Vegetation Databases and Climate Change

The German Working Group on Vegetation Databases is dedicated to the promotion of plot databanks, in order to facilitate application of botanical data, to open up new paths of analysis and to encourage exchange among scientists and practitioners. As a Section of the Network for Phytodiversity (NetPhyD),  we coordinate activities concerning the stimulation, compilation, dissemination and utilisation of vegetation data in Germany and surrounding countries. Since 2002 the Working Group has organized eight annual meetings.

The forthcoming 9th meeting in Hamburg will be focussed on vegetation databases and climate change. Vegetation databanks are an indispensable tool in climate change research that deserves more attention by scientists and decision makers. Their vast legacy of historical and recent co-ocurrence data allow to study vegetation responses to climate at various scales and levels of complexity.

Link zur Internetseite der Veranstaltung.