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Table 3 Ecosystem type categories and their respective scores calculated from workshop scoring

From: Berries, greens, and medicinal herbs—mapping and assessing wild plants as an ecosystem service in Transylvania (Romania)

Ecosystem type

Definition

Area %

Assessed productivity for

Edible plants

Medicinal plants

Settlement

Villages, outer areas with gardens and single farms

1.8

4

5

Intensive agricultural

Intensive, large arable fields (patches > 10 ha)

0.5

0

3

Extensive agricultural

Mixed agricultural mosaic of small patches of various uses (patches < 10 ha)

12.7

4

7

Pasture

Pastures, grazed grasslands of different degrees of degradation

26.9

8

9

Hay meadow

Hay meadows

6.9

4

8

Encroached grassland

Shrublands, abandoned grasslands encroached with shrubs

7.6

7

9

Wood pasture

Solitary trees in grassland patches

1.7

4

7

Orchard

Abandoned or extensively used fruit tree plantations/vineyards

0.4

5

10

Tree group

Group of trees/small forests/tree rows/galleries along small valleys

3.9

2

5

Pine and spruce forest

Coniferous plantations

1.3

2

0

Robinia forest

Robinia plantations

0.1

0

0

Broad-leaved Forest

Deciduous forests of native tree species

35.9

10

2

Wetland and water

Major rivers, lakes, and fisheries, including the reed banks

0.3

10

5