RecruitNet: A global database of plant recruitment networks

Miguel Verdu; Jose L. Garrido; Julio M. Alcantara; Alicia Montesinos-Navarro; Salomon Aguilar; Marcelo A. Aizen; Ali A. Al-Namazi; Mohamed Alifriqui; David Allen; Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira; Cristina Armas; Jesus M. Bastida; Tono Bellido; Giuliano Bonanomi; Gustavo B. Paterno; Herbert Briceno; Ricardo A. C. de Oliveira; Josefina G. Campoy; Ghassen Chaieb; Chengjin Chu; Sarah E. Collins; Richard Condit; Elena Constantinou; Cihan U. Degirmenci; Leo Delalandre; Milen Duarte; Michel Faife; Fatih Fazlioglu; Edwino S. Fernando; Joel Flores; Hilda Flores-Olvera; Ecaterina Fodor; Gislene Ganade; Maria Begona Garcia; Patricio Garcia-Fayos; Sabrina S. Gavini; Marta Goberna; Lorena Gomez-Aparicio; Enrique Gonzalez-Pendas; Ana Gonzalez-Robles; Stephen P. Hubbell; Kahraman Ipekdal; Maria J. Jorquera; Zaal Kikvidze; Pinar Kutkut; Alicia Ledo; Sandra Lendinez; Buhang Li; Hanlun Liu; Francisco Lloret; Ramiro P. Lopez; Alvaro Lopez-Garcia; Christopher J. Lortie; Gianalberto Losapio; James A. Lutz; Arantzazu L. Luzuriaga; Frantisek Malis; Esteban Manrique; Antonio J. Manzaneda; Vinicius Marcilio-Silva; Richard Michalet; Rafael Molina-Venegas; Jose Antonio Navarro-Cano; Vojtech Novotny; Jens M. Olesen; Juan P. Ortiz-Brunel; Maria Pajares-Murgo; Nikolas Parissis; Geoffrey Parker; Antonio J. Perea; Vidal Perez-Hernandez; Maria Angeles Perez-Navarro; Nuria Piston; Elisa Pizarro-Carbonell; Ivan Prieto; Jorge Prieto-Rubio; Francisco Pugnaire; Nelson Ramirez; Ruben Retuerto; Pedro J. Rey; Daniel A. Rodriguez Ginart; Mariana Rodriguez-Sanchez; Ricardo Sanchez-Martin; Christian Schob; Cagatay Tavsanoglu; Giorgi Tedoradze; Amanda Tercero-Araque; Katja Tielboerger; Blaise Touzard; Irem Tufekcioglu; Sevda Turkis; Francisco M. Usero; Nurbahar Usta; Alfonso Valiente-Banuet; Alexia Vargas-Colin; Ioannis Vogiatzakis; Regino Zamora

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RecruitNet: A global database of plant recruitment networks

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RecruitNet: A global database of plant recruitment networks

Miguel Verdu, Jose L. Garrido, Julio M. Alcantara, Alicia Montesinos-Navarro, Salomon Aguilar, Marcelo A. Aizen, Ali A. Al-Namazi, Mohamed Alifriqui, David Allen, Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira, …

Ecology (Durham), Vol.104(2), pp.e3923-n/a

02/2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3923

PMID: 36428233

Abstract

Ecology

Environmental Sciences & Ecology

Life Sciences & Biomedicine

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Plant recruitment interactions (i.e., what recruits under what) shape the composition, diversity, and structure of plant communities. Despite the huge body of knowledge on the mechanisms underlying recruitment interactions among species, we still know little about the structure of the recruitment networks emerging in ecological communities. Modeling and analyzing the community-level structure of plant recruitment interactions as a complex network can provide relevant information on ecological and evolutionary processes acting both at the species and ecosystem levels. We report a data set containing 143 plant recruitment networks in 23 countries across five continents, including temperate and tropical ecosystems. Each network identifies the species under which another species recruits. All networks report the number of recruits (i.e., individuals) