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Erwin Bergmeier is affiliated with the University of Göttingen in Germany. Their research spans various topics within agricultural and biological sciences, with a significant focus on environmental science. The main fields of study in their work include plant science, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, nature and landscape conservation, ecology, and insect science.

The scientist has contributed to multiple areas within botany and ecological research. The prominent research topics they have covered are:

  • Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Mediterranean and Iberian flora and fauna
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
  • Lichen and fungal ecology

Bergmeier has published extensively, with contributions appearing predominantly in the following venues:

  • Applied Vegetation Science
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of Vegetation Science
  • Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Vegetation Classification and Survey

Among recent significant papers are:

  • "EUNIS Habitat Classification: Expert system, characteristic species combinations and distribution maps of European habitats" (2020, Applied Vegetation Science)
  • "Ellenberg-type indicator values for European vascular plant species" (2022, Journal of Vegetation Science)
  • "sPlotOpen - An environmentally balanced, open-access, global dataset of vegetation plots" (2021, Global Ecology and Biogeography)
  • "Dimensions of invasiveness: Links between local abundance, geographic range size, and habitat breadth in Europe's alien and native floras" (2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • "Classification of the Mediterranean lowland to submontane pine forest vegetation" (2020, Applied Vegetation Science)

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers, including:

  • Milan Chytrý
  • Idoia Biurrun
  • Andraž Čarni
  • Gianmaria Bonari
  • Jürgen Dengler

Best Publications

  • Vegetation of Europe: hierarchical floristic classification system of vascular plant, bryophyte, lichen, and algal communities

    Ladislav Mucina;Ladislav Mucina;Helga Bültmann;Klaus Dierßen;Jean-Paul Theurillat

  • Global trait–environment relationships of plant communities

    Helge Bruelheide;Jürgen Dengler;Jürgen Dengler;Oliver Purschke;Jonathan Lenoir

  • European Vegetation Archive (EVA): an integrated database of European vegetation plots

    Milan Chytrý;Stephan M. Hennekens;Borja Jiménez‐Alfaro;Ilona Knollová

  • Geobotanical survey of wood-pasture habitats in Europe: diversity, threats and conservation

    Erwin Bergmeier;Jörg Petermann;Eckhard Schröder

  • European Red List of Habitats : Part 2. Terrestrial and freshwater habitats

    J. A. M. Janssen;J. S. Rodwell;M. Garcia Criado;S. Gubbay

  • Wood-pastures of Europe: Geographic coverage, social–ecological values, conservation management, and policy implications

    Tobias Plieninger;Tibor Hartel;Berta Martín-López;Berta Martín-López;Guy Beaufoy

  • EUNIS Habitat Classification: expert system, characteristic species combinations and distribution maps of European habitats

    Milan Chytrý;Lubomír Tichý;Stephan M. Hennekens;Ilona Knollová

  • Diversity and use of ethno-medicinal plants in the region of Swat, North Pakistan

    Naveed Akhtar;Naveed Akhtar;Abdur Rashid;Waheed Murad;Erwin Bergmeier

  • sPlot – A new tool for global vegetation analyses

    Helge Bruelheide;Jürgen Dengler;Jürgen Dengler;Borja Jiménez-Alfaro;Borja Jiménez-Alfaro;Oliver Purschke

  • Vascular plants of Greece: An annotated checklist. Supplement

    Panayotis Dimopoulos;Thomas Raus;Erwin Bergmeier;Theophanis Constantinidis

  • Wood-pastures of Europe

    Tobias Plieninger;Tibor Hartel;Berta Martin-Lopez;Guy Beaufoy

  • Ellenberg‐type indicator values for European vascular plant species

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  • Phytogeographical evidence for post‐glacial dispersal limitation of European beech forest species

    Wolfgang Willner;Romeo Di Pietro;Erwin Bergmeier

  • sPlotOpen – An environmentally balanced, open-access, global dataset of vegetation plots

    Francesco Maria Sabatini;Jonathan Lenoir;Tarek Hattab;Elise Aimee Arnst

  • Habitat loss of floodplain meadows in north Germany since the 1950s

    Benjamin Krause;Heike Culmsee;Karsten Wesche;Erwin Bergmeier

  • Biogeographical determinants for total and endemic species richness in a continental archipelago

    A. S. Kallimanis;E. Bergmeier;M. Panitsa;K. Georghiou

  • Dimensions of invasiveness: Links between local abundance, geographic range size, and habitat breadth in Europe's alien and native floras

    Trevor S. Fristoe;Milan Chytrý;Wayne Dawson;Franz Essl

  • Seed bank composition and above-ground vegetation in response to grazing in sub-Mediterranean oak forests (NW Greece)

    Evgenia Chaideftou;Costas A. Thanos;Erwin Bergmeier;Athanasios Kallimanis

  • Fagus sylvatica forest vegetation in Greece: syntaxonomy and gradient analysis.

    Erwin Bergmeier;Panayotis Dimopoulos

  • Distribution maps of vegetation alliances in Europe

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  • Identifying plant communities of thermophilous deciduous forest in Greece: Species composition, distribution, ecology and syntaxonomy

    E. Bergmeier;P. Dimopoulos

  • Wälder und Gebüsche des Niederen Olymp (Káto Olimbos, NO-Thessalien). Ein Beitrag zur systematischen und orographischen Vegetationsgliederung Griechenlands

    Erwin Bergmeier

  • Natura 2000 Habitat Types of Greece Evaluated in the Light of Distribution, threat and Responsibility

    Panayotis Dimopoulos;Erwin Bergmeier;Petra Fischer

Frequent Co-Authors

Panayotis Dimopoulos
Panayotis Dimopoulos University of Patras
Jürgen Dengler
Jürgen Dengler Zurich University of Applied Sciences
Milan Chytrý
Milan Chytrý Masaryk University
Wolfgang Willner
Wolfgang Willner University of Vienna
Joop H.J. Schaminée
Joop H.J. Schaminée Wageningen University & Research
Fabio Attorre
Fabio Attorre Sapienza University of Rome
Ingolf Kühn
Ingolf Kühn Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Ute Jandt
Ute Jandt Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Ladislav Mucina
Ladislav Mucina Murdoch University
Borja Jiménez-Alfaro
Borja Jiménez-Alfaro University of Oviedo

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