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2017–10–16 Officers of the European Vegetation Classification Committee (EVCC) have been elected See more »

2017–10–13 Next EVS meetings See more »

2017–10–05 27th EVS meeting: Wroclaw, Poland, 23-26 May 2018 See more »

2017–08–22 Boris Mirkin died on 9 Aug 2017 See more »

2017–08–07 Revised proposal of the EuroVegChecklist update procedures See more »

2017–07–31 Virtual Special Issue on European grasslands published online See more »

2017–06–15 EVA Annual Report for 2017 published See more »

2017–06–03 The 2017 EVS Annual Report has been published See more »

2017–05–29 A first draft of the EuroVegChecklist update procedures See more »

2017–05–01 14th Eurasian Grassland Conference, Riga, Latvia, 4-11 July 2017 See more »

2017–04–17 Phytosociological congress in Cabo Verde, 5-7 November 2017 See more »

2017–03–31 EuroVegChecklist interactive online application See more »

2017–01–25 European Red List of Habitats published See more »

2017–01–24 60th Annual Symposium of IAVS, Palermo, Italy, 20-24 June 2017 See more »

2016–12–14 26th EVS Meeting, Bilbao, 13-16 September 2017 - website launched See more »

2016–12–05 EuroVegChecklist published! See more »

2016–11–08 16th workshop on "Vegetation Databases and Natura 2000", Freiburg, Germany, 8-10 March 2017 See more »

2016–10–18 37th meeting of the Eastern Alpine and Dinaric Society for Vegetation Ecology, Prizren, Kosovo, 13-16 July 2017 See more »

2016–06–01 New EVA Coordinating Board elected See more »

2016–05–27 The 2016 EVS Annual Report has been published See more »

2016–05–26 Vegetation of the Czech Republic online See more »

2016–05–23 Proposed revision of the EUNIS habitats classification See more »

2016–04–14 13th Eurasian Grassland Conference, 20-24 September 2016, Sighişoara, Romania See more »

2016–04–09 New EVS Steering Committee See more »

2016–04–04 International Symposium ‘Vegetation diversity in Latin America and Europe: advances for studies and conservation’, 12-15 July 2016, Santiago de Compostela, Spain See more »

2016–02–19 International Symposium "Vegetation and Nature Conservation", 4-7 October 2016, Saint Brieuc, France See more »

2015–10–26 Professor Pierre Quézel (1926-2015) See more »

2015–08–31 New IAVS Working Group: Vegetation Classification See more »

2015–06–05 Future EVS Meetings See more »

2015–03–29 Synoptic tables of French vegetation online See more »

EVA Database

Databases participating in EVA (with GIVD codes)

