Nordic-Baltic Grassland Vegetation Database (NBGVD) – current state and future prospects
This Long Database Report describes the historical background and current contents of the Nordic-Baltic Grassland Vegetation Database (NBGVD) (GIVD-code EU-00-002). NBGVD is the EDGG-associated collaborative vegetation-plot database that collects vegetation-plot data of grasslands and other open hab...
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ftzhawzuerich:oai:digitalcollection.zhaw.ch:11475/31059 2024-09-15T18:05:42+00:00 Nordic-Baltic Grassland Vegetation Database (NBGVD) – current state and future prospects Skobel, Nadiia Kozub, Łukasz Dembicz, Iwona Boch, Steffen Bruun, Hans Henrik Chusova, Olha Golub, Valentin Helm, Aveliina Iakushenko, Dmytro Pawlikowski, Paweł Zaniewski, Piotr Dengler, Jürgen 2024-05-23 application/pdf https://hdl.handle.net/11475/31059 https://doi.org/10.3897/VCS.119968 https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-31059 https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/31059 en eng Pensoft https://doi.org/10.3897/VCS.119968 https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-31059 doi:10.3897/VCS.119968 doi:10.21256/zhaw-31059 https://hdl.handle.net/11475/31059 https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/31059 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ISSN:2683-0671 Vegetation Classification and Survey Arctic-alpine vegetation Baltic region Coastal vegetation Ecoinformatics European Vegetation Archive (EVA) Grassland Macroecology Mire Nordic region Plot size Relevé Vegetation-plot database info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/333.7 info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/580 info:eu-repo/semantics/article Beitrag in wissenschaftlicher Zeitschrift Text 2024 ftzhawzuerich https://doi.org/10.3897/VCS.11996810.21256/zhaw-31059 2024-08-12T14:03:22Z This Long Database Report describes the historical background and current contents of the Nordic-Baltic Grassland Vegetation Database (NBGVD) (GIVD-code EU-00-002). NBGVD is the EDGG-associated collaborative vegetation-plot database that collects vegetation-plot data of grasslands and other open habitats (except segetal and deep aquatic vegetation) from the Nordic-Baltic region excluding Germany, namely Belarus, Denmark, Estonia, Faroe Islands, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, N Poland, NW Russia, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, and Sweden. Target vegetation types are lowland grasslands and heathlands, arctic-alpine communities, coastal communities, non-forested mires and other wetlands, rocky, tall-herb and ruderal communities. As of March 2024, it included 12,694 relevés recorded between 1910 and 2023. These were mainly digitised from literature sources (84%), while the remainder comes from individual unpublished sources (16%). The data quality is high, with bryophytes and lichens being treated in more than 80% of all plots and measured environmental variables such as topography and soil characteristics often available in standardised form. A peculiarity of the Nordic-Baltic region are the relatively small plot sizes compared to other regions (median: 4 m2). The available data stem from 35 vegetation classes, with Koelerio-Corynephoretea, Festuco-Brometea, Sedo-Scleranthetea, Molinio-Arrhenatheretea and Scheuchzerio-Caricetea being most frequent. We conclude that NBGVD provides valuable data, allowing interesting analyses at the regional scale and fills gaps in continental to global analyses. Still, since there are many more data around, we ask interested readers to contribute their own data or help find and digitise old data from the literature. Article in Journal/Newspaper Faroe Islands Iceland Jan Mayen Svalbard ZHAW digitalcollection (Repository of the Zurich University of Applied Sciences) |
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Arctic-alpine vegetation Baltic region Coastal vegetation Ecoinformatics European Vegetation Archive (EVA) Grassland Macroecology Mire Nordic region Plot size Relevé Vegetation-plot database info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/333.7 info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/580 Skobel, Nadiia Kozub, Łukasz Dembicz, Iwona Boch, Steffen Bruun, Hans Henrik Chusova, Olha Golub, Valentin Helm, Aveliina Iakushenko, Dmytro Pawlikowski, Paweł Zaniewski, Piotr Dengler, Jürgen Nordic-Baltic Grassland Vegetation Database (NBGVD) – current state and future prospects |
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Arctic-alpine vegetation Baltic region Coastal vegetation Ecoinformatics European Vegetation Archive (EVA) Grassland Macroecology Mire Nordic region Plot size Relevé Vegetation-plot database info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/333.7 info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/580 |
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This Long Database Report describes the historical background and current contents of the Nordic-Baltic Grassland Vegetation Database (NBGVD) (GIVD-code EU-00-002). NBGVD is the EDGG-associated collaborative vegetation-plot database that collects vegetation-plot data of grasslands and other open habitats (except segetal and deep aquatic vegetation) from the Nordic-Baltic region excluding Germany, namely Belarus, Denmark, Estonia, Faroe Islands, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, N Poland, NW Russia, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, and Sweden. Target vegetation types are lowland grasslands and heathlands, arctic-alpine communities, coastal communities, non-forested mires and other wetlands, rocky, tall-herb and ruderal communities. As of March 2024, it included 12,694 relevés recorded between 1910 and 2023. These were mainly digitised from literature sources (84%), while the remainder comes from individual unpublished sources (16%). The data quality is high, with bryophytes and lichens being treated in more than 80% of all plots and measured environmental variables such as topography and soil characteristics often available in standardised form. A peculiarity of the Nordic-Baltic region are the relatively small plot sizes compared to other regions (median: 4 m2). The available data stem from 35 vegetation classes, with Koelerio-Corynephoretea, Festuco-Brometea, Sedo-Scleranthetea, Molinio-Arrhenatheretea and Scheuchzerio-Caricetea being most frequent. We conclude that NBGVD provides valuable data, allowing interesting analyses at the regional scale and fills gaps in continental to global analyses. Still, since there are many more data around, we ask interested readers to contribute their own data or help find and digitise old data from the literature. |
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Skobel, Nadiia Kozub, Łukasz Dembicz, Iwona Boch, Steffen Bruun, Hans Henrik Chusova, Olha Golub, Valentin Helm, Aveliina Iakushenko, Dmytro Pawlikowski, Paweł Zaniewski, Piotr Dengler, Jürgen |
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Nordic-Baltic Grassland Vegetation Database (NBGVD) – current state and future prospects |
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Nordic-Baltic Grassland Vegetation Database (NBGVD) – current state and future prospects |
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Nordic-Baltic Grassland Vegetation Database (NBGVD) – current state and future prospects |
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Nordic-Baltic Grassland Vegetation Database (NBGVD) – current state and future prospects |
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Nordic-Baltic Grassland Vegetation Database (NBGVD) – current state and future prospects |
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nordic-baltic grassland vegetation database (nbgvd) – current state and future prospects |
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