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Table 2. Associations recognized in the expert-based classification (Kočí 2001) and their Cocktail definitions
in terms of occurrence
of species groups and dominance of species. In the Cocktail definitions, species groups are printed in bold and dominant species in
normal letters. Brief descriptions of associations are found in App. 1
Association
Cocktail definition
1. Sphagno compacti-Molinietum
Trientalis europaea Group AND
Molinia caerulea cover > 50%
caeruleae
2–3. Crepido-Calamagrostietum
Veratrum lobelianum Group AND
Vaccinium myrtillus Group AND
Trientalis europaea Group
villosae and
Sileno vulgaris-
AND Calamagrostis villosa cover > 25%
Calamagrostietum villosae
4. Bistorto-Deschampsietum alpicolae
(Trientalis europaea Group OR Vaccinium myrtillus Group) AND Deschampsia cespitosa cover >
50% AND NOT (Ligusticum mutellina Group OR Salix lapponum cover > 25%)
5. Violo sudeticae-
Ligusticum mutellina Group AND Deschampsia cespitosa cover > 25%
Deschampsietum cespitosae
6. Bupleuro-Calamagrostietum
Bupleurum vapincense Group
arundinaceae
7. Salici silesiacae-Betuletum
Betula carpatica Group AND NOT (
Prunus padus ssp.
borealis cover > 25% OR
Sorbus aucuparia
carpaticae
cover > 25%)
8. Pado-Sorbetum
Betula carpatica Group AND (Prunus padus ssp. borealis cover > 25% OR Sorbus aucuparia cover
> 25%)
9.
Piceo-Salicetum silesiacae
This association was not reproduced with the Cocktail method.
10. Ranunculo platanifolii-
(Aconitum plicatum Group OR Veratrum lobelianum Group) AND Adenostyles alliariae cover
Adenostyletum alliariae
> 25% AND NOT Laserpitium archangelica Group
11. Salicetum lapponum
(Trientalis europaea Group OR Veratrum lobelianum Group OR Aconitum plicatum Group) AND
Salix lapponum cover > 25%
12. Trollio altissimi-Geranietum
(Aconitum plicatum Group AND Geranium sylvaticum Group) AND NOT (Bupleurum vapincense
sylvatici
Group OR Laserpitium archangelica Group OR Petasites albus Group)
13. Laserpitio-Dactylidetum glomeratae
Laserpitium archangelica Group
14. Chaerophyllo-Cicerbitetum alpinae
(Cardamine amara Group OR Petasites albus Group) AND Cicerbita alpina cover > 25%
15. Daphno mezerei-
(Mercurialis perennis Group OR Veratrum lobelianum Group) AND Dryopteris filix-mas cover >
Dryopteridetum filicis-maris
25%
16.
Adenostylo-Athyrietum alpestris
(Trientalis europaea Group OR Veratrum lobelianum Group) AND Athyrium distentifolium cover > 25%
Table 3. Relationships between the associations of the expert-based classification and of the formalized classification. Only relevés
assigned by the Cocktail definitions are considered in the formally defined associations. The associations of the two classifications
are compared by the phi coefficient (multiplied by 100); negative
Φ values are not shown and values higher than 50 are printed in
bold. Numbers of associations are the same as in Table 2.
Formally defined
Expert-based associations recognized by Ko
čí (2001)
associations
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
No. of relevés
34
84
120
36
41
55
15
13
4
59
14
15
23
53
37
115
1
27
78
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
2-3
51
-
54
5
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
4
9
-
-
-
26
19
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
5
12
-
-
-
7
34
-
-
-
-
-
-
13
-
-
-
-
6
30
-
-
-
-
-
70
-
-
-
-
-
-
1
-
-
-
7
19
-
-
-
-
-
-
77
30
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
8
6
-
1
-
-
-
-
-
56
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
10
31
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
69
-
2
-
-
-
-
11
13
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
96
-
-
-
-
-
12
8
-
-
-
-
3
-
-
-
-
-
-
36
21
-
-
-
13
10
-
-
-
-
-
6
-
-
-
-
-
-
52
-
-
-
14
29
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
7
-
-
-
60
-
-
15
27
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
75
-
16
104
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
82