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
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Dembicz, Iwona; Dengler, Jürgen; Biurrun, Idoia; Steinbauer, Manuel J.; Matthews, Thomas J.; Kapfer, Jutta; Storch, David; Ulrich, Werner,
2019.
Patterns and drivers of fine-scale beta-diversity in Palaearctic grasslands.
In:
Abstracts : 62nd Annual Symposium of the International Association for Vegetation Science.
62nd Annual IAVS Symposium, Bremen, Germany, 14‐19 July 2019.
International Association for Vegetation Science.
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Dengler, Jürgen; Aleksanyan, Alla; Ambarlı, Didem; Biurrun, Idoia; Dembicz, Iwona; Kuzemko, Anna; Török, Péter; Venn, Stephen; Vrahnakis, Michael,
2019.
The Eurasian Dry Grassland Group (EDGG) in 2018-2019.
Hacquetia.
18(2), pp. 147-154.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-17797
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Sporbert, M.; Bruelheide, H.; Seidler, G.; Keil, P.; Jandt, U.; Austrheim, G.; Biurrun, I.; Campos, J.A.; Carni, A.; Chytry, M.; Csiky, J.; De Bie, E.; Dengler, Jürgen; et al.,
2019.
Assessing sampling coverage of species distribution in biodiversity databases.
Journal of Vegetation Science.
30(4), pp. 620-632.
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Kehoe, Laura; Reis, Tiago; Virah-Sawmy, Malika; Balmford, Andrew; Kuemmerle, Tobias; Dengler, Jürgen; et al.,
2019.
Make EU trade with Brazil sustainable.
Science.
364(6438), pp. 341.
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Dengler, Jürgen; Matthews, Thomas J.; Biurrun, Idoia; Steinbauer, Manuel J.; Conradi, Timo; Chiarucci, Alessandro; Dembicz, Iwona; Guarino, Riccardo; Naqinezhad, Alireza; Soliveres, Santiago; Storch, David; Ulrich, Werner,
2019.
General patterns of species-area relationships emerging from nearly 5,000 grassland plots.
In:
Macroecology 2019, Würzburg, 13 March 2019.
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Dembicz, Iwona; Moysiyenko, Ivan I.; Kozub, Lukasz; Dengler, Jürgen; Zakharova, Maryna; Sudnik-Wojcikowska, Barbara,
2019.
Steppe islands : where island biogeography meets the reality of a severely fragmented habitat.
In:
Macroecology 2019, Würzburg, 13 March 2019.
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Biurrun, Idoia; Bergmeier, Erwin; Dengler, Jürgen; Jansen, Florian; Willner, Wolfgang,
2019.
Vegetation classification and its application are relevant globally.
Phytocoenologia.
49(1), pp. 1-6.
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Dengler, Jürgen; Andrade, Bianca; Guarino, Riccardo; Li, Frank Yonghong; Loidi, Javier,
2019.
IAVS Bulletin: Newsletter of the International Association for Vegetation Science.
2019(2), pp. 19-20.
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Dengler, Jürgen,
2019.
A global synthesis of grasslands
[review of Squires, V.R., Dengler, J., Feng, H. & Hua, L. (eds.) 2018. Grasslands of the world: diversity, management and conservation. CRC Press, Boca Raton, US: 412 pp. ISBN 978-1-4987-9626-2].
IAVS Bulletin: Newsletter of the International Association for Vegetation Science.
2019(1), pp. 31-32.
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Bergamini, Ariel; Büschlen, Arnold; Hepenstrick, Daniel; Kiebacher, Thomas; Meier, Markus; Schnyder, Norbert; Urmi, Edi,
2019.
Beiträge zur bryofloristischen Erforschung der Schweiz – Folge 14.
Meylania.
