sPlot - A new tool for global vegetation analyses
Bruelheide, Helge ![ORCID Identifier](/img/uab/orcid.ico)
(German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig)
Dengler, Jürgen ![ORCID Identifier](/img/uab/orcid.ico)
(Bayreuth Center of Ecology and Environmental Research (BayCEER))
Jiménez-Alfaro, Borja ![ORCID Identifier](/img/uab/orcid.ico)
(Universidad de Oviedo. Instituto Mixto de Investigación en Biodiversidad)
Purschke, Oliver (German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig)
Hennekens, Stephan M. (Wageningen Environmental Research (Alterra). Wageningen University and Research)
Chytrý, Milan ![ORCID Identifier](/img/uab/orcid.ico)
(Masaryk University. Department of Botany and Zoology)
Pillar, Valério
(Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. Department of Ecology)
Jansen, Florian
(University of Rostock. Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Science)
Kattge, Jens
(Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry)
Sandel, Brody
(Santa Clara University. Department of Biology)
Aubin, Isabelle
(Great Lakes Forestry Centre. Canadian Forest Service. Natural Resources Canada)
Biurrun, Idoia
(University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU)
Field, Richard
(University of Nottingham. School of Geography)
Haider, Sylvia
(German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig)
Jandt, Ute
(German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig)
Lenoir, Jonathan
(Université de Picardie Jules Verne)
Peet, Robert K.
(University of North Carolina. Department of Biology)
Peyre, Gwendolyn
(University of the Andes. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering)
Sabatini, Francesco Maria
(German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig)
Schmidt, Marco
(Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK-F))
Schrodt, Franziska
(University of Nottingham. School of Geography)
Winter, Marten (German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig)
Aćić, Svetlana
(Department of Agrobotany. Faculty of Agriculture)
Agrillo, Emiliano
("Sapienza" University of Rome. Department of Environmental Biology)
Alvarez, Miguel
(University of Bonn)
Ambarlı, Didem (Department of Agricultural Biotechnology. Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Sciences. Düzce University)
Angelini, Pierangela
(Italian National Institute for Environmental Protection and Research-ISPRA)
Apostolova, Iva (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research)
Arfin-Khan, Mohammed A. S
(Disturbance Ecology. Bayreuth Center of Ecology and Environmental Research (BayCEER). University of Bayreuth)
Arnst, E. (Manaaki Whenua-Landcare Research)
Attorre, Fabio
(Department of Environmental Biology. "Sapienza" University of Rome)
Baraloto, Christopher
(Department of Biological Sciences. Florida International University)
Beckmann, Michael
(Landscape Ecology. Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ)
Berg, Christian (Botanical Garden. University of Graz)
Bergeron, Yves
(Forest Research Institute. Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue)
Bergmeier, Erwin
(Vegetation Ecology and Phytodiversity. University of Göttingen)
Bjorkman, Anne
(Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (SBiK-F))
Bondareva, Viktoria (Laboratory of Phytocoenology. Institute of Ecology of the Volga River Basin)
Borchardt, Peter (Institute of Geography. CEN - Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability. University of Hamburg)
Botta-Dukát, Zoltán
(Institute of Ecology and Botany. MTA Centre for Ecological Research)
Boyle, Brad (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. University of Arizona)
Breen, Amy (International Arctic Research Center. University of Alaska)
Brisse, Henry (Faculté des Sciences. MEP)
Byun, Chaeho
(School of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Yonsei University)
Cabido, Marcelo R. (Multidisciplinary Institute for Plant Biology (IMBIV - CONICET). University of Cordoba - CONICET)
