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1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Delineation of the Pannonian Vegetation Region 9 10 View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Repository of the Academy's Library 1 This manuscript is contextually identical with the following published paper: 2 Fekete G; Király G; Molnár Z (2016) Delineation of the Pannonian vegetation region. 3 COMMUNITY ECOLOGY, 17: (1) pp. 114-124. DOI: 10.1556/168.2016.17.1.14 4 The original published PDF available in this website: 5 http://www.akademiai.com/doi/abs/10.1556/168.2016.17.1.14 6 7 8 Point of View 9 Delineation of the Pannonian vegetation region 10 G. Fekete1, G. Király2 and Z. Molnár3 11 12 1Dávid F. u. 9, H-1113 Budapest, Hungary 13 2Institute of Silviculture and Forest Protection, University of West Hungary, Ady E. u. 5, H-9400 Sopron, 14 Hungary 15 3 Department of Functional Ecology, MTA Centre for Ecological Research, Institute of Ecology and Botany, 16 Alkotmány u. 2-4, H-2163 Vácrátót, Hungary. Corresponding author. Email: 17 [email protected] 18 Keywords: Flora, Pannonian vegetation types, Potential natural vegetation, Quercetum petraeae-cerridis, 19 Vegetation geography, Vegetation map, Zonality. 20 Abstract: 21 Phytogeographical regions have been set up traditionally on the basis of the flora. Several examples indicate 22 that the potential natural vegetation is also suitable for this purpose although the flora- and vegetation-based 23 boundaries do not necessarily overlap. We define a vegetation region as an area where the physical geographic 24 features are rather uniform, and which consists of landscapes with floristically/structurally similar vegetation 25 and/or their repetitive mosaics. In this paper, we delimited the boundaries of the Pannonian region based on the 26 distribution of characteristic plant communities . The line runs most often on the border between Quercus 27 cerris-Quercus petraea and Carpinus betulus/Fagus sylvatica dominated landscapes. We provided descriptions 28 of the potential vegetation on both sides of the boundary. The region has an area of 167,012 km2. The region is 29 either in direct contact with the neighboring regions (e.g. North Carpathians), or is separated from them by 30 transitional areas (towards the Eastern Alps), and character-poor areas with non-Pannonian, non-Alpine, non- 31 Dinaric vegetation (in the southwest to the Western Balkan). Often, the boundary does not coincide with the 32 boundary of the Pannonicum floristic province. We found that vegetation region boundaries can help reevaluate 33 long-established floristic region boundaries. The boundary of the ’floristic Pannonian region’ also requires 34 revision based on integrated distribution databases and statistical analyses.We argue that the method applied 35 here is simple, repeatable and falsifiable. Our map provides an opportunity to the European Union to use a 36 scientifically more sound biogeographical circumscription of the Pannonian region in her Natura 2000 and other 37 programs. 38 Proposed running title: Delineation of the Pannonian vegetation region 39 40 Introduction 1 41 Phytogeographical regions have been set up traditionally on the basis of the flora of the studied area 42 (Walter & Straka 1970, González-Orozco et al. 2014). Thus, the boundaries are the function of the 43 geographic distribution of a large number of species – which rarely coincide. One has to select a 44 subset of species to be used, but the choice is not entirely without subjective decisions. It would be 45 therefore useful to use a simpler and more objective method for biogeographic regionalization. 46 Several example indicate that vegetation is suitable for this purpose (Schmithüsen 1968, Schubert 47 1991, Hegg et al. 1993, Bailey 2005, Zhang 2007, Molnár et al. 2008a etc.). Dierschke (1994) 48 discussed delimitations based on vegetation and terms such as vegetation district, vegetation sector 49 etc. (see also Schmithüsen 1968). Larger spatial units of „vegetation areas” (Vegetationsgebiete) may 50 be composed of spatially neighboring smaller units that have their own characeristic plant 51 communities and their complexes, furthermore specific floristic and physiognomic features, e.g. 52 endemic taxa, related formations (Dierschke 1994). A biogeographical region defined by its 53 vegetation (hereinafter vegetation region) is an area above the landscape scale, where the physical 54 geographic features are rather uniform and which consists of landscapes with floristically and 55 structurally similar vegetation and/or repetitive mosaics of such landscapes (Fekete et al. 2014). 56 57 The delimitation of vegetation regions has often been based on maps of the potential natural 58 vegetation (e.g. Küchler 1985). Bailey (2005) used vegetation beside climate when drawing the 59 ecoregion map of the United States. The biogeographical regionalization of China is also based on 60 vegetation (Zhang 2007). The biogeographical division of Europe has been completed on the basis of 61 plant communities and vegetation complexes (Schubert 1991). Vegetation-based geographical 62 division of countries into smaller units is available in Switzerland (Hegg et al. 1993) and Hungary 63 (Molnár et al. 2008a). 