https://ipt.gbif.org/resource?r=at-hsw-biodt Harald Pauli Kate Ingenloff kathryn.ingenloff@gmail.com user 2025-06-18 eng Vegetation abundance and cover data as used in the Horizon Europe project "Biodiversity Digital Twin for Advanced Modelling, Simulation and Prediction Capabilities" (https://biodt.eu/). This dataset is derived from data provided at https://b2share.eudat.eu/records/b6168e3b4a364819a22dd5558e2445ea. Samplingevent BioDT Grassland Dynamics GBIF Dataset Type Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_type_2015-07-10.xml This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International https://spdx.org/licenses/CC-BY-4.0.html CC-BY-4.0 https://b2share.eudat.eu/records/b6168e3b4a364819a22dd5558e2445ea NE Alps, Austria -180 180 90 -90 notPlanned Harald Pauli Vegetation cover data were collected according to the GLORIA Field Manual: https://gloria.ac.at/downloads/Manual_5thEd_ENG.pdf (p 38); on each of four summits, the four 1x1m corner plots of a 3x3m grid in each cardinal direction 5m below the highest summit point (GLORIA Field Manual, p 31) and abundance data collected according to the GLORIA Field Manual: https://gloria.ac.at/downloads/Manual_5thEd_ENG.pdf: 1=very rare, 2=rare, 3=rare-scattered, 4=scattered, 5=scattered-common, 6=common, 7=common-dominant, 8=dominant (cf. p 41f.) dimless;each of four summits is divided in 4 summit area sections from 0-5 m below the highest summit point and from 5-10 m below the highest summit point (GLORIA Field Manual, p 34) at Hochschwab (Austria). GLORIA Target region: alpine zone of Hochschwab in the NE-Alps GLORIA Target region The site lies in the alpine zone of Hochschwab in the NE-Alps. It is defined as a standard Target region of the GLORIA network (www.gloria.ac.at). Hochschwab_GLORIA was the networks first test site for standardised monitoring of alpine summit vegetation established in 1998. Regular monitoring started in 2001 as part of the EU-FP-5 project GLORIA-Europe. All permanenent plots were resurveyed in 2008 and in 2015. The site consists of 4 separate summit sites arranged along the elevation gradient between 1910 and 2255m. The main scientific purpose is to detect impacts of climate change on alpine vegetation and its biodiversity. In addition, downslope transects to the treeline ecotone were established in 2008, diversity of soil nematodes were studied at the GLORIA summit areas and the region was part of an assessment of useful plants of the alpine life zone. Harald Pauli 2025-06-16T11:51:22.140+00:00 dataset Pauli, H. (2025). Grassland Dynamics - Hochschwab (Austria) - 2001, 2008, 2015 https://ipt.gbif.org/resource?id=at-hsw-biodt/v1.1.xml