2020•PhytocoenologiaRequires access
European Boreal Forest Vegetation Database
Anni Jašková, Tatyana Braslavskaya, Елена Тихонова, Jaanus Paal, Solvita Rūsiņa, Māris Laiviņš, И. Б. Кучеров, Н. В. Геникова, Ilona Knollová, T. V. Chernenkova, E. Yu. Churakova, Martin Diekmann, Rune Halvorsen, Elena I. Kirichok, В. Н. Коротков, Alexander Kryshen, D. L. Lugovaya, О. В. Морозова, Petr V. Potapov, T.S. Prokazina, Fride Høistad Schei, Yury Semenishchenkov, Н. Е. Шевченко, Oksana Sidorova, Н. С. Смирнов, О. В. Смирнова, Ruslan Tsvirko, Svetlana Turubanova, Milan Chytrý
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Abstract
The European Boreal Forest Vegetation Database (EBFVD, GIVD ID: EU-00-027) is a repository for vegetation-plot data from the forests of the boreal and hemiboreal zones of Europe. In this report, we describe its structure, current content and future perspectives opened up by the database. In February 2019, the database contained 13 037 vegetation-plot records from Belarus, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Norway, Russia and Sweden that are not yet stored in the databases of the European Vegetation Archive (EVA). Consequently, this database significantly improves the availability of forest plant community data from Northern Europe. The database is managed by the Vegetation Science Group, Department of Botany and Zoology, Masaryk University, Brno (Czech Republic), in the TURBOVEG 2 program. It is registered in the Global Index of Vegetation Plot Databases (GIVD) and included in EVA. The whole database, or a subset of it, can be requested via EVA, or directly from the database custodian.