Czech National Phytosociological Database
The aim of the Czech National Phytosociological Database is to gather computerized phytosociological information (vegetation relevés) from the territory of the Czech Republic in a large database that will facilitate easy access to relevant data for the purposes of vegetation surveys, mapping etc. These activities are a part of wider European projects co-ordinated by the Working Group for European Vegetation Survey of the International Association for Vegetation Science, e.g. SynBioSys.
The data are stored in the TURBOVEG database management program by S.M. Hennekens which is a European standard software for phytosociological databases. Current network of Czech TURBOVEG users was established with the help of the UK Government funding for the Darwin Initiative project "Safeguarding the Biodiversity of Eastern Europe" (1995-1998), co-ordinated by J.S. Rodwell in the Unit of Vegetation Science, Lancaster University, UK. Since 1999 the database project has been funded by the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic (grants no. 206/99/1523 and 206/02/0957).
The Czech National Phytosociological Database is co-ordinated from the Department of Botany, Masaryk University, Brno, with several local co-ordinators in other institutes, namely in the Institute of Botany, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. The co-ordinator of the database is Milan Chytry. An integral part of the database project is the development of methods for data analysis. Major procedures developed so far are available in JUICE software by Lubomir Tichy.
Geographical distribution of relevés (1 January 2006)
