Gibiel Natural Reserve - floristic inventory

Occurrence
Latest version published by University of Agriculture in Krakow on Jun 1, 2026 University of Agriculture in Krakow
Publication date:
1 June 2026
License:
CC0 1.0

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Description

This database was developed as part of a scientific research project conducted in the Gibiel Nature Reserve within the Niepołomice Forest near Kraków, Poland. Its purpose was to characterize the understory vegetation occurring on permanent research plots. The field survey was carried out during the 2025 growing season.

Data Records

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Rights

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is University of Agriculture in Krakow. To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 3c6e1b51-6a59-4404-ad91-1187b106be86.  University of Agriculture in Krakow publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Polish Biodiversity Information Network.

Keywords

Occurrence; Observation

Contacts

Kacper Foremnik
  • Metadata Provider
  • Originator
  • User
  • Point Of Contact
Data Manager
University of Agriculture in Krakow
Al. Mickiewicza 21
31-120 Krakow
Małopolskie
PL

Geographic Coverage

Gibiel Nature Reserve within the Niepołomice Forest near Kraków, Poland

Bounding Coordinates South West [50.051, 20.363], North East [50.062, 20.366]

Taxonomic Coverage

No Description available

Kingdom Plantae

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 0018-10-16 / 0011-02-15

Sampling Methods

On each permanent research plot (marked in the field), an inventory of understory vegetation was conducted within a 200 m² sampling area.

Study Extent Gibiel Nature Reserve within the Niepołomice Forest near Kraków, Poland

Method step description:

  1. Plant occurrence data were collected in the field using the VegApp mobile application (Schmidtlein, S. and Chitin Software, 2024: VegApp, v.3, https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=edu.kit.ifgg.vegapp, doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.27771642.v1). Data management was carried out using TURBOVEG, and the dataset was subsequently processed in the R programming environment and formatted according to GBIF standards.

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