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2023–02–02 31st EVS Conference, Rome, Italy, 21-25 May 2023 - website and registration open See more »

2023–01–31 Documents Phytosociologiques, fourth series See more »

2022–12–22 Prof. Dr. Hartmut Dierschke (1937-2022) See more »

2022–11–29 31st EVS Conference, Rome, Italy, 21-25 May 2023 See more »

2022–04–25 Eurasian Grassland Conference - extended deadline See more »

2022–03–06 EVS Statement on the war in Ukraine See more »

2022–02–16 17th Eurasian Grassland Conference, Tolosa, Spain, 12-18 September 2022 See more »

2022–01–22 30th EVS Conference, Bratislava, 9-13 May 2022 See more »

2021–12–22 Asian Grassland Conference 2022 - registration open See more »

2021–06–01 New version of the EUNIS-ESy expert system published See more »

2021–03–31 Virtual Conference of the EVS, 6-7 Sep 2021 See more »

2020–12–23 International Symposium in honor of Salvador Rivas Martínez See more »

2020–10–07 EVA is starting the ReSurveyEurope Initiative See more »

2020–09–21 New Steering Committee of EVS elected See more »

2020–08–28 Prof. Salvador Rivas Martínez passed away See more »

2020–07–13 Special Collections "Classification of Palaearctic Grasslands" See more »

2020–06–02 EVS meeting in Rome postponed to spring 2021 See more »

2020–05–06 Start of Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS), a new IAVS journal See more »

2020–04–21 17th Eurasian Grassland Conference in Spain IS POSTPONED to 2021 See more »

2020–03–26 JVS Special Feature "Macroecology of vegetation" See more »

2020–03–04 Eurasian Grassland Conference: registration is open See more »

2020–03–04 EVS meeting postponed to autumn See more »

2020–02–21 Vegetation Classification Survey - a new IAVS journal See more »

2020–01–27 39th meeting of the Eastern Alpine and Dinaric Society for Vegetation Ecology, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 14-17 April 2021 See more »

2019–12–14 29th European Vegetation Survey Meeting, Rome, Italy, 4-7 May 2020, Website open! See more »

2019–12–11 14th EDGG Field Workshop: Ukrainian steppes along climatic gradients, 25 May - 3 June 2020 See more »

2019–12–11 17th Eurasian Grassland Conference, 7-13 September 2020, Tolosa, Spain See more »

2019–04–19 Atlantic biogeographical chalk grassland workshop, 18-20 Sep 2019, Rouen, France See more »

2019–03–15 Website of the EVS Madrid meeting open! See more »

2019–03–07 Eurasian Grassland Conference, 29 May-5 June 2019, Graz, Austria and Maribor, Slovenia See more »

2019–02–11 1st circular of the 28th EVS Meeting, Madrid, 2-6 September 2019 See more »

2018–11–27 IAVS Symposium Bremen, Germany, 14-19 July 2019 See more »

2018–11–16 Vegetation Database Workshop, Triesdorf, DE, 27 Feb - 1 Mar 2019 See more »

2018–08–16 EVS Meeting 2019 See more »

2018–06–26 The 2018 Annual Report of European Vegetation Survey published See more »

2018–06–23 Special Feature “Vegetation Science and Habitats Directive” See more »

2018–04–11 Publication of a report updating the French interpretation of 35 habitats of Community interest See more »

2018–03–17 Jornadas Internacionales de Fitosociología, Mexico, 21-24 November 2018 See more »

2018–03–16 New online database of Czech flora and vegetation See more »

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

2017–10–13 Next EVS meetings See more »

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

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

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

2016–12–05 EuroVegChecklist published! See more »

2016–06–01 New EVA Coordinating Board elected 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 »

