Database Report

Forest Database of Southern Poland

Remigiusz Pielech

GIVD Database ID: EU-PL-003	Last update: 2024-12-13
Forest Database of Southern Poland	Web address: www.forestdatabase.zbl.edu.pl
Database manager(s): Remigiusz Pielech (remekpielech@gmail.com)
Owner: Remigiusz Pielech Department of Plant Ecology, Institute of Botany Faculty of Biology, Jagiellonian University in Kraków Poland
Scope: The aim of the Forest Database of Southern Poland is to integrate vegetation plot data on forest vegetation from southern Poland, including the mountaineous regions of the Carpathians and the Sudetes. The main focus is to collect data with high spatial accuracy, based especialy on GPS locations or precise georeferencing.
Abstract: The Forest Database of Southern Poland was established to collect high accuracy vegetation-plot data of forest and scrub communities from southern Poland. It covers the area of the Carpathians, the Sudetes and their forelands. The primary focus is given to data characterized with high spatial accuracy obtained either by GPS location (preferably) or detailed georeferencing. The Forest Database of Southern Poland integrates data from different sources, including scientific projects and forest inventories; only a small portion of the data are taken from published sources. Thus, most data collected here are not available elsewhere and there is only a small overlap with other vegetation-plot databases. The aim of the Forest Database of Southern Poland is to facilitate large-scale research projects on forest ecology and classification of forest communities. The database is fed by numerous ongoing projects and a rapid growth in the gathered data can be expected in the near future.
Availability: according to a specific agreement	Online upload: no	Online search: no
Database format(s): TURBOVEG, Excel	Export format(s): TURBOVEG, MS Access, Excel, CSV file, plain text file, other
Plot type(s): normal plots, time series	Plot-size range (m²): 20 to 1100
Non-overlapping plots: 3924	Estimate of existing plots: 25000	Completeness: 16%	Status: ongoing capture
Total no. of plot observations: 3924	Number of sources (biblioreferences, data collectors): 17	Valid taxa: 1104
Countries (%): PL: 98.2; SK: 1.8
Formations: Forest: 100% = Terrestrial: 100%
Guilds: all vascular plants: 100%; bryophytes (terricolous or aquatic): 30%; lichens (terricolous or aquatic): 5%
Plot size categories (%): < 1 m2: 0%%; 1-10 m2: 0%%; 10-100 m2: 9.1%%; 100-1000 m2: 90.6%%; 1000-10000 m2: 0.1%%; >= 10000 m2: 0%%; unknowmn: 0.2%%;
Environmental data (%): altitude: 92.3; slope aspect: 92.3; slope inclination: 0; 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): presence/absence only: 0%; cover: 100%; number of individuals: 0%; measurements like diameter or height of trees: 2.8%; biomass: 0%; other: 0%
Geographic localisation: GPS coordinates (precision 25 m or less): 78%; point coordinates less precise than GPS, up to 1 km: 14.3%; small grid (not coarser than 10 km): 0.6%; political units or only on a coarser scale ( above 10 km): 7.1%
Sampling periods: before 1920: 0%; 1920-1929: 0%; 1930-1939: 0%; 1940-1949: 0%; 1950-1959: 0.3%; 1960-1969: 3.4%; 1970-1979: 1.5%; 1980-1989: 2.8%; 1990-1999: 11.2%; 2000-2009: 16.0%; 2010-2019: 64.4%; unknown: 0.4%
Information as of 2026-05-19; further details and future updates available from http://www.givd.info/ID/EU-PL-003

Remigiusz Pielech* (remekpielech@gmail.com)
Department of Forest Biodiversity, University of Argiculture in Kraków, al. 29 Listopada 46, 31-425 Kraków, POLAND
* corresponding author