Dutch Wadden Sea, Vegetation plot data, 1950 - 2017

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LTSER Dutch Wadden Sea Area - Netherlands
Abstract
Vegetation plots provided for the H2020 eLTER project collected between 1950 and 2017, though most from the period between 1990 and 2017. In total 42,227 vegetation plots were extracted from the European Vegetation Archive http://euroveg.org/eva-database (EVA). Permission was granted by WENR, B-Ware, KWR, LMF, Marcel Horsthuis, Natuurmonumenten, Groningen Province, Rijkswaterstaat (CIV, Delft) and Staatsbosbeheer. Most vegetation plots were collected in dunes and on saltmarshes.
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eLTER VA
ground vegetation
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Stephan Henneken
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Stephan Henneken
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Stephan Henneken
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Friday, November 9, 2018 - 13:53
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Friday, December 20, 2019 - 13:21
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Dutch Wadden Sea - Research area
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Method Description
The vegetation data in the Eruopean Vegetation Archive are collected according to method of the Franco-Swiss school, which was developed by the Swiss Josias Braun-Blanquet in Montpellier, France. The method starts by selecting a homogeneous test area of a few to many square meters, depending on the nature of the vegetation. There, all species are noted and the extent they which they occur. This occurrence is indicated with a measure of coverage, possibly combined with the actual number of plants. Many different scales are applied to measure coverage and at the bottom of this method description it is indicated how these scales were translated into coverage as a percentage of the surface of the study plot.
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