Casella, Laura
(Italian National Institute for Environmental Protection and Research-ISPRA)
Cayuela, Luis
(Universidad Rey Juan Carlos. Departamento de Biologia, Geología, Física y Química Inorgánica)
Černý, Tomáš
(Department of Forest Ecology. Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences. Czech University of Life Sciences Prague)
Chepinoga, Victor
(Laboratory of Physical Geography and Biogeography. V.B. Sochava Institute of Geography SB RAS)
Csiky, János
(Department of Ecology. University of Pécs)
Curran, Michael (Institute of Environmental Engineering. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich)
Ćušterevska, Renata
(Institute of Biology. Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics)
Dajić Stevanović, Zora (Department of Agrobotany. Faculty of Agriculture)
De Bie, Els
(Research Institute for Nature and Forest (Brusel·les, Bèlgica))
de Ruffray, Patrice (Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes (IBMP). Université de Strasbourg)
De Sanctis, Michele
(Department of Environmental Biology. "Sapienza" University of Rome)
Dimopoulos, Panayotis (Department of Biology. Division of Plant Biology. Laboratory of Botany. University of Patras)
Dressler, Stefan (Department of Botany and Molecular Evolution. Senckenberg Research Institute)
Ejrnæs, Rasmus (Department of Bioscience. Aarhus University)
El-Sheikh, Mohamed Abd El-Rouf Mousa (Botany Department. Faculty of Science. Damanhour University)
Enquist, Brian J
(Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. University of Arizona)
Ewald, Jörg (Hochschule Weihenstephan-Triesdorf. University of Applied Sciences)
Fagúndez, Jaime
(Faculty of Science. University of A Coruña)
Finckh, Mamfred (Biodiversity. Ecology and Evolution of Plants. Institute for Plant Science & Microbiology. University of Hamburg)
Font Castell, Xavier
(Universitat de Barcelona. Centre de Documentació de Biodiversitat Vegetal)
Forey, Estelle
(Laboratoire Ecodiv. EA 1293 URA IRSTEA. Normandie University)
Fotiadis, Georgios (Department of Forestry & Natural Environment Management. TEI of Sterea Ellada)
García-Mijangos, Itziar (Plant Biology and Ecology. University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU)
de Gasper, André Luis
(Department of Natural Science. Regional University of Blumenau)
Golub, Valentin (Laboratory of Phytocoenology. Institute of Ecology of the Volga River Basin)
Gutiérrez, Alvaro G.
(Universidad de Chile. Departamento de Ciencias Ambientales y Recursos Naturales Renovables)
Hatim, Mohamed Z.
(Tanta University)
He, Tianhua
(School of Molecular and Life Sciences. Curtin University)
Higuchi, Pedro
(Forestry Department. Santa Catarina State University)
Holubová, Dana (Department of Botany and Zoology. Masaryk University)
Hölzel, Norbert
(Institute of Landscape Ecology. University of Münster)
Homeier, Jürgen
(Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. Abteilung Pflanzenökologie und Ökosystemforschung)
Indreica, Adrian (Department of Silviculture. Transilvania University of Brasov)
Işık Gürsoy, Deniz (Department of Biology. Celal Bayar University)
Jansen, Steven
(Institute of Systematic Botany and Ecology. Faculty of Natural Sciences. Ulm University)
Janssen, Jhon (Wageningen Environmental Research (Alterra). Wageningen University and Research)
Jedrzejek, Birgit (Institute of Landscape Ecology. University of Münster)
Jiroušek, Martin (Department of Plant Biology. Mendel University in Brno)
Juergens, Norbert
(Biodiversity. Ecology and Evolution of Plants. Institute for Plant Science & Microbiology. University of Hamburg)
Kącki, Zygmunt (Botanical Garden. University of Wrocław)
Kavgacı, Ali
(Silviculture and Forest Botany. Southwest Anatolia Forest Research Institute)
Kearsley, Elizabeth
(Department of Environment. Ghent University)
Kessler, Michael
(Department of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany. University of Zurich)
