Database Report

Grasslands in the Polish Carpathians

Joanna Korzeniak

GIVD Database ID: EU-PL-002	Last update: 2018-11-09
Grasslands in the Polish Carpathians	Web address: http://www.iop.krakow.pl/LakiKarpat/Home/enIndex
Database manager(s): Joanna Korzeniak (korzeniak@iop.krakow.pl)
Owner: Institute of Nature Conservation PAS
Scope: The aim of this database is to collect phytosociological data from grasslands, mainly mesic semi-natural, in the Polish part of the Carpathians
Abstract: Database "Grasslands in the Polish Carpathians" has been developed in the Institute of Nature Conservation of the Polish Academy of Sciences since 2007. As of June 2014, 5,422 phytosociological relevés have been collected in the database, chiefly from mesic meadows of the Arrhenatherion alliance (75%) and matgrass swards, belonging to the class Nardo-Callunetea (16%). They were recorded between 1923 and 2014 at an altitude range of 195-1840m above sea level. More than two-thirds of the material was collected after 2000, more than half of which representing data from the last 3 years and from previously unexplored or sparsely explored areas. Eighty five per cent of the relevés have a determined date, plot area, coordinates and altitude. The database “Grasslands in the Polish Carpathians” is an intrinsic part of the research on the diversity of vegetation in the Polish Carpathian grasslands, as well as a record of the changes it undergoes.
Availability: free upon request	Online upload: no	Online search: no
Database format(s): TURBOVEG	Export format(s): TURBOVEG, Excel, plain text file
Plot type(s): normal plots, time series	Plot-size range (m²): 4 to 800
Non-overlapping plots: 5549	Estimate of existing plots: 12000	Completeness: 46%	Status: completed and continuing
Total no. of plot observations: 5674	Number of sources (biblioreferences, data collectors): 69	Valid taxa: 1203
Countries (%): PL: 99.97; SK: 0.03
Formations: Non Forest: 102% = Terrestrial: 102% (Non arctic-alpin: 102% [Semi-natural: 100%])
Guilds: all vascular plants: 100%; bryophytes (terricolous or aquatic): 24%; lichens (terricolous or aquatic): 5%
Plot size categories (%): < 1 m2: 0%; 1-10 m2: 0.2%; 10-100 m2: 48.7%; 100-1000 m2: 45.3%; 1000-10000 m2: 0%; >= 10000 m2: 0%; unknowmn: 5.8%;
Environmental data (%): altitude: 95; slope aspect: 89; slope inclination: 91; microrelief: 0; surface cover other than plants (open soil, litter, bare rock etc.): 11; land use categories: 32
Performance measure(s): presence/absence only: 0%; cover: 100%; number of individuals: 0%; measurements like diameter or height of trees: 0%; biomass: 0%
Geographic localisation: GPS coordinates (precision 25 m or less): 87%; point coordinates less precise than GPS, up to 1 km: 4%; small grid (not coarser than 10 km): 2%; political units or only on a coarser scale ( above 10 km): 7%
Sampling periods: before 1920: 0%; 1920-1929: 1.20%; 1930-1939: 0.05%; 1940-1949: 0.85%; 1950-1959: 6.15%; 1960-1969: 11.08%; 1970-1979: 2.45%; 1980-1989: 1.18%; 1990-1999: 13.01%; 2000-2009: 28.27%; 2010-2019: 34.54%; unknown: 1.22%
Information as of 2026-05-31; further details and future updates available from http://www.givd.info/ID/EU-PL-002

Joanna Korzeniak* (korzeniak@iop.krakow.pl)
Institute of Nature Conservation, Polish Academy of Sciences, Mickiewicza 33, 31-120 Cracow, POLAND
* corresponding author