Czech Vegetation Database
1 Introduction
The Czech Vegetation Database (formerly the Czech National Phytosociological Database) is an open digital archive of vegetation-plot records from the territory of the Czech Republic. It includes phytosociological relevés, i.e., records of plant species composition and cover-abundances in delimited plots within relatively homogeneous vegetation patches, as well as similar vegetation-plot data from vegetation surveys, monitoring programs, and ecological studies.
The database is registered in the Global Index of Vegetation-Plot Databases (GIVD, Dengler et al. 2011) with the code EU-CZ-001. It contributes data to:
- European Vegetation Archive (EVA) (Chytrý et al. 2016), a centralized database of European vegetation plots
- ReSurveyEurope (Knollová et al. 2024), a database of resurveyed and permanent vegetation plots from Europe
- sPlot (Bruelheide et al. 2019), a global database of vegetation plots
- GBIF, a global database of species occurrence records
- Pladias (Chytrý et al. 2021), a database of Czech flora and vegetation
The database is coordinated at the Vegetation Science Group, Department of Botany and Zoology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. The current database administrator is Ilona Knollová (ikuzel@sci.muni.cz).
In November 2025, the database contained 117,740 vegetation plots from the Czech Republic, sampled between 1922 and 2025. These plots represent all vegetation types found in the country, with grassland and forest plots being the most numerous, followed by plots from wetlands, ruderal, and weed vegetation.
4 Funding
This website was launched in January 2026. Its development was supported through the Open Science Clusters’ Action for Research and Society (OSCARS) Horizon Europe project under grant agreement No. 101129751, subproject “EVA-FAIR - Implementing FAIR principles in the European Vegetation Archive data”.
