The Ecological Database of the British Isles has been constructed from a wide variety of sources by Dr Helen Peat and Professor Alastair Fitter at the University of York, with financial support from the British Ecological Society and the Natural Environment Research Council. It consists of data on over 1770 species of higher plants that occur in the British Isles, together with the bibliography of sources. This version has been realised by Dr Henry Ford. The data comprises information on taxonomy (family, genus, specific name, authority, and vernacular name, together with a synonomy), a suite of over 130 ecological and morphological characteristics, vice-county distribution in Britain, European distribution by country, mycorrhizal associations and fungal diseases. The data are obtained from the literature and therefore coverage varies greatly between species. Some data sets are incomplete at this stage. ... [Information of the supplier]
Welcome to Plant Talk, the only magazine to provide – on a world scale – information, encouragement and advice on plant conservation. Read in over 120 countries, Plant Talk is a vital and unique source of concise, targetted information for professionals, students and all those with a serious interest in plants and the environment. Plant Talk was published in printed issues quarterly from 1995 to 2006 by Plant Talk Ltd, a not-for-profit company supported by six leading botanical and conservation institutes. In 2006, the company has re-focused and its plan is to continue a web presence and to launch a new online Plant Talk magazine on the internet in 2007. ... [Information of the supplier, modified]
For more than ten years I have been working on a book on bryophyte ecology and was joined by Heinjo During, who has been very helpful in critiquing multiple versions of the chapters. But as the book progressed, the field of bryophyte ecology progressed faster. No chapter ever seemed to stay finished, hence the decision to publish online. Furthermore, rather than being a textbook, it is evolving into an encyclopedia that would be at least three volumes, with the first being physiological ecology, but including an introduction to the broad classification of phyla and classes, morphology, structures, and life cycles. Communities, habitats, roles, and uses, among others, are in various stages of completion. ... [Information of the supplier, modified]
The LEDA Traitbase provides information on plant traits that describe three key features of plant dynamics: persistence, regeneration and dispersal. The following traits are currently accessible via the query application: Canopy height, Leaf distribution, Leaf dry matter content, Leaf mass, Leaf size, Specific leaf area, Seed mass, Shoot growth form, Woodiness. You need to register in order to use the LEDA Traitbase. ... [Information of the supplier]
CLO-PLA3 is a database of plant traits concerning clonal growth and vegetative regeneration of Central European flora. It is a result of team work in which participated: Karolína Bendová, Helena Gruberová, Magda Jonášová, Jan Karpíšek, Leoš Klimeš, Jitka Klimešová, Karel Knopp, Petra Konvalinková, Vojtěch Lanta, Adéla Pokorná. Support during building the database from 1994 was provided by Institute of Botany, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (grants AV0Z6005908, AV0Z60050516), Grant Agency of the Czech Republic (grant 206/01/1039) and by European Commission (LEDA project under ESSD programme, contract number EVR1-CT-2002-40022). This web pages provide a free access to data for individual species of vascular plants based on literature records and field experience of the authors. If several records are available for a species, all of them are in the database. Each record is referenced so that the user can consult literature sources for original data. Individual records can be saved on user's computer. ... [Information of the supplier]
Rapid climate change threatens biodiversity – of alpine ecosystems in particular. The EU FP-5 project GLORIA-EUROPE has established a long-term monitoring network to study climate change-induced impacts on Europe's mountains. The major forthcoming step of GLORIA is the extension from the European to the global level. GLORIA is an initiative towards an international research network to assess climate change impacts on mountain environments. The challenge of GLORIA is to establish a long-term observation network that uses a standardised monitoring protocol in all major mountain systems on Earth. The aim of GLORIA's Multi-Summit approach is to establish a long-term observation network to obtain standardised data on alpine biodiversity and vegetation patterns on a global scale. Its purpose is to assess risks of biodiversity losses and the vulnerability of high mountain ecosystems under climate change pressures. ... [Information of the supplier, modified]
The Indian-based International Society of Environmental Botanists (ISEB) is a non-profit, non-governmental organisation and is a Scientific Member of International Union of Biological Sciences (IUBS), Paris. Main goals of ISEB are to promote and coordinate research on plants in relation to environmental pollution, to encourage better interaction among researchers, teachers, and social activists, and to create awareness, especially among governmental policy makers and industry leaders. ... [Information of the supplier, modified]
UIBM aims to simulate plant diversity in herbaceous, grassland communities, which hold the majority of vascular plant diversity in Central-Europe. UIBM aims to simulate the plant diversity response to management intensification, nutrient load and climate change factors. It improves species distribution models, which restrict themselves to climate change. UIBM is a process-based model. This is an advantage over empirical/statistical species distribution models, which rely heavily on expert knowledge and suffer from methodological limitations. UIBM simulates local species composition of herb communities on a Braun-Blanquet minimum area. These are advantages over process-based dynamic global vegetation models, which are limited to large-scale plant functional type responses of natural vegetation and difficult to validate. ... [Information of the supplier]
SALVIAS (Spatial Analysis of Local Vegetation Inventories Across Scales) is a network of ecologists, conservation biologists, biogeographers, botanists and computer programmers interested in understanding large scale patterns of plant diversity. SALVIAS is a collaborative project devoted to the study of plant abundance, diversity, and distribution at local to global scales. Our mission is to facilitate novel research by linking local ecological attributes (from vegetation inventories) with taxon-level attributes (distribution and phenology as recorded in herbarium specimens, databases of growth, biomass, phytochemistry) and properties of the physical environment (climate, soils, ecosystem energy). ... [Information of the supplier]
Plant traits - morphological, anatomical, biochemical, physiological or phenological features of individuals or their component organs or tissues - are a key to understanding and predicting the adaptation of ecosystems in the face of biodiversity loss and global change. To improve the empirical data basis for such projections, in 2007 the TRY project was initiated, aimed at bringing together the different plant trait databases worldwide. In this context TRY is not an acronym, rather a statement of sentiment. Since 2007 the TRY database has accomplished an unprecedented coverage. It contains more than 5 million trait records for 1,100 traits of 2.2 million individual plants, representing 100,000 plant species. About halve of the data are geo-referenced, providing a global coverage of more than 12,000 measurement sites. ... [Information of the supplier]
