VegBank is the vegetation plot database of the Ecological Society of America's Panel on Vegetation Classification. VegBank consists of three linked databases that contain (1) vegetation 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.

Prefix

vegbank

Links

Homepage

Contact

Missing Contact

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in VegBank should match this regular expression:
^VB\.[A-Za-z][A-Za-z]\..*$

Example Local Unique Identifier

VB.Ob.3736.GRSM125   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from VegBank should match this regular expression:
^vegbank:VB\.[A-Za-z][A-Za-z]\..*$

Example CURIE

vegbank:VB.Ob.3736.GRSM125

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 2 mappings to external registries for this resource with 2 unique external prefixes.

A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).

The local unique identifier VB.Ob.3736.GRSM125 is used to demonstrate the providers available for VegBank. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.