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Syntaxomical revision of coastal halophilic vegetation in Croatia

For the purpose of syntaxonomical revision of coastal halophilic vegetation, all available data from Croatia were collected, comprising a dataset of 458 relevés. All relevés were recorded in accordance with the Braun-Blanquet methodology. Classification was performed by log-transformed plant species cover/abundance values, using Ward’s method. The optimal level of the classification was determined by the without-replacement bootstrap method. Most of clusters correspond to single associations, and they belong to several vegetation classes: Sarcocornietea fruticosae Br.- Bl. & R. Tx. 1952, Juncetea maritimi R. Tx. 1951, Thero-Salicornietea Pignatti 1953 em. R. Tx. in R. Tx. & Oberd. 1958, Cakiletea maritimae R. Tx. 1950, Ammophiletea Br.-Bl. & T. Tx. 1943, Crithmo-Limonietea Br.-Bl. 1947. As a final result, a new revised syntaxonomical division of coastal halophilic vegetation in Croatia is proposed. All associations are characterised by diagnostic species, substrate types, ecological indicator values, life forms, chorological types, species richness and distribution maps.

halophilic vegetation; Croatia

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