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Tab created: 2021-11-17

Name Name of the biodiversity monitoring initiative

Friendly name Short and comprehensive name to be used in visualizations. Not required. (i.e. PT - BMS)

Geographical coverage

Geographic coverage At what scale is data collected by the monitoring initiative? (e.g. EU, Biogeographic Region)

Covered countries Select the countries covered by this monitoring initiative

Is the data representative for the whole country? If the answer is yes, stop here. If the answer is NO, and the monitoring sites are concentrated in a particular region, please, select the corresponding NUTS level region

If the biodiversity data/initiative has a subnational coverage or is not representative in whole country for national coverage, select first the corresponding country ("Nuts country" field) and then the NUT levels 1-2-3 covered (multiple choice allowed). If you don´t find the relevant the NUTS region/s in the provided list, please use the field "Geographic coverage" to give further details of the coverage of the biodiversity data/initiative.

Nuts country

Covered nuts

Geographic coverage detail Further details of the geographic scope. For example, if data is collected at the Biogeographic region level, indicate here the specific regions (e.g. Mediterranean)

Data origin Select from the list: systematic monitoring, opportunistic observations, automatic recording, remote sensing, others

Data origin details

The Database contains published and unpublished phytosociological relevés of high-mountain vegetation in Central Apennines (Italy). We considered only relevés and plant communities beyond the treeline (ca. 1600 m a.s.l.) in central Apennines. Each relevés is associated with an accurate site description. Moreover, each vegetation plot is associated with the corresponding habitat of Community interest (sensu "Habitats Directive" 92/43/EEC), where appropriate.

The database of high mountain vegetation of central Apennines, hereafter called VIOLA (GIVD ID EU-IT-019), includes published and unpublished phytosociological relevés of high elevation habitats occurring
in central Italy (Gran Sasso, Majella, Matese, Meta, Velino Mountains). VIOLA, digitised in to TURBOVEG, is the first standardised and exchangeable database on Mediterranean high-elevation vegetation of Italy. It includes 1687 relevés collected during the period 1955–2014, containing 670 taxa, and such numbers will increase as new vegetation data becomes available. The relevés are distributed above the treeline (between 1600 to 2900 m a.s.l.) and refer to the dwarf shrublands, the oro-mediterranean grasslands and high elevation scree and
cliff vegetation. Most of the relevés are georeferenced to different levels of accuracy using information from toponyms, altitude, slope, aspect and, if available, GPS coordinates. We followed Conti et al. (2005, 2007) for
the taxonomic attribution and nomenclatural updates of vascular plant taxa and, for solving synonymy problems, we also consulted other national and international vascular plants checklists. For each taxon, the cover/abundance value recorded in the relevés is reported. In addition, the Ellenberg indicator values, life form and chorotype are described. Where appropriate, the corresponding EC habitat (92/43/EEC Habitats Directive) is assigned to each vegetation relevé. Currently, VIOLA includes vegetation relevés belonging to 7 EC habitats (4060, 4070*, 6170, 6210, 6230*, 8120, 8210). VIOLA offers a sound baseline for carrying out a multitude of ecological studies, and is an efficient tool for analyzing EC habitat distribution over time. Moreover, it provides useful information on shifts in altitudinal distribution of plant taxa resulting from global warming (thermophilization process) and land use changes. The VIOLA database is included in the European Vegetation Archive (EVA, www.euroveg.org) and in the Italian national vegetation database (VegItaly, www.vegitaly.it, EU-IT-001).

https://www.givd.info/ID/EU-IT-019

Brief description of the monitoring initiative: how the data is collected (e.g. sampling transects), what is the frequency of data collection, etc. Please, write here any details that might be relevant for the dataflow that builds on this biodiversity data, including relevant URLs and bibliographic references

Purpose What is driving the monitoring initiative?

Data type Select from the list

Data collection origin Citizen science data includes data collected by volunteers of different backgrounds for example, most of the data uploaded to EBP comes from non-professional birdwatchers and the EBBA2 (European Atlas of Breeding Birds) trained volunteers over different countries to collect the data following the Atlas methodology. Both are examples of citizen science data. Government data includes monitoring programs run by employees of state/governmental agencies and public institutes such as the Nature Conservation Institute. Professional monitoring will include data collected by consultancies or NGOs for example.

Data accessibility Is the data openly available?

Data url Please, indicate the URL to access or request the data

Taxonomy

Target realm Target realm

Target taxa Target taxa

Check this box if you have a list of taxa to upload for this biodiversity data (no need to check it when sending all species available or generalist monitoring programs)

Target species List of the target species/habitats covered in the monitoring initiative. If you don´t find a thesaurus for the taxa of your interest, you might need to upload a New Thesaurus first – see tab New Thesaurus – and then, use the option “Choose Thesaurus” to select all or a subset of the taxa concerning this particular DataStream (the species integrated in a particular indicator/EBV/ESS)

Spatial scale

Spatially explicit Does the monitoring initiative collect/generate spatially-explicit data?

Spatial resolution what is the spatial scale of the data collected?

Resolution Spatial scale resolution value (numeric)

Resolution units Spatial scale resolution units (km or m)

Number of sites Indicate the approximate number of monitoring sampling sites covered

Temporal scale

Temporal scale One-off (occasional records) or temporal series

Temporal resolution If time series is selected in the 'temporal scale' field, please, select the temporal resolution of the data

Start year Since when is this monitoring initiative running? (oldest data records available for this monitoring program, regardless of how these data gets used in the integration initiative under consideration).

Ongoing Indicate whether the monitoring initiative is currently ongoing

Last year Last date the database was updated (please, leave empty if unknown)