Oak–hornbeam forests and related vegetation types (phytosociological order Carpinetalia betuli) are widespread in temperate western Eurasia. However, their national classification systems are poorly compatible, and a broad-scale classification based on numerical analyses is lacking. Therefore, we aimed to establish a unified formalized classification system based on a large data set of vegetation plots covering the entire range of these forests.

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欧洲橡树-角树森林和相关植被类型的分类

橡树-角树森林和相关植被类型（植物社会学目Carpinetalia betuli）广泛分布于欧亚大陆西部温带地区。然而，它们的国家分类系统兼容性差，缺乏基于数值分析的大范围分类。因此，我们的目标是建立一个基于覆盖这些森林整个范围的大型植被地块数据集的统一形式化分类系统。