Database Report

Slovak Vegetation Database

Jozef Šibík

GIVD Database ID: EU-SK-001	Last update: 2018-11-08
Slovak Vegetation Database	Web address: http://ibot.sav.sk/cdf/index.html
Database manager(s): Jozef Šibík (jozef.sibik@savba.sk)
Owner: Institute of Botany Slovak Academy of Sciences
Scope: Almost all phytosociological relevés from the Slovak Republic and adjacent areas. The phytosociological relevés from the Carpathian region are also included.
Abstract: Slovak Vegetation Database (or Central Database of Phytosociological Samples - CDF) was established in 1995 at Institute of Botany Slovak Academy of Sciences. The aim was intended to assemble all available phytosociological relevés from the territory of Slovakia and adjacent areas for the purpose of processing of vegetation overview of all vegetation types and their publishing within the survey of plant communities of Slovakia. The database provides information not only about the locality, floristic composition and variability of individual vegetation types but also about several environmental variables such as inclination, aspect, geology or soil type, characteristic for individual relevés. Slovak vegetation database is providing the basis for national and supra-national classification overviews and other scientific studies. It can be linked to any international database, what supports not only the exchange of data, but mainly the possibility of bi- or multilateral projects, vegetation overviews of supra-regional areas (e.g. Carpathians) and supra-regional analyses of vegetation data that will enable a better insight into the functioning and distribution of plant communities, as well as evaluating of local and global changes. The current structure of the database used as a basis of Slovak Vegetation Database reflects the experiences and suggestions of the users after the years of using the programme Turboveg. Very important is also the non-commercial use of the database not only by scientists (botanists, zoologists, ecologists etc.), but also by nature conservation institutions, since it contains high-quality floristic records of both vascular and non-vascular plants with exact localisation and basic environmental characteristics.
Availability: free upon request	Online upload: no	Online search: no
Database format(s): TURBOVEG	Export format(s): TURBOVEG, Excel, plain text file, other
Plot type(s): normal plots	Plot-size range (m²): 0.01 to 5000
Non-overlapping plots: 51581	Estimate of existing plots: 60000	Completeness: 86%	Status: ongoing capture
Total no. of plot observations: 51581	Number of sources (biblioreferences, data collectors): 1325	Valid taxa: 4394
Countries (%): SK: 98; RO: 0.5; HU: 0.2; CZ: 0.2; AT: 0.2; PL: 0.5; UA: 0.2
Formations:
Guilds: all vascular plants: 100%; bryophytes (terricolous or aquatic): 60%; lichens (terricolous or aquatic): 60%; non-terricolous taxa (epiphytic, saxicolous, lignicolous): 2%
Plot size categories (%): < 1 m2: 0.34%; 1-10 m2: 8.4%; 10-100 m2: 50.5%; 100-1000 m2: 15.4%; 1000-10000 m2: 0.16%; unknowmn: 23.6%;
Environmental data (%): altitude: 67.8; slope aspect: 60; slope inclination: 60; microrelief: 30; surface cover other than plants (open soil, litter, bare rock etc.): 1.5; other soil attributes: 18; soil pH: 1
Performance measure(s): presence/absence only: 0.5%; cover: 99.5%
Geographic localisation: GPS coordinates (precision 25 m or less): 15%; point coordinates less precise than GPS, up to 1 km: 85%; political units or only on a coarser scale ( above 10 km): 100%
Sampling periods: before 1920: 0.002%; 1920-1929: 1.62%; 1930-1939: 0.98%; 1940-1949: 0.68%; 1950-1959: 5.47%; 1960-1969: 11.13%; 1970-1979: 16.73%; 1980-1989: 14.21%; 1990-1999: 31.888%; 2000-2009: 17.30%; 2010-2019: 1%
Information as of 2025-09-06; further details and future updates available from http://www.givd.info/ID/EU-SK-001

Jozef Šibík* (jozef.sibik@savba.sk)
Department of Geobotany, Institute of Botany, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dúbravská cesta 9, 845 23 Bratislava, SLOVAKIA
* corresponding author