Javier Loidi

University of the Basque Country | UPV/EHU · Vegetal Biology and Ecology

This article describes FloraVeg.EU, a new online database with open‐access information on European vegetation units (phytosociological syntaxa), vegetated habitats, and plant taxa. It consists of three modules. (1) The Vegetation module includes 149 phytosociological classes, 378 orders and 1305 alliances of an updated version of the EuroVegCheckli...

This paper presents an updated overview of the world's biogeographical realms and regions in the terrestrial domain. It incorporates new data on floristic and vegetation aspects, along with recent regional information, which has emerged in the decades following the influential maps created by A. Takhtajan and R. Good. We elucidate the various bioge...

A study of the Iberian taxa of the Chaenorhinum origanifolium group with a new key using diagnostic features to separate them is presented. Two species and six subspecies are commented: Chaenorhinum segoviense Willk. subsp. segoviense, subsp. semiglabrum Loidi & Galân-Mera, subsp. nov., and C. origanifolium (L.) Fourr. subsp. origanifolium, subsp....

The first comprehensive phytosociological classification of all vegetation types in Europe (EuroVegChecklist; Applied Vegetation Science, 2016, 19, 3-264) contained brief descriptions of each type. However, these descriptions were not standardized and mentioned only the most distinct features of each vegetation type. The practical application of th...

To reduce the typological inflation observed in some territories where intensive phytosociological studies have been carried out and numerous descriptive papers have been published, an outline of the biogeographical amplitude of the different syntaxonomic ranks is proposed. Phytosociological classes are divided into five main vegetation clusters: 1...

In the Iberian Peninsula occur two species previously systematized such as Alnus glutinosa: Alnus glutinosa s.s. (diploid) in the NorthEast and A. lusitanica (tetraploid) in the West. Other studies based on the analysis of cpDNA, reveal haplotypes characteristic of diploids and tetraploids species, turning these markers into a good tool for discrim...

In Memoriam, Juan Carlos Báscones Carretero

This work summarizes all the information generated to date on the natural forests and their forest mantles of the territory included in the Atlantic biogeographic province of the Iberian Peninsula. The concept and limits of this territory have been revised and slightly modified after incorporating new information on the vegetation of various surrou...

A vector map of biotic units encompassing the entire terrestrial area of the earth is provided. It contains a hierarchical system of domains, ecozones, biomes and subbiomes, as a large-scale description of the terrestrial ecosystems. The map can be used for different analysis, including monitoring of climate change.

Question : Is it feasible to establish a classification of large biotic units of the world related to climatic types? Study area : The world. Methods : A total of 616 localities have been selected, their climatic parameters calculated and subjected to a PCA. The climatic characterization of biomes and subbiomes has been completed after data analysi...

: The association Polysticho setiferi-Fraxinetum excelsioris was described as a meso-eutrophic thermophilic forest dominated by common oak ( Quercus robur ) with a distribution that includes the Oviedo district in Asturias and the Basque-Cantabrian area (N Spain and SW France). However, when a lectotype was chosen to comply with Article 19 of the I...

Aim The first comprehensive checklist of European phytosociological alliances, orders and classes (EuroVegChecklist) was published by Mucina et al. (2016, Applied Vegetation Science , 19 (Suppl. 1), 3–264). However, this checklist did not contain detailed information on the distribution of individual vegetation types. Here we provide the first maps...

Temperate Deciduous Forests occur almost exclusively in the northern hemisphere and thrive under temperate climate with cold winter and warm-humid summer. They covered a continuous belt during most of the Tertiary across the continent Laurasia occupying a large area in higher latitudes. With the cooling of the Earth's climate and the appearance of...

In the summer of 2021, enormous wildfires in the Mediterranean eliminated huge areas of mainly coniferous forest, destroyed adjacent settlements and claimed the lives of many people. The fires indicate effects of climate change and expose consequences of rural demographic changes, deficits in regional and touristic development planning and shortcom...

Aim: To analyse the biogeographic patterns of Temperate Deciduous Forests (TDFs) in Western Eurasia based on different life-forms and forests layers and explore their relationships with the current climate, Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) climate and topography. Location: Western Eurasia. Taxon: Vascular plants. Methods: We delimited nine regions encomp...

Aim To analyse the biogeographic patterns of Temperate Deciduous Forests (TDFs) in Western Eurasia based on different life-forms and forests layers and explore their relationships with the current climate, Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) climate and topography. Location Western Eurasia. Taxon Vascular plants. Methods We delimited nine regions encompa...

One of the tasks of biogeography has traditionally been the definition of territorial units by means of their biotic content. Five main ranks have been recognized, in a downward scale: kingdom, region, province, sector and district. It is assumed that for this purpose biogeography can be used as a synonym of phytogeography, as plants are particular...

Traditional or standard vegetation mapping represents a static view of the ecosystems living on earth. The units represented in the map are vegetation types that express one or several features of the existing reality, i.e. species composition, size, structure, etc.; they express little, however, about the dynamic context in which they develop and...

Aims : We attempt to review the conceptualisation, science and classification of biomes and propose to limit the definition of a biome to potential natural vegetation as determined by general environmental variables. Results : Classifying the distribution and abundance of vegetation types on earth has been a central tenet of vegetation science sinc...

Seasonally dry temperate heaths and shrublands

Coastal shrublands and grasslands

Coastal shrublands and grasslands

Cool temperate heathlands

Coastal shrublands and grasslands

Coastal saltmarshes and reedbeds

Aim Alpine habitats support unique biodiversity confined to high‐elevation areas in the current interglacial. Plant diversity in these habitats may respond to area, environment, connectivity and isolation, yet these factors have been rarely evaluated in concert. Here we investigate major determinants of regional species pools in alpine grasslands,...

