Disturbance indicator values for European plants
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2023
Authors
Midolo, GabrieleHerben, Tomáš
Axmanová, Irena
Marcenò, Corrado
Pätsch, Ricarda
Bruelheide, Helge

Karger, Dirk Nikolaus
Aćić, Svetlana

Bergamini, Ariel

Bergmeier, E.
Biurrun, Erwin
Bonari, Idoia
Čarni, Andraž
Chiarucci, Alessandro

De Sanctis, Michele

Demina, Olga
Dengler, Jürgen
Dziuba, Tetiana
Fanelli, Giuliano

Garbolino, Emmanuel
Giusso del Galdo, Gianpietro
Goral, Friedemann
Güler, Behlül
Hinojos-Mendoza, Guillermo
Jansen, Florian

Jiménez-Alfaro, Borja
Lengyel, Attila
Lenoir, Jonathan

Pérez-Haase, Aaron
Pielech, Remigiusz

Prokhorov, Vadim
Rašomavičius, Valerijus
Ruprecht, Eszter

Rūsiņa, Solvita
Šilc, Urban
Škvorc, Željko
Stančić, Zvezdana
Tatarenko, Irina
Chytrý, Milan
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Motivation: Indicator values are numerical values used to characterize the ecological niches of species and to estimate their occurrence along gradients. Indicator values on climatic and edaphic niches of plant species have received considerable attention in ecological research, whereas data on the optimal positioning of species along disturbance gradients are less developed. Here, we present a new data set of disturbance indicator values identifying optima along gradients of natural and anthropogenic disturbance for 6382 vascular plant species based on the analysis of 736,366 European vegetation plots and using expert-based characterization of disturbance regimes in 236 habitat types. The indicator values presented here are crucial for integrating disturbance niche optima into large-scale vegetation analyses and macroecological studies. Main types of variables contained: We set up five main continuous indicator values for European vascular plants: disturbance severity, disturbance fre...quency, mowing frequency, grazing pressure and soil disturbance. The first two indicators are provided separately for the whole community and for the herb layer. We calculated the values as the average of expert-based estimates of disturbance values in all habitat types where a species occurs, weighted by the number of plots in which the species occurs within a given habitat type. Spatial location and grain: Europe. Vegetation plots ranging in size from 1 to 1000 m2. Time period and grain: Vegetation plots mostly sampled between 1956 and 2013 (= 5th and 95th quantiles of the sampling year, respectively). Major taxa and level of measurement: Species-level indicator values for vascular plants. Software format: csv file. © 2022 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.