The Austrian Vegetation Database is managed by W. Willner (Vienna Institute for Nature Conservation & Analyses). It is part of the activities co-ordinated by the Working Group for European Vegetation Survey of the International Association for Vegetation Science (see SynBioSys).

Large parts of the database have been gathered between 1997 and 1999 (project "Numerical analysis and classification of the Austrian forests", funded by FWF Austrian Science Fund) and between 2001 and 2003 (project "GIS-based vegetation data base of the Austrian Alps", funded by the Austrian Academy of Science). However, the database is still far from being complete. Especially, anthropogenic vegetation (pastures and meadows, weed communities) and (semi-)aquatic vegetation is only insufficiently covered yet. On 1 January 2008, ca. 36.000 relevés have been available in TURBOVEG format. About the same number of relevés is still waiting to be computerized. Several hundred relevés are already available in digital format but not yet imported into the database. Due to the absence of funding, progress is rather slow at the moment.

Prof. Dr. Georg Grabherr, Dept. of Conservation Biology, Vegetation Ecology and Landscape Ecology, Univ. of Vienna
Prof. Dr. Gert Michael Steiner, Dept. of Conservation Biology, Vegetation Ecology and Landscape Ecology, Univ. of Vienna
Prof. Dr. Paul Heiselmayer, Fachbereich Organismische Biologie, Univ. of Salzburg

Scientific co-operations are welcome. The database is open for non-scientific purposes as well. However, a management fee of 60 € per hour has to be charged in the latter case.