Database Report

Romanian Grassland Database

Eszter Ruprecht & Kiril Vassilev

GIVD Database ID: EU-RO-008	Last update: 2017-08-28
Romanian Grassland Database	Web address: http://bit.ly/2vz0l1u
Database manager(s): Eszter Ruprecht (eszter.ruprecht@ubbcluj.ro); Kiril Vassilev (kiril5914@abv.bg)
Owner: Consortium of the Romanian Grassland Database
Scope: The Romanian Grassland Database (RGD) is a collaborative initiative that aims at collecting vegetation-plot data of all grassland types and other open habitats from the territory of Romania and making them usable for science, within Romania and internationally. It comprises data from various grassland types (wet, mesic, dry, saline, alpine, rocky), but also heathlands, ruderal and segetal vegetation, mires, aquatic vegetation and cryptogam-dominated communities.
Abstract:
Availability: free upon request	Online upload: no	Online search: no
Database format(s): TURBOVEG	Export format(s): TURBOVEG
Plot type(s): normal plots, nested plots	Plot-size range (m²): 1 to 3500
Non-overlapping plots: 21685	Estimate of existing plots: 21685	Completeness: 100%	Status: ongoing capture
Total no. of plot observations: 21685	Number of sources (biblioreferences, data collectors): 483	Valid taxa: 0
Countries (%): RO: 100
Formations: Non Forest: 105% = Aquatic: 16%; Terrestrial: 89% (Arctic-alpin: 11%; Non arctic-alpin: 78% [Semi-natural: 68%; Anthropogenic: 5%])
Guilds: all vascular plants: 100%; bryophytes (terricolous or aquatic): 18%; lichens (terricolous or aquatic): 13%; non-terricolous taxa (epiphytic, saxicolous, lignicolous): 5%
Plot size categories (%): < 1 m2: 2.9%; 1-10 m2: 16.7%; 10-100 m2: 56.5%; 100-1000 m2: 4.2%; 1000-10000 m2: 0.05%; unknowmn: 19.8%;
Environmental data (%): altitude: 65,3; slope aspect: 55,4; slope inclination: 54; microrelief: 0,37; surface cover other than plants (open soil, litter, bare rock etc.): 4,6; soil pH: 1,9; land use categories: 6,93; soil depth: 0,47
Performance measure(s): cover: 100%
Geographic localisation: GPS coordinates (precision 25 m or less): 22,3%; point coordinates less precise than GPS, up to 1 km: 4,58%; small grid (not coarser than 10 km): 45%; political units or only on a coarser scale ( above 10 km): 28%
Sampling periods:
Information as of 2026-05-19; further details and future updates available from http://www.givd.info/ID/EU-RO-008

Eszter Ruprecht* (eszter.ruprecht@ubbcluj.ro)
Hungarian Department of Biology and Ecology, Babe&#537;-Bolyai University, Republicii street 42., 400015 Cluj-Napoca, ROMANIA
Kiril Vassilev (kiril5914@abv.bg)
Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, 23 Gerogi Bonchev str., 1113 Sofia, BULGARIA
* corresponding author