List of works - Wolfgang Willner

A comparative framework for broad-scale plot-based vegetation classification

A higher-level classification of the Pannonian and western Pontic steppe grasslands (Central and Eastern Europe).

scientific article

A matter of scale: apparent niche differentiation of diploid and tetraploid plants may depend on extent and grain of analysis

scientific article

A survey of vegetation survey papers

Alpha diversity of vascular plants in European forests

scientific article published on 08 June 2019

An explicit test of Pleistocene survival in peripheral versus nunatak refugia in two high mountain plant species

scientific article published on 12 December 2019

Assessment of Drought-Tolerant Provenances of Austria’s Indigenous Tree Species

scientific article published on 02 March 2022

Central European forest–steppe: An ecosystem shaped by climate, topography and disturbances

scientific article published in 2022

Challenging the practice of biodiversity offsets: ecological restoration success evaluation of a large-scale railway project

Classification of European beech forests: a Gordian Knot?

article by Wolfgang Willner et al published 2 March 2017 in Applied Vegetation Science

Classification of Palaearctic grasslands

Context-dependence of diagnostic species: A case study of the central european spruce forests

Cross-scale analysis of the region effect on vascular plant species diversity in southern and northern European mountain ranges

scientific article

Description and validation of some European forest syntaxa – a supplement to the EuroVegChecklist

Disjunct populations of European vascular plant species keep the same climatic niches

article

Diversity of lowland hay meadows and pastures in Western and Central Europe

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

scientific article published on 26 July 2020

Effects of different fidelity measures and contexts on the determination of diagnostic species

article

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

article

Evidence for Glacial Refugia of the Forest Understorey Species <i>Helleborus niger</i> (Ranunculaceae) in the Southern as Well as in the Northern Limestone Alps

scientific article published on 10 May 2021

Explanation of beta diversity in European alpine grasslands changes with scale

scientific article published in 2022

Extinction debt of high-mountain plants under twenty-first-century climate change

article

Extinction debts and colonization credits of non-forest plants in the European Alps

scientific article published on 20 September 2019

Fine‐grain beta diversity of Palaearctic grassland vegetation

scientific article published on 22 May 2021

Global patterns and drivers of alpine plant species richness

scientific article

Going against the flow: potential mechanisms for unexpected downslope range shifts in a warming climate

article

Guidelines for proposals to conserve or reject names of syntaxa

Habitat Structure, Quality and Landscape Predict Species Richness and Communities of Collembola in Dry Grasslands in Austria

History and environment shape species pools and community diversity in European beech forests

article by Borja Jiménez-Alfaro et al published 29 January 2018 in Nature Ecology and Evolution

How to classify forests? A case study from Central Europe

scientific article published in 2024

Imprints of glacial history and current environment on correlations between endemic plant and invertebrate species richness

article

Long-term impacts of nitrogen and sulphur deposition on forest floor vegetation in the Northern limestone Alps, Austria

scholarly article by Karl Hülber et al published August 2008 in Applied Vegetation Science

Long‐term continuity of steppe grasslands in eastern Central Europe: Evidence from species distribution patterns and chloroplast haplotypes

scientific article published in 2021

Modelling the distribution and compositional variation of plant communities at the continental scale

article

Modelling the effect of habitat fragmentation on climate-driven migration of European forest understorey plants

article

Nomenclatural revision of the syntaxa of European coastal dune vegetation

scientific article published in 2024

On the nomenclature of some high-rank syntaxa of European forest vegetation

Phylogenetic structure of European forest vegetation

scientific article published on 23 January 2021

Phytocoenologia: the leading journal with a focus on vegetation classification

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

article

Phytosociological and ecological description of the high alpine vegetation of NW Iran

Phytosociological and ecological study of the high alpine vegetation of Tuchal Mountains (Central Alborz, Iran)

Phytosociology and ecology of the high-alpine to subnival scree vegetation of N and NW Iran (Alborz and Azerbaijan Mts.)

