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Gravel Bar Vegetation Database

KALNÍKOVÁ, Veronika and Helmut KUDRNOVSKY

Basic information

Original name

Gravel Bar Vegetation Database

Authors

KALNÍKOVÁ, Veronika (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution) and Helmut KUDRNOVSKY (40 Austria)

Edition

Stuttgart, 2017

Publisher

Gebrüder Berntraeger

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Popularizační texty a aktivity

Field of Study

10600 1.6 Biological sciences

Country of publisher

Germany

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

References:

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14310/17:00094774

Organization unit

Faculty of Science

UT WoS

000403197300008

Keywords in English

database; Epilobietalia fleischeri; European Vegetation Archive (EVA); gravel bar; phytosociology; relevé; restoration; riverine habitat; Salicetea purpureae; vegetation plot; vegetation survey

Tags

Tags

International impact, Reviewed
Změněno: 12/10/2020 23:05, Mgr. Veronika Kalníková, Ph.D.

Abstract

V originále

For the purpose of an ongoing research project dealing with the classification of European river gravel bar vegetation, we collected and digitized vegetation plot data included in the Gravel Bar Vegetation Database (GIVD ID: EU-00-025, http://www.givd.info/ID/EU-00-025). The database consists of vegetation plots obtained from the literature and from our own field sampling in the countries where this vegetation has not previously been studied or is less explored, especially in southeastern and northern Europe and the Caucasus. The database currently contains 1,738 vegetation plots from 18 countries representing different types and successional stages in the range of gravel bar vegetation from the initial herbaceous stands to scrub, mainly of the order Epilobietalia fleischeri (class Thlaspietea rotundifolii) and the class Salicetea purpureae. Geographical coordinates are available for all plots; accuracy of those derived from the literature depends on the precision of the location descriptions. European montane and submontane gravel-bed rivers with their typical vegetation belong to most endangered habitats; thus the database should complete the information about their distribution and their typical vegetation types. It also serves as data source for studies of vegetation structure and dynamics. The database is managed by the Vegetation Science Group at the Department of Botany and Zoology, Masaryk University, Brno. It has been integrated in the European Vegetation Archive (EVA).

Links

GB14-36079G, research and development project
Name: Centrum analýzy a syntézy rostlinné diverzity (PLADIAS) (Acronym: PLADIAS)
Investor: Czech Science Foundation
MUNI/A/1301/2016, interní kód MU
Name: Diverzita, dynamika a fylogenetické vztahy klíčových společenstev významných evropských biotopů (Acronym: DIDYF)
Investor: Masaryk University, Category A