The European Vegetation Photographs (EVP)

The EVP is a collaborative project to collect photos of European vegetation alliances. During the last months, a small group of EVS collaborators started to amass photos using the application „Botanical photo-gallery“ (www.botanicalphotogallery.eu), developed by Dana Holubová and colleagues. The database already includes around 1400 photos of 250 alliances. This contribution aims (ii) to give an overview of the collected photos and the missing data and (ii) to invite the EVS colleagues to support the photo collection. Uploading the photos into the application is relatively easy and just a few mandatory data are required: alliance name, author, date, locality, and country. We further recommend stating the association name, names of dominant plants, and the coordinates. Each photo contains a copyright stamp with the author's name. Our forthcoming goal will be to implement the amassed photos into the new online database of the European flora and vegetation (FloraVeg.EU) and to provide at least one photo of each of the alliances listed in the EuroVegChecklist (https://www.synbiosys.alterra.nl/evc/) by the end of 2022. Once enough photos will be collected, the second goal will be to prepare a report for publication in one of the IAVS journals. We hope that many of you will contribute photos of European vegetation types to create a European photo collection useful for future vegetation studies and teaching activities.