Abstract
The Integrated Plant Record vegetation analysis (IPR vegetation analysis) is a semi-quantitative method that has been developed to reconstruct Cenozoic zonal vegetation based on the fossil leaf, fruit, and pollen record, i.e., the integrated plant record. To date, thousands of taxa have been scored and more than 300 fossil and modern plant sites have been evaluated by this method.
Such huge amounts of data can be handled easily and made widely available only by a sophisticated, automated working application. The internet platform www.iprdatabase.eu provides an interactive database of scored taxa, localities, and a template for the evaluation of further plant assemblages, whether fossil or modern.
Moreover, the computerised application allows changing classification parameters, directly editing synonyms and typographical errors, as well as scoring taxa within formerly uploaded datasets. To keep the database operational, the abovementioned inputs are possible only under an authorised access to the application.