sPlotOpen – An environmentally balanced, open‐access, global dataset of vegetation plots
Francesco Maria Sabatini
,
Jonathan Roger Michel Henri Lenoir
(1)
,
Tarek Hattab
(2)
,
Elise Aimee Arnst
,
Milan Chytrý
,
Jürgen Dengler
,
Patrice de Ruffray
,
Stephan Hennekens
,
Ute Jandt
,
Florian Jansen
,
Borja Jiménez‐alfaro
,
Jens Kattge
,
Aurora Levesley
,
Valério Pillar
,
Oliver Purschke
,
Brody Sandel
,
Fahmida Sultana
,
Tsipe Aavik
,
Svetlana Aćić
,
Alicia Acosta
,
Emiliano Agrillo
,
Miguel Alvarez
,
Iva Apostolova
,
Mohammed Arfin Khan
,
Luzmila Arroyo
,
Fabio Attorre
,
Isabelle Aubin
,
Arindam Banerjee
,
Marijn Bauters
,
Yves Bergeron
,
Erwin Bergmeier
,
Idoia Biurrun
,
Anne Bjorkman
,
Gianmaria Bonari
,
Viktoria Bondareva
,
Jörg Brunet
,
Andraž Čarni
,
Laura Casella
,
Luis Cayuela
,
Tomáš Černý
,
Victor Chepinoga
,
János Csiky
,
Renata Ćušterevska
,
Els de Bie
,
André Luis Gasper
,
Michele de Sanctis
,
Panayotis Dimopoulos
,
Jiri Dolezal
,
Tetiana Dziuba
,
Mohamed Abd El‐rouf Mousa El‐sheikh
,
Brian Enquist
,
Jörg Ewald
,
Farideh Fazayeli
,
Richard Field
,
Manfred Finckh
,
Sophie Gachet
(3)
,
Antonio Galán‐de‐mera
,
Emmanuel Garbolino
(4)
,
Hamid Gholizadeh
,
Melisa Giorgis
,
Valentin Golub
,
Inger Greve Alsos
,
John‐arvid Grytnes
,
Gregory Richard Guerin
,
Alvaro Gutiérrez
,
Sylvia Haider
,
Mohamed Hatim
,
Bruno Hérault
,
Guillermo Hinojos Mendoza
,
Norbert Hölzel
,
Jürgen Homeier
,
Wannes Hubau
,
Adrian Indreica
,
John Janssen
,
Birgit Jedrzejek
,
Anke Jentsch
,
Norbert Jürgens
,
Zygmunt Kącki
,
Jutta Kapfer
,
Dirk Nikolaus Karger
,
Ali Kavgaci
,
Elizabeth Kearsley
,
Michael Kessler
,
Larisa Khanina
,
Timothy Killeen
,
Andrey Korolyuk
,
Holger Kreft
,
Hjalmar Kühl
,
Anna Kuzemko
,
Flavia Landucci
,
Attila Lengyel
,
Frederic Lens
,
Débora Vanessa Lingner
,
Hongyan Liu
,
Tatiana Lysenko
,
Miguel Mahecha
,
Corrado Marcenò
,
Vasiliy Martynenko
,
Jesper Erenskjold Moeslund
,
Abel Monteagudo Mendoza
,
Ladislav Mucina
,
Jonas Müller
,
Jérôme Munzinger
(5)
,
Alireza Naqinezhad
,
Jalil Noroozi
,
Arkadiusz Nowak
,
Viktor Onyshchenko
,
Gerhard Overbeck
,
Meelis Pärtel
,
Aníbal Pauchard
,
Robert Peet
,
Josep Peñuelas
,
Aaron Pérez‐haase
,
Tomáš Peterka
,
Petr Petřík
,
Gwendolyn Peyre
,
Oliver Phillips
,
Vadim Prokhorov
,
Valerijus Rašomavičius
,
Rasmus Revermann
,
Gonzalo Rivas‐torres
,
John Rodwell
,
Eszter Ruprecht
,
Solvita Rūsiņa
,
Cyrus Samimi
,
Marco Schmidt
,
Franziska Schrodt
,
Hanhuai Shan
,
Pavel Shirokikh
,
Jozef Šibík
,
Urban Šilc
,
Petr Sklenář
,
Željko Škvorc
,
Ben Sparrow
,
Marta Gaia Sperandii
,
Zvjezdana Stančić
,
Jens‐christian Svenning
,
Zhiyao Tang
,
Cindy Tang
,
Ioannis Tsiripidis
,
Kim André Vanselow
,
Rodolfo Vásquez Martínez
,
Kiril Vassilev
,
Eduardo Vélez‐martin
,
Roberto Venanzoni
,
Alexander Christian Vibrans
,
Cyrille Violle
(6)
,
Risto Virtanen
,
Henrik Wehrden
,
Viktoria Wagner
,
Donald Walker
,
Donald Waller
,
Hua‐feng Wang
,
Karsten Wesche
,
Timothy Whitfeld
,
Wolfgang Willner
,
Susan Wiser
,
Thomas Wohlgemuth
,
Sergey Yamalov
,
Martin Zobel
,
Helge Bruelheide