2016–04–09 New EVS Steering Committee 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 (1 452 plots, restricted access)
    Custodian: Pavel Shirokikh
  • 00-RU-006 Database of non-forest vegetation of the Southern Urals (5 358 plots, restricted access)
    Custodian: Sergey Yamalov, Deputy Custodian: Mariya Lebedeva
  • 00-RU-008 Database of antropogenic vegetation of Urals and adjacent territories (4 236 plots, restricted access)
    Custodian: Yaroslav Golovanov, Deputy Custodian: Larisa Abramova
  • 00-TR-001 Forest Vegetation Database of Turkey – FVDT (9 592 plots, semi-restricted/res­tricted access)
    Custodian: Ali Kavgacı
  • 00-TR-003 Non-Forest Vegetation Database of Turkey – NFVDT (25 102 plots, restricted access)
    Custodian: Behlül Güler
  • AS-00–005 Transcaucasian Vegetation Database (2020 plots, restricted access)
    Custodian: Pavel Novák, Deputy Custodian: Dominik Zukal
  • AS-RU-005 Nenets Tundra (1 240 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
  • AS-TR-002 Vegetation Database of Oak Communities in Turkey (1182 plots, semi-restricted access)
    Custodian: Emin Uğurlu
  • EU-00–002 Nordic-Baltic Grassland Vegetation Database (NBGVD) (9 839 plots, semi-restricted access)
    Custodian: Jürgen Dengler, Deputy Custodian: Łukasz Kozub
  • EU-00–004 Iberian and Macaronesian Vegetation Information System (SIVIM) – Sclerophyllous forests (3799 plots, semi-restricted access)
    Custodian: Federico Fernández-González, Deputy Custodian: Xavier Font
  • EU-00–004 Iberian and Macaronesian Vegetation Information System (SIVIM) – Shrublands (11 049 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 Iberian and Macaronesian Vegetation Information System (SIVIM) – Alpine (6 387 plots, semi-restricted access)
    Custodian: Borja Jiménez-Alfaro, Deputy Custodian: Xavier Font
  • EU-00–004 Iberian and Macaronesian Vegetation Information System (SIVIM) – Macaronesia (3515 plots, semi-restricted access)
    Custodian: Borja Jiménez-Alfaro, Deputy Custodian: Xavier Font
  • EU-00–011 Vegetation-Plot Database of the University of the Basque Country (BIOVEG) (25 482 plots, semi-restricted/res­tricted access, ReSurveyEurope, metadata)
    Custodian: Idoia Biurrun, Deputy Custodian: Itziar García-Mijangos
  • EU-00–012 Beech Forest Vegetation Database of SE Balkan (1 593 plots, semi-restricted access)
    Custodian: Aleksander Marinšek
  • EU-00–013 Balkan Dry Grasslands Database (11 540 plots, semi-restricted/res­tricted access)
    Custodian: Kiril Vassilev, Deputy Custodian: Armin Macanović
  • EU-00–016 Mediterranean Ammophiletea database (9 423 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 (19 098 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 (3 717 plots, semi-restricted access)
    Custodian: Andraž Čarni
  • EU-00–022 European Mire Vegetation Database (14 903 plots, restricted access)
    Custodian: Tomáš Peterka, Deputy Custodian: Martin Jiroušek
  • EU-00–023 Iberian and Macaronesian Vegetation Information System (SIVIM) – Deciduous forests (6642 plots, semi-restricted access)
    Custodian: Juan Antonio Campos, Deputy Custodian: Xavier Font
  • EU-00–024 Iberian and Macaronesian Vegetation Information System (SIVIM) – Floodplain forests (4680 plots, semi-restricted access)
    Custodian: Idoia Biurrun, Deputy Custodian: Xavier Font
  • EU-00–025 Gravel Bar Vegetation Database (1738 plots, restricted access)
    Custodian: Veronika Kalníková, Deputy custodian: Helmut Kudrnovsky
  • EU-00–026 CircumMed Forest database (9 994 plots, restricted access, ReSurveyEurope, metadata)
    Custodian: Gianmaria Bonari
  • EU-00–027 European Boreal Forest Vegetation Database (12 325 plots, restricted access)
    Custodian: Anni Kanerva Pyykönen
  • EU-00–028 European Weed Vegetation Database (25 464 plots, semi-restricted/res­tricted access)
    Custodian: Filip Küzmič, Deputy Custodian: Urban Šilc
  • EU-00–029 High Mediterranean Mountains Database (990 plots, semi-restricted access)
    Custodian: Gianpietro Giusso del Galdo, Deputy Custodian: Corrado Marcenò
  • EU-00–030 Eastern European Steppe Database (6961 plots, semi-restricted access)
