1. Methodology of using vegetation data sets EIONET NRC –Biodiversity expert meeting, EEA Copenhagen, 5 February 2015 Joop Schaminée, Milan Chytrý, Stephan Hennekens, Borja Jiménez- Alfaro, Ilona Knollová, Ladislav Mucina, John Rodwell, Lubomír Tichý and data providers

2. 2014 Vegetation analysis and distribution maps for EUNIS habitats 2013 Review of EUNIS forest habitat classification 2012 Development of vegetation syntaxa crosswalks to EUNIS Reports

3. Crosswalks between EUNIS habitat classification and EuroVegChecklist syntaxa Review and proposal for improvement of EUNIS habitat types Description and classification of EUNIS habitat types on the basis of vegetation-plot data Distribution maps and habitat suitability modelling of EUNIS habitat types (forests) Description of the revised EUNIS forest habitat types Deliverables

4. Review and proposal for improvement of EUNIS habitat types 1. Content: By comparing the existing EUNIS classification with the phytosociological content of the assigned syntaxa, we found strong ground for revising 6 EUNIS forest types and 12 EUNIS heathland types 2. Naming: We would like to propose a set of – all together seven – recommendations for a better naming of the EUNIS types

5. CONTENT: Example of proposed revision ► B1.7 Coastal dune woodland* [Coastal dune woods] ► F3.1 Temperate thickets and scrub and ► F3.2 Submediterranean deciduous thickets and scrub should be merged and than split into six types on the basis of dominant growth form: ►► F3.1-2a Lowland to montane temperate and submediterranean Juniperus scrub ►► F3.1-2b Temperate bramble scrub ►► F 3.1-2c Lowland to montane temperate and submediterranean genistoid scrub ►► F3.1-2d Temperate forest clearing scrub ►► F3.1-2e Temperate and submediterranean thorn scrub ►► F3.1-2f Low steppic scrub

6. RENAMING: Example of proposed new names General recommendation 6: Geographic epithets in the names must be accurate. Example: the epithet Canary Island in G2.7 has to be changed into Macaronesian, as this habitat type also occurs on Madeira. General recommendation 1: Adopt brief and clear names for the habitat types. Examples: G1.3 Mediterranean and Macaronesion riparian woodland, G1.4 Broadleaved swamp woodland on non-acid peat, and G1.5 Broadleaved swamp woodland on acid peat

7. European Vegetation Archive (EVA): A centralized database of European vegetation plots The use of vegetation data on a European level Milan Chytrý, Stephan Hennekens, Borja Jiménez-Alfaro, Ilona Knollová, Jürgen Dengler, Joop Schaminée, Svetlana Acic, Emiliano Agrillo, Didem Ambarli, Pierangela Angelini, Iva Apostolova, Thomas Becker, Christian Berg, Erwin Bergmeier, Claudia Bita-Nicolae, Idoia Biurrun, Zoltán Botta-Dukát, Luis Carlón, Laura Casella, János Csiky, Renata Custerevska, Jiří Danihelka, Els de Bie, Panayotis Dimopoulos, Jörg Ewald, Federico Fernández-Gonzáles, Úna FitzPatrick, Xavier Font, Itziar García-Mijangos, Valentin Golub, Riccardo Guarino, Adrian Indreica, Deniz Işık, Ute Jandt, Florian Jansen, John Janssen, Zygmunt Kącki, Martin Kleikamp, Vitaliy Kolomiychuk, Daniel Krstonošić, Anna Kuzemko, Flavia Landucci, Jonathan Lenoir, Tatiana Lysenko, Corrado Marcenò, Vassiliy Martynenko, Dana Michalcová, Viktor Onyshchenko, Valerijus Rašomavičius, John Rodwell, Eszter Ruprecht, Solvita Rūsiņa, Gunnar Seidler, Jozef Šibík, Urban Šilc, Željko Škvorc, Desislava Sopotlieva, Aleksey Sorokin, Francesco Spada, Zvjezdana Stančić, Jens-Christian Svenning, Grzegorz Swacha, Ioannis Tsiripidis, Pavel Dan Turtureanu, Emin Ugurlu, Domas Uogintas, Milan Valachovič, Kiril Vassilev, Roberto Venanzoni, Lynda Weekes, Wolfgang Willner, Thomas Wohlgemuth, Sergei Yamalov & Nordic Vegetation Database Consortium AT, BE, BG, CH, CZ, DE, EE, ES, FI, FR, GR, HR, HU, IE, IT, LT, LV, MK, NL, NO, PL, RO, RS, RU, SE, SI, SK, TR, UA, UK

8. Website

9. Technical procedure: Turboveg 3

10. Technical procedure: SynBioSys Taxon Database

11. Technical procedure: Data request

12.  44 databases agreed to join EVA  36 databases with 583 626 vegetation plots from 37 countries already provided data to EVA  87% plots with geographical coordinates  6% free access, 86% semi-restricted access, 8% restricted access Current content of EVA

14. The Braun-Blanquet project

15. G1.2 Mixed riparian floodplain and gallery woodland

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