of the five aforementioned niche dimensions. We rescaled the indicator values of each dimension to a continuous scale, in which 0 represents the minimum and 10 the maximum value present in Europe. Taxon names were harmonised to the Euro+Med Plantbase. For each of the five dimensions, we calculated European values for niche position and niche width by combining the values from the individual EIV systems. Using T values as an example, we externally validated our European indicator values against the median of bioclimatic conditions for global occurrence data of the taxa. Results: In total, we derived European indicator values of niche position and niche width for 14,835 taxa (14,714 for M, 13,748 for N, 14,254 for R, 14,054 for L, 14,496 for T). Relating the obtained values for temperature niche position to the bioclimatic data of species yielded a higher correlation than any of the original EIV systems (r = 0.859). The database: The newly developed Ecological Indicator Values for Europe (EIVE) 1.0, together with all source systems, is available in a flexible, harmonised open access database. Conclusions: EIVE is the most comprehensive ecological indicator value system for European vascular plants to date. The uniform interval scales for niche position and niche width provide new possibilities for ecological and macroecological analyses of vegetation patterns. The developed workflow and documentation will facilitate the future release of updated and expanded versions of EIVE, which may for example include the addition of further taxonomic groups, additional niche dimensions, external validation or regionalisation.
KW - bioindication
KW - ecological indicator value
KW - Ellenberg indicator value
KW - Europe
KW - light
KW - moisture
KW - niche position
KW - niche width
KW - nitrogen
KW - pH
KW - temperature
KW - vascular plant
U2 - 10.3897/VCS.98324
DO - 10.3897/VCS.98324
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85149463272
SN - 2683-0671
VL - 4
SP - 7
EP - 29
JO - Vegetation Classification and Survey
JF - Vegetation Classification and Survey
ER -