  • 00–00–004 Vegetation Database of Eurasian Tundra (1132 plots, restricted access)
    Custodian: Risto Virtanen
  • 00-RU-001 Vegetation Database Forest of the Southern Urals (1571 plots, restricted access)
    Custodian: Pavel Shirokikh
  • 00-RU-006 Database of non-forest vegetation of the Southern Urals (3415 plots, restricted access)
    Custodian: Sergey Yamalov, Deputy Custodian: Mariya Lebedeva
  • 00-TR-001 Forest Vegetation Database of Turkey – FVDT (911 plots, semi-restricted access)
    Custodian: Ali Kavgacı
  • AS-RU-005 Nenets Tundra (558 plots, semi-restricted access)
    Custodian: Igor Lavrinenko
  • AS-TR-001 Vegetation Database of the Grassland Communities in Anatolia (3021 plots, restricted access)
    Custodian: Deniz Işık Gürsoy, Deputy Custodian: Didem Ambarlı
  • AS-TR-002 Vegetation Database of Oak Communities in Turkey (1182 plots)
    Custodian: Emin Uğurlu
  • EU-00–002 Nordic-Baltic Grassland Vegetation Database (NBGVD) (7 664 plots, semi-restricted access)
    Custodian: Jürgen Dengler, Deputy Custodian: Łukasz Kozub
  • EU-00–004 SIVIM Deciduous forests (6642 plots, semi-restricted access)
    Custodian: Juan Antonio Campos, Deputy Custodian: Xavier Font
  • EU-00–004 SIVIM Floodplain forests (4680 plots, semi-restricted access)
    Custodian: Idoia Biurrun, Deputy Custodian: Xavier Font
  • EU-00–004 SIVIM Grasslands (9409 plots, semi-restricted access)
    Custodian: Maria Pilar Rodríguez-Rojo, Deputy Custodian: Xavier Font
  • EU-00–004 SIVIM Sclerophyllous forests (3799 plots, semi-restricted access)
    Custodian: Federico Fernández-González, Deputy Custodian: Xavier Font
  • EU-00–004 SIVIM Shrublands (3109 plots, semi-restricted access)
    Custodian: Rosario G. Gavilán, Deputy Custodian: Xavier Font
  • EU-00–004 Iberian and Macaronesian Vegetation Information System (SIVIM) (3506 plots, semi-restricted access)
    Custodian: Xavier Font
  • EU-00–004 SIVIM Alpine (4602 plots, semi-restricted access)
    Custodian: Borja Jiménez-Alfaro, Deputy Custodian: Xavier Font
  • EU-00–004 SIVIM Macaronesia (3515 plots, semi-restricted access)
    Custodian: Borja Jiménez-Alfaro, Deputy Custodian: Xavier Font
  • EU-00–004 SIVIM Wetlands (6560 plots, semi-restricted access)
    Custodian: Aaron Pérez-Haase, Deputy Custodian: Xavier Font
  • EU-00–011 Vegetation-Plot Database of the University of the Basque Country (BIOVEG) (22 707 plots, mostly semi-restricted, partly restricted access)
    Custodian: Idoia Biurrun, Deputy Custodian: Itziar García-Mijangos
  • EU-00–013 Balkan Dry Grasslands Database (8 576 plots, semi-restricted/res­tricted access)
    Custodian: Kiril Vassilev
  • EU-00–016 Mediterranean Ammophiletea database (7864 plots, mostly semi-restricted access, partly restricted access)
    Custodian: Corrado Marcenò
  • EU-00–017 European Coastal Vegetation Database (5 572 plots, semi-restricted access)
    Custodian: John Janssen
  • EU-00–018 The Nordic Vegetation Database (12 168 plots, semi-restricted access)
    Custodian: Jonathan Lenoir, Deputy Custodian: Jens-Christian Svenning
  • EU-00–019 Balkan Vegetation Database (9 897 plots, mostly semi-restricted, partly restricted access)
    Custodian: Kiril Vassilev, Deputy Custodian: Hristo Pedashenko
  • EU-00–020 WetVegEurope (12 215 plots, semi-restricted access)
    Custodian: Flavia Landucci
  • EU-00–021 SE Europe Forest Database (3675 plots, semi-restricted access)
    Custodian: Andraž Čarni
