Guide to GIVD's Fact Sheets

Abstract

This article explains the fields that are used to provide an overview of the metadata for each database in the Global Index of Vegetation-Plot Databases (GIVD). The Fact Sheets published in the Long and Short Database Reports of this volume try to answer the readers' questions on availability, scope, format, status, completeness, amount of data, applied methods, and several more in a con- densed compilation.