Vegetation relevés in temperate forest region of European Russia

Our local database includes about 5000 vegetation relevés sampled at temporal plots (commonly 10 × 10 m) which are mostly located in State nature reserves and National parks of European Russia. The relevés describe forest communities and, to a lesser extent, meadow communities; about 10% of the relevés was sampled on former agricultural fields which were abandoned from 1 to 25 years before the sampling. Mature and old-growth broad-leaved forests dominated by Quercus robur, Fraxinus excelsior, Tilia cordata, Ulmus spp. and Acer spp. as well as mixed forests with Picea abies and/or Pinus sylvestris and broad-leaved trees are described from the State Nature Reserves Kaluzhskie zaseki, Voronezhskiy, Kologrivskiy Les, Prioksko-Terrasnyi, Prisurskiy, Bolshaya Kokshaga and from the Ugra and Mariy-Chodra National Parks. Modern relevés were georeferenced with using GPS, legacy ones based on verbal descriptions of sampling plot locations. E. Starodubtseva, M. Bobrovsky, N. Sultanova, O. Smirnova, L. Zaugolnova, M. Shovkun, M. Bekmansurov, S. Moskalenko, Yu. Dorogova, and N. Ivanova are authors of a large part of the relevés. Current projects Projects nos. 15-29-02724, 16-34-00866 and 17-44-500297 of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research