The romanian grassland database (RGD): Historical background, current status and future perspectives

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Authors

  • Kiril Vassilev
  • Eszter Ruprecht
  • Valeriu Alexiu
  • Thomas Becker
  • Monica Beldean
  • Claudia Bita-Nicolae
  • Anna Mária Csergo
  • Iliana Dzhovanova
  • Eva Filipova
  • József Pál Frink
  • Dan Gafta
  • Mariya Georgieva
  • Markus S. Germany
  • Irina Goia
  • Media Gumus
  • Stephan M. Hennekens
  • Monika Janišová
  • Ilona Knollová
  • Viktoriya Koleva
  • Sofia Kostadinova
  • Nevena Kuzmanovic
  • Constantin Mardari
  • Thomas Michl
  • Monica Angela Neblea
  • Roxana Ion Nicoara
  • Pavel Novák
  • Kinga Öllerer
  • Marilena Onete
  • Salza Palpurina
  • Inge Paulini
  • Hristo Pedashenko
  • Mihai Puşcaş
  • Anamaria Roman
  • Jozef Šibík
  • Culita Sîrbu
  • Daniela Ileana Stancu
  • Laura M.E. Sutcliffe
  • Anna Szabó
  • Cezar Valentin Tomescu
  • Evelin Totev
  • Borislav Tsvetanov
  • Pavel Dan Turtureanu
  • Plamena Vassileva
  • Nikolay Velev
  • Jürgen Dengler

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21,685 relevés have mainly been digitised from literature sources (90%), while the remainder comes from individual unpublished sources (10%).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.

Original languageEnglish
JournalPhytocoenologia
Volume48
Issue number1
Pages (from-to)91-100
Number of pages10
ISSN0340-269X
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 01.03.2018

    Research areas

  • Ecoinformatics, European vegetation archive (EVA), Grassland vegetation, Phytosociology, Relevé, Romanian grassland database (RGD), Splot, Turboveg, Vegetation classification, Vegetation-plot data
  • Ecosystems Research

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