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sPlot : a new tool for global vegetation analyses
Authors :
Bruelheide, Helge Dengler, Jürgen Jiménez‐Alfaro, Borja Purschke, Oliver Hennekens, Stephan M. Chytrý, Milan Pillar, Valério D. Jansen, Florian Kattge, Jens Sandel, Brody Aubin, Isabelle Biurrun, Idoia Field, Richard Haider, Sylvia Jandt, Ute Lenoir, Jonathan Peet, Robert K. Peyre, Gwendolyn Sabatini, Francesco Maria Schmidt, Marco Schrodt, Franziska Winter, Marten Aćić, Svetlana Agrillo, Emiliano Alvarez, Miguel Ambarlı, Didem Angelini, Pierangela Apostolova, Iva Arfin Khan, Mohammed A. S. Arnst, Elise Attorre, Fabio Baraloto, Christopher Beckmann, Michael Berg, Christian Bergeron, Yves Bergmeier, Erwin Bjorkman, Anne D. Bondareva, Viktoria Borchardt, Peter Botta‐Dukát, Zoltán Boyle, Brad Breen, Amy Brisse, Henry Byun, Chaeho Cabido, Marcelo R. Casella, Laura Cayuela, Luis Černý, Tomáš Chepinoga, Victor Csiky, János Curran, Michael Ćušterevska, Renata Dajić Stevanović, Zora De Bie, Els de Ruffray, Patrice De Sanctis, Michele Dimopoulos, Panayotis Dressler, Stefan Ejrnæs, Rasmus El‐Sheikh, Mohamed Abd El‐Rouf Mousa Enquist, Brian Ewald, Jörg Fagúndez, Jaime Finckh, Manfred Font, Xavier Forey, Estelle Fotiadis, Georgios García‐Mijangos, Itziar Gasper, André Luis Golub, Valentin Gutierrez, Alvaro G. Hatim, Mohamed Z. He, Tianhua Higuchi, Pedro Holubová, Dana Hölzel, Norbert Homeier, Jürgen Indreica, Adrian Işık Gürsoy, Deniz Jansen, Steven Janssen, John Jedrzejek, Birgit Jiroušek, Martin Jürgens, Norbert Kącki, Zygmunt Kavgacı, Ali Kearsley, Elizabeth Kessler, Michael Knollová, Ilona Kolomiychuk, Vitaliy Korolyuk, Andrey Kozhevnikova, Maria Kozub, Łukasz Krstonošić, Daniel Kühl, Hjalmar Kühn, Ingolf Kuzemko, Anna Küzmič, Filip Landucci, Flavia Lee, Michael T. Levesley, Aurora Li, Ching‐Feng Liu, Hongyan Lopez‐Gonzalez, Gabriela Lysenko, Tatiana Macanović, Armin Mahdavi, Parastoo Manning, Peter Marcenò, Corrado Martynenko, Vassiliy Mencuccini, Maurizio Minden, Vanessa Moeslund, Jesper Erenskjold Moretti, Marco Müller, Jonas V. Munzinger, Jérôme Niinemets, Ülo Nobis, Marcin Noroozi, Jalil Nowak, Arkadiusz Onyshchenko, Viktor Overbeck, Gerhard E. Ozinga, Wim A. Pauchard, Anibal Pedashenko, Hristo Peñuelas, Josep Pérez‐Haase, Aaron Peterka, Tomáš Petřík, Petr Phillips, Oliver L. Prokhorov, Vadim Rašomavičius, Valerijus Revermann, Rasmus Rodwell, John Ruprecht, Eszter Rūsiņa, Solvita Samimi, Cyrus Schaminée, Joop H.J. Schmiedel, Ute Šibík, Jozef Šilc, Urban Škvorc, Željko Smyth, Anita Sop, Tenekwetche Sopotlieva, Desislava Sparrow, Ben Stančić, Zvjezdana Svenning, Jens‐Christian Swacha, Grzegorz Tang, Zhiyao Tsiripidis, Ioannis Turtureanu, Pavel Dan Uğurlu, Emin Uogintas, Domas Valachovič, Milan Vanselow, Kim André Vashenyak, Yulia Vassilev, Kiril Vélez‐Martin, Eduardo Venanzoni, Roberto Vibrans, Alexander Christian Violle, Cyrille Virtanen, Risto Wehrden, Henrik Wagner, Viktoria Walker, Donald A. Wana, Desalegn Weiher, Evan Wesche, Karsten Whitfeld, Timothy Willner, Wolfgang Wiser, Susan Wohlgemuth, Thomas Yamalov, Sergey Zizka, Georg Zverev, Andrei Bruelheide, Helge Dengler, Jürgen Jiménez‐Alfaro, Borja Purschke, Oliver Hennekens, Stephan M. Chytrý, Milan Pillar, Valério D. Jansen, Florian Kattge, Jens Sandel, Brody Aubin, Isabelle Biurrun, Idoia Field, Richard Haider, Sylvia Jandt, Ute Lenoir, Jonathan Peet, Robert K. Peyre, Gwendolyn Sabatini, Francesco Maria Schmidt, Marco Schrodt, Franziska Winter, Marten Aćić, Svetlana Agrillo, Emiliano Alvarez, Miguel Ambarlı, Didem Angelini, Pierangela Apostolova, Iva Arfin Khan, Mohammed A. S. Arnst, Elise Attorre, Fabio Baraloto, Christopher Beckmann, Michael Berg, Christian Bergeron, Yves Bergmeier, Erwin Bjorkman, Anne D. Bondareva, Viktoria Borchardt, Peter Botta‐Dukát, Zoltán Boyle, Brad Breen, Amy Brisse, Henry Byun, Chaeho Cabido, Marcelo