EUNIS-ESy: Expert system for automatic classification of European vegetation plots to EUNIS habitats

<strong>EUNIS-ESy</strong> is an expert system for automatic classification of European vegetation plots to habitat types of the EUNIS Habitat Classification. The EUNIS classification and the principles of the expert system are described by Chytrý et al. (2020). The classification of a set of vegetation plots can be run in the JUICE program (Tichý 2002; https://www.sci.muni.cz/botany/juice/), TURBOVEG 3 program (Hennekens 2015) and an R script developed by H. Bruelheide et al. (submitted). This dataset contains two parts: (1) the expert system and related files necessary for running it; (2) characterization of EUNIS habitats based on the results of the expert system classification. <strong>1. Expert system and related files necessary to run it</strong> 1.1. <strong>EUNIS-ESy-2020-06-08.txt </strong>is a file containing the script for classification of vegetation plots by EUNIS-ESy. This version contains tested definitions for the revised classification Coastal, Wetland, Grassland, Shrubland, Forest and Man-made habitats, and preliminary non-tested definitions of the older classification of Marine, Aquatic and Inland sparsely vegetated habitats. 1.2. <strong>Nomenclature-translation-from-Turboveg-2-databases.zip </strong>is an archive containing the scripts for automatic translation of taxon concepts and names used in individual European Turboveg 2 databases (Hennekens & Schaminée 2001; https://www.synbiosys.alterra.nl/turboveg/) to the nomenclature that can be used as an input for EUNIS-ESy. 1.3. <strong>EUNIS-ESy-User-Guide.pdf </strong>contains a brief user guide to the classification of vegetation plots by EUNIS-ESy using the JUICE program. Please read this guide carefully before running the expert system to avoid misclassifications. <strong>2. Characterization of the EUNIS habitats based on the results of the EUNIS-ESy classification</strong> 2.1. <strong>Habitat-Factsheets.pdf </strong>contains a summary of data on EUNIS Coastal, Wetland, Grassland, Shrubland, Forest and Man-made habitats. These data wer [...]