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

2016; Gebrüder Borntraeger Verlagsbuchhandlung; Volume: 46; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1127/phyto/2016/0109

2363-7153

Kiril Vassilev, Hristo Pedashenko, Alexandra Alexandrova, A. Tashev, Anna Ganeva, Anna A. Gavrilova, Asya Gradevska, Assen Assenov, Antonina Vitkova, Borislav Grigorov, Chavdar Gussev, Eva Filipova, Ina Aneva, Ilona Knollová, Ivaylo Nikolov, Georgi Georgiev, Georgi Gogushev, Georgi Tinchev, Kalina Pachedjieva, Koycho Koev, Mariyana Lyubenova, Marius Dimitrov, Nadezhda Apostolova-Stoyanova, Nikolay Velev, P. Zhelev, Пламен Глогов, Rayna Natcheva, Rossen Tzonev, Steffen Boch, S.M. Hennekens, S. Georgiev, S. Stoyanov, Todor Karakiev, Veronika Kalníková, Veselin V. Shivarov, Veska Russakova, Vladimir Vulchev,

Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies

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 releves 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 releves, and most of them (78%) are geo-referenced. The database includes digitized releves from the literature (79%) and unpublished data (21%). Herein we present descriptive statistics about attributive releve 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.