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| With the following steps you can ensure that your metadata is not only available online in this metadatabase, but is also included in a Special Volume of the international journal “Biodiversity & Ecology” dedicated to Vegetation databases for the 21st century. This volume will be published in early 2011 both in print and open access online, full colour and without any fees for the authors. This is a great opportunity for you to provide a proper reference to be cited whenever someone uses data from your database.
You have the choice between Short Database Reports (1-page, subject to formal editing) or Long Database Reports (approx. 4-20 pages, subject to peer review). Both types of Database Reports consist of a standardized fact sheet that contains the most important metadata of your databases generated mostly from the data you already entered.
Short Database Reports will be generated fully “automatically” by the system based on the data provided by you in this online form. In order to be included, you only need to fill in the following additional fields by 15 October 2010. You will receive a proof of your 1-page article after editing by the editorial office.
If you opt for a Long Database Report, which allows you to report comprehensively on aim, history, concept, contents, and applications of your database, you need to have completed your form by 30 September 2010 and have submitted your paper separate by the same day (for instructions-to-authors, click here). In this case your paper (in conjunction with the fact sheet) will be sent out for external peer review.
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(obsolete, please use “Name of the database” and "Subtitle") | Please fill in the title of the report if deviating from the field “Name of the database”
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| If you intend to publish a short report about your databse in Biodiversity & Ecology, please provide an abstract of maximal 1250 letters.
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| New Zealand, electronic, physical, archive, indigenous forests, grassland, plots, Veg-X
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Nick Spencer
Hazel Broadbent - (no details) - The National Vegetation Survey (NVS) databank is New Zealand’s primary archive for plot-based vegetation data and holds data from 77,000 relevés and over 19,000 permanent plots. The NVS databank provides a unique record, spanning more than 50 years, of indigenous and exotic plants in New Zealand`s terrestrial ecosystems. A broad range of habitats are covered, with special emphasis on indigenous forests and grasslands. The databank is both an electronic database and physical archive, which stores field recorded plot sheets, maps, and photographs from over 1200 vegetation surveys. Data in the NVS databank has been built up over many decades by contributions from vegetation scientists and New Zealand environmental conservation agencies. The principal goals of the NVS databank are to provide a secure repository for such data and to ensure quality data are readily available to end-users in different organisations. A website (http://nvs.landcareresearch.co.nz) provides general background information, protocols for data deposit and use, and the ability to conduct online searches of metadata and to request data. Data within NVS have been used to support reporting requirements for the Convention on Biological Diversity, Framework Convention on Climate Change, NZ Resource Management Act, and the Montreal Process. They also assist in ecological restoration, and have been significant in enabling New Zealand to address issues of current concern that were unforeseen at the time of data collection. These include assessing the impacts of climate change and carbon storage in indigenous ecosystems. In 2007 a new extended and robust data model, based in part on the US VegBank design, was built and in 2009 a freely available data entry and analysis tool for vegetation plot data stored within the databank called ‘NVS Express’ was released. Future goals are to improve Internet services, develop additional online analysis and mapping capabilities, improve integration with plant trait data, and support the Veg-X data exchange schema. New Zealand, electronic, physical, archive, indigenous forests, grassland, plots, Veg-X |
