Fagus sylvatica-dominated woods of Italy: an updated classification. In: Diversity patterns across communities in the frame of global change: conservation challenges, Abstracts, 26th Congress of the European Vegetation Survey, Bilbao (Spain)

The aim of this study is to present a first contribution to the floristic, ecological and phytogeographical characterization of Italian beech forests. The data set was formed by 3518 georeferenced relevés and 1248 taxa. It was submitted to agglomerative clustering (Bray-Curtis distance, flexible beta method) and diagnostic species of the resulting groups were established by computing the phi coefficients. We distinguished eight different coenological groups