64 The Pannonian floristic province (Pannonicum) is a widely accepted biogeographical region in 65 Central Europe, a separate unit in phytogeographical maps prepared at different scales (e.g. maps of 66 Eurasia: Meusel et al. 1965, Meusel and Jäger 1992, maps of Europe: Soó 1932, 1965, Jäger and 67 Welk 2003). It covers the inner parts of the Carpathian basin reaching out from the Basin only in 68 north-west. The Carpathian Basin is characterized by a great wealth of floristic elements from 69 different parts of Eurasia. In addition to the broadly distributed Eurasian species, the proportion of 70 sub-Mediterranean, continental, Pontic and Balkanian species is also substantial. Its floristic 71 distinctiveness comes from the combination of these floristic elements, as well as the occurrence of 72 Pannonian endemics. Delimitation of the Pannonicum was attempted first by Kerner and Wettstein 73 (1888), Borbás (1905) and Rapaics (1910). Jávorka (1924–1925) and Soó (1933, 1945, 1947) 74 prepared the first detailed cartographic delimitation of the region (Fig. 1). 75 It seems likely that the sections of the boundary of the Pannonicum floristic province running across 76 eight countries were not delimited by the same precision. Thus, the floristic boundary should be 77 revised in the future using standard methodology and a fixed scale. New enumerations of local floras 2 78 and the new modern flora databases could effectively help this work. However, determination of the 79 boundaries of the Pannonicum floristic province with sufficient precision is likely to be a long and 80 laborious process. We argue that using vegetation as a basis for the delineation of the Pannonian 81 region would be quicker and more homogenous in content. We accept, however, that the flora and 82 vegetation-based boundaries of the region do not necessarily overlap. 83 The vegetation of the Pannonicum has been characterized recently by Fekete et al. (2014) based on 84 three newly developed concepts: distributional regularity (e.g. the altitudinal pattern of vegetation 85 belts, and the gradient of continentality along the mountain ranges), distributional deviation (the 86 conspicuous departure of vegetational phenomena from the expected pattern expressed as regularity), 87 and compositional uniqueness (e.g. the endemic zonal forest–steppe forests and intrazonal endemic 88 communities). Following these concepts, we define and describe the boundaries of the Pannonian 89 vegetation region in this paper by applying strict criteria based on the distribution of the Pannonian 90 and “non-Pannonian” potential vegetation. 91 The vegetation-geographical delimitation of the Pannonian region proved to be timely and possible 92 for several reasons. On the one hand, almost all affected countries have completed their own maps of 93 the potential vegetation (Hungary: Zólyomi 1989, Slovakia: Michalko et al. 1984-1986, Yugoslavia: 94 Jovanović et al. 1986, Romania: Ivan et al. 1993; a countrywide mapping of current habitats has also 95 been completed in Hungary, see Bölöni et al. 2008, Molnár et al. 2008b), and simultaneously, large 96 amounts of geobotanical information have been accumulated in these countries. On the other hand, 97 the European conservation authorities in their Habitat Directive drew an imprecise and thus 98 misleading boundary of the Pannonian biogeographical region, particularly in the west and the south, 99 where the boundary runs along the border of the European Union of the time (Anon. 2014, Fig. 1). 100 This also has motivated us to develop a more scientifically sound method and come up with a more 101 accurate boundary line. 102 103 Materials and methods 104 Data sources of delineation 105 In drawing the boundary of the Pannonian vegetation region, we used maps of the potential 106 vegetation and local vegetation descriptions, in addition to our own field experience: 107 1) map of the potential natural vegetation of Hungary (1: 1 500,000, Zólyomi 1967, 1989) and works 108 on the vegetation of the border zone (e.g. Zólyomi 1941, Jeanplong 1956, Pócs 1960); 109 2) map of the natural potential vegetation of Czechoslovakia (1: 200,000, for Slovakia: Michalko et 110 al. 1984-1986, and for the Czech Republic: Mikyška et al. 1968-1972) and the attached 111 explanatory text (Michalko et al. 1987), and an earlier 1: 500,000 scale map for Slovakia 112 (Michalko et al. 1979); 113 3) map and description of the natural potential vegetation of Yugoslavia (Fukarek and Jovanović 114 1986); 3 115 4) map of the potential vegetation of Romania (Ivan et al. 1993); 116 5) map of the natural vegetation of the countries along the Danube river (1: 2,000,000, Niklfeld 117 1974); 118 6) map of the potential vegetation of Europe (1: 2 5,000,000, Bohn et al. 2000); 119 7) distribution maps of current habitats derived from the Hungarian habitat mapping database 120 (Molnár et al.
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