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Research Vegetation Ecology Research Group

Research foci

Evidence-based nature conservation

Measures against the dramatic loss of biodiversity often are less efficient than they could be, also because scientific findings are insufficiently taken into account or are lacking. The research group therefore develops nature conservation measures at the level of individual species, plant communities and habitat types and establishes monitoring schemes. Examples of projects are the ecological upgrading of forest edges, the control of invasive plants and the conservation biology of the flora of erratic boulders.

Plant diversity and its change

The understanding of species-rich and species-poor habitats is crucial for biodiversity conservation. The research group addresses this topic with field observations, experiments and the use of existing databases. In addition, the influence of global change (climate change, land use change, eutrophication, etc.) and the driving factors for change are of interest. One possibility is the resurvey of localizable historical vegetation plots.

Ecoinformatics and vegetation databases

Large vegetation databases such as the European Vegetation Archive (EVA) offer significant opportunities for research in ecology and nature conservation. In this way, new classifications of vegetation types can be created or the conditions under which species become invasive can be explored. One of the aims of the research group is to establish a Swiss national vegetation database as an EVA partner and at the same time to develop a Europe-wide, optimised system of ecological indicator values.

Publications

  • Boch, Steffen; Dembicz, Iwona; Keller, Christine; Dengler, Jürgen,

    2024.

    Cladonia homosekikaica Nuno new to Sweden : a cup lichen found in the grey dunes of Gotland.

    Palaearctic Grasslands.

    2024(61), pp. 14-17.

    Available from: https://doi.org/10.21570/EDGG.PG.61.14-17

  • Riedel, Susanne; Widmer, Stefan; Bringuier, Orane; Dengler, Jürgen,

    2024.

    Cover vs. biomass sampling in grassland vegetation plots.

    Tuexenia.

    44.

    Available from: https://doi.org/10.14471/2024.44.003

  • Borovyk, Dariia; Dembicz, Iwona; Dengler, Jürgen; Guarino, Riccardo; Kuzemko, Anna; Moysienko, Ivan; et al.,

    2024.

    Plant species richness records in Ukrainian steppes.

    Tuexenia.

    44.

    Available from: https://doi.org/10.14471/2024.44.002

  • Schindler, Meret; Seiler, Hallie; Dengler, Jürgen,

    2024.

    The effects of sprinkler irrigation on semi-natural grasslands in Valais (Switzerland).

    Tuexenia.

    44.

    Available from: https://doi.org/10.14471/2024.44.001

  • Skobel, Nadiia; Kozub, Łukasz; Dembicz, Iwona; Boch, Steffen; Bruun, Hans Henrik; Chusova, Olha; Golub, Valentin; Helm, Aveliina; Iakushenko, Dmytro; Pawlikowski, Paweł; Zaniewski, Piotr; Dengler, Jürgen,

    2024.

    Nordic-Baltic Grassland Vegetation Database (NBGVD) – current state and future prospects.

    Vegetation Classification and Survey.

    5, pp. 75-84.

    Available from: https://doi.org/10.3897/VCS.119968

  • Vassilev, Kiril; Bergmeier, Erwin; Boch, Steffen; Pedashenko, Hristo; Sopotlieva, Desislava; Tsiripidis, Ioannis; Apostolova, Iva; Fotiadis, Georgios; Ganeva, Anna; Genova, Beloslava; Natcheva, Rayna; Pirini, Chrisoula; Shivarov, Veselin; Tichý, Lubomír; Vrahnakis, Michael; Dengler, Jürgen,

    2024.

    Classification of the high‐rank syntaxa of the Central and Eastern Balkan dry grasslands with a new hierarchical expert system approach.

    Applied Vegetation Science.

    27(2), pp. e12779.

    Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/avsc.12779

  • Wamelink, G.W.W.; Goedhart, P.W.; Roelofsen, H.D.; Bobbink, R.; Posch, M.; van Dobben, H.F.; Biurrun, I.; Bonari, G.; Dengler, J.; Dítě, D.; Garbolino, E.; Jansen, J.; Jašková, A.K.; Lenoir, J.; Peterka, T.,

    2024.

    A novel method to estimate the response of habitat types to nitrogen deposition.

    Environmental Pollution.

    349(123844).

    Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2024.123844

  • Vynokurov, Denys; Aleksanyan, Alla; Becker, Thomas; Biurrun, Idoia; Borovyk, Dariia; Fayvush, George; García-Mijangos, Itziar; Magnes, Martin; Palpurina, Salza; Becker, Ute; Berastegi, Asun; Cykowska-Marzencka, Beata; Dembicz, Iwona; Frank, Dieter; Hilpold, Andreas; Kirschner, Philipp; Mayrhofer, Helmut; Oganesian, Marine; Vasheniak, Iuliia; Dengler, Jürgen,

    2024.

    Dry grasslands and thorn-cushion communities of Armenia : a first syntaxonomic classification.

    Vegetation Classification and Survey.

    2024(5), pp. 39-73.

    Available from: https://doi.org/10.3897/VCS.119253

  • Knollová, Ilona; Chytrý, Milan; Bruelheide, Helge; Dullinger, Stefan; Jandt, Ute; Bernhardt‐Römermann, Markus; Biurrun, Idoia; de Bello, Francesco; Glaser, Michael; Hennekens, Stephan; Jansen, Florian; Jiménez‐Alfaro, Borja; Kadaš, Daniel; Kaplan, Ekin; Klinkovská, Klára; Lenzner, Bernd; Pauli, Harald; Sperandii, Marta Gaia; Verheyen, Kris; Winkler, Manuela; Abdaladze, Otar; Aćić, Svetlana; Acosta, Alicia T. R.; Alignier, Audrey; Andrews, Christopher; Arlettaz, Raphaël; Attorre, Fabio; Axmanová, Irena; Babbi, Manuel; Baeten, Lander; Baran, Jakub; Barni, Elena; Benito‐Alonso, José‐Luis; Berg, Christian; Bergamini, Ariel; Berki, Imre; Boch, Steffen; Bock, Barbara; Bode, Frank; Bonari, Gianmaria; Boublík, Karel; Britton, Andrea J.; Brunet, Jörg; Bruzzaniti, Vanessa; Buholzer, Serge; Burrascano, Sabina; Campos, Juan A.; Carlsson, Bengt‐Göran; Carranza, Maria Laura; Černý, Tomáš; Charmillot, Kévin; Chiarucci, Alessandro; Choler, Philippe; Chytrý, Kryštof; Corcket, Emmanuel; Csecserits, Anikó; Cutini, Maurizio; Czarniecka‐Wiera, Marta; Danihelka, Jiří; de Francesco, Maria Carla; De Frenne, Pieter; Di Musciano, Michele; De Sanctis, Michele; Deák, Balázs; Decocq, Guillaume; Dembicz, Iwona; Dengler, Jürgen; Di Cecco, Valter; Dick, Jan; Diekmann, Martin; Dierschke, Hartmut; Dirnböck, Thomas; Doerfler, Inken; Doležal, Jiří; Döring, Ute; Durak, Tomasz; Dwyer, Ciara; Ejrnæs, Rasmus; Ermakova, Inna; Erschbamer, Brigitta; Fanelli, Giuliano; Fernández‐Calzado, María‐Rosa; Fickert, Thomas; Fischer, Andrea; Fischer, Markus; Foremnik, Kacper; Frouz, Jan; García‐González, Ricardo; García‐Magro, Daniel; García‐Mijangos, Itziar; Gavilán, Rosario G.; Germ, Mateja; Ghosn, Dany; Gigauri, Khatuna; Gizela, Jaroslav; Golob, Aleksandra; Golub, Valentin; Gómez‐García, Daniel; Gowing, David; Grytnes, John‐Arvid; Güler, Behlül; Gutiérrez‐Girón, Alba; Haase, Peter; Haider, Sylvia; Hájek, Michal; Halassy, Melinda; Harásek, Martin; Härdtle, Werner; Heinken, Thilo; Hester, Alison; Humbert, Jean‐Yves; Ibáñez, Ricardo; Illa, Estela; Jaroszewicz, Bogdan; Jensen, Kai; Jentsch, Anke; Jiroušek, Martin; Kalníková, Veronika; Kanka, Róbert; Kapfer, Jutta; Kazakis, George; Kermavnar, Janez; Kesting, Stefan; Khanina, Larisa; Kindermann, Elisabeth; Kotrík, Marek; Koutecký, Tomáš; Kozub, Łukasz; Kuhn, Gisbert; Kutnar, Lado; La