Published

January 24, 2025

Modified

August 28, 2025

VegVault Team

Meet the team behind VegVault - researchers dedicated to advancing vegetation ecology through integrated data science.

Main Developer

Ondřej Mottl

Assistant Professor for Plant Ecology

  • 🏦 Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
  • 📬 Email: ondrej.mottl(at)gmail.com
  • ORCID
  • Personal Website

Core Collaborators

Suzette Flantua

Research Group Leader

  • 🏦 University of Bergen, Norway
  • 📬 Email: suzette.flantua(at)uib.no
  • ORCID
  • Personal Website

Franka Gaiser

PhD Student in Quantitative Ecology

  • 🏦 University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
  • 📬 Email: franka.gaiser(at)uni-bayreuth.de
  • ORCID
  • Personal Website

Irena Šímová

Research Group Leader

  • 🏦 Charles University, Czech Republic
  • 📬 Email: simova(at)cts.cuni.cz
  • ORCID
  • Personal Website

Project Affiliation

VegVault is part of the BIODYNAMICS project, which aims to understand biodiversity dynamics under changing climatic conditions.

Acknowledgments

We thank the global community of data contributors, including:

  • Neotoma Paleoecology Database contributors
  • sPlotOpen consortium members
  • BIEN database contributors
  • TRY Plant Trait Database contributors
  • CHELSA and WoSIS data providers

Get Involved

Interested in contributing to VegVault? See our Contributing Guide for information on:

  • Data contributions
  • Code contributions
  • Community involvement

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