  • EU-00–022 European Mire Vegetation Database (13 291 plots, restricted access)
    Custodian: Tomáš Peterka, Deputy Custodian: Martin Jiroušek
  • EU-00–025 Gravel Bar Vegetation Database (1738 plots, restricted access)
    Custodian: Veronika Kalníková, Deputy custodian: Helmut Kudrnovsky
  • EU-AL-001 Vegetation Database of Albania (540 plots, restricted access)
    Custodian: Michele De Sanctis, Deputy Custodian: Giuliano Fanelli
  • EU-AT-001 Austrian Vegetation Database (53 406 plots, semi-restricted access)
    Custodian: Wolfgang Willner
  • EU-BE-002 INBOVEG (26 404 plots, semi-restricted access)
    Custodian: Els De Bie
  • EU-BG-001 Bulgarian Vegetation Database (5259 plots, semi-restricted access)
    Custodian: Iva Apostolova, Deputy Custodian: Desislava Sopotlieva
  • EU-CH-005 Swiss Forest Vegetation Database (14 193 plots, semi-restricted access)
    Custodian: Thomas Wohlgemuth
  • EU-CZ-001 Czech National Phytosociological Database (110 758 plots, semi-restricted access)
    Custodian: Milan Chytrý, Deputy Custodian: Dana Michalcová
  • EU-DE-001 VegMV (50 035 plots, semi-restricted access)
    Custodian: Florian Jansen, Deputy Custodian: Christian Berg
  • EU-DE-013 VegetWeb (25 058 plots, free access)
    Custodian: Jörg Ewald, Deputy Custodian: Martin Kleikamp
  • EU-DE-014 GVRD Vegetation Reference Database Halle (30 895 plots, restricted access)
    Custodian: Ute Jandt, Deputy Custodian: Helge Bruelheide
  • EU-DE-020 German Grassland Vegetation Database (GrassVeg.DE) (2 631 plots, semi-restricted access)
    Custodian: Jürgen Dengler, Deputy Custodian: Thomas Becker
  • EU-DK-002 NATURDATA.DK (165 205 plots, semi-restricted access, presence/absen­ce data)
    Custodian: Jesper Erenskjold Moeslund, Deputy Custodian: Rasmus Ejrnaes
  • EU-FR-003 SOPHY (209 900 plots, restricted access)
    Custodian: Henry Brisse, Deputy Custodian: Patrice de Ruffray
  • EU-FR-005 EcoPlant (5030 plots, restricted access)
    Custodian: Jean-Claude Gégout, Deputy Custodian: Ingrid Seynave
  • EU-GB-001 UK National Vegetation Classification Database (47 280 plots, semi-restricted access)
    Custodian: John Rodwell
  • EU-GR-001 KRITI (5601 plots, semi-restricted access)
    Custodian: Erwin Bergmeier
  • EU-GR-005 Hellenic Natura 2000 database – HelNatVeg (5307 plots, semi-restricted access)
    Custodian: Panayotis Dimopoulos, Deputy Custodian: Ioannis Tsiripidis
  • EU-GR-006 Hellenic Woodland Database & EU-GR-007 Hellenic Beech Forests Database (3199 plots, semi-restricted access)
    Custodian: Ioannis Tsiripidis
  • EU-HR-001 Phytosoci­ological Database of Non-Forest Vegetation in Croatia (5057 plots, restricted access)
    Custodian: Zvjezdana Stančić
  • EU-HR-002 Croatian Vegetation Database (8735 plots, semi-restricted access)
    Custodian: Željko Škvorc, Deputy Custodian: Daniel Krstonošić
  • EU-HU-003 CoenoDat Hungarian Phytosociological Database (8509 plots, semi-restricted access)
    Custodian: János Csiky, Deputy Custodian: Zoltán Botta-Dukát
  • EU-IE-001 Irish Vegetation Database (32 215 plots, restricted access)
    Custodian: Úna FitzPatrick, Deputy Custodian: Lynda Weekes
  • EU-IT-001 VegItaly (15 332 plots, semi-restricted access)
    Custodian: Roberto Venanzoni, Deputy Custodian: Flavia Landucci
  • EU-IT-010 Italian National Vegetation Database (BVN/ISPRA) (4 238 plots, semi-restricted access)
    Custodian: Laura Casella, Deputy Custodian: Pierangela Angelini
