VEGANA (Vegetation edition and Analysis) is an integrated software package oriented towards the storage, management and analysis of ecological data. The package consists of four programs which can be run independently:

• Ginkgo: multivariate analysis tool. Oriented mainly towards ordination and classification of ecological data, stressing methods based on symmetric matrices.
• Quercus: a relevé table editor. It handles relevé data allowing the user to perform phytosociological works.
• Fagus: floristic records editor. It can handle data coming from field surveys, bibliographic sources or collections.
• Yucca: a cartographic plotting tool, that enables the user to plot taxa or syntaxa distributions.

Taxon, syntaxon or bibliographic thesauri can be edited within the programs. Data can be downloaded directly from the Catalonian Biodiversity Database (http://biodiver.bio.ub.es/biocat/homepage.html) in XML file format.