Ecology and vegetation types of oak-hornbeam and ravine forests of the Eastern Greater Caucasus, Georgia

• Published in: Folia geobotanica Vol. 55; no. 4; pp. 333 - 349
• Main Authors: Novák, Pavel, Zukal, Dominik, Harásek, Martin, Vlčková, Pavla, Abdaladze, Otar, Willner, Wolfgang
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht Springer Science + Business Media 01.12.2020; Springer Netherlands; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Biomedical and Life Sciences; Datasets; Deciduous forests; Foothills; Forests; Life Sciences; Oak; Plant Ecology; Plant Sciences; Plant Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography; Species composition; Vegetation; United States > US; Georgia; Caucasus; Biogeography; Phytosociology; Transcaucasia; Classification; Syntaxonomy

The Caucasus harbours unique forest vegetation so far only little studied using the Braun-Blanquet approach. This study is mostly based on a dataset (N = 110) of original phytosociological relevés of oakhornbeam and ravine forests in the Eastern Greater Caucasus, Georgia. Their unsupervised classifi...