Vascular plants of Amrum 2007-2008

Quentin Groom1, Quentin Groom2, Dimitri Brosens3

1 Botanic Garden Meise, Meise, Belgium; 2 Botanic Garden Meise, Bouchout Domain, Nieuwelaan 38, 1860, Meise, Belgium; 3 INBO, Kliniekstraat 25, Brussels, Belgium

Corresponding author(s): Quentin Groom (qgroom@botanicalkeys.co.uk), Quentin Groom (qgroom@botanicalkeys.co.uk)

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Citation: Combination of authors, year of data paper publication (in parentheses), Title, Journal Name, Volume, Issue number (in parentheses), and doi of the data paper.

Resource Citation

Groom Q (2014) The distribution of the vascular plants on the North Frisian Island, Amrum. Biodiversity Data Journal 2: e1108. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.2.e1108 doi: 10.3897/BDJ.2.e1108

Abstract

Amrum is a small barrier island on the north-west coast of Germany. The distribution of vascular plants was examined by surveying
their 1km grid square occupancy across the whole island. These data were used in a study on the recent vegetation change in
the island.

Keywords: Occurrence, Observation, Amrum, vascular plants, plant survey

Project details

Project title: A vascular plant survey of Amrum
Personnel: Quentin Groom
Funding: none
Design description: A survey to catalog all the plants of Amrum

Data published through GBIF: http://ipt.biodiversity.be/resource?r=distribution-vascular-plants-amrum-occurrences

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: The study covers all vascular plants growing in the wild. Obviously cultivated plants were excluded, though trees planted for forestry were included as these form so much of the island's habitats.
Taxonomic ranks
Species: Abies alba Miller, Abies grandis (Douglas ex D. Don) Lindley, Abies Miller, Acer campestre L., Acer platanoides L., Aegopodium podagraria L., Agrostis gigantea Roth, Alliaria petiolata (M. Bieb.) Cavara & Grande, Calamagrostis canescens (Weber) Roth, Calamagrostis epigejos (L.) Roth, Erophila verna (L.) Chevall., Festuca arenaria Osbeck, Populus tremula L., Salix x multinervis Doell, Sonchus asper (L.) Hill, Vulpia myuros (L.) C. C. Gmel.

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Amrum is a small barrier island off the coast of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It covers an area of about 20 km , though considerable areas of saltmarsh vegetation are exposed at low tide.

Amrum is approximately 10 km long and 3 km wide at its widest point. Its main habitats run in north-south bands along the island. In the west are open sand flats with a sparse fore-dune vegetation, moving eastward there is a complete dune succession ending in conifer plantations. Beyond the plantations is arable farmland and grazing. Along the eastern shore are mainly saltmarshes and mudflats. Other important habitats include freshwater ponds, marshes and ditches, heathland, urban area and the seawall.
Coordinates: 54°36'0''N and 54°43'12''N Latitude; 8°16'48''E and 8°24'36''E Longitude 

Temporal coverage: July 5, 2008 - July 20, 2008

Temporal coverage: August 17, 2007 - August 31, 2007

Methods

Method step description: Field survey.
Study extent description: The survey covered all vegetated areas of the island were access was permitted. In fact, this covers most of the island, however, some nesting bird colonies and private gardens are completely inaccessible.
Sampling description: The biodiversity of each 1 km varies considerable so there was no set time limit for surveying a particular square. Grid squares were surveyed as intensively as considered necessary to find all but the rarest species. Aerial photographs, maps, previous surveys and local experts were all used to direct surveying to all potentially important habitats.
Quality control description: Some Salix specimens where identified by R.D. Meikle.

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Vascular plants of Amrum 2007-2008
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: http://ipt.biodiversity.be/archive.do?r=distribution-vascular-plants-amrum-occurrences
Publication date of data: 2017-02-22
Language: English

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2014-03-04
Hierarchy level: Dataset

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Groom Q (2010) A comparison of species lists of vascular plants points to recent habitat change on the North Frisian Island,
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