Balkan Vegetation Database (BVD) – updated information and current status

The Balkan Vegetation Database (BVD; GIVD ID: EU-00-019) is a regional database, which was established in 2014. It comprises phytosociological relevés covering various vegetation types from nine countries of the Balkan Peninsula (Albania – 153 relevés, Bosnia and Herzegovina – 1715, Bulgaria – 12,28...

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Published in:	Vegetation Classification and Survey Vol. 1; pp. 151 - 153
Main Authors:	Vassilev, Kiril, Pedashenko, Hristo, Alexandrova, Alexandra, Tashev, Alexandar, Ganeva, Anna, Gavrilova, Anna, Macanović, Armin, Assenov, Assen, Vitkova, Antonina, Genova, Beloslava, Grigorov, Borislav, Gussev, Chavdar, Masic, Ermin, Filipova, Eva, Gecheva, Gana, Aneva, Ina, Knolova, Illona, Nikolov, Ivaylo, Georgiev, Georgi, Gogushev, Georgi, Tinchev, Georgi, Minkov, Ivan, Pachedzieva, Kalina, Mincheva, Katerina, Koev, Koycho, Lyubenova, Mariyana, Dimitrov, Marius, Gumus, Media, Nazarov, Momchil, Apostolova-Stoyanova, Nadezhda, Nikolov, Nikolay, Velev, Nikolay, Zhelev, Petar, Glogov, Plamen, Natcheva, Rayna, Tzonev, Rossen, Barudanović, Senka, Kostadinova, Sofia, Boch, Steffen, Hennekens, Stephan, Georgiev, Stoyan, Stoyanov, Stoyan, Karakiev, Todor, Ilić, Tijana, Kalníková, Veronika, Shivarov, Veselin, Vulchev, Vladimir
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Pensoft Publishers 21-12-2020
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Summary:	The Balkan Vegetation Database (BVD; GIVD ID: EU-00-019) is a regional database, which was established in 2014. It comprises phytosociological relevés covering various vegetation types from nine countries of the Balkan Peninsula (Albania – 153 relevés, Bosnia and Herzegovina – 1715, Bulgaria – 12,282, Greece – 465, Croatia – 69, Kosovo – 493, Montenegro – 440, North Macedonia – 13 and Serbia – 2677). Currently, it contains 18,306 relevés (compared to 9.580 in 2016), and most of them (82.8%) are geo-referenced. The database includes both digitized relevés from the literature (65.6%) and unpublished data (34.5%). Plot size is available for 84.7% of all relevés. During the last four years some “header data information” was improved e.g. elevation (now available for 83.4% of all relevés), aspect (67.7%), slope (66%), total cover of vegetation (54.3%), cover of tree, shrub, herb, bryophyte and lichen layers (27.1%, 20.1%, 40.2%, 11.5% and 2.1%), respectively. Data access is either semi-restricted (65.6%) or restricted (34.4%). Most relevés (84.6%) are classified to syntaxa of different levels. The database has been used for numerous studies with various objectives from floristic, vegetation and habitat-related topics, to macroecological studies at the local, regional, national, continental and global levels. During the last four years, BVD data were requested from 111 different projects via the EVA and sPlot databases.
ISSN:	2683-0671 2683-0671
DOI:	10.3897/VCS/2020/61348