Syntaxonomical checklist of vascular plant communities of Spain and Portugal to association level

Abstract

This paper is a catalogue of all syntaxa from class to association ever described and recognized in Spain and Portugal (Iberian Peninsula, Balearic, Madeira, Azorean and Canary Islands), according with Braun-Blanquet approach (Braun-Blanquet 1964, Dierschke 1994) and the International Code of Phytosociological Nomenclature (Weber, Moravec & Theurillat 2000). The literature contents near all the publications cited in this paper, particularly those of portuguese and spanish syntaxa authors. The Syntaxonomical Checklist of Spain and Portugal, prepared during the last ten years as a bassis of the Luso-Hispaniae Prodromus of the Plant Communities (in progress), has been reciprocally utilized to carry out the Syntaxonomical Project of European Community Countries (Biondi, Gehu, Grabherr, Pott & Rivas-Martinez, in progress), to assist the European Vegetation Survey (Rodwell, Mucina, Pignatti, Schaminee & Chytrý 1997), and to develop the phytosociological knowledge in the interpretation and evaluation of European Habitat Directive for conservation and management purposes