Knollová, Ilona (Department of Botany and Zoology. Masaryk University)
Kolomiychuk, Vitaliy (O.V. Fomin Botanical Garden at the Educational and Scientific Centre. Institute of Biology and Medicine. Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv)
Korolyuk, Andrey (Geosystem Laboratory. Central Siberian Botanical Garden. Siberian Branch. Russian Academy of Sciences)
Kozhevnikova, Maria (Institute of Environmental Sciences. Kazan Federal University)
Kozub, Łukasz (Department of Plant Ecology and Environmental Conservation. Faculty of Biology. Biological and Chemical Research Centre. University of Warsaw)
Krstonošić, Daniel (Faculty of Forestry. University of Zagreb)
Kühl, Hjalmar (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology)
Kühn, Ingolf
(Department of Community Ecology. Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ)
Kuzemko, Anna (M.G. Kholodny Institute of Botany. National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)
Küzmič, Filip (Institute of Biology. Research Centre of Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (ZRC SAZU))
Landucci, Flavia
(Department of Botany and Zoology. Masaryk University)
Lee, Michael T. (NatureServe)
Levesley, Aurora (School of Geography. University of Leeds)
Li, Ching-Feng
(School of Forestry and Resource Conservation. National Taiwan University)
Liu, Hongyan
(College of Urban and Environmental Sciences. Peking University)
Lopez-Gonzalez, Gabriela
(School of Geography. University of Leeds)
Lysenko, Tatiana (Laboratory of Vegetation Science. Komarov Botanical Institute RAS)
Macanović, Armin (Department of Biology. Center for Ecology and Natural Resources - Academician Sulejman Redžić. University of Sarajevo)
Mahdavi, Parastoo (Research Group Vegetation Science & Nature Conservation. Department of Ecology and Environmental Science. Carl von Ossietzky-University Oldenburg)
Manning, Peter
(Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (SBiK-F))
Marcenò, Corrado
(Plant Biology and Ecology. University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU)
Martynenko, Vassiliy (Ufa Institute of Biology of Ufa Federal Scientific Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences)
Mencuccini, Maurizio
(Centre de Recerca Ecològica i d'Aplicacions Forestals)
Minden, Vanessa
(Institute of Biology an Environmental Sciences. Carl von Ossietzky-University Oldenburg)
Moeslund, Jesper Erenskjold
(Department of Bioscience. Aarhus University)
Moretti, Marco
(Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL. Biodiversity and Conservation Biology)
Müller, Jonas V. (Conservation Science. Royal Botanic Gardens. Kew)
Munzinger, Jérôme
(AMAP - Botany and Modelling of Plant Architecture and Vegetation. IRD. CIRAD. CNRS. INRA. Université Montpellier)
Niinemets, Ülo.
(Crop Science and Plant Biology. Estonian University of Life Sciences)
Nobis, Marcin (Institute of Botany. Jagiellonian University)
Noroozi, Jalil
(University of Vienna. Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research)
Nowak, Arkadiusz
(Botanical Garden - Center for Biological Diversity Conservation. Polish Academy of Sciences)
Onyshchenko, Viktor (M.G. Kholodny Institute of Botany. National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)
Overbeck, Gerhard E.
(Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. Department of Ecology)
Ozinga, Wim
(Wageningen Environmental Research (Alterra). Wageningen University and Research)
Pauchard, Aníbal
(Laboratorio de Invasiones Biológicas (LIB). University of Concepción)
Pedashenko, Hristo
(Centre de Recerca Ecològica i d'Aplicacions Forestals)
Peñuelas, Josep
(Centre de Recerca Ecològica i d'Aplicacions Forestals)
Pérez-Haase, Aaron
(Continental Ecology. Center for Advanced Studies of Blanes. Spanish Research Council (CEAB-CSIC))
Peterka, Tomás (Department of Botany and Zoology. Masaryk University)
Petřík, Petr.
(Czech Academy of Sciences. Institute of Botany)
Phillips, Oliver L.