Picea abies and Abies alba forests of the austrian alps: Numerical classification and ordination

Plant species richness decreased in semi-natural grasslands in the Biosphere Reserve Wienerwald, Austria, over the past two decades, despite agri-environmental measures

article

Plant taxonomic and phylogenetic turnover increases toward climatic extremes and depends on historical factors in European beech forests

scientific article published on 13 December 2020

Post-glacial migration lag restricts range filling of plants in the European Alps

article

Post‐glacial determinants of regional species pools in alpine grasslands

scientific article

Proposal (20): to conserve the name Aceretalia pseudoplatani Moor 1976 against Tilietalia Moor 1973

Range dynamics of mountain plants decrease with elevation

scientific article

Re-launch of Phytocoenologia: new profile for the classic vegetation ecology journal

ReSurveyEurope: A database of resurveyed vegetation plots in Europe

scientific article published in March 2024

Reconstructing geographical parthenogenesis: effects of niche differentiation and reproductive mode on Holocene range expansion of an alpine plant

scientific article published on 19 January 2018

Report of the Committee for Nomina Conservanda, Ambigua, Inversa and Mutata: 1

Scale decisions can reverse conclusions on community assembly processes

scientific article

Scale-dependent patterns and drivers of vascular plant, bryophyte and lichen diversity in dry grasslands of the Swiss inneralpine valleys

Semi-dry grasslands along a climatic gradient across Central Europe: Vegetation classification with validation

Spatio-temporal variations in the application of the Braun-Blanquet approach in Europe

Species richness in dry grassland patches of eastern Austria: A multi-taxon study on the role of local, landscape and habitat quality variables

Structural, ecological and biogeographical attributes of European vegetation alliances

scientific article published in January 2024

The association concept revisited

The leaf economic and plant size spectra of European forest understory vegetation

scientific article published on 21 June 2021

Towards a consistent classification of European grasslands

Tree cover at fine and coarse spatial grains interacts with shade tolerance to shape plant species distributions across the Alps

scientific article published on June 2015

Uncertainty in predicting range dynamics of endemic alpine plants under climate warming

scientific article

Vegetation classification and its application are relevant globally

Vegetation classification goes open access

scientific article published on 04 May 2020

Vegetation classification: a task of our time

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

article

WetVegEurope: a database of aquatic and wetland vegetation of Europe

Xeric grasslands of the inner-alpine dry valleys of Austria – new insights into syntaxonomy, diversity and ecology

scientific article published in 2021

sPlot – A new tool for global vegetation analyses

article

sPlotOpen – An environmentally balanced, open‐access, global dataset of vegetation plots ⬇️

scientific article published on 21 June 2021

Proposal (31) to conserve the name Brachypodietalia pinnati Korneck 1974 as a nomen conservandum with a conserved type

scientific article published in 2023

Vegetation Classification and Survey is performing well

scientific article published in 2024

List of works by Wolfgang Willner

A comparative framework for broad-scale plot-based vegetation classification

A higher-level classification of the Pannonian and western Pontic steppe grasslands (Central and Eastern Europe).

A matter of scale: apparent niche differentiation of diploid and tetraploid plants may depend on extent and grain of analysis

A survey of vegetation survey papers

Alpha diversity of vascular plants in European forests

An explicit test of Pleistocene survival in peripheral versus nunatak refugia in two high mountain plant species

Assessment of Drought-Tolerant Provenances of Austria’s Indigenous Tree Species

Central European forest–steppe: An ecosystem shaped by climate, topography and disturbances

Challenging the practice of biodiversity offsets: ecological restoration success evaluation of a large-scale railway project

Classification of European beech forests: a Gordian Knot?

Classification of Palaearctic grasslands

Context-dependence of diagnostic species: A case study of the central european spruce forests

Cross-scale analysis of the region effect on vascular plant species diversity in southern and northern European mountain ranges

Description and validation of some European forest syntaxa – a supplement to the EuroVegChecklist

Disjunct populations of European vascular plant species keep the same climatic niches

Diversity of lowland hay meadows and pastures in Western and Central Europe

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

Effects of different fidelity measures and contexts on the determination of diagnostic species

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

Evidence for Glacial Refugia of the Forest Understorey Species <i>Helleborus niger</i> (Ranunculaceae) in the Southern as Well as in the Northern Limestone Alps

Explanation of beta diversity in European alpine grasslands changes with scale

Extinction debt of high-mountain plants under twenty-first-century climate change

