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European Vegetation Archive (EVA): an integrated database of European vegetation plots

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CHYTRÝ Milan HENNEKENS Stephan M. JIMÉNEZ ALFARO GONZÁLEZ Francisco De Borja KNOLLOVÁ Ilona DENGLER Jürgen JANSEN Florian LANDUCCI Flavia SCHAMINÉE Joop H.J. AĆIĆ Svetlana AGRILLO Emiliano AMBARLI Didem ANGELINI Pierangela APOSTOLOVA Iva ATTORRE Fabio BERG Christian BERGMEIER Erwin BIURRUN Idoia BOTTA-DUKÁT Zoltán BRISSE Henry CAMPOS Juan Antonio CARLÓN Luis ČARNI Andraž CASELLA Laura CSIKY János ĆUŠTEREVSKA Renata DAJIĆ STEVANOVIĆ Zora DANIHELKA Jiří DE BIE Els DE RUFFRAY Patrice DE SANCTIS Michele DICKORÉ W. Bernhard DIMOPOULOS Panayotis DUBYNA Dmytro DZIUBA Tetiana EJRNAS Rasmus ERMAKOV Nikolai EWALD Jörg FANELLI Giuliano FERNÁNDEZ-GONZÁLEZ Federico FITZPATRICK Úna FONT Xavier GARCÍA-MIJANGOS Itziar GAVILÁN Rosario G. GOLUB Valentin GUARINO Riccardo HAVEMAN Rense INDREICA Adrian IŞIK GÜRSOY Deniz JANDT Ute JANSSEN John A.M. JIROUŠEK Martin KĄCKI Zygmunt KAVGACI Ali KLEIKAMP Martin KOLOMIYCHUK Vitaliy KRSTIVOJEVIĆ ĆUK Mirjana KRSTONOŠIĆ Daniel KUZEMKO Anna LENOIR Jonathan LYSENKO Tatiana MARCENÓ Corrado MARTYNENKO Vassiliy MICHALCOVÁ Dana MOESLUND Jesper Erenskjold ONYSHCHENKO Viktor PEDASHENKO Hristo PÉREZ-HAASE Aaron PETERKA Tomáš PROKHOROV Vadim RAŠOMAVIČIUS Valerijus RODRÍGUEZ-ROJO Maria Pilar RODWELL John S. ROGOVA Tatiana RUPRECHT Eszter RUSINA Solvita SEIDLER Gunnar ŠIBÍK Jozef ŠILC Urban ŠKVORC Željko SOPOTLIEVA Desislava STANČIĆ Zvjezdana SVENNING Jens-Christian SWACHA Grzegorz TSIRIPIDIS Ioannis TURTUREANU Pavel Dan UGURLU Emin UOGINTAS Domas VALACHOVIČ Milan VASHENYAK Yulia VASSILEV Kiril VENANZONI Roberto VIRTANEN Risto WEEKES Lynda WILLNER Wolfgang WOHLGEMUTH Thomas YAMALOV Sergey

Year of publication 2016
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Applied Vegetation Science
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Faculty of Science

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Web http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/avsc.12191/abstract
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/avsc.12191
Field Ecology
Keywords Biodiversity informatics; Database; Ecoinformatics; European Vegetation Survey; International Association for Vegetation Science; Phytosociological data; Releve; Vegetation database; Vegetation plot
Description The European Vegetation Archive (EVA) is a centralized database of European vegetation plots developed by the IAVS Working Group European Vegetation Survey. It has been in development since 2012 and first made available for use in research projects in 2014. It stores copies of national and regional vegetationplot databases on a single software platform. Data storage in EVA does not affect on-going independent development of the contributing databases, which remain the property of the data contributors. EVA uses a prototype of the database management software TURBOVEG 3 developed for joint management of multiple databases that use different species lists. This is facilitated by the Syn- BioSys Taxon Database, a system of taxon names and concepts used in the individual European databases and their corresponding names on a unified list of European flora. TURBOVEG 3 also includes procedures for handling data requests, selections and provisions according to the approved EVA Data Property and Governance Rules. By 30 June 2015, 61 databases from all European regions have joined EVA, contributing in total 1 027 376 vegetation plots, 82% of them with geographic coordinates, from 57 countries. EVA provides a unique data source for large-scale analyses of European vegetation diversity both for fundamental research and nature conservation applications. Updated information on EVA is available online at http://euroveg.org/eva-database.
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