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The Romanian Grassland Database (RGD): historical background, current status and future perspectives

Vassilev, Kiril; Ruprecht, Eszter; Alexiu, Valeriu; Becker, Thomas; Beldean, Monica; Biță-Nicolae, Claudia; Csergő, Anna Mária; Dzhovanova, Iliana; Filipova, Eva; Frink, József Pál; Gafta, Dan; Georgieva, Mariya; Germany, Markus S.; Goia, Irina; Gumus, Media; Hennekens, Stephan M.; Janišová, Monika; Knollová, Ilona; Koleva, Viktoriya; Kostadinova, Sofia; Kuzmanović, Nevena; Loos, Jacqueline; Mardari, Constantin; Michl, Thomas; Neblea, Monica Angela; Nicoară, Roxana Ion; Novák, Pavel; Öllerer, Kinga; Onete, Marilena; Palpurina, Salza; Paulini, Inge; Pedashenko, Hristo; Pușcaș, Mihai; Roman, Anamaria; Šibík, Jozef; Sîrbu, Culiță; Stancu, Daniela Ileana; Sutcliffe, Laura M.E.; Szabó, Anna; Tomescu, Cezar-Valentin; Totev, Evelin; Tsvetanov, Borislav; Turtureanu, Pavel Dan; Vassileva, Plamena; Velev, Nikolay; Dengler, Jürgen

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Phytocoenologia Band 48 Heft 1 (2018), p. 91 - 100

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published: Mar 1, 2018
manuscript accepted: Oct 5, 2017
manuscript revision received: Oct 5, 2017
manuscript revision requested: Oct 4, 2017
manuscript received: Sep 4, 2017

DOI: 10.1127/phyto/2017/0229

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Abstract

Abstract This report describes the Romanian Grassland Database (RGD), registered under EU-RO-008 in the Global Index of Vegetation-Plot Databases (GIVD). This collaborative initiative aims to collect all available vegetation-plot data (relevés) of grasslands and other open habitats from the territory of Romania to provide them for science, nationally and internationally, e.g. via the European Vegetation Archive (EVA) and the global database “sPlot”. The database mainly contains vegetation-plots from not only wet, mesic, dry, saline, alpine and rocky grasslands, but also other vegetation types like heathlands, mires, ruderal, segetal, aquatic and cryptogam-dominated vegetation. Currently, 21,685 relevés have mainly been digitised from literature sources (90%), while the remainder comes from individual unpublished sources (10%). We report on the background and history of the RGD, explain its “Data Property and Governance Rules” under which data are contributed and retrieved, and outline how the RGD can contribute to research in the fields of vegetation ecology, macroecology and conservation.
 Abbreviations: EVA = European Vegetation Archive; GIVD = Global Index of Vegetation-Plot Databases; RGD = Romanian Grassland Database. Submitted: 4 September 2017; first decision: 5 October 2017; accepted: 5 October 2017

Keywords

ecoinformatics • European Vegetation Archive (EVA) • grassland vegetation • phytosociology • relevé • Romanian Grassland Database (RGD) • sPlot • Turboveg • vegetation classification • vegetation-plot data