Database Report

European Boreal Forest Vegetation Database

Anni Jašková

GIVD Database ID: EU-00-027	Last update: 2020-11-09
European Boreal Forest Vegetation Database	Web address:
Database manager(s): Anni Jašková (annipyy@mail.muni.cz)
Owner: Anni Jašková, Tatyana Yu. Braslavskaya, Elena Tikhonova, Jaanus Paal, Solvita Rusina, Maris Laivinš, Ilya B. Kucherov, Nadezhda V. Genikova, Ilona Knollová, Tatiana V. Chernenkova, Elena Yu. Churakova, Martin Diekmann, Rune Halvorsen, Elena I. Kirichok, Vladimir N. Korotkov, Alexander M. Kryshen, Daria L. Lugovaya, Olga V. Morozova, Petr V. Potapov, Tatiana S. Prokazina, Fride H. Schei, Yury A. Semenishchenkov, Nikolai E. Shevchenko, Oksana V. Sidorova, Nikolai S. Smirnov, Olga V. Smirnova, Ruslan Tsvirko, Svetlana A. Turubanova & Milan Chytrý
Scope: We collect vegetation-plot records of all types of forest communities occurring within the boreal and hemiboreal zones, including azonal forest communities, such as alder carrs, from the following countries and regions: Iceland, Scotland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus and between the 53rd and 69th parallel in European Russia.
Abstract: We established the European Boreal Forest Vegetation Database to cover the forests of the boreal and the hemiboreal zones of Europe with vegetation-plot data. One of the intended aims is to create a unified classification of boreal forest types to enhance nature conservation and habitat mapping on the European-level, but it can be used, for example, for gradient analyses of species-environment relationships and studies of species richness patterns. We wish to promote the use of these data by a wide range of researchers.
Availability: according to a specific agreement	Online upload: no	Online search: no
Database format(s): TURBOVEG	Export format(s): TURBOVEG
Plot type(s): normal plots	Plot-size range (m²): 1 to 2500
Non-overlapping plots: 13037	Estimate of existing plots: 20000	Completeness: 65%	Status: ongoing capture
Total no. of plot observations: 13037	Number of sources (biblioreferences, data collectors): 0	Valid taxa: 0
Countries (%): BY: 3; EE: 12; FI: 3; LV: 32; NO: 1; RU: 44; SE: 3
Formations: Forest: 100% = Terrestrial: 100%
Guilds: all vascular plants: 100%
Plot size categories (%): < 1 m2: 0%; 1-10 m2: <1%; 10-100 m2: 27%; 100-1000 m2: 59%; 1000-10000 m2: <1%; >= 10000 m2: 0%; unknowmn: 12%;
Environmental data (%): altitude: 12; slope aspect: 27; slope inclination: 37; surface cover other than plants (open soil, litter, bare rock etc.): 9; other soil attributes: 10; soil pH: 3; soil depth: <1; other attributes: stand age, fire and other disturbances, river, litter thickness...
Performance measure(s): presence/absence only: 0%; cover: 100%; number of individuals: 0%; measurements like diameter or height of trees: 13%; biomass: 0%
Geographic localisation: GPS coordinates (precision 25 m or less): 83%; point coordinates less precise than GPS, up to 1 km: 6%; small grid (not coarser than 10 km): 11%; political units or only on a coarser scale ( above 10 km): 1%
Sampling periods: before 1920: <1%; 1920-1929: 4%; 1930-1939: 2%; 1940-1949: <1%; 1950-1959: 3%; 1960-1969: 1%; 1970-1979: 4%; 1980-1989: 8%; 1990-1999: 15%; 2000-2009: 45%; 2010-2019: 17%; unknown: 1%
Information as of 2026-02-15; further details and future updates available from http://www.givd.info/ID/EU-00-027

Anni Jašková* (annipyy@mail.muni.cz)
Botany and Zoology, Masaryk University, Kotlarska 2, 611 37 Brno, CZECH REP.
* corresponding author