TY - JOUR

T1 - The romanian grassland database (RGD)

T2 - Historical background, current status and future perspectives

AU - Vassilev, Kiril

AU - Ruprecht, Eszter

AU - Alexiu, Valeriu

AU - Becker, Thomas

AU - Beldean, Monica

AU - Bita-Nicolae, Claudia

AU - Csergo, Anna Mária

AU - Dzhovanova, Iliana

AU - Filipova, Eva

AU - Frink, József Pál

AU - Gafta, Dan

AU - Georgieva, Mariya

AU - Germany, Markus S.

AU - Goia, Irina

AU - Gumus, Media

AU - Hennekens, Stephan M.

AU - Janišová, Monika

AU - Knollová, Ilona

AU - Koleva, Viktoriya

AU - Kostadinova, Sofia

AU - Kuzmanovic, Nevena

AU - Loos, Jacqueline

AU - Mardari, Constantin

AU - Michl, Thomas

AU - Neblea, Monica Angela

AU - Nicoara, Roxana Ion

AU - Novák, Pavel

AU - Öllerer, Kinga

AU - Onete, Marilena

AU - Palpurina, Salza

AU - Paulini, Inge

AU - Pedashenko, Hristo

AU - Puşcaş, Mihai

AU - Roman, Anamaria

AU - Šibík, Jozef

AU - Sîrbu, Culita

AU - Stancu, Daniela Ileana

AU - Sutcliffe, Laura M.E.

AU - Szabó, Anna

AU - Tomescu, Cezar Valentin

AU - Totev, Evelin

AU - Tsvetanov, Borislav

AU - Turtureanu, Pavel Dan

AU - Vassileva, Plamena

AU - Velev, Nikolay

AU - Dengler, Jürgen

PY - 2018/3/1

Y1 - 2018/3/1

N2 - This report describes the Romanian Grassland Database (RGD), registered under EU-RO-008 in the Global Index of Vegetation-Plot Databases (GIVD). This collaborative initiative aims to collect all available vegetationplot data (relevés) of grasslands and other open habitats from the territory of Romania to provide them for science, nationally and internationally, e.g. via the European Vegetation Archive (EVA) and the global database "sPlot". The database mainly contains vegetation-plots from not only wet, mesic, dry, saline, alpine and rocky grasslands, but also other vegetation types like heathlands, mires, ruderal, segetal, aquatic and cryptogamdominated vegetation. Currently, 21,685 relevés have mainly been digitised from literature sources (90%), while the remainder comes from individual unpublished sources (10%). We report on the background and history of the RGD, explain its "Data Property and Governance Rules" under which data are contributed and retrieved, and outline how the RGD can contribute to research in the fields of vegetation ecology, macroecology and conservation.

AB - This report describes the Romanian Grassland Database (RGD), registered under EU-RO-008 in the Global Index of Vegetation-Plot Databases (GIVD). This collaborative initiative aims to collect all available vegetationplot data (relevés) of grasslands and other open habitats from the territory of Romania to provide them for science, nationally and internationally, e.g. via the European Vegetation Archive (EVA) and the global database "sPlot". The database mainly contains vegetation-plots from not only wet, mesic, dry, saline, alpine and rocky grasslands, but also other vegetation types like heathlands, mires, ruderal, segetal, aquatic and cryptogamdominated vegetation. Currently, 21,685 relevés have mainly been digitised from literature sources (90%), while the remainder comes from individual unpublished sources (10%). We report on the background and history of the RGD, explain its "Data Property and Governance Rules" under which data are contributed and retrieved, and outline how the RGD can contribute to research in the fields of vegetation ecology, macroecology and conservation.

KW - Ecoinformatics

KW - European vegetation archive (EVA)

KW - Grassland vegetation

KW - Phytosociology

KW - Relevé

KW - Romanian grassland database (RGD)

KW - Splot

KW - Turboveg

KW - Vegetation classification

KW - Vegetation-plot data

KW - Ecosystems Research

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85043248913&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1127/phyto/2017/0229

DO - 10.1127/phyto/2017/0229

M3 - Journal articles

AN - SCOPUS:85043248913

VL - 48

SP - 91

EP - 100

JO - Phytocoenologia

JF - Phytocoenologia

SN - 0340-269X

IS - 1

ER -