Publication details
Die mitteleuropäischen Datenbanken im Global Index of Vegetation-Plot Databases (GIVD)
| Title in English | Central European databases in the Global Index of vegetation plot databases (GIVD) |
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| Year of publication | 2011 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Tuexenia |
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| Web | Fulltext PDF file |
| Field | Botany |
| Keywords | central Europe; community ecology; data exchange; database; macroecology; metadata; phytosociology; plot; relevé; scientific reward; species composition |
| Description | The Global Index of Vegetation-Plot Databases (GIVD) is a metadatabase of vegetation databases worldwide that was initiated by an international Steering Committee in 2010 and that is hosted on a server in Greifswald. GIVD aims at providing a better overview on the growing number of vegetationplot databases and increasing their accessibility for overarching analyses. In this article, we analyse which data from central Europe (including the Benelux countries) are available in GIVD. On 20 March 2011, 1.35 million of the total 2.45 million registered relevés originated from one of the covered twelve countries. With more than 600,000 digitally available relevés, corresponding to a density of 18 km–2, the Netherlands are globally leading in this respect. |