CICEI TC25

BOVEDA, the Bolivian Vegetation Ecology Database: first stage, the Chacoan forests

The appearance of databases of releves, and their compilation in global archives of metadata, meant a paradigm shift in the study of vegetation and biogeography. The GIVD (Dengler et al. 2011) and the sPIot Consortium (Bruelheide et al. 2019) lead this paradigm shift. The Bolivian Vegetation Ecology Database (BOVEDA) was created to fill a gap in the lack of information on the outstandingly biodiverse country, and to facilítate the sharing of data and connect researchers. For this purpose, our project aims to include floristic and ecological data for the vegetation types of the country, and for the metadata to be available online in the GIVD archive. Here we present the first step of the database, focusing on the Chaco.

Participantes:
Jaime Oliveira (Universidad Complutense de Madrid: España),
José Antonio Molina Abril (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, España),Gonzalo Navarro (Universidad Católica Boliviana, Sede Cochabamba)