63, pp. 5-14.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-19787
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Willner, Wolfgang; Roleček, Jan; Korolyuk, Andrey; Dengler, Jürgen; Chytrý, Milan; Janišová, Monika; Lengyel, Attila; Aćić, Svetlana; Becker, Thomas; Ćuk, Mirjana; Demina, Olga; Jandt, Ute; Kącki, Zygmunt; Kuzemko, Anna; Kropf, Matthias; Lebedeva, Mariya; Semenishchenkov, Yuri; Šilc, Urban; Stančić, Zvjezdana; Staudinger, Markus; Vassilev, Kiril; Yamalov, Sergey,
2019.
Formalized classification of semi-dry grasslands of central and eastern Europe.
Preslia.
91(1), pp. 25-49.
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Kuzemko, Anna A.; Biurrun, Idoia; Dengler, Jürgen,
2019.
Palaearctic Grasslands : a new IAVS journal.
IAVS Bulletin: Newsletter of the International Association for Vegetation Science.
2019(2), pp. 25-27.
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Zheng, Ying; Dong, Lei; Li, Zhiyong; Zhang, Jing Hui; Li, Zijing; Miao, Bailing; Jia, Chengzhen; Liang, Cunzhu; Wang, Lixin; Li, Frank Yonghong,
2019.
Ecology and Evolution.
9(23), pp. 13320-13331.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-19169
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Deák, Balasz; Becker, Thomas; Boch, Steffen; Dengler, Jürgen; Wagner, Viktoria,
2019.
Tuexenia.
39, pp. 309-313.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-18466
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Bruelheide, Helge; Dengler, Jürgen; Jiménez‐Alfaro, Borja; Purschke, Oliver; Hennekens, Stephan M.; Chytrý, Milan; Pillar, Valério D.; Jansen, Florian; Kattge, Jens; Sandel, Brody; Aubin, Isabelle; Biurrun, Idoia; Field, Richard; Haider, Sylvia; Jandt, Ute; Lenoir, Jonathan; Peet, Robert K.; Peyre, Gwendolyn; Sabatini, Francesco Maria; Schmidt, Marco; Schrodt, Franziska; Winter, Marten; Aćić, Svetlana; Agrillo, Emiliano; Alvarez, Miguel; Ambarlı, Didem; Angelini, Pierangela; Apostolova, Iva; Arfin Khan, Mohammed A. S.; Arnst, Elise; Attorre, Fabio; Baraloto, Christopher; Beckmann, Michael; Berg, Christian; Bergeron, Yves; Bergmeier, Erwin; Bjorkman, Anne D.; Bondareva, Viktoria; Borchardt, Peter; Botta‐Dukát, Zoltán; Boyle, Brad; Breen, Amy; Brisse, Henry; Byun, Chaeho; Cabido, Marcelo R.; Casella, Laura; Cayuela, Luis; Černý, Tomáš; Chepinoga, Victor; Csiky, János; Curran, Michael; Ćušterevska, Renata; Dajić Stevanović, Zora; De Bie, Els; de Ruffray, Patrice; De Sanctis, Michele; Dimopoulos, Panayotis; Dressler, Stefan; Ejrnæs, Rasmus; El‐Sheikh, Mohamed Abd El‐Rouf Mousa; Enquist, Brian; Ewald, Jörg; Fagúndez, Jaime; Finckh, Manfred; Font, Xavier; Forey, Estelle; Fotiadis, Georgios; García‐Mijangos, Itziar; Gasper, André Luis; Golub, Valentin; Gutierrez, Alvaro G.; Hatim, Mohamed Z.; He, Tianhua; Higuchi, Pedro; Holubová, Dana; Hölzel, Norbert; Homeier, Jürgen; Indreica, Adrian; Işık