In order to stabilize the defining concepts of the higher rank syntaxonomic units such as class or order, the criteria of floristic content and unity of origin are enunciated. This is done with the aim of preventing the fragmentation of the large classes and the subsequent typological inflation. For orders, the criterion of specific floristic conte...

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Shrublands are largely represented in Europe being diversified into several types. They are found in primary stations, usually on shallow soil sites of rocky places and steep slopes, in which they were differentiated along history and evolution. However, the overwhelming majority of the currently existing shrublands are in secondary stations, as se...

A la vista de la información disponible sobre la diver-sidad de los alisos en el ámbito atlántico ibérico, se recogieron muestras de aliso en la mayoría de las cuencas del citado territorio que están siendo estu-diadas por nuestro grupo de trabajo. Un primer aná-lisis de las secuencias de los espaciadores intergéni-cos del ADN cloroplásticos usados...

Questions The spread of alien plant species is one of the main threats to the biodiversity of different natural habitats, and coastal dune habitats are among the most affected. There is a considerable local and regional variation in the level of alien plant invasion on coastal dunes. We asked what are the patterns of invasion across European coasta...

Scrub communities dominated by heathers are called heathlands and are frequent in western and central Europe and in the subalpine belts of the mountains. They are diversified into seven subtypes along a wide geographic span along the entire Atlantic countries of Europe, from the Cape North to the Strait of Gibraltar as well as the Azorean islands,...

Vegetation has been studied by means of eco-morphological trait syndromes of dominant plants (physiognomy) since the beginning of vegetation science. Different approaches have tried to match eco-morphological traits with environmental conditions in the basic belief that physiognomically similar vegetation types occur in different geographical areas...

During the Bremen Symposium, the new Council meeting on Wednesday 17 July, a new IAVS Governing Board has been elected: Susan Wiser: President, David Zelený: Secretary. Martin Diekmann: Vice President, Alessandra Fidelis: Vice President, Monika Janišová: Vice President, Javier Loidi: Vice President, Peter Minchin: Vice President. In order to introd...

Aims We examined all available literature and some unpublished data on the We examined all available literature and some unpublished data on the grasslands dominated by Lygeum spartum from Southern Europe and North Africa to produce a formalised classification of this vegetation and to identify the main factors determining its plant species composi...

Forestry industry has transformed deciduous Cantabrian colline landscape from very diverse ecosystems into exotic monospecific Pinus spp. or Eucalyptus spp. tree plantations. Our aim was to determine the biological quality present at a forested and protected river basin based on vascular plant communities’ field examination and cartographic and aer...

Forestry industry has transformed deciduous Cantabrian colline landscape from very diverse ecosystems into exotic monospecific Pinus spp. or Eucalyptus spp. tree plantations. Our aim was to determine the biological quality present at a forested and protected river basin based on vascular plant communities' field examination and cartographic and aer...

The Atlantic areas of Europe are studied from the biogeographic point of view. A bioclimatic characterisation of this area is initially discussed resulting they are submitted to a temperate oceanic or hyperoceanic type. Temperatures follow a south-north decreasing gradient and precipitations are high all over the area, with humid and hyperhumid typ...

Informe técnico realizado para el Servicio de Patrimonio Natural de la Diputación Foral de Álava

Informe técnico realizado para la Diputación Foral de Bizkaia

Vegetation has been studied by means of eco-morphological trait syndromes of dominant plants (physiognomy) since the beginning of vegetation science. Different approaches have tried to match eco-morphological traits with environmental conditions in the basic belief that physiognomically similar vegetation types occur in different geographical areas...

Aims Although many phytosociological studies have provided detailed local and regional descriptions of coastal dune vegetation, a unified classification of this vegetation in Europe and the Mediterranean Basin has been missing. Our aim is to produce a formalized classification of this vegetation and to identify the main factors driving its plant sp...

The ability of trees to cope with climate change is a pivotal feature of forest ecosystems, especially for rear-edge populations facing warm and dry conditions. To evaluate current and future forests threats, a multi-proxy focus on the growth, anatomical and physiological responses to climate change is needed. We examined the long-term xylem adjust...

A historical overview of the phytosociological method in Europe is presented. Some methodological and procedural differences in the application of the Braun-Blanquet approach, from the selection of the sampling plots to the assignment of relevés to existing or newly described units, are briefly compared. The main advantages and limitations of the p...

Informe técnico realizado para la Diputación Foral de Bizkaia

Informe técnico realizado para la Diputación Foral de Bizkaia

The orophile flora of the Iberian Peninsula is analysed in order to extract the basic biogeographical patterns of the plant diversity contained in this group. A total of 999 taxa at the level of species and subspecies have been identified as the Iberian cold-adapted plants living in the mountains, representing 15% of the total Iberian flora. Their...

The study of dynamic processes is one of the main issues in vegetation ecology. This chapter is an attempt to summarize the basic concepts to be applied when studying the dynamics of vegetation. As succession is the central process in vegetation dynamics, some relevant theories and models are explained, especially those concerning inhibition, facil...

A brief description of the physical structure of the Iberian Peninsula is given: its position, size and main structural and lithologic entities. Also some general explanations about the main relief units ordered around the central core of the Peninsula, or Meseta, are offered. The etymology of the names of Iberia and Hispania is commented upon and...

The Ebro Basin is located in the northeastern quadrant of the Iberian Peninsula, in the southern foothills of the Pyrenees, and excavated by its homonymous river. It is one of the largest catchments areas in the Iberian Peninsula. Its climate is Mediterranean with both a continental and semi-arid tendency due to the rain shadow effect of the surrou...

Informe técnico realizado para el ayuntamiento de Laudio/Llodio

Informe técnico realizado para la Diputación Foral de Bizkaia