VegBank Database Development Activities
The Panel is involved in the development of VegBank, a vegetation plot database. VegBank consists of three linked databases that contain (1) the actual plot records, (2) vegetation types recognized in the U.S. National Vegetation Classification and other vegetation types submitted by users, and (3) all plant taxa recognized by ITIS/USDA as well as all other plant taxa recorded in plot records. Vegetation records, community types and plant taxa may be submitted to VegBank and may be subsequently searched, viewed, annotated, revised, interpreted, downloaded, and cited. VegBank is being developed in collaboration with The National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, USGS Biological Resources Discipline, NBII, and NatureServe. Funding for VegBank has also been provided through a grant from the National Science Foundation.
