SWEA-Dataveg: A vegetation database for sub-Saharan Africa

By

Álvarez, Miguel
Curran, John Milne 1859-1928
Malombe, Itambo

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2021-5-5

Original Publication

Vegetation classification and survey

Volume

2

Pages

59--63

Subjects

ecoinformatics , plant biodiversity , Syntaxonomy , taxlist , vegetation ecology , vegtable

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia Pensoft Publishers 2020-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/VCS/2021/64911

 

Abstract

SWEA-Dataveg is a vegetation-plot database collecting observations mainly in sub-Saharan Africa but also open to the rest of the African continent. To date this database contains more than 5,500 plot observations provided by 47 sources (projects, monographs, and articles). While the database is stored in PostgreSQL (including the PostGIS extension), the R-package “vegtable” implements a suitable exchange format. In this article we assess the current content of SWEA-Database and introduce its history and future as a repository of data for syntaxonomic assessments and macroecological research.