Balkan Vegetation Database (BVD) - updated information and current status

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14310%2F20%3A00141790" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14310/20:00141790 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://vcs.pensoft.net/article/61348/list/1/" target="_blank" >https://vcs.pensoft.net/article/61348/list/1/</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/VCS/2020/61348" target="_blank" >10.3897/VCS/2020/61348</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Balkan Vegetation Database (BVD) - updated information and current status

Original language description

The Balkan Vegetation Database (BVD; GIVD ID: EU-00-019) is a regional database, which was established in 2014. It comprises phytosociological relevés covering various vegetation types from nine countries of the Balkan Peninsula (Albania – 153 relevés, Bosnia and Herzegovina – 1715, Bulgaria – 12,282, Greece – 465, Croatia – 69, Kosovo – 493, Montenegro – 440, North Macedonia – 13 and Serbia – 2677). Currently, it contains 18,306 relevés (compared to 9.580 in 2016), and most of them (82.8%) are geo-referenced. The database includes both digitized relevés from the literature (65.6%) and unpublished data (34.5%). Plot size is available for 84.7% of all relevés. During the last four years some “header data information” was improved e.g. elevation (now available for 83.4% of all relevés), aspect (67.7%), slope (66%), total cover of vegetation (54.3%), cover of tree, shrub, herb, bryophyte and lichen layers (27.1%, 20.1%, 40.2%, 11.5% and 2.1%), respectively. Data access is either semi-restricted (65.6%) or restricted (34.4%). Most relevés (84.6%) are classified to syntaxa of different levels. The database has been used for numerous studies with various objectives from floristic, vegetation and habitat-related topics, to macroecological studies at the local, regional, national, continental and global levels. During the last four years, BVD data were requested from 111 different projects via the EVA and sPlot databases.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10600 - Biological sciences

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Vegetation Classification and Survey

ISSN

2683-0671

e-ISSN

2683-0671

Volume of the periodical

1

Issue of the periodical within the volume

December

Country of publishing house

BG - BULGARIA

Number of pages

3

Pages from-to

151-153

UT code for WoS article

001221184500003

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85123508628