(School of Geography. University of Leeds)
Prokhorov, Vadim (Institute of Environmental Sciences. Kazan Federal University)
Rašomavičius, Valerijus (Institute of Botany. Nature Research Centre)
Revermann, Rasmus (University of Hamburg. Institute for Plant Science and Microbiology)
Rodwell, John
Ruprecht, Eszter (Hungarian Department of Biology and Ecology. Faculty of Biology and Geology. Babeș-Bolyai University)
Rūsiņa, Solvita (Department of Geography. University of Latvia)
Samimi, Cyrus
(Climatology. Bayreuth Center of Ecology and Environmental Research (BayCEER). University of Bayreuth)
Schaminée, Joop H. J. (Wageningen Environmental Research (Alterra). Wageningen University and Research)
Schmiedel, Ute
(University of Hamburg. Institute for Plant Science and Microbiology)
Šibík, Jozef
(Institute of Botany. Plant Science and Biodiversity Centre. Slovak Academy of Sciences)
Šilc, Urban (Institute of Biology. Research Centre of Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (ZRC SAZU))
Škvorc, Željko
(University of Zagreb. Faculty of Forestry)
Smyth, Anita (TERN. University of Adelaide)
Sop, Tenekwetche (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology)
Sopotlieva, Desislava (Department of Plant and Fungal Diversity and Resources. Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research. Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
Sparrow, Ben (TERN. University of Adelaide)
Stančić, Zvjezdana (Faculty of Geotechnical Engineering. University of Zagreb)
Svenning, Jens-Christian
(Department of Bioscience. Center for Biodiversity Dynamics in a Changing World (BIOCHANGE) & Section for Ecoinformatics & Biodiversity. Aarhus University)
Swacha, Grzegorz
(Botanical Garden. University of Wrocław)
Tang, Zhiyao (College of Urban and Environmental Sciences. Peking University)
Tsiripidis, Ioannis
(School of Biology. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
Turtureanu, Pavel Dan (A. Borza Botanical Garden. Babeș-Bolyai University)
Uğurlu, Emin
(Forest Engineering Department. Faculty of Forestry. Bursa Technical University)
Uogintas, Domas
(Nature Research Centre (Lithuania))
Valachovič, Milan (Institute of Botany. Plant Science and Biodiversity Centre. Slovak Academy of Sciences)
Vanselow, Kim André
(Department of Geography. University of Erlangen-Nuremberg)
Vashenyak, Y. (Khmelnytskyi Institute of Interregional Academy of Personnel Management)
Vassilev, Kiril
(Department of Plant and Fungal Diversity and Resources. Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research. Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
Vélez-Martin, Eduardo
(Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. Department of Ecology)
Venanzoni, R.
(Department of Chemistry. Biology and Biotechnology. University of Perugia)
Vibrans, A. C. (Departamento de Engenharia Florestal. Universidade Regional de Blumenau)
Violle, Cyrille
(Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive (UMR5175). CNRS - Université de Montpellier - Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier - EPHE)
Virtanen, Risto (Department of Physiological Diversity. Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research - UFZ)
von Wehrden, Henrik (Institute of Ecology. Leuphana University)
Wagner, Viktoria (Department of Biological Sciences. University of Alberta)
Walker, Donald A. (Institute of Arctic Biology. University of Alaska)
Wana, Desalegn (Department of Geography & Environmental Studies. Addis Ababa University)
Weiher, Evan
(Department of Biology. University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire)
Wesche, Karsten
(International Institute Zittau. Technical University Dresden)
Whitfeld, Timothy
(Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology/Brown University Herbarium. Brown University)
Willner, Wolfgang (Vienna Institute for Nature Conservation & Analyses)
Wiser, Susan
(Manaaki Whenua-Landcare Research)
Wohlgemuth, Thomas
(Swiss Federal Institute for Forest)
Yamalov, Sergey (Russian Academy of Sciences)
Zizka, Georg (Department of Botany and Molecular Evolution. Senckenberg Research Institute)
Zverev, Andrei (Department of Botany. Tomsk State University)
Date: |
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. |
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Language: |
Anglès |
Document: |
Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada |
Subject: |
Biodiversity ;
Community ecology ;
Ecoinformatics ;
Functional diversity ;
Global scale ;
Macroecology ;
Phylogenetic diversity ;
Plot database ;
Splot ;
Taxonomic diversity ;
Vascular plant ;
Vegetation relevé |
Published in: |
Journal of vegetation science, Vol. 30, Issue 2 (March 2019) , p. 161-186, ISSN 1654-1103 |
DOI: 10.1111/jvs.12710
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