Database Report

CircumMed Forest database

Gianmaria Bonari & Milan Chytrý

GIVD Database ID: EU-00-026	Last update: 2021-04-27
CircumMed Forest database	Web address:
Database manager(s): Gianmaria Bonari (gianmaria.bonari@gmail.com); Milan Chytrý (chytry@sci.muni.cz)
Owner: Gianmaria Bonari
Scope: The database contains pine-dominated vegetation plots, and plots of related vegetation types, from the Mediterranean Basin, Near East and Crimea.
Abstract: Large thematic databases of vegetation plots are increasingly needed for vegetation studies and biodiversity research. In this paper, we present the CircumMed Pine Forest Database (GIVD ID: EU-00-026), which, in November 2018, encompassed records from 6317 pine-dominated vegetation plots (relevés) and associated vegetation types from 20 countries of the Mediterranean Basin, Near East and Crimea. These vegetation plots were collected through a detailed literature search for plots not included in the European Vegetation Archive (EVA), in order to fill distribution gaps. The database includes Mediterranean (including Oromediterranean) pine forest vegetation plots from 195 publications and unpublished vegetation plots by different authors. All vegetation plots are georeferenced, and coordinates are available with different accuracies. The database is accessible through the EVA or by asking the Custodian. The CircumMed Pine Forest Database is an important resource for conducting various types of broad-scale studies in the fields of vegetation classification, plant invasion ecology, macroecology and biological conservation.
Availability: free upon request	Online upload: no	Online search: no
Database format(s): TURBOVEG	Export format(s): TURBOVEG
Plot type(s): normal plots	Plot-size range (m²): 4 to 2000
Non-overlapping plots: 6317	Estimate of existing plots: 7000	Completeness: 90%	Status: ongoing capture
Total no. of plot observations: 6317	Number of sources (biblioreferences, data collectors): 195	Valid taxa: 5821
Countries (%): AL: 0.2; DZ: 11.0; BG: 1.5; HR: 1.4; CY: 4.0; FR: 2.4; GR: 15.0; IL: 1.2; IT: 17.2; LB: 1.1; MA: 5.4; PT: 0.6; RO: 0.2; RU: 0.4; SI: 0.03; ES: 2.1; SY: 0.8; TN: 0.7; TR: 33.4; UA: 1.3
Formations: Forest: 80% // Non Forest: 20%
Guilds: all vascular plants: 100%
Plot size categories (%): < 1 m2: 0%; 1-10 m2: 1.8%; 10-100 m2: 25.2%; 100-1000 m2: 51.6%; >= 10000 m2: 0.1%; unknowmn: 21.2%;
Environmental data (%): altitude: 86; slope aspect: 80; slope inclination: 76; soil pH: 1; other attributes: habitat code from Annex I of the EU 92/43/EEC Directive: 4%
Performance measure(s): presence/absence only: 0%; cover: 100%
Geographic localisation: GPS coordinates (precision 25 m or less): 8.2%; point coordinates less precise than GPS, up to 1 km: 28.4%; small grid (not coarser than 10 km): 49.0%; political units or only on a coarser scale ( above 10 km): 14.2%
Sampling periods: 1930-1939: 0.6%; 1940-1949: 0.3%; 1950-1959: 1.4%; 1960-1969: 4.6%; 1970-1979: 19.6%; 1980-1989: 13.8%; 1990-1999: 21.1%; 2000-2009: 24.0%; 2010-2019: 14.6%; unknown: 0%
Information as of 2024-04-20; further details and future updates available from http://www.givd.info/ID/EU-00-026

Gianmaria Bonari* (gianmaria.bonari@gmail.com)
Department of Botany and Zoology, Masaryk University, Kotlárská 2, CZ-611 37 Brno, CZECH REP.
Milan Chytrý (chytry@sci.muni.cz)
Department of Botany and Zoology, Masaryk University, Kotlárská 2, CZ-611 37 Brno, CZECH REP.
* corresponding author