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Balkan Vegetation Database (BVD) - updated information and current status

Authors	VASSILEV Kiril PEDASHENKO Hristo ALEXANDROVA Alexandra TASHEV Alexander GANEVA Anna GAVRILOVA Anna MACANOVIC Armin ASSENOV Assen VITKOVA Antonina GENOVA Beloslava GRIGOROV Borislav GUSSEV Chavdar MASIC Ermin FILIPOVA Eva GECHEVA Gana ANEVA Ina KNOLLOVÁ Ilona NIKOLOV Ivaylo GEORGIEV Georgi GOGUSHEV Georgi TINCHEV Georgi MINKOV Ivan PACHEDZIEVA Kalina MINCHEVA Katerina KOEV Koycho LYUBENOVA Mariyana DIMITROV Marius GUMUS Media NAZAROV Momchil APOSTOLOVA-STOYANOVA Nadezhda NIKOLOV Nikolay VELEV Nikolay ZHELEV Petar GLOGOV Plamen NATCHEVA Rayna TZONEV Rossen BARUDANOVIC Senka KOSTADINOVA Sofia BOCH Steffen HENNEKENS Stephan GEORGIEV Stoyan STOYANOV Stoyan KARAKIEV Todor ILIC Tijana KALNIKOVA Veronika SHIVAROV Veselin VULCHEV Vladimir
Year of publication	2020
Type	Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source	Vegetation Classification and Survey
MU Faculty or unit	Faculty of Science
Citation
web	https://vcs.pensoft.net/article/61348/list/1/
Doi	https://doi.org/10.3897/VCS/2020/61348
Keywords	Balkan Peninsula; Balkan vegetation; conservation; TURBOVEG; vegetation plot; vegetation classification
Description	The Balkan Vegetation Database (BVD; GIVD ID: EU-00-019) is a regional database, which was established in 2014. It comprises phytosociological relevés covering various vegetation types from nine countries of the Balkan Peninsula (Albania – 153 relevés, Bosnia and Herzegovina – 1715, Bulgaria – 12,282, Greece – 465, Croatia – 69, Kosovo – 493, Montenegro – 440, North Macedonia – 13 and Serbia – 2677). Currently, it contains 18,306 relevés (compared to 9.580 in 2016), and most of them (82.8%) are geo-referenced. The database includes both digitized relevés from the literature (65.6%) and unpublished data (34.5%). Plot size is available for 84.7% of all relevés. During the last four years some “header data information” was improved e.g. elevation (now available for 83.4% of all relevés), aspect (67.7%), slope (66%), total cover of vegetation (54.3%), cover of tree, shrub, herb, bryophyte and lichen layers (27.1%, 20.1%, 40.2%, 11.5% and 2.1%), respectively. Data access is either semi-restricted (65.6%) or restricted (34.4%). Most relevés (84.6%) are classified to syntaxa of different levels. The database has been used for numerous studies with various objectives from floristic, vegetation and habitat-related topics, to macroecological studies at the local, regional, national, continental and global levels. During the last four years, BVD data were requested from 111 different projects via the EVA and sPlot databases.