R. Casella, Laura Cayuela, Luis Černý, Tomáš Chepinoga, Victor Csiky, János Curran, Michael Ćušterevska, Renata Dajić Stevanović, Zora De Bie, Els de Ruffray, Patrice De Sanctis, Michele Dimopoulos, Panayotis Dressler, Stefan Ejrnæs, Rasmus El‐Sheikh, Mohamed Abd El‐Rouf Mousa Enquist, Brian Ewald, Jörg Fagúndez, Jaime Finckh, Manfred Font, Xavier Forey, Estelle Fotiadis, Georgios García‐Mijangos, Itziar Gasper, André Luis Golub, Valentin Gutierrez, Alvaro G. Hatim, Mohamed Z. He, Tianhua Higuchi, Pedro Holubová, Dana Hölzel, Norbert Homeier, Jürgen Indreica, Adrian Işık Gürsoy, Deniz Jansen, Steven Janssen, John Jedrzejek, Birgit Jiroušek, Martin Jürgens, Norbert Kącki, Zygmunt Kavgacı, Ali Kearsley, Elizabeth Kessler, Michael Knollová, Ilona Kolomiychuk, Vitaliy Korolyuk, Andrey Kozhevnikova, Maria Kozub, Łukasz Krstonošić, Daniel Kühl, Hjalmar Kühn, Ingolf Kuzemko, Anna Küzmič, Filip Landucci, Flavia Lee, Michael T. Levesley, Aurora Li, Ching‐Feng Liu, Hongyan Lopez‐Gonzalez, Gabriela Lysenko, Tatiana Macanović, Armin Mahdavi, Parastoo Manning, Peter Marcenò, Corrado Martynenko, Vassiliy Mencuccini, Maurizio Minden, Vanessa Moeslund, Jesper Erenskjold Moretti, Marco Müller, Jonas V. Munzinger, Jérôme Niinemets, Ülo Nobis, Marcin Noroozi, Jalil Nowak, Arkadiusz Onyshchenko, Viktor Overbeck, Gerhard E. Ozinga, Wim A. Pauchard, Anibal Pedashenko, Hristo Peñuelas, Josep Pérez‐Haase, Aaron Peterka, Tomáš Petřík, Petr Phillips, Oliver L. Prokhorov, Vadim Rašomavičius, Valerijus Revermann, Rasmus Rodwell, John Ruprecht, Eszter Rūsiņa, Solvita Samimi, Cyrus Schaminée, Joop H.J. Schmiedel, Ute Šibík, Jozef Šilc, Urban Škvorc, Željko Smyth, Anita Sop, Tenekwetche Sopotlieva, Desislava Sparrow, Ben Stančić, Zvjezdana Svenning, Jens‐Christian Swacha, Grzegorz Tang, Zhiyao Tsiripidis, Ioannis Turtureanu, Pavel Dan Uğurlu, Emin Uogintas, Domas Valachovič, Milan Vanselow, Kim André Vashenyak, Yulia Vassilev, Kiril Vélez‐Martin, Eduardo Venanzoni, Roberto Vibrans, Alexander Christian Violle, Cyrille Virtanen, Risto Wehrden, Henrik Wagner, Viktoria Walker, Donald A. Wana, Desalegn Weiher, Evan Wesche, Karsten Whitfeld, Timothy Willner, Wolfgang Wiser, Susan Wohlgemuth, Thomas Yamalov, Sergey Zizka, Georg Zverev, Andrei
Publication Year :
2019
Abstract
Aims: Vegetation‐plot records provide information on the presence and cover or abundance of plants co‐occurring in the same community. Vegetation‐plot data are spread across research groups, environmental agencies and biodiversity research centers and, thus, are rarely accessible at continental or global scales. Here we present the sPlot database, which collates vegetation plots worldwide to allow for the exploration of global patterns in taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity at the plant community level. Results: sPlot version 2.1 contains records from 1,121,244 vegetation plots, which comprise 23,586,216 records of plant species and their relative cover or abundance in plots collected worldwide between 1885 and 2015. We complemented the information for each plot by retrieving climate and soil conditions and the biogeographic context (e.g., biomes) from external sources, and by calculating community‐weighted means and variances of traits using gap‐filled data from the global plant trait database TRY. Moreover, we created a phylogenetic tree for 50,167 out of the 54,519 species identified in the plots. We present the first maps of global patterns of community richness and community‐weighted means of key traits. Conclusions: The availability of vegetation plot data in sPlot offers new avenues for vegetation analysis at the global scale.
Details
Database :
OAIster
Notes :
application/pdf, Journal of Vegetation Science, English
Publication Type :
Electronic Resource
Accession number :
edsoai.on1104951625
Document Type :
Electronic Resource