Database Report

Vegetation Database Forest of Southern Ural

Pavel Shirokikh & Vasiliy Martynenko

GIVD Database ID: 00-RU-001	Last update: 2022-01-26
Vegetation Database Forest of Southern Ural	Web address:
Database manager(s): Pavel Shirokikh (Shirpa@mail.ru); Vasiliy Martynenko (Vasmar@anrb.ru)
Owner: Ufa Institute of Biology of Ufa Federal Scientific Centre of Russian Academy of Sciences
Scope: The database contains data from forest vegetation plots collected since 1977 during reasearch expeditions in the South Ural Region (Bashkortostan Republic). The database contains 3055 plots.
Abstract: The database was established in 1996 at the Laboratory of Geobotany and Conservation of Vegetation in the Ufa Institute of Biology of Russian Academy of Sciences. The database contains geobotanical relevés of primeval zonal and secondary forests of South-Ural region and their mountain analogues. It includes almost all the different types of primeval forest of region (Vaccinio-Piceetea, Brachypodio-Betuletea, Querco-Fagetea, Asaro-Abietetea). The database is used to develop syntaxonomy of Southern Urals forests, for identifying features of the flora and forest vegetation of the region, for phytocoenological and ecologycal analysis of the syntaxa at all levels, for the comparison with syntaxa-analogues from other regions and investigation of relationships on the species and ecosystem levels. Also, this database is used as the basis for the development of classification secondary forests communities of South-Ural region, the construction chronocline succession of natural regeneration of the original communities types and developing recommendations for stimulating restoration succession.
Availability: according to a specific agreement	Online upload: no	Online search: no
Database format(s): TURBOVEG	Export format(s): TURBOVEG
Plot type(s): normal plots	Plot-size range (m²): 100 to 1000
Non-overlapping plots: 3055	Estimate of existing plots: 3055	Completeness: 100%	Status: completed and continuing
Total no. of plot observations: 3055	Number of sources (biblioreferences, data collectors): 0	Valid taxa: 0
Countries (%): RU: 100
Formations: Forest: 100%
Guilds: all vascular plants: 100%; bryophytes (terricolous or aquatic): 100%; lichens (terricolous or aquatic): 90%
Plot size categories (%): < 1 m2: 0%; 1-10 m2: 0%; 10-100 m2: 0%; 100-1000 m2: 100%; 1000-10000 m2: 0%; >= 10000 m2: 0%; unknowmn: 0%;
Environmental data (%): altitude: 80; slope aspect: 100; slope inclination: 80; microrelief: 85; surface cover other than plants (open soil, litter, bare rock etc.): 68; soil pH: 10
Performance measure(s): cover: 100%; measurements like diameter or height of trees: 100%
Geographic localisation: GPS coordinates (precision 25 m or less): 85%; point coordinates less precise than GPS, up to 1 km: 15%; political units or only on a coarser scale ( above 10 km): 0%
Sampling periods: 1970-1979: 0.6%; 1980-1989: 16.5%; 1990-1999: 16.5%; 2000-2009: 40.2%; 2010-2019: 26.2%
Information as of 2026-05-19; further details and future updates available from http://www.givd.info/ID/00-RU-001

Pavel Shirokikh* (Shirpa@mail.ru)
Ufa Institute of Biology of Ufa Federal Scientific Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ufa, prospekt Oktyabrya, 450054 Ufa, RUSSIA
Vasiliy Martynenko (Vasmar@anrb.ru)
Ufa Institute of Biology of Ufa Federal Scientific Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ufa, prospekt Oktyabrya, 450054 Ufa, RUSSIA
* corresponding author