WetVegEurope: a database of aquatic and wetland vegetation of Europe

• DOI: 10.1127/phyto/2015/0050
• Publication Date: 2015-07-23T00:08:13Z
• Authors: Flavia Landucci; Marcela Řezníčková; Kateřina Šumberová; Milan Chytrý; Liene Aunina; Claudia Biţă-Nicolae; Alexander Bobrov; Lyubov Borsukevych; Henry Brisse; Andraž Čarni; János Csiky; Dušanka Cvijanović; Els De Bie; Patrice De Ruffray; Dmytro Dubyna; Panayotis Dimopoulos; Tetiana Dziuba; Úna FitzPatrick; Xavier Font; Daniela Gigante; Valentin Golub; Stephan M. Hennekens; Richard Hrivnák; Svitlana Iemelianova; Ute Jandt; Dragana Jenačković; Florian Jansen; Zygmunt Kącki; Konrád Lájer; Dalytė Matulevičiutė; Attila Mesterházy; Dana Michalcová; Jaanus Paal; Eva Papastergiadou; Alessandro Properzi; Snežana Radulović; John S. Rodwell; Joop H.J. Schaminée; Urban Šilc; Zofija Sinkevičienė; Zvjezdana Stančić; Jazep Stepanovich; Boris Teteryuk; Rossen Tzonev; Roberto Venanzoni; Lynda Weekes; Wolfgang Willner
• Keywords: Marsh; databank ; hydrophytic vegetation ; macrophytic vegetation ; marsh ; phytosociology ; TURBOVEG ; vegetation plot ; vegetation survey; Hydrophytic vegetation; TURBOVEG; Databank; 15. Life on land; Vegetation plot; databank; hydrophytic vegetation; macrophytic vegetation; marsh; phytosociology; TURBOVEG; vegetation plot; vegetation survey; 6. Clean water; Macrophytic vegetation; Phytosociology; Vegetation survey

WetVegEurope is a research project (http://www.sci.muni.cz/botany/vegsci/wetveg) whose goal is to provide a synthesized formalized classification of the aquatic and marsh vegetation across Europe at the level of phytosociological associations. In order to achieve the project objective, a WetVegEurope database has been created (GIVD ID: EU-00-020, http://www.givd.info/ID/EU-00-020), which currently contains 375,212 vegetation plots of aquatic, marsh and wet vegetation types from 33 European countries. The WetVegEurope database includes datasets from pre-existing national and thematic databases and also 10,616 plots previously not digitalized or even unpublished. This database offers an extensive source of data for future studies on aquatic and marsh plant species and vegetation types at the European scale.