Scientific communication
European Weed Vegetation Database – a gap-focused vegetation-plot database
Küzmič, Filip; Šilc, Urban; Lososová, Zdeňka; Mucina, Ladislav; Chytrý, Milan; Knollová, Ilona; Hennekens, Stephan M.; Berg, Christian; Bergmeier, Erwin; Biurrun, Idoia; Fanfarillo, Emanuele; Font, Xavier; Iakushenko, Dmytro; Kovačević, Zlatan; Meyer, Stefan; Nagy, Katalin; Pinke, Gyula; Poranen, Eira; Tereshenko, Svetlana
Phytocoenologia Band 50 Heft 1 (2020), p. 93 - 100
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published: Apr 28, 2020
published online: Jan 2, 2020
manuscript accepted: Sep 19, 2019
final revised version received: Sep 18, 2019
manuscript revision requested: Jul 6, 2019
manuscript received: Mar 8, 2019
ArtNo. ESP024005001004, Price: 29.00 €
Abstract
This report presents the European Weed Vegetation Database, a new database of vegetation plots documenting short-lived vegetation of arable and ruderal habitats from Europe and Macaronesia. The database comprises the phytosociological classes Papaveretea rhoeadis, Sisymbrietea, Chenopodietea and Digitario sanguinalis-Eragrostietea minoris. It is a gap-focused database containing mainly plots of this vegetation from the areas not yet represented in the European Vegetation Archive (EVA), to facilitate its accessibility for researchers to answer various questions. As of the end of 2018, it contained 24,734 plots, predominantly from Southern Europe. The data can be used for phytosociological studies, various kinds of interdisciplinary research as well as for studies for agronomy, nature management and biodiversity conservation. Syntaxonomic reference: Mucina et al. (2016) Abbreviations: EVA = European Vegetation Archive; GIVD = Global Index of Vegetation-Plot Databases.
Keywords
annual ruderal vegetation • arable vegetation • Chenopodietea • Digitario sanguinalis-Eragrostietea minoris • Papaveretea rhoeadis • segetal vegetation • Sisymbrietea • Stellarietea mediae • TURBOVEG