Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-20787
Publication type: Article in scientific journal
Type of review: Peer review (publication)
Title: Sampling multi-scale and multi-taxon plant diversity data in the subalpine and alpine habitats of Switzerland : report on the 14th EDGG Field Workshop
Authors: Dengler, Jürgen
Cykowska-Marzencka, Beata
Bruderer, Timon
Dolnik, Christian
Neumann, Patrick
Riedel, Susanne
Seiler, Hallie
Zhang, Jing Hui
Dembicz, Iwona
et. al: No
DOI: 10.21570/EDGG.PG.47.14-42
10.21256/zhaw-20787
Published in: Palaearctic Grasslands
Issue: 47
Page(s): 14
Pages to: 42
Issue Date: 5-Nov-2020
Publisher / Ed. Institution: Eurasian Dry Grassland Group (EDGG)
ISSN: 2627-9827
Language: English
Subjects: Alpine grassland; Biodiversity; Bryophyte; Cephaloziella dentata; Dwarf shrub heath; Elevational gradient; Eurasian Dry Grassland Group (EDGG); Fen; Festuco-Brometea; Lichen; Nested plot; Scree; Seslerion; Snow bed; Soil pH; Species richness; Switzerland; Vascular plant
Subject (DDC): 577: Ecology
580: Plants (Botany)
Abstract: The 14th EDGG Field Workshop took place from the 4th to the 14th of September 2020 in Switzerland, and was devoted to the vegetation of open habitats in the subalpine and alpine zones. In total, 26 EDGG Biodiversity Plots (nested plots with grain sizes of 0.0001 to 100 m²) were sampled in different open habitat types (grasslands, heathlands, screes, snowbeds, fens) in three regions of Switzerland, both over acidic and base-rich bedrock. Additionally, three normal plots of 10 m² were sampled in high-elevation Festuco-Brometea stands in Zermatt. Across all grain sizes, stands showed 10–25% higher means and 50–94% higher maxima for total richness of vascular plants, terricolous bryophytes and lichens compared with data from the 12th EDGG Field Workshop in dry and semi-dry grasslands of the central valleys of the Swiss Alps. We found outstanding preliminary maxima of total richness of 61, 109 and 163 species in 1, 10 and 100 m² respectively, in an unused alpine grassland over limestone (Seslerion). Both particularly variable and partly extremely rich was the bryophyte and lichen flora of the analysed stands, with up to 33 bryophyte and 22 lichen species in 10-m² plots. We report the liverwort Cephaloziella dentata as new for Switzerland, found in a thermophilous subalpine heathland at Alp Glivers, Surselva, Grisons. Overall, our preliminary data suggest that some of the sampled subalpine and alpine habitats are among the most species-rich communities at small scales if bryophytes and lichens are also considered. Based on this finding, we recommend that these two taxonomic groups be more regularly included in surveying and particularly in monitoring programs for vegetation. The Scientific Report is supplemented by a photo diary that provides impressions of work and life during the Field Workshop.
URI: https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/20787
Fulltext version: Published version
License (according to publishing contract): CC BY-SA 4.0: Attribution - Share alike 4.0 International
Departement: Life Sciences and Facility Management
Organisational Unit: Institute of Natural Resource Sciences (IUNR)
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Dengler, J., Cykowska-Marzencka, B., Bruderer, T., Dolnik, C., Neumann, P., Riedel, S., Seiler, H., Zhang, J. H., & Dembicz, I. (2020). Sampling multi-scale and multi-taxon plant diversity data in the subalpine and alpine habitats of Switzerland : report on the 14th EDGG Field Workshop. Palaearctic Grasslands, 47, 14–42. https://doi.org/10.21570/EDGG.PG.47.14-42
Dengler, J. et al. (2020) ‘Sampling multi-scale and multi-taxon plant diversity data in the subalpine and alpine habitats of Switzerland : report on the 14th EDGG Field Workshop’, Palaearctic Grasslands, (47), pp. 14–42. Available at: https://doi.org/10.21570/EDGG.PG.47.14-42.
J. Dengler et al., “Sampling multi-scale and multi-taxon plant diversity data in the subalpine and alpine habitats of Switzerland : report on the 14th EDGG Field Workshop,” Palaearctic Grasslands, no. 47, pp. 14–42, Nov. 2020, doi: 10.21570/EDGG.PG.47.14-42.
DENGLER, Jürgen, Beata CYKOWSKA-MARZENCKA, Timon BRUDERER, Christian DOLNIK, Patrick NEUMANN, Susanne RIEDEL, Hallie SEILER, Jing Hui ZHANG und Iwona DEMBICZ, 2020. Sampling multi-scale and multi-taxon plant diversity data in the subalpine and alpine habitats of Switzerland : report on the 14th EDGG Field Workshop. Palaearctic Grasslands. 5 November 2020. Nr. 47, S. 14–42. DOI 10.21570/EDGG.PG.47.14-42
Dengler, Jürgen, Beata Cykowska-Marzencka, Timon Bruderer, Christian Dolnik, Patrick Neumann, Susanne Riedel, Hallie Seiler, Jing Hui Zhang, and Iwona Dembicz. 2020. “Sampling Multi-Scale and Multi-Taxon Plant Diversity Data in the Subalpine and Alpine Habitats of Switzerland : Report on the 14th EDGG Field Workshop.” Palaearctic Grasslands, no. 47 (November): 14–42. https://doi.org/10.21570/EDGG.PG.47.14-42.
Dengler, Jürgen, et al. “Sampling Multi-Scale and Multi-Taxon Plant Diversity Data in the Subalpine and Alpine Habitats of Switzerland : Report on the 14th EDGG Field Workshop.” Palaearctic Grasslands, no. 47, Nov. 2020, pp. 14–42, https://doi.org/10.21570/EDGG.PG.47.14-42.


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