Database Report

Forest Vegetation Database of Belarus

Ruslan Tsvirko

GIVD Database ID: EU-BY-002	Last update: 2020-11-26
Forest Vegetation Database of Belarus	Web address: ruslan.tsvirko@gmail.com
Database manager(s): Ruslan Tsvirko (ruslan.tsvirko@gmail.com)
Owner: Ruslan Tsvirko
Scope: The database contains data from forest vegetation plots collected during 2008-2020 years in Belarus
Abstract: The database includes geobotanical releves obtained in the study of forest vegetation in Belarus in the framework of various projects of the Laboratory of Geobotany and Vegetation Mapping. It includes releves of various phytocenoses types, of which the most widely represented are communities of Dicrano-Pinion sylvestris, Vaccinio uliginosi-Pinion sylvestris, Piceion excelsae, Alnion glutinosae, Carpinion betuli and Querco roboris-Tilion codatae alliances.
Availability: free upon request	Online upload: no	Online search: no
Database format(s): TURBOVEG	Export format(s): TURBOVEG
Plot type(s): normal plots	Plot-size range (m²): 400 to 2000
Non-overlapping plots: 1085	Estimate of existing plots: 1085	Completeness: 100%	Status: completed and continuing
Total no. of plot observations: 1085	Number of sources (biblioreferences, data collectors): 0	Valid taxa: 0
Countries (%): BY: 100
Formations: Forest: 100% = Terrestrial: 100%
Guilds: all vascular plants: 100%; bryophytes (terricolous or aquatic): 91%; lichens (terricolous or aquatic): 11%
Plot size categories (%): 100-1000 m2: 98%; 1000-10000 m2: 2%;
Environmental data (%):
Performance measure(s): cover: 100%; measurements like diameter or height of trees: 40%
Geographic localisation: GPS coordinates (precision 25 m or less): 100%
Sampling periods: 2000-2009: 20.3%; 2010-2019: 79.7%
Information as of 2026-02-27; further details and future updates available from http://www.givd.info/ID/EU-BY-002

Ruslan Tsvirko* (ruslan.tsvirko@gmail.com)
Geobotany and Vegetation Mapping, V. F. Kuprevich Institute of Experimental Botany of the NAS of Belarus, Academicheskaya, 220072 Minsk, BELARUS
* corresponding author