Flora Europaea Vol 4 Pdf
Eugene Aubry
Euro+Med PlantBase integrates and critically evaluates information from Flora Europaea, Med-Checklist, Flora of Macaronesia and from regional and national floras and checklists as well as additional taxonomic and floristic literature. This is complemented by the European and Mediterranean taxa of several families taken from the World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP) and of the Leguminosae from the International Legume Database and Information Service (ILDIS). Euro+Med PlantBase is continuously updated by an international network of taxonomic and regional editors and advisers, coordinated by the Euro+Med PlantBase Secretariat at the Botanic Garden Berlin.
Euro+Med PlantBase is now accessible via a new data portal, which is still partly under development. The new portal makes full use of the EDIT Platform for Cybertaxonomy and all data have been migrated from the old system to the new. One of the most important features of the new portal is that corrections and additions to the database, e.g. new taxa and new area records, are immediately visible on the taxon pages.
The new data portal is not yet in its final version and there are still a number of known issues that have to be solved. However, because updating of the old database has been discontinued, the Euro+Med PlantBase Secretariat has decided to put the new portal online for review and information access.
Using a relatively broad species concept, Flora Europaea describes about 11,500 native species (Tutin et al.1964, 1968-1980). The richest areas are around the Alps, Pyrenees and the Balkan Peninsula, where altitudinal zonation results in diverse habitats with many different species or subspecies within small areas (Ozenda 1983; Lahti and Lampinen 1999;Williams et al. 2000). Although there have been previous attempts to understand the relationships and hence the history of the mountain systems in Europe, a comprehensive analysis by comparing mountain ranges across Europe is difficult. The distribution data are compiled in various local floras that use administrative or political boundaries rather than natural biogeographical divisions. Moreover, workers at different times, even in similar areas, have used different species concepts, thus making comparisons difficult. As a new initiative, we examine here the richness and distribution of European alpine species using data from the first 11 volumes of Atlas Florae Europaeae (AFE). AFE (Jalas et al.1996) provides individual maps for more than 3000 vascular plant taxa from Lycopodiaceae to Brassicaceae, covering about 20% of all taxa treated in the five volumes of Flora Europaea. What makes this particular analysis possible is that these data have been digitised recently, enabling the use of the necessary diversity measures and area-selection analyses of alpine taxa using the WORLDMAP software (Humphries et al. 1999;Lahti and Lampinen 1999; Williams et al.2000).
FloraVeg.EU is an online database of European vegetation and flora data prepared in various projects of the Vegetation Science Group, Department of Botany and Zoology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, and the European Vegetation Survey Working Group of the International Association for Vegetation Science. It uses the Pladias database platform developed in collaboration with the Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences.
The Vegetation part of the database presents the current version of the phytosociological (syntaxonomic) classification of European vegetation managed by the European Vegetation Classification Committee (EVCC). It is based on EuroVegChecklist (Mucina et al. 2016, Applied Vegetation Science) and contains updates approved by the EVCC. The classification includes three hierarchical classification levels: class, order and alliance. Data on structure, ecology and biogeography, distribution maps (Preislerov et al. 2022, Applied Vegetation Science) and photographs are provided for individual vegetation types.
The Habitat part of the database presents the terrestrial part of the EUNIS Habitat Classification managed by the European Environment Agency and elaborated by the IAVS Working Group European Vegetation Survey (Chytr et al. 2020, Applied Vegetation Science). It includes three hierarchical levels. Brief descriptions, characteristic species combinations, distribution maps and links to phytosociological alliances are provided for individual habitat types.
The Flora part of the database focuses on native and naturalized flora occurring in Europe. Cultivated plants are not within the scope of the database, although the most commonly cultivated crops and woody plants are included. Taxon concepts and nomenclature largely follow the Euro+Med PlantBase. Species are characterized by their biological traits, origin, ecological indicator values and their occurrence in habitat and vegetation types.
Flora Europaea un'enciclopedia in 5 volumi delle piante, pubblicata tra il 1964 e il 1993 dalla Cambridge University Press[1]. Lo scopo dell'opera la descrizione di tutte le specie floreali di ciascuno singolo Stato europeo in un'unica, autorevole pubblicazione, al fine di aiutare i lettori nell'identificazione di ogni pianta, da quelle selvatiche a quelle pi ampiamente coltivate in Europa, fino al livello di sottospecie.
L'idea di un'enciclopedia della flora europea fu discussa per la prima volta all'VIII International Congress of Botany di Parigi nel 1954[2].Nel 1957, lo Science and Engineering Research Council britannico stanzi fondi per finanziare un comitato di tre esperti per la redazione dell'opera[3] e il I volume fu pubblicato nel 1964.
Le royalties derivanti dalla vendita dell'opera furono versato in un fondo fiduciario, amministrato dalla Linnean Society, che permise il finanziamento del Dott. John Akeroyd nella prosecuzione del progetto[4].
Fu formato anche un gruppo di consulenti regionali, al fine di assicurare una copertura completa dell'Europa intera.Parecchi consulenti erano anche autori nelle loro rispettive specializzazioni tassonomiche.Per ciascun paese i rappresentanti furono i seguenti:
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