BgMA-ESy: Expert system for automatic classification of vegetation plots of subalpine tall-herb vegetation (class Mulgedio-Aconitetea) from Bulgaria

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BgMA-ESy is an expert system that classifies vegetation plots of the class Mulgedio-Aconitetea (Mucina et al. 2016) occurring in Bulgaria. The expert system can be run using the JUICE program (Tichý 2002; https://www.sci.muni.cz/botany/juice/).

The aggregation of vascular plants included within the BgMA-ESy is adopted from EUNIS-ESy (Chytrý et al. 2020; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4812736), and in a few cases, it is adjusted.

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Specifications

The analyzed data (vegetation plots) cannot: 

include scrub vegetation (cover of tall shrub species > 8%; e.g., Pinus mugo, Salix spp.).

contain tree species with cover > 1% (e.g., Fagus sylvatica, Picea abies).

contain Pteridium aquilinum as a dominant species.

The expert system was trained on vegetation plots with 5–100 m2 area that occur above 1000 m a. s. l.

* Exceptions from EUNIS-ESy aggregation:

Heracleum sphondylium agg. does not include H. sphondylium subsp. verticillatum.

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When using this work, please cite:

Szokala D., Kočí M. & Vassilev K. (2024): Subalpine tall-herb vegetation in Bulgaria: diversity and ecology. – Plant Biosystems 158: 490–510. https://doi.org/10.1080/11263504.2024.2327865.

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