Abstract
The formation of databases of digitized vegetation relevés and the publication of content about them promote cooperation between researchers in solving problems of biodiversity analysis, the exchange of the used data, and, thus, the increase in research representativeness. The article is devoted to the review of the origin and use of the database of relevés of forest vegetation and considers the tasks in which it is used. The current stage of work is characterized as follows: improvement of the database structure, features of the stored information, replenishment of the database, issues of administration, and cooperation organization. Based on the analysis of current trends in the vegetation science and taking into account the features of information stored in the database, the relevant scientific problems, for the solution of which the use of the database is promising, and technical tasks that need to be solved to ensure its continued use were formulated.
Highlights
Since the opening of the new institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1991) – the Center for Forest Ecology and Productivity, its employees have been involved in the creation of an electronic database of forest-vegetation relevés, including data from European Russia and neighboring territories (Khanina et al, 1991; Zaugol’nova, Khanina, 1996; Smirnova et al, 2006) The general structure of the database was developed in cooperation with
The purpose of this paper is to present the prospects for further development of the database and plans for its use, based on what has been done from the beginning of the 2000s to the present
Since the beginning of the 2000s, in the preparation of the monograph "Eastern European Forests: Holocene history and modernity" (2004) and electronic resources "Forest coenofond within European Russia" (Zaugol’nova, 2006–2010) and "Guide on forest types in European Russia" (Zaugol’nova, Martynenko, 2012), the base has been expanded with digitized relevés and summary tables, relevés of various publications
Summary
Prokazina the institutions of the Pushchino Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences: the Institute of Mathematical Problems of Biology (IMPB of RAS; a branch of the Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics of RAS) and the Institute of Physicochemical and Biological Problems of Soil Sciences of RAS (IPCBPSS of RAS, a separate division of the Pushchino Scientific Center for biological research of RAS) in the early 1990s It included 2 data tables and some reference lists (lookup tables) to fill in some fields in the data tables. The GBDescr data table was intended for storing general information about the implementation of relevés (place and date, author, size of the inspected area) and characteristics of ecotopes (position in relief, moisture regime, and soil texture, nature of microrelief, presence, and nature of traces of land-use, etc.) and layers in forest communities (total projective cover).
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