Gürsoy, Deniz; Jansen, Steven; Janssen, John; Jedrzejek, Birgit; Jiroušek, Martin; Jürgens, Norbert; Kącki, Zygmunt; Kavgacı, Ali; Kearsley, Elizabeth; Kessler, Michael; Knollová, Ilona; Kolomiychuk, Vitaliy; Korolyuk, Andrey; Kozhevnikova, Maria; Kozub, Łukasz; Krstonošić, Daniel; Kühl, Hjalmar; Kühn, Ingolf; Kuzemko, Anna; Küzmič, Filip; Landucci, Flavia; Lee, Michael T.; Levesley, Aurora; Li, Ching‐Feng; Liu, Hongyan; Lopez‐Gonzalez, Gabriela; Lysenko, Tatiana; Macanović, Armin; Mahdavi, Parastoo; Manning, Peter; Marcenò, Corrado; Martynenko, Vassiliy; Mencuccini, Maurizio; Minden, Vanessa; Moeslund, Jesper Erenskjold; Moretti, Marco; Müller, Jonas V.; Munzinger, Jérôme; Niinemets, Ülo; Nobis, Marcin; Noroozi, Jalil; Nowak, Arkadiusz; Onyshchenko, Viktor; Overbeck, Gerhard E.; Ozinga, Wim A.; Pauchard, Anibal; Pedashenko, Hristo; Peñuelas, Josep; Pérez‐Haase, Aaron; Peterka, Tomáš; Petřík, Petr; Phillips, Oliver L.; Prokhorov, Vadim; Rašomavičius, Valerijus; Revermann, Rasmus; Rodwell, John; Ruprecht, Eszter; Rūsiņa, Solvita; Samimi, Cyrus; Schaminée, Joop H.J.; Schmiedel, Ute; Šibík, Jozef; Šilc, Urban; Škvorc, Željko; Smyth, Anita; Sop, Tenekwetche; Sopotlieva, Desislava; Sparrow, Ben; Stančić, Zvjezdana; Svenning, Jens‐Christian; Swacha, Grzegorz; Tang, Zhiyao; Tsiripidis, Ioannis; Turtureanu, Pavel Dan; Uğurlu, Emin; Uogintas, Domas; Valachovič, Milan; Vanselow, Kim André; Vashenyak, Yulia; Vassilev, Kiril; Vélez‐Martin, Eduardo; Venanzoni, Roberto; Vibrans, Alexander Christian; Violle, Cyrille; Virtanen, Risto; Wehrden, Henrik; Wagner, Viktoria; Walker, Donald A.; Wana, Desalegn; Weiher, Evan; Wesche, Karsten; Whitfeld, Timothy; Willner, Wolfgang; Wiser, Susan; Wohlgemuth, Thomas; Yamalov, Sergey; Zizka, Georg; Zverev, Andrei,
2019.
sPlot : a new tool for global vegetation analyses.
Journal of Vegetation Science.
30(2), pp. 161-186.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-3285
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Allexanyan, A.; Biurrun, I.; Dengler, Jürgen,
2018.
EDGG Field Workshops 2019 : Switzerland and Armenia : first call.
Eurasian Dry Grassland Group (EDGG).
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Burrascano, S.; Ciaschetti, G.; Vrahnakis, M.; Dengler, Jürgen,
2018.
Report on the 15th Eurasian Grassland Conference in Sulmona, Italy.
Palaearctic Grasslands.
(38), pp. 12-24.
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Dengler, Jürgen,
2018.
The beauty of xerothermic vegetation complexes in Ausserberg (Rhone valley, Switzerland).
Palaearctic Grasslands.
(38), pp. 34-38.
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Dengler, Jürgen; Wagner, Viktoria; Dembicz, Iwona; García-Mijangos, Itziar; Naqinezhad, Alireza; Boch, Steffen; Chiarucci, Alessandro; Conradi, Timo,
2018.
GrassPlot – a database of multi-scale plant diversity in Palaearctic grasslands.
Phytocoenologia.
48(3), pp. 331-347.
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Squires, V.R.; Dengler, Jürgen; Feng, H.; Hua, L., eds.,
2018.
Grasslands of the world : diversity, management and conservation.
Boca Raton:
CRC Press.
ISBN 9781498796262.