List of national vegetation classification systems

This is a List of national vegetation classification systems. These systems classify natural habitat type according to vegetation.

Many schemes of vegetation classification are in use by the land, resource and environmental management agencies of different national and state jurisdictions. The International Vegetation Classification (IVC or EcoVeg) has been recently proposed but has not been yet widely adopted.

List Australia New South Wales: Vegetation Information System, NSW Vegetation Classification and Assessment (NSWVCA) Victoria: Ecological Vegetation Class Tasmania: TASVEG ecological vegetation community mapping units Austria: Austrian Vegetation Database, computerized phytosociological information (vegetation relevés).Based on Mucina et al. 1993, Die Pflanzengesellschaften Österreichs, Vol 1; Grabherr & Mucina 1993, Die Pflanzengesellschaften Österreichs, Vol. 2; Willner & Grabherr 2007, Die Wälder und Gebüsche ÖsterreichsAustrian Vegetation Database Belgium: Vlavedat (Flemish Vegetation Databank) De Vlaamse vegetatiedatabank Brazil: Manual Técnico da Vegetação Brasileira (IBGE, second edition, 2012). Canada: Canadian National Vegetation Classification (CNVC) Full taxonomic vegetation 8-level hierarchy based on floristic, ecological, and physiognomic criteria. Based on 'associations' and 'alliances'.CNVCPrinciples of the classification, accessed 26 August 2011 Czech Republic: Czech National Phytosociological Database, computerized phytosociological information (vegetation relevés).National Phytosociological Database Denmark: Danske VegetationstyperDanske Vegetationstyper Europe: SynBioSys Europe information system of distributed European TURBOVEG databases relating to plant species, vegetation and landscape data administered by the European Vegetation Survey. When completed this will contain 30 national species lists.SynBioSys Europe, accessed 25 August 2011 France: Sophy, computerized phytosociological information (vegetation relevés).Sophy Germany: FloraWeb website of the Bundesamt für Naturschutz (German Federal Nature Agency, or Bfn) for wild plant species, plant communities, and the natural vegetation of Germany.FloraWeb - Daten und Informationen zu Wildpflanzen und zur Vegetation Deutschlands, accessed 25 August 2011 This includes VegetWeb the central German vegetation database.VegetWebEnglish summary of Vegetweb, accessed 25 August 2011 Germany: German Vegetation Reference Database (GVRD) digitized German forest and grassland vegetation relevés at the University of Halle. Great Britain: British National Vegetation Classification (NVC), based on the five volume British Plant Communities, published by Cambridge University Press . Classification is by 'community', 'subcommunity' and 'variant'.National Vegetation Classification Ireland: Irish Vegetation Classification, based on plot data from the National Vegetation Database.National Vegetation Database New Zealand: National Vegetation Survey Databank (NVS), physical archive and computer databank recording approximately 77,000 vegetation survey plots.;National Vegetation Database New Zealand Terrestrial Ecosystems (based on Ecosystem Units) Poland: Geobotanical regionalization of Poland,Regionalizacja geobotaniczna Polski Potential natural vegetation of Poland,Potencjalna roślinność naturalna Polski ' Polish Vegetation Database,Polska Baza Danych o Roślinności System of Exchange of Information on Biodiversity in Poland - databases,System Wymiany Informacji o Bioróżnorodnosci - bazy danych Monitoring of species and natural habitats,Monitoring gatunków i siedlisk przyrodniczych Databank on Forests - interactive GIS map,Bank Danych o Lasach - mapa interaktywna Guide for determining plant associations in Poland Przewodnik do oznaczania zbiorowisk roślinnych Polski Slovakia: Centrálnej databázy fytocenologických zápisov (Central Database of Phytosociological Relevés, CDF) CDF United States: U.S. National Vegetation Classification (NVC), a hierarchical system of vegetation types. Upper levels of the NVC are mainly based primarily on physiognomy (growth form, cover, structure) and the lower levels on floristics (species composition and abundance).National Vegetation Classification Standard (Version 2.0), February 2008, accessed 25 August 2011 The NVC is maintained for the U.S. government by the non-profit group NatureServe.USNVC United States: Vegbank, vegetation plot database of the Ecological Society of America.Vegbank page the Ecological Society of America

See also Ecological land classification

References Notes

External links Global Index of Vegetation-Plot Databases (GIVD), accessed 24 August 2011 International Association for Vegetation Science resources page, accessed 24 August 2011 Jansen, Florian and Dengler, Jürgen (2010): 'Plant names in vegetation databases – a neglected source of bias' in Journal of Vegetation Science 21: 1179–1186, accessed 25 August 2011