Montagna, Dario; Lamprecht, Andrea; Lenoir, Jonathan; Lepš, Jan; Leuschner, Christoph; Lorite, Juan; Madsen, Bjarke; Ugarte, Rosina Magaña; Malicki, Marek; Maliniemi, Tuija; Máliš, František; Maringer, Alexander; Marrs, Robert; Matesanz, Silvia; Metze, Katrin; Meyer, Stefan; Millett, Jonathan; Mitchell, Ruth J.; Moeslund, Jesper Erenskjold; Moiseev, Pavel; di Cella, Umberto Morra; Mudrák, Ondřej; Müller, Frank; Müller, Norbert; Naaf, Tobias; Nagy, Laszlo; Napoleone, Francesca; Nascimbene, Juri; Navrátilová, Jana; Ninot, Josep M.; Niu, Yujie; Normand, Signe; Ogaya, Romá; Onipchenko, Vladimir; Orczewska, Anna; Ortmann‐Ajkai, Adrienne; Pakeman, Robin J.; Pardo, Iker; Pätsch, Ricarda; Peet, Robert K.; Penuelas, Josep; Peppler‐Lisbach, Cord; Pérez‐Hernández, Javier; Pérez‐Haase, Aaron; Petraglia, Alessandro; Petřík, Petr; Pielech, Remigiusz; Piórkowski, Hubert; Pladevall‐Izard, Eulàlia; Poschlod, Peter; Prach, Karel; Praleskouskaya, Safiya; Prokhorov, Vadim; Provoost, Sam; Pușcaș, Mihai; Pustková, Štěpánka; Randin, Christophe François; Rašomavičius, Valerijus; Reczyńska, Kamila; Rédei, Tamás; Řehounková, Klára; Richner, Nina; Risch, Anita C.; Rixen, Christian; Rosbakh, Sergey; Roscher, Christiane; Rosenthal, Gert; Rossi, Graziano; Rötzer, Harald; Roux, Camille; Rumpf, Sabine B.; Ruprecht, Eszter; Rūsiņa, Solvita; Sanz‐Zubizarreta, Irati; Schindler, Meret; Schmidt, Wolfgang; Schories, Dirk; Schrautzer, Joachim; Schubert, Hendrik; Schuetz, Martin; Schwabe, Angelika; Schwaiger, Helena; Schwartze, Peter; Šebesta, Jan; Seiler, Hallie; Šilc, Urban; Silva, Vasco; Šmilauer, Petr; Šmilauerová, Marie; Sperle, Thomas; Stachurska‐Swakoń, Alina; Stanik, Nils; Stanisci, Angela; Steffen, Kristina; Storm, Christian; Stroh, Hans Georg; Sugorkina, Nadezhda; Świerkosz, Krzysztof; Świerszcz, Sebastian; Szymura, Magdalena; Teleki, Balázs; Thébaud, Gilles; Theurillat, Jean‐Paul; Tichý, Lubomír; Treier, Urs A.; Turtureanu, Pavel Dan; Ujházy, Karol; Ujházyová, Mariana; Ursu, Tudor Mihai; Uziębło, Aldona K.; Valkó, Orsolya; Van Calster, Hans; Van Meerbeek, Koenraad; Vandevoorde, Bart; Vandvik, Vigdis; Varricchione, Marco; Vassilev, Kiril; Villar, Luis; Virtanen, Risto; Vittoz, Pascal; Voigt, Winfried; von Hessberg, Andreas; von Oheimb, Goddert; Wagner, Eva; Walther, Gian‐Reto; Wellstein, Camilla; Wesche, Karsten; Wilhelm, Markus; Willner, Wolfgang; Wipf, Sonja; Wittig, Burghard; Wohlgemuth, Thomas; Woodcock, Ben A.; Wulf, Monika; Essl, Franz,

    2024.

    ReSurveyEurope : a database of resurveyed vegetation plots in Europe.

    Journal of Vegetation Science.

    35(2), pp. e13235.

    Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.13235

  • Abderhalden-Raba, Angelika; Hagmann, J.; Schnyder, N.; Styx, S.; Urmi, E.; Senn-Irlet, B.; Dengler, Jürgen; et al.,

    2024.