  • EU-IT-011 Georeferenced Vegetation Database of Sapienza University of Roma (19 326 plots, semi-restricted access)
    Custodian: Emiliano Agrillo, Deputy Custodian: Fabio Attorre
  • EU-IT-019 VIOLA (1602 relevés, semi-restricted access)
    Custodian: Angela Stanisci
  • EU-LT-001 Lithuanian Vegetation Database (11258 plots, semi-restricted access)
    Custodian: Valerijus Rašomavičius, Deputy Custodian: Domas Uogintas
  • EU-LV-001 Semi-natural Grassland Vegetation Database of Latvia (5596 plots, semi-restricted access)
    Custodian: Solvita Rūsiņa
  • EU-MK-001 Vegetation Database of the Republic of Macedonia (1417 plots, semi-restricted access)
    Custodian: Renata Ćušterevska
  • EU-NL-001 Dutch National Vegetation Database (185 307 plots, semi-restricted access)
    Custodian: Joop Schaminée, Deputy Custodian: Stephan Hennekens
  • EU-PL-001 Polish Vegetation Database (78 226 plots, semi-restricted access)
    Custodian: Zygmunt Kącki, Deputy Custodian: Grzegorz Swacha
  • EU-RO-007 Romanian Forest Database (9 640 plots, mostly semi-restricted access, partly free access)
    Custodian: Adrian Indreica, Deputy Custodian: Pavel Dan Turtureanu
  • EU-RO-008 Romanian Grassland Database (21 685 plots, semi-restricted/res­tricted access)
    Custodian: Eszter Ruprecht, Deputy Custodian: Kiril Vassilev
  • EU-RS-002 Vegetation Database Grassland Vegetation of Serbia (5587 plots, semi-restricted access)
    Custodian: Svetlana Aćić, Deputy Custodian: Zora Dajić Stevanović
  • EU-RS-003 Database of Forest Vegetation in Republic of Serbia & EU-RS-004 Vegetation Database of Northern Part of Serbia (AP Vojvodina) (4953 plos, semi-restricted access)
    Custodian: Mirjana Krstivojević Ćuk
  • EU-RU-002 Lower Volga Valley Phytosociological Database (19 113 plots, free access)
    Custodian: Valentin Golub, Deputy Custodian: Viktoria Bondareva
  • EU-RU-003 Vegetation Database of the Volga and the Ural Rivers Basins (1516 plots, restricted access)
    Custodian: Tatiana Lysenko
  • EU-RU-011 Vegetation Database of Tatarstan (7473 plots, semi-restricted access)
    Custodian: Vadim Prokhorov
  • EU-SI-001 Vegetation Database of Slovenia (10 986 plots, semi-restricted access)
    Custodian: Urban Šilc
  • EU-SK-001 Slovak Vegetation Database (36 411 plots, semi-restricted access)
    Custodian: Milan Valachovič, Deputy Custodian: Jozef Šibík
  • EU-UA-001 Ukrainian Grassland Database (5310 plots, mostly semi-restricted, partly restricted access)
    Custodian: Anna Kuzemko, Deputy Custodian: Yulia Vashenyak
  • EU-UA-005 Halophytic and coastal vegetation database of Ukraine (4621 plots, semi-restricted access)
    Custodian: Tetiana Dziuba, Deputy Custodian: Dmytro Dubyna
  • EU-UA-006 Vegetation database of Ukraine and adjacent parts of Russia (3327 plots, free access)
    Custodian: Viktor Onyshchenko, Deputy Custodian: Vitaliy Kolomiychuk
  • 00–00-XXX Teberda – Caucasus Vegetation Database (1206 plots, semi-restricted access)
    Custodian: Vladimir Onipchenko, Deputy Custodian: Alexei Egorov
  • EU-GB-XXX UK Floodplain Meadows Database (25124 plots, restricted access, permanent plots – repeated measurements, transect design)
    Custodian: Irina Tatarenko
  • EU-NL-XXX Dutch Vegetation Database of Military Sites (12 830 plots, semi-restricted access)
    Custodian: Iris de Ronde, Deputy Custodian: Rense Haveman
  • EU-RU-XXX Vegetation database of steppe vegetation of Rostov Region (946 plots, semi-restricted access)
    Custodian: Olga Demina