Zelený & Chytrý (2007)

Distribution of plots along transects across the valley.

Vegetation plots, located at even distances along transects following the steep valley slopes of Vltava river valley, collected during 2001-2003. Each transect starts at the valley bottom and ends up at the upper part of the valley slope. Altogether 97 plots located in 27 transects were collected, each of the size 10×15 m. In each plot, all tree, shrub and herb species were recorded and their abundances were estimated using 9-degree ordinal Braun-Blanquette scale (these values were consequently transformed into percentage scale). At each plot, various topographical and soil factors were measured or estimated.

Vltava river valley close to Zlatá Koruna, Český Krumlov, Czech Republic. The transects follow the slopes of various aspect, and only the sites with natural or semi-natural forest vegetation were selected (no forest plantations).

The file with coordinates, which can be opened in Google Earth: vltava.kml ¹⁾

vltava.spe <- read.delim ('https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zdealveindy/anadat-r/master/data/vltava-spe.txt', row.names = 1)
vltava.env <- read.delim ('https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zdealveindy/anadat-r/master/data/vltava-env.txt')
 

vltava.ell <- read.delim ('https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zdealveindy/anadat-r/master/data/vltava-ell.txt', row.names = 1)
 

load (url ('https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zdealveindy/anadat-r/master/data/vltava.RData'))
 

The vltava object which will be loaded into the working space is a list with seven components:

• spe - Compositional matrix of all species in merged layers (sample x species, percentage cover scale)
• eiv - Species Ellenberg indicator values (species x Ellenberg values for light, temperature, continentality, moisture, reaction and nutrients, compiled from Ellenberg et al. 1992).
• civ - Species Ellenberg-type indicator values (species x Ellenberg-type values for light, temperature, moisture, reaction and nutrients, compiled from Chytrý et al. 2018, and also values including generalists - light_all, temp_all, moist_all, react_all and nutr_all).
• env - Environmental variables (see Details above).
• spnames - Data frame with two columns: Full.species.name - original species names, and Layer - vegetation layer, in which the species occur (1 - herb layer, 23 - shrub or/and tree layer)
• herbs - A list with the following items, related only to the subset of herb species:
  • spe - Compositional matrix of herb species (sample x species, percentage cover scale)
  • eiv - Species Ellenberg indicator values for herb species (species x Ellenberg values for light, temperature, continentality, moisture, reaction and nutrients)
  • civ - Species Ellenberg-type indicator values for herb species (species x Ellenberg-type values for light, temperature, moisture, reaction and nutrients, compiled from Chytrý et al. 2018, and also values including generalists - light_all, temp_all, moist_all, react_all and nutr_all).
  • traits - Species functional traits for plant height (compiled from Czech flora, Kubat et al. 2002), specific leaf area (SLA) and seed weight (compiled from LEDA database, Kleyer et al. 2008).
  • spnames - Data frame with two columns: Full.species.name - original species names, and Layer - vegetation layer, in which the species occur (1 - herb layer)
• all - A list with the following items, related to matrix with all species (trees, shrubs, herbs and juveniles)
  • spe - Compositional matrix of all species (sample x species, percentage cover scale)
  • spnames - Data frame with two columns: Full.species.name - original species names, and Layer - vegetation layer, in which the species occur (3 - tree layer, 2 - shrub layer, 1 - herb layer, J - juveniles of woody species)

• Ellenberg, H., Weber, H.E., Düll, R., Wirth, V., Werner, W. & Paulissen, D. 1992. Zeigerwerte von Pflanzen in Mitteleuropa. Second Edition. Scripta Geobotanica 18: 1–248.
• Kleyer, M., Bekker, R.M., Knevel, I.C., Bakker, J.P., Thompson, K., Sonnenschein, M., Poschlod, P., van Groenendael, J.M., Klimes, L., Klimesova, J., Klotz, S., Rusch, G.M., Hermy, M., Adriaens, D., Boedeltje, G., Bossuyt, B., Dannemann, A., Endels, P., Gotzenberger, L., Hodgson, J.G., Jackel, A.K., Kuhn, I., Kunzmann, D., Ozinga, W.A., Romermann, C., Stadler, M., Schlegelmilch, J., Steendam, H.J., Tackenberg, O., Wilmann, B., Cornelissen, J.H.C., Eriksson, O., Garnier, E. & Peco, B. 2008. The LEDA Traitbase: a database of life-history traits of the Northwest European flora. Journal of Ecology 96: 1266–1274.
• Zelený, D. & Chytrý, M. 2007. Environmental control of vegetation pattern in deep river valleys of the Bohemian Massif. Preslia 79: 205-222. pdf