    GEO-Tag der Natur 2022 in der Val Sinestra, Unterengadin.

    Jahresbericht der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft Graubünden.

    123, pp. 73-90.

  • Angelini, Lisa; Tyshchenko, Oksana; Hilpold, Andreas; Chusova, Olha; Dengler, Jürgen; Dolnik, Christian; Güler, Behlül; Kirschner, Philipp; Nikolei, Robin; Rabyk, Iryna; Skobel, Nadiia; Vynokurov, Denys,

    2024.

    17th EDGG Field Workshop photo diary Inner Alpine dry valleys of the south-eastern Alps (Italy, Switzerland, 1-11 June 2023).

    Palaearctic Grasslands.

    2024(60), pp. 28-59.

    Available from: https://doi.org/10.21570/EDGG.PG.60.28-59

  • Kambach, Stephan; Attorre, Fabio; Axmanová, Irena; Bergamini, Ariel; Biurrun, Idoia; Bonari, Gianmaria; Carranza, Maria Laura; Chiarucci, Alessandro; Chytrý, Milan; Dengler, Jürgen; Garbolino, Emmanuel; Golub, Valentin; Hickler, Thomas; Jandt, Ute; Jansen, Jan; Jiménez-Alfaro, Borja; Karger, Dirk Nikolaus; Lososová, Zdeňka; Rašomavičius, Valerijus; Rūsiņa, Solvita; Sieber, Petra; Stanisci, Angela; Thuiller, Wilfried; Welk, Erik; Zimmermann, Niklaus E.; Bruelheide, Helge,

    2024.

    Climate regulation processes are linked to the functional composition of plant communities in European forests, shrublands, and grasslands.

    Global Change Biology.

    30(2), pp. e17189.

    Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.17189

  • Preislerová, Zdenka; Marcenò, Corrado; Loidi, Javier; Bonari, Gianmaria; Borovyk, Dariia; Gavilán, Rosario G.; Golub, Valentin; Terzi, Massimo; Theurillat, Jean‐Paul; Argagnon, Olivier; Bioret, Frederic; Biurrun, Idoia; Campos, Juan Antonio; Capelo, Jorge; Čarni, Andraž; Çoban, Süleyman; Csiky, János; Ćuk, Mirjana; Ćušterevska, Renata; Dengler, Jürgen; Didukh, Yakiv; Dítě, Daniel; Fanelli, Giuliano; Fernández‐González, Federico; Guarino, Riccardo; Hájek, Ondřej; Iakushenko, Dmytro; Iemelianova, Svitlana; Jansen, Florian; Jašková, Anni; Jiroušek, Martin; Kalníková, Veronika; Kavgacı, Ali; Kuzemko, Anna; Landucci, Flavia; Lososová, Zdeňka; Milanović, Đorđije; Molina, José Antonio; Monteiro‐Henriques, Tiago; Mucina, Ladislav; Novák, Pavel; Nowak, Arkadiusz; Pätsch, Ricarda; Perrin, Gwenhael; Peterka, Tomáš; Rašomavičius, Valerijus; Reczyńska, Kamila; Rūsiņa, Solvita; Mata, Daniel Sánchez; Guerra, Arnoldo Santos; Šibík, Jozef; Škvorc, Željko; Stešević, Danijela; Stupar, Vladimir; Świerkosz, Krzysztof; Tzonev, Rossen; Vassilev, Kiril; Vynokurov, Denys; Willner, Wolfgang; Chytrý, Milan,

    2024.

    Structural, ecological and biogeographical attributes of European vegetation alliances.

    Applied Vegetation Science.

    27(e12766).

    Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/avsc.12766

  • Midolo, Gabriele; Axmanová, Irena; Divíšek, Jan; Dřevojan, Pavel; Lososová, Zdeňka; Večeřa, Martin; Karger, Dirk Nikolaus; Thuiller, Wilfried; Bruelheide, Helge; Aćić, Svetlana; Attorre, Fabio; Biurrun, Idoia; Boch, Steffen; Bonari, Gianmaria; Čarni, Andraž; Chiarucci, Alessandro; Ćušterevska, Renata; Dengler, Jürgen; Dziuba, Tetiana; Garbolino, Emmanuel; Jandt, Ute; Lenoir, Jonathan; Marcenò, Corrado; Rūsiņa, Solvita; Šibík, Jozef; Škvorc, Željko; Stančić, Zvjezdana; Stanišić‐Vujačić, Milica; Svenning, Jens‐Christian; Swacha, Grzegorz; Vassilev, Kiril; Chytrý, Milan,

    2024.

