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EUNIS HABITAT CLASSIFICATION: EXPERT SYSTEM, CHARACTERISTIC SPECIES COMBINATIONS AND DISTRIBUTION MAPS OF EUROPEAN HABITATS

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Articles in international journals and collections

Year of publication

2020

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Authors, employees of KFU

Kozhevnikova Mariya Vladimirovna, author

Prokhorov Vadim Evgenevich, author

Bibliographic description in the original language

Chytr? M, Tich? L, Hennekens S.M, EUNIS Habitat Classification: Expert system, characteristic species combinations and distribution maps of European habitats//Applied Vegetation Science. - 2020. - Vol., Is.. - .

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Aim: The EUNIS Habitat Classification is a widely used reference framework for European habitat types (habitats), but it lacks formal definitions of individual habitats that would enable their unequivocal identification. Our goal was to develop a tool for assigning vegetation-plot records to the habitats of the EUNIS system, use it to classify a European vegetation-plot database, and compile statistically-derived char-acteristic species combinations and distribution maps for these habitats.Location: Europe.Methods: We developed the classification expert system EUNIS-ESy, which con-tains definitions of individual EUNIS habitats based on their species composition and geographic location. Each habitat was formally defined as a formula in a computer language combining algebraic and set-theoretic concepts with formal logical opera-tors. We applied this expert system to classify 1,261,373 vegetation plots from the European Vegetation Archive (EVA) and other databases. Then we determined diag-nostic, constant and dominant species for each habitat by calculating species-to-hab-itat fidelity and constancy (occurrence frequency) in the classified data set. Finally, we mapped the plot locations for each habitat.Results: Formal definitions were developed for 199 habitats at Level 3 of the EUNIS hierarchy, including 25 coastal, 18 wetland, 55 grassland, 43 shrubland, 46 forest and 12 man-made habitats. The expert system classified 1,125,121 vegetation plots to these habitat groups and 73,188 to other habitats, while 63,064 plots remained unclassified or were classified to more than one habitat. Data on each habitat were summarized in factsheets containing habitat description, distribution map, corre-sponding syntaxa and characteristic species combination.Conclusions: EUNIS habitats were characterized for the first time in terms of their species composition and distribution, based on a classification of a European data-base of vegetation plots using the newly developed electronic expert system EUNIS-ESy. The data provided and the expert system have considerable potential for future use in European nature conservation planning, monitoring and assessment

Keywords

coastal habitat, diagnostic species, distribution map, dune vegetation, European Nature Information System (EUNIS), European Vegetation Archive (EVA), expert system, forest, grassland, habitat classification, man-made habitat, shrubland, vegetation database, vegetation plot, wetland

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Applied Vegetation Science

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Field DC	Value	Language
dc.contributor.author	Kozhevnikova Mariya Vladimirovna	ru_RU
dc.contributor.author	Prokhorov Vadim Evgenevich	ru_RU
dc.date.accessioned	2020-01-01T00:00:00Z	ru_RU
dc.date.available	2020-01-01T00:00:00Z	ru_RU
dc.date.issued	2020	ru_RU
dc.identifier.citation	Chytr? M, Tich? L, Hennekens S.M, EUNIS Habitat Classification: Expert system, characteristic species combinations and distribution maps of European habitats//Applied Vegetation Science. - 2020. - Vol., Is.. - .	ru_RU
dc.identifier.uri	https://repository.kpfu.ru/eng/?p_id=237363&p_lang=2	ru_RU
dc.description.abstract	Applied Vegetation Science	ru_RU
dc.description.abstract	Aim: The EUNIS Habitat Classification is a widely used reference framework for European habitat types (habitats), but it lacks formal definitions of individual habitats that would enable their unequivocal identification. Our goal was to develop a tool for assigning vegetation-plot records to the habitats of the EUNIS system, use it to classify a European vegetation-plot database, and compile statistically-derived char-acteristic species combinations and distribution maps for these habitats.Location: Europe.Methods: We developed the classification expert system EUNIS-ESy, which con-tains definitions of individual EUNIS habitats based on their species composition and geographic location. Each habitat was formally defined as a formula in a computer language combining algebraic and set-theoretic concepts with formal logical opera-tors. We applied this expert system to classify 1,261,373 vegetation plots from the European Vegetation Archive (EVA) and other databases. Then we determined diag-nostic, constant and dominant species for each habitat by calculating species-to-hab-itat fidelity and constancy (occurrence frequency) in the classified data set. Finally, we mapped the plot locations for each habitat.Results: Formal definitions were developed for 199 habitats at Level 3 of the EUNIS hierarchy, including 25 coastal, 18 wetland, 55 grassland, 43 shrubland, 46 forest and 12 man-made habitats. The expert system classified 1,125,121 vegetation plots to these habitat groups and 73,188 to other habitats, while 63,064 plots remained unclassified or were classified to more than one habitat. Data on each habitat were summarized in factsheets containing habitat description, distribution map, corre-sponding syntaxa and characteristic species combination.Conclusions: EUNIS habitats were characterized for the first time in terms of their species composition and distribution, based on a classification of a European data-base of vegetation plots using the newly developed electronic expert system EUNIS-ESy. The data provided and the expert system have considerable potential for future use in European nature conservation planning, monitoring and assessment	ru_RU
dc.language.iso	ru	ru_RU
dc.subject	coastal habitat	ru_RU
dc.subject	diagnostic species	ru_RU
dc.subject	distribution map	ru_RU
dc.subject	dune vegetation	ru_RU
dc.subject	European Nature Information System (EUNIS)	ru_RU
dc.subject	European Vegetation Archive (EVA)	ru_RU
dc.subject	expert system	ru_RU
dc.subject	forest	ru_RU
dc.subject	grassland	ru_RU
dc.subject	habitat classification	ru_RU
dc.subject	man-made habitat	ru_RU
dc.subject	shrubland	ru_RU
dc.subject	vegetation database	ru_RU
dc.subject	vegetation plot	ru_RU
dc.subject	wetland	ru_RU
dc.title	EUNIS Habitat Classification: Expert system, characteristic species combinations and distribution maps of European habitats	ru_RU
dc.type	Articles in international journals and collections	ru_RU