Czech National Phytosociological Database: basic statistics of the available vegetation-plot data
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| Year of publication | 2003 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Preslia |
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| Web | http://www.sci.muni.cz/botany/chytry/Pre2003.pdf |
| Field | Ecology |
| Keywords | bioinformatics; Czech Republic; plant community; phytosociology; relevé; vegetation sampling; survey |
| Description | Electronic vegetation relevés available in the Czech National Phytosociological Database are reviewed. The database was established in 1996, with a central database managed in the Department of Botany, Masaryk University in Brno (www.sci.muni.cz/botany/database.htm). On 15 November 2002 the central database contained 54,310 relevés from the territory of the Czech Republic, sampled by 332 authors between 1922-2002. Ca. 54 % of the relevés have been taken from published papers or monographs, 21 % from theses and the rest from various unpublished reports and field-books. These relevés include 1,259,008 floristic records of individual plant species. Territorial coverage of the country with relevé-plot data is irregular due to more intensive sampling in the areas with attractive natural or semi-natural vegetation; on the other hand some gaps still exist in less attractive or poorly accessible areas. Most relevés are of broad-leaved deciduous forests (Querco-Fagetea), meadows (Molinio-Arrhenatheretea), dry grasslands (Festuco-Brometea), and marsh grasslands (Phragmito-Magnocaricetea). Data quality issues are discussed, such as researcher bias in field recording, preferential selection of sampling sites, spatial autocorrelation, and missing values of some data elements. |
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