1
EDYSAN -
Ecologie et Dynamique des Systèmes Anthropisés - UMR CNRS 7058
2 UMR MARBEC - MARine Biodiversity Exploitation and Conservation
3 IMBE - Institut méditerranéen de biodiversité et d'écologie marine et continentale
4 CRC - Centre de recherche sur les Risques et les Crises
5 UMR AMAP - Botanique et Modélisation de l'Architecture des Plantes et des Végétations
6 CEFE - Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive
2 UMR MARBEC - MARine Biodiversity Exploitation and Conservation
3 IMBE - Institut méditerranéen de biodiversité et d'écologie marine et continentale
4 CRC - Centre de recherche sur les Risques et les Crises
5 UMR AMAP - Botanique et Modélisation de l'Architecture des Plantes et des Végétations
6 CEFE - Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive
Francesco Maria Sabatini
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Abstract
Motivation. Assessing biodiversity status and trends in plant communities is critical for understanding, quantifying and predicting the effects of global change on ecosystems. Vegetation plots record the occurrence or abundance of all plant species co-occurring within delimited local areas. This allows species absences to be inferred, information seldom provided by existing global plant datasets. Although many vegetation plots have been recorded, most are not available to the global research community. A recent initiative, called ‘sPlot’, compiled the first global vegetation plot database, and continues to grow and curate it. The sPlot database, however, is extremely unbalanced spatially and environmentally, and is not open-access. Here, we address both these issues by (a) resampling the vegetation plots using several environmental variables as sampling strata and (b) securing permission from data holders of 105 local-to-regional datasets to openly release data. We thus present sPlotOpen, the largest open-access dataset of vegetation plots ever released. sPlotOpen can be used to explore global diversity at the plant community level, as ground truth data in remote sensing applications, or as a baseline for biodiversity monitoring. Main types of variable contained. Vegetation plots (n = 95,104) recording cover or abundance of naturally co-occurring vascular plant species within delimited areas. sPlotOpen contains three partially overlapping resampled datasets (c. 50,000 plots each), to be used as replicates in global analyses. Besides geographical location, date, plot size, biome, elevation, slope, aspect, vegetation type, naturalness, coverage of various vegetation layers, and source dataset, plot-level data also include community-weighted means and variances of 18 plant functional traits from the TRY Plant Trait Database. Spatial location and grain. Global, 0.01–40,000 m². Time period and grain. 1888–2015, recording dates. Major taxa and level of measurement. 42,677 vascular plant taxa, plot-level records. Software format. Three main matrices (.csv), relationally linked.
Origin : Publication funded by an institution