Pladias database of the czech flora and vegetation
Journal
Czech Botanical Society
Journal Volume
93
Journal Issue
1
Pages
1-87
Date Issued
2021-01-01
Author(s)
Chytrý, Milan
Danihelka, Jirí
Kaplan, Zdenek
Wild, Jan
Holubová, Dana
Novotný, Petr
Reznícková, Marcela
Rohn, Martin
Drevojan, Pavel
Grulich, Vít
Klimešová, Jitka
Lepš, Jan
Lososová, Zdenka
Pergl, Jan
Sádlo, Jirí
Šmarda, Petr
Štepánková, Petra
Tichý, Lubomír
Axmanová, Irena
Bartušková, Alena
Blažek, Petr
Chrtek, Jindrich
Fischer, Felícia M.
Guo, Wen Yong
Herben, Tomáš
Janovský, Zdenek
Konecná, Marie
Kühn, Ingolf
Moravcová, Lenka
Petrík, Petr
Pierce, Simon
Prach, Karel
Prokešová, Helena
Štech, Milan
Tešitel, Jakub
Tešitelová, Tamara
Vecera, Martin
Pyšek, Petr
Abstract
The Pladias (Plant Diversity Analysis and Synthesis) Database of the Czech Flora and Vegetation was developed by the Pladias project team in 2014-2018 and has been continuously updated since then. The flora section of the database contains critically revised information on the Czech vascular flora, including 13.6 million plant occurrence records, which are dynamically displayed in maps, and data on 120 plant characteristics (traits, environmental associations and other information), divided into the sections: (1) Habitus and growth type, (2) Leaf, (3) Flower, (4) Fruit, seed and dispersal, (5) Belowground organs and clonality, (6) Trophic mode, (7) Karyology, (8) Taxon origin, (9) Ecological indicator values, (10) Habitat and sociology, (11) Distribution and frequency, and (12) Threats and protection. The vegetation section of the database contains information on Czech vegetation types extracted from the monograph Vegetation of the Czech Republic. The data are supplemented by national botanical bibliographies, electronic versions of the standard national flora and vegetation monographs, a database of more than 19,000 pictures of plant taxa and vegetation types, and digitalmaps (shapefiles) with botanical information. The data from the database are available online on a public portal www.pladias.cz, which also provides download options for various datasets and online identification keys to the species and vegetation types of the Czech Republic. In this paper, we describe the general scope, structure and content of the database, and details of the data on plant characteristics. To illustrate the data and describe the main geographic patterns in selected plant characteristics, we provide maps of mean values of numerical characteristics or proportions of categories for categorical characteristics on the map of the country in a grid of 5 longitudinal × 3 latitudinal minutes (approximately 6.0 km × 5.5 km). We also summarize the main variation patterns in the functional traits in the Czech flora using the principal component analysis.
Subjects
Biodiversity information | Czech Republic | Ecoinformatics | Flora | Online database | Plant traits | Species distribution data | Vascular plants | Vegetation types
Other Subjects
dicotyledon; endogenous growth; flora; geographical distribution; growth; vegetation type; Czech Republic; Indicator indicator; Phyllanthus (angiosperm); Tracheophyta
Type
journal article