    Diversity and distribution of Raunkiær's life forms in European vegetation.

    Journal of Vegetation Science.

    35(1), pp. e13229.

    Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.13229

  • Dengler, Jürgen; Biurrun, Idoia; Jansen, Florian; Willner, Wolfgang,

    2024.

    Vegetation Classification and Survey is performing well.

    Vegetation Classification and Survey.

    5, pp. 1-10.

    Available from: https://doi.org/10.3897/VCS.118454

  • Večeřa, Martin; Axmanová, Irena; Chytrý, Milan; Divíšek, Jan; Ndiribe, Charlotte; Velasco Mones, Gonzalo; Čeplová, Natálie; Aćić, Svetlana; Bahn, Michael; Bergamini, Ariel; Boenisch, Gerhard; Biurrun, Idoia; Bruun, Hans Henrik; Byun, Chaeho; Catford, Jane A.; Cerabolini, Bruno E. L.; Cornelissen, Johannes H. C.; Dengler, Jürgen; Jansen, Florian; Jansen, Steven; Kattge, Jens; Kozub, Łukasz; Kuzemko, Anna; Minden, Vanessa; Mitchell, Rachel M.; Moeslund, Jesper E.; Mori, Akira S.; Niinemets, Ülo; Ruprecht, Eszter; Rūsiņa, Solvita; Šilc, Urban; Soudzilovskaia, Nadejda A.; van Bodegom, Peter M.; Vassilev, Kiril; Weiher, Evan; Wright, Ian J.; Lososová, Zdeňka,

    2023.

    Decoupled phylogenetic and functional diversity in European grasslands.

    Preslia.

    95(4), pp. 413-445.

    Available from: https://doi.org/10.23855/preslia.2023.413

  • Dembicz, Iwona; Zachwatowicz, Maria; Moysiyenko, Ivan; Shapoval, Viktor; Smreczak, Bożena; Zagorodniuk, Natalia; Davydova, Anastasia; Vynokurov, Denys; Seiler, Hallie; Sudnik‐Wójcikowska, Barbara,

    2023.

    Rapid functional but slow species diversity recovery of steppe vegetation on former arable fields in southern Ukraine.

    Applied Vegetation Science.

    26(e12756).

    Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/avsc.12756

  • Dengler, Jürgen,

    2023.

    Open access movement : noble intend – questionable outcome (and what different stakeholders can do about that).

    Vegetation Science Blog.

    Available from: https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.25297.30567

  • Laughlin, Daniel C.; Siefert, Andrew; Fleri, Jesse R.; Tumber-Dávila, Shersingh Joseph; Hammond, William M.; Sabatini, Francesco Maria; Damasceno, Gabriella; Aubin, Isabelle; Field, Richard; Hatim, Mohamed Z.; Jansen, Steven; Lenoir, Jonathan; Lens, Frederic; McCarthy, James K.; Niinemets, Ülo; Phillips, Oliver L.; Attorre, Fabio; Bergeron, Yves; Bruun, Hans Henrik; Byun, Chaeho; Ćušterevska, Renata; Dengler, Jürgen; De Sanctis, Michele; Dolezal, Jiri; Jiménez-Alfaro, Borja; Hérault, Bruno; Homeier, Jürgen; Kattge, Jens; Meir, Patrick; Mencuccini, Maurizio; Noroozi, Jalil; Nowak, Arkadiusz; Peñuelas, Josep; Schmidt, Marco; Škvorc, Željko; Sultana, Fahmida; Ugarte, Rosina Magaña; Bruelheide, Helge,

    2023.

    Rooting depth and xylem vulnerability are independent woody plant traits jointly selected by aridity, seasonality, and water table depth.

    New Phytologist.

    240(5), pp. 1774-1787.

    Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.19276

  • Dembicz, Iwona; Dengler, Jürgen, eds.,

    2023.

    Report from the Master Summer School “Biodiversity Monitoring”, Białowieża, Poland, 15–25 August 2022.

    Warsaw:

    University of Warsaw.

    Available from: https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.33206.68161