    Custodian: Denys Vynokurov
  • EU-00–031 Masaryk University's Gap-Filling Database of European Vegetation (3 331 plots, semi-restricted access)
    Custodian: Milan Chytrý, Deputy Custodian: Ilona Knollová
  • EU-00–035 AgriWeedClim Database (9 296 plots, restricted access)
    Custodian: Michael Glaser, Deputy Custodian: Franz Essl
  • EU-AL-001 Vegetation Database of Albania (1324 plots, restricted access)
    Custodian: Michele De Sanctis, Deputy Custodian: Giuliano Fanelli
  • EU-AT-001 Austrian Vegetation Database (69 987 plots, semi-restricted access, ReSurveyEurope, metadata)
    Custodian: Wolfgang Willner, Deputy Custodian: Christian Berg
  • EU-BE-002 INBOVEG (22 262 plots, semi-restricted access, ReSurveyEurope, metadata)
    Custodian: Sophie Vermeersch
  • EU-BG-001 Bulgarian Vegetation Database (5259 plots, semi-restricted access)
    Custodian: Iva Apostolova, Deputy Custodian: Desislava Sopotlieva
  • EU-BY-002 Forest Vegetation Database of Belarus (1 085 plots, semi-restricted access)
    Custodian: Ruslan Tsvirko
  • EU-CH-005 Swiss Forest Vegetation Database (14 193 plots, semi-restricted access)
    Custodian: Thomas Wohlgemuth
  • EU-CH-011 Monitoring Effectiveness of Habitat Conservation in Switzerland (6648 plots, restricted access)
    Custodian: Ariel Bergamini, Deputy Custodian: Steffen Boch
  • EU-CZ-001 Czech National Phytosociological Database (116 086 plots, semi-restricted access)
    Custodian: Milan Chytrý, Deputy Custodian: Ilona Knollová
  • 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: Florian Jansen, Deputy Custodian: Jörg Ewald
  • EU-DE-013 VegetWeb – Tüxen´s archive (10717 + 2761 plots, Germany + other European countries, free access)
    Custodian: Friedemann Goral, Deputy Custodian: Florian Jansen
  • EU-DE-014 GVRD Vegetation Reference Database Halle (53 974 plots, restricted access)
    Custodian: Ute Jandt, Deputy Custodian: Helge Bruelheide
  • EU-DE-020 German Grassland Vegetation Database (GrassVeg.DE) (11 626 plots, semi-restricted access)
    Custodian: Ricarda Pätsch, Deputy Custodian: Jürgen Dengler
  • EU-DE-035 Coastal Vegetation Germany (8 766 plots, free/restricted access)
    Custodian: Maike Isermann, Deputy Custodian: Florian Jansen
  • EU-DE-040 Database Schleswig-Holstein (Northern Germany) (3816 plots, semi-restricted access)
    Custodian: Joachim Schrautzer
  • EU-DK-002 NATURDATA.DK (239 291 plots, semi/-restricted access, presence/absen­ce data)
    Custodian: Jesper Erenskjold Moeslund, Deputy Custodian: Rasmus Ejrnaes
  • EU-ES-001 Iberian and Macaronesian Vegetation Information System (SIVIM) – Wetlands (6560 plots, semi-restricted access)
    Custodian: Aaron Pérez-Haase, Deputy Custodian: Xavier Font
  • EU-ES-002 Iberian and Macaronesian Vegetation Information System (SIVIM) – Grasslands (12 452 plots, semi-restricted access)
    Custodian: Maria Pilar Rodríguez-Rojo, Deputy Custodian: Xavier Font
  • EU-FR-003 SOPHY (209 900 plots, semi-restricted access)
    Custodian: Emmanuel Garbolino
  • EU-FR-004 VegFrance (3058 plots, semi-restricted access)
    Custodian: Jan-Bernard Bouzillé, Deputy Custodian: Anne Bonis
  • EU-FR-005 EcoPlant (5030 plots, restricted access)
    Custodian: Jean-Claude Gégout, Deputy Custodian: Ingrid Seynave
  • EU-FR-006 SIMETHIS-Flore-CBNMed (19 301 plots, semi-restricted access)
    Custodian: Olivier Argagnon
  • EU-GB-001 UK National Vegetation Classification Database (47 280 plots, semi-restricted access)
    Custodian: John Rodwell
  • EU-GB-004 Floodplain­Meadows (25 867 plots, restricted access, ReSurveyEurope, metadata)
    Custodian: Irina Tatarenko
  • EU-GB-005 Scottish Coastal Survey (6 396 plots, semi-restricted access, ReSurveyEurope, metadata)
    Custodian: Robin Pakeman
  • EU-GB-006 Scottish Vegetation Resurvey (7 418 plots, semi-restricted access, ReSurveyEurope, metadata)
    Custodian: Ruth Mitchell, Deputy Custodian: Robin Pakeman
  • 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 HabItAlp – subset Italian Mire Database (916 plots, semi-restricted access)
