Updates and improvements of Turkish Plants Data Service (TüBİVES)

Reaching biological information of the studied taxa became quite simple by introducing biodiversity information databases through internet. TuBIVES (Turkish Plants Data Service) is the first and the most efficient biodiversity database of the plants in Turkey. In this study, the structural of TuBIVES has been changed according to needs in new data types such as, chromosomal numbers, vernacular names, uses of plants, IUCN categories for endemics, nomenclature and synonym information of plants distributed in Turkey. The structure of database and querying algorithm have been updated both for TuRKNOM (Nomenclatural Database of Turkish Vascular Plants) and TuBIVES.