欧洲六十年来的植物群落变化表明，植被正朝着营养更丰富、密度更高的方向发展

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Anthropogenic impacts are reshaping plant biodiversity patterns, yet how community-composition shifts track environmental change at large spatial and temporal scales remains unclear. Here, we quantified trends in community-mean plant ecological indicator values (light, temperature, soil moisture, soil nitrogen, and soil reaction) across European vegetation between 1960 and 2020. We used spatiotemporal interpolation based on 644,524 plots and analyzed 18,345 time series encompassing diverse habitats. We found a clear shift in community composition over the past six decades with a steep increase in nitrogen-demanding species across all main habitat types, accompanied by a moderate increase in shade-tolerant species. Forest communities shifted toward species associated with higher soil pH, while wetland communities showed a decline in moisture-dependent species over time. Conversely, temperature indicator values were largely stable, except for recent thermophilization in alpine habitats. Our results indicate a widespread trend toward denser vegetation driven by eutrophication and changes in management practices.

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@article{midolo2026,
  author = {Gabriele Midolo and Adam Thomas Clark and Milan Chytrý and Franz Essl and Stefan Dullinger and Ute Jandt and Helge Bruelheide and Jürgen Dengler and Irena Axmanová and Svetlana Aćić and Olivier Argagnon and Idoia Biurrun and Gianmaria Bonari and Alessandro Chiarucci and Renata Ćušterevska and Pieter De Frenne and Michele De Sanctis and Jan Divíšek and Jiří Doležal and Tetiana Dziuba and Rasmus Ejrnæs and Emmanuel Garbolino and Anke Jentsch and Borja Jiménez-Alfaro and Jonathan Lenoir and Jesper Erenskjold Moeslund and Francesca Napoleone and Sabine B. Rumpf and Jens-Christian Svenning and Grzegorz Swacha and Irina Tatarenko and Martin Večeřa and Denys Vynokurov and Petr Keil},
  title = {Sixty years of plant community change in Europe indicate a shift toward nutrient-richer and denser vegetation},
  journal = {Science Advances},
  year = {2026},
  volume = {12},
  number = {15},
  pages = {eaeb2493},
  doi = {10.1126/sciadv.aeb2493},
  publisher = {American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)},
}