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2025–09–11 Seminar for Sandro Pignatti, Rome, 21 October 2025 See more »

2025–08–18 21st Eurasian Grassland Conference, Sofia, Bulgaria, 20-24 July 2026 See more »

2025–07–16 New Special Collection "Broad-scale classification of European vegetation" in Vegetation Classification and Survey See more »

2025–06–13 Professor Sandro Pignatti (28 Sep 1930 - 13 Jun 2025) See more »

2024–12–23 Website of the European Vegetation Survey conference, Perugia, Italy, 28 Apr - 2 May See more »

2024–12–03 New EVS Steering Committee 2024-2028 See more »

2024–11–09 Professor Edoardo Biondi passed away See more »

2024–11–05 New Special Collection "Vegetation classification of islands and archipelagos" in Vegetation Classification and Survey. See more »

2024–09–22 33rd Conference "European Vegetation Survey" - Perugia, Italy, 28 April - 2 May 2025 See more »

2024–05–25 19th Eurasian Grassland Conference Bolzano, Italy, 26 Aug – 1 Sep 2024 See more »

2024–01–24 32nd EVS Conference, Madeira, 16-20 Sep 2024 - website open See more »

2023–10–17 New website of the Italian Society for Vegetation Science See more »

2023–06–02 The need for protection of the Svydovets Massif (Ukrainian Carpathians) See more »

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

Acknowledging EVA data in publications

When EVA or ReSurveyEurope data are used in a publication, the EVA report article (Chytrý et al. 2016) or the ReSurveyEurope report article (Knollová et al. 2024) should be included in the list of references. Additionally, the EVA project number and the DOI of the data selection for this project should be mentioned in the Data Availability Statement, Acknowledgements, or another relevant section

If the publication uses only a few EVA databases or ReSurveyEurope datasets, these databases or datasets should also be cited directly in the article. If these databases or datasets are too numerous to cite individually, a list of source databases should be provided as a table in the Supplementary Information or Appendix. This table should include, for each source database or dataset, the GIVD code (if any) or the ReSurveyEurope dataset code, the full official name of the database or dataset, the name of the custodian (and optionally also the deputy custodian), the number of plots used, and, optionally, the percentage of plots used from this database or dataset relative to all plots used in the study. The relevant information of the EVA core databases can be found at (https://euroveg.org/eva-database/databases), and that for the ReSurveyEurope datasets at (https://euroveg.org/resurvey/database).

References

Chytrý M., Hennekens S.M., Jiménez-Alfaro B., Knollová I., Dengler J., Jansen F., Landucci F., Schaminée J.H.J., Aćić S., Agrillo E., Ambarlı D., Angelini P., Apostolova I., Attorre F., Berg C., Bergmeier E., Biurrun I., Botta-Dukát Z., Brisse H., Campos J.A., Carlón L., Čarni A., Casella L., Csiky J., Ćušterevska R., Dajić Stevanović Z., Danihelka J., De Bie E., de Ruffray P., De Sanctis M., Dickoré W.B., Dimopoulos P., Dubyna D., Dziuba T., Ejrnæs R., Ermakov N., Ewald J., Fanelli G., Fernández-González F., FitzPatrick Ú., Font X., García-Mijangos I., Gavilán R.G., Golub V., Guarino R., Haveman R., Indreica A., Işık Gürsoy D., Jandt U., Janssen J.A.M., Jiroušek M., Kącki Z., Kavgacı A., Kleikamp M., Kolomiychuk V., Krstivojević Ćuk M., Krstonošić D., Kuzemko A., Lenoir J., Lysenko T., Marcenò C., Martynenko V., Michalcová D., Moeslund J.E., Onyshchenko V., Pedashenko H., Pérez-Haase A., Peterka T., Prokhorov V., Rašomavičius V., Rodríguez-Rojo M.P., Rodwell J.S., Rogova T., Ruprecht E., Rūsiņa S., Seidler G., Šibík J., Šilc U., Škvorc Ž., Sopotlieva D., Stančić Z., Svenning J.-C., Swacha G., Tsiripidis I., Turtureanu P.D., Uğurlu E., Uogintas D., Valachovič M., Vashenyak Y., Vassilev K., Venanzoni R., Virtanen R., Weekes L., Willner W., Wohlgemuth T. & Yamalov S. 2016. European Vegetation Archive (EVA): an integrated database of European vegetation plots. Applied Vegetation Science 19: 173–180. https://doi.org/10.1111/avsc.12191

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