This is a database for vegetation data from West Africa, i.e. phytosociological and dendrometric relevés as well as floristic inventories. The West African Vegetation Database has been developed in the framework of the projects “SUN - Sustainable Use of Natural Vegetation in West Africa” and “Biodiversity Transect Analysis in Africa” (BIOTA, https://www.biota-africa.org/).
Original data comes from a project which takes or took place as part of the DFG priority program "Exploratories for large-scale and long-term functional biodiversity research". The data is stored together with descriptive metadata, in combination called a dataset, in the project repository (https://www.bexis.uni-jena.de). Species information was extracted from that original dataset. The second paragraph is part of the metadata of the original dataset. Lichen on 400 m² GPs in forests, lichen diversity differs among management types, including the presence and absence of all taxa (saxicolous, lignicolous, corticolous recorded per woody species, terricolous, bryicolous)
Original data comes from a project which takes or took place as part of the DFG priority program "Exploratories for large-scale and long-term functional biodiversity research". The data is stored together with descriptive metadata, in combination called a dataset, in the project repository (https://www.bexis.uni-jena.de). Species information was extracted from that original dataset. The second paragraph is part of the metadata of the original dataset. Vegetation relevés of all 400 m² GPs in forests