Database Report

High Mediterranean Mountains Database -- HMMD

Gianpietro Giusso del Galdo & Corrado Marcenò

GIVD Database ID: EU-00-029	Last update: 2023-10-12
High Mediterranean Mountains Database	Web address:
Database manager(s): Gianpietro Giusso del Galdo (g.giusso@unict.it); Corrado Marcenò (marcenocorrado@libero.it)
Owner: Gianpietro Giusso del Galdo and Corrado Marcenò
Scope: Phytosociologal releves concerning the high mountain vegetation of the biggest Mediterranean islands, dominated by (dwarf) thorny shrubs and hemicryptophytes
Abstract:
Availability: free upon request	Online upload: no	Online search: no
Database format(s): TURBOVEG	Export format(s): TURBOVEG, Excel, PDF, CSV file
Plot type(s): normal plots	Plot-size range (m²): 20 to 100
Non-overlapping plots: 990	Estimate of existing plots: 990	Completeness: 100%	Status: completed and continuing
Total no. of plot observations: 0	Number of sources (biblioreferences, data collectors): 24	Valid taxa: 0
Countries (%): IT: 58.8; FR: 22.3; CY: 4.1; GR: 15.1
Formations: Non Forest: 10% = Terrestrial: 10% (Arctic-alpin: 10%)
Guilds:
Plot size categories (%): 1-10 m2: 8.48%; 10-100 m2: 87.7%; 100-1000 m2: 6.2%; unknowmn: 4.04%;
Environmental data (%): altitude: 95.1; slope aspect: 85; slope inclination: 84.1; microrelief: 0; surface cover other than plants (open soil, litter, bare rock etc.): 0; other soil attributes: 0; soil pH: 0; land use categories: 0; soil depth: 0
Performance measure(s): cover: 100%
Geographic localisation: point coordinates less precise than GPS, up to 1 km: 100%; small grid (not coarser than 10 km): 95.5%
Sampling periods: 1920-1929: 0.6%; 1940-1949: 0.8%; 1960-1969: 8.5%; 1970-1979: 22.4%; 1980-1989: 21.5%; 1990-1999: 27.1%; 2000-2009: 14.7%; unknown: 4.1%
Information as of 2026-06-14; further details and future updates available from http://www.givd.info/ID/EU-00-029

Gianpietro Giusso del Galdo* (g.giusso@unict.it)
Dept. of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences , University of Catania, ITALY
Corrado Marcenò (marcenocorrado@libero.it)
University Basque Country, SPAIN
* corresponding author