    Custodian: Laura Casella, Deputy Custodian: Marco Massimi
  • EU-IT-010 Vegetation database of Habitats in the Italian Alps – HabItAlp (4 238 plots, semi-restricted access)
    Custodian: Laura Casella, Deputy Custodian: Pierangela Angelini
  • EU-IT-011 Vegetation Plot Database – Sapienza University of Rome (33 002 plots, semi-restricted access)
    Custodian: Emiliano Agrillo, Deputy Custodian: Fabio Attorre
  • EU-IT-019 VIOLA (1 849 plots, semi-restricted access, ReSurveyEurope, metadata)
    Custodian: Angela Stanisci; Deputy Custodian: Maria Laura Carranza
  • EU-IT-020 RanVegDunes (2 120 plots, semi-restricted access, ReSurveyEurope, metadata)
    Custodian: Alicia T. R. Acosta
  • EU-IT-021 AMS-VegBank – Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna (21 011 plots, semi-restricted access, ReSurveyEurope, metadata)
    Custodian: Alessandro Chiarucci, Deputy Custodian: Vanessa Bruzzaniti
  • EU-LT-001 Lithuanian Vegetation Database (11258 plots, semi-restricted access, 688 plots ReSurveyEurope, metadata)
    Custodian: Valerijus Rašomavičius, Deputy Custodian: Domas Uogintas
  • EU-LV-001 Semi-natural Grassland Vegetation Database of Latvia (6 743 plots, semi-restricted access)
    Custodian: Solvita Rūsiņa
  • EU-ME-001 Vegetation Database of Montenegro (3 177 plots, semi-restricted access)
    Custodian: Milica Stanišić-Vujačić, Deputy Custodian: Danijela Stešević
  • 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, free access)
    Custodian: Joop Schaminée, Deputy Custodian: Stephan Hennekens
  • EU-NL-003 Dutch Military Ranges Vegetation Database (DUMIRA) (12 830 plots, semi-restricted access)
    Custodian: Iris de Ronde, Deputy Custodian: Rense Haveman
  • EU-PL-001 Polish Vegetation Database (78 226 plots, semi-restricted access)
    Custodian: Zygmunt Kącki, Deputy Custodian: Grzegorz Swacha
  • EU-PL-003 Forest Database of Southern Poland (3 854 plots, restricted access)
    Custodian: Remigiusz Pielech
  • EU-PL-005 Non-forest Vegetation of Southern Poland (1 640 plots, semi-restricted access)
    Custodian: Remigiusz Pielech
  • EU-PT-001 Serra da Estrela Database (1 614 plots, restricted access)
    Custodian: Jan Jansen
  • 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 (44 803 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 (19 268 plots, free access, ReSurveyEurope, metadata)
    Custodian: Valentin Golub, Deputy Custodian: Andrei Chuvashov
  • 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 (9 640 plots, semi-restricted access)
    Custodian: Vadim Prokhorov
  • EU-RU-014 Temperate Forests of European Russia (5 317 plots, restricted access)
    Custodian: Larisa Khanina, Deputy Custodian: Maxim Bobrovsky
  • EU-SI-001 Vegetation Database of Slovenia (20 745 plots, semi-restricted access)
    Custodian: Urban Šilc, Deputy Custodian: Filip Küzmič
  • EU-SK-001 Slovak Vegetation Database (41 833 plots, semi-restricted access)
    Custodian: Milan Valachovič, Deputy Custodian: Jozef Šibík
  • EU-UA-001 Ukrainian Grassland Database (11 201 plots, semi-restricted access)
    Custodian: Anna Kuzemko, Deputy Custodian: Denys Vynokurov
  • 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 (4 926 plots, free access)
    Custodian: Viktor Onyshchenko, Deputy Custodian: Vitaliy Kolomiychuk
  • EU-UA-010 Psammophytic vegetation database of Ukraine (1 678 plots, semi-restricted access)
    Custodian: Tetiana Dziuba, Deputy Custodian: Svitlana Iemelianova
  • EU-UA-011 Anthropogenic vegetation of Ukraine (8 525 plots, semi-restricted access)
    Custodian: Tetiana Dziuba
  • EU-UA-012 Ukrainian Wetland Database (8 853 plots, semi-restricted access)
    Custodian: Svitlana Iemelianova
  • 00–00-XXX Teberda – Caucasus Vegetation Database (1206 plots, semi-restricted access)
    Custodian: Vladimir Onipchenko, Deputy Custodian: Alexei Egorov
  • EU-FR-XXX CBNA – Vegetation Database of French Alps (2 972 plots, restricted access)
    Custodian: Sylvain Abdulhak, Deputy Custodian: Jean-Michel Genis
  • EU-RU-XXX Vegetation database of steppe vegetation of Rostov Region (1 146 plots, semi-restricted access)
    Custodian: Olga Demina