European Vegetation Archive (EVA): an integrated database of European vegetation plots

The European Vegetation Archive (EVA) is a centralized database of European vegetation plots developed by the IAVS Working Group European Vegetation Survey. It has been in development since 2012 and first made available for use in research projects in 2014. It stores copies of national and regional vegetation- plot databases on a single software platform. Data storage in EVA does not affect on-going independent development of the contributing databases, which remain the property of the data contributors. EVA uses a prototype of the database management software TURBOVEG 3 developed for joint management of multiple databases that use different species lists. This is facilitated by the SynBioSys Taxon Database, a system of taxon names and concepts used in the individual European databases and their corresponding names on a unified list of European flora. TURBOVEG 3 also includes procedures for handling data requests, selections and provisions according to the approved EVA Data Property and Governance Rules. By 30 June 2015, 61 databases from all European regions have joined EVA, contributing in total 1 027 376 vegetation plots, 82% of them with geographic coordinates, from 57 countries. EVA provides a unique data source for large-scale analyses of European vegetation diversity both for fundamental research and nature conservation applications. Updated information on EVA is available online at http://euroveg.org/eva-database.

Zoltán Botta-Dukát | Xavier Font | Thomas Wohlgemuth | Jonathan Lenoir | Jörg Ewald | Martin Kleikamp | Giuliano Fanelli | Panayotis Dimopoulos | Milan Chytrý | Rosario G. Gavilán | Borja Jiménez-Alfaro | Flavia Landucci | Joop H.J. Schaminée | Wolfgang Willner | Dmytro Dubyna | Stephan M. Hennekens | Itziar García-Mijangos | Svetlana Aćić | Iva Apostolova | Juan Antonio Campos | Jens-Christian Svenning | Risto Virtanen | Ute Jandt | Jiří Danihelka | Ioannis Tsiripidis | Roberto Venanzoni | Kiril Vassilev | Didem Ambarlı | Florian Jansen | Riccardo Guarino | Henry Brisse | Rasmus Ejrnæs | Jesper Erenskjold Moeslund | Fabio Attorre | Emiliano Agrillo | Laura Casella | Valentin Golub | J. Janssen | W. Willner | R. Ejrnæs | J. Lenoir | P. D. Ruffray | X. Font | J. Dengler | J. Šibík | J. Schaminée | R. Venanzoni | J. Svenning | B. Jiménez‐Alfaro | T. Peterka | Z. Botta‐Dukát | M. Chytrý | Ilona Knollová | F. Fernández‐González | R. Virtanen | F. Landucci | J. Moeslund | P. Dimopoulos | F. Attorre | M. D. Sanctis | T. Wohlgemuth | A. Čarni | I. Tsiripidis | J. Ewald | S. Hennekens | M. Valachovič | F. Jansen | I. Apostolova | Desislava Sopotlieva | J. Rodwell | Ute Jandt | J. Danihelka | U. Šilc | E. Bergmeier | I. Biurrun | Z. Kącki | C. Marcenó | A. Pérez‐Haase | G. Seidler | K. Vassilev | Dana Michalcová | A. Kavgacı | G. Fanelli | R. Guarino | H. Brisse | E. Agrillo | L. Casella | Federico Fernández-González | C. Berg | S. Rūsiņa | Idoia Biurrun | Els De Bie | V. Prokhorov | Erwin Bergmeier | Jürgen Dengler | Milan Valachovič | H. Pedashenko | Grzegorz Swacha | N. Ermakov | I. García‐Mijangos | J. A. Campos | A. Kuzemko | P. Angelini | M. P. Rodríguez-Rojo | R. Gavilán | Ú. Fitzpatrick | E. Ruprecht | János Csiky | Úna FitzPatrick | Zygmunt Kącki | Jozef Šibík | Urban Šilc | Željko Škvorc | Andraž Čarni | Emin Uğurlu | S. Aćić | Didem Ambarlı | L. Carlon | J. Csiky | R. Ćušterevska | Z. Stevanovic | E. Bie | W. B. Dickoré | D. Dubyna | T. Dziuba | V. Golub | R. Haveman | A. Indreica | Deniz Gürsoy | Martin Jiroušek | Martin Kleikamp | V. Kolomiychuk | M. Čuk | Daniel Krstonošić | T. Lysenko | V. Martynenko | V. Onyshchenko | V. Rašomavičius | T. Rogova | Ž. Škvorc | Z. Stančić | P. Turtureanu | Domas Uogintas | Yulia Vashenyak | L. Weekes | S. Yamalov | Solvita Rūsiņa | Nikolai Ermakov | Ilona Knollová | Pierangela Angelini | Christian Berg | Renata Ćušterevska | Adrian Indreica | Martin Jiroušek | Vitaliy Kolomiychuk | Daniel Krstonošić | Anna Kuzemko | Tatiana Lysenko | Corrado Marcenò | Vassiliy Martynenko | Viktor Onyshchenko | Hristo Pedashenko | Tomáš Peterka | Vadim Prokhorov | Valerijus Rašomavičius | Eszter Ruprecht | Desislava Sopotlieva | Zvjezdana Stančić | Grzegorz Swacha | Pavel Dan Turtureanu | Emin Uğurlu | Domas Uogintas | Yulia Vashenyak | Ali Kavgaci | Michele De Sanctis | J.A.M. Janssen | Luis Carlón | Zora Dajić Stevanović | Patrice de Ruffray | W. Bernhard Dickoré | Tetiana Dziuba | Rense Haveman | Deniz Işık Gürsoy | Mirjana Ćuk | Dana Michalcová | Aaron Pérez-Haase | Maria Pilar Rodríguez-Rojo | John S. Rodwell | Tatiana Rogova | Gunnar Seidler | Lynda Weekes | S. M. Yamalov | E. Uğurlu | Anna A. Kuzemko | Z. Stevanović | P. Ruffray | M. Sanctis | Jürgen Dengler | Jens‐Christian Svenning | Rasmus Ejrnæs | Eszter Ruprecht

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