Application of vegetation similarity measure to assess habitat naturalness: A description of plant stand syngenesis as a management quilifier

Abstract

The article introduces an original approach of how to assess the naturalness of a habitat, in connection with the landscape ecological framework and surveillance and monitoring of biodiversity of habitats in Central Europe.

Keywords

• phytocenological relevés
• field recording
• landscape ecological framework
• habitat
• biodiversity
• management qualifier
• degree of naturalness
• plant cover syngenesis
• Jaccard index of similarity