Extinction debts and colonization credits of non-forest plants in the European Alps

Fine‐grain beta diversity of Palaearctic grassland vegetation

Global patterns and drivers of alpine plant species richness

Going against the flow: potential mechanisms for unexpected downslope range shifts in a warming climate

Guidelines for proposals to conserve or reject names of syntaxa

Habitat Structure, Quality and Landscape Predict Species Richness and Communities of Collembola in Dry Grasslands in Austria

History and environment shape species pools and community diversity in European beech forests

How to classify forests? A case study from Central Europe

Imprints of glacial history and current environment on correlations between endemic plant and invertebrate species richness

Long-term impacts of nitrogen and sulphur deposition on forest floor vegetation in the Northern limestone Alps, Austria

Long‐term continuity of steppe grasslands in eastern Central Europe: Evidence from species distribution patterns and chloroplast haplotypes

Modelling the distribution and compositional variation of plant communities at the continental scale

Modelling the effect of habitat fragmentation on climate-driven migration of European forest understorey plants

Nomenclatural revision of the syntaxa of European coastal dune vegetation

On the nomenclature of some high-rank syntaxa of European forest vegetation

Phylogenetic structure of European forest vegetation

Phytocoenologia: the leading journal with a focus on vegetation classification

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

Phytosociological and ecological description of the high alpine vegetation of NW Iran

Phytosociological and ecological study of the high alpine vegetation of Tuchal Mountains (Central Alborz, Iran)

Phytosociology and ecology of the high-alpine to subnival scree vegetation of N and NW Iran (Alborz and Azerbaijan Mts.)

Picea abies and Abies alba forests of the austrian alps: Numerical classification and ordination

Plant species richness decreased in semi-natural grasslands in the Biosphere Reserve Wienerwald, Austria, over the past two decades, despite agri-environmental measures

Plant taxonomic and phylogenetic turnover increases toward climatic extremes and depends on historical factors in European beech forests

Post-glacial migration lag restricts range filling of plants in the European Alps

Post‐glacial determinants of regional species pools in alpine grasslands

Proposal (20): to conserve the name Aceretalia pseudoplatani Moor 1976 against Tilietalia Moor 1973

Range dynamics of mountain plants decrease with elevation

Re-launch of Phytocoenologia: new profile for the classic vegetation ecology journal

ReSurveyEurope: A database of resurveyed vegetation plots in Europe

Reconstructing geographical parthenogenesis: effects of niche differentiation and reproductive mode on Holocene range expansion of an alpine plant

Report of the Committee for Nomina Conservanda, Ambigua, Inversa and Mutata: 1

Scale decisions can reverse conclusions on community assembly processes

Scale-dependent patterns and drivers of vascular plant, bryophyte and lichen diversity in dry grasslands of the Swiss inneralpine valleys

Semi-dry grasslands along a climatic gradient across Central Europe: Vegetation classification with validation

Spatio-temporal variations in the application of the Braun-Blanquet approach in Europe

Species richness in dry grassland patches of eastern Austria: A multi-taxon study on the role of local, landscape and habitat quality variables

Structural, ecological and biogeographical attributes of European vegetation alliances

The association concept revisited

The leaf economic and plant size spectra of European forest understory vegetation

Towards a consistent classification of European grasslands

Tree cover at fine and coarse spatial grains interacts with shade tolerance to shape plant species distributions across the Alps

Uncertainty in predicting range dynamics of endemic alpine plants under climate warming

Vegetation classification and its application are relevant globally

Vegetation classification goes open access

Vegetation classification: a task of our time

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

WetVegEurope: a database of aquatic and wetland vegetation of Europe

Xeric grasslands of the inner-alpine dry valleys of Austria – new insights into syntaxonomy, diversity and ecology

sPlot – A new tool for global vegetation analyses

sPlotOpen – An environmentally balanced, open‐access, global dataset of vegetation plots ⬇️

﻿Proposal (31) to conserve the name Brachypodietalia pinnati Korneck 1974 as a nomen conservandum with a conserved type

﻿Vegetation Classification and Survey is performing well

Proposal (31) to conserve the name Brachypodietalia pinnati Korneck 1974 as a nomen conservandum with a conserved type

Vegetation Classification and Survey is performing well