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Balkan Vegetation Database: historical background, current status and future perspectives

Authors	VASSILEV Kiril PEDASHENKO Hristo ALEXANDROVA Alexandra TASHEV Alexandar GANEVA Anna GAVRILOVA Anna GRADEVSKA Asya ASSENOV Assen VITKOVA Antonina GRIGOROV Borislav GUSSEV Chavdar FILIPOVA Eva ANEVA Ina KNOLLOVÁ Ilona NIKOLOV Ivaylo GEORGIEV Georgi GOGUSHEV Georgi TINCHEV Georgi PACHEDJIEVA Kalina KOEV Koycho LYUBENOVA Mariyana DIMITROV Marius APOSTOLOVA-STOYANOVA Nadezhda VELEV Nikolay ZHELEV Petar GLOGOV Plamen NATCHEVA Rayna TZONEV Rossen BOCH Steffen HENNEKENS Stephan GEORGIEV Stoyan STOYANOV Stoyan KARAKIEV Todor KALNÍKOVÁ Veronika SHIVAROV Veselin RUSSAKOVA Veska VULCHEV Vladimir
Year of publication	2016
Type	Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source	Phytocoenologia
MU Faculty or unit	Faculty of Science
Citation
Web	http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/schweiz/phyt/2016/00000046/00000001/art00008
Doi	http://dx.doi.org/10.1127/phyto/2016/0109
Field	Botany
Keywords	Balkan Peninsula; data property and governance rules; phytosociology; TURBOVEG; vegetation plot; vegetation type
Description	The Balkan Vegetation Database (BVD; GIVD ID: EU-00-019; http://www.givd.info/ID/EU-00- 019) is a regional database that consists of phytosociological relevés from different vegetation types from six countries on the Balkan Peninsula (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Kosovo, Montenegro and Serbia). Currently, it contains 9,580 relevés, and most of them (78%) are geo-referenced. The database includes digitized relevés from the literature (79%) and unpublished data (21%). Herein we present descriptive statistics about attributive relevé information. We developed rules that regulate governance of the database, data provision, types of data availability regimes, data requests and terms of use, authorships and relationships with other databases. The database offers an extensive overview about studies on the local, regional and SE European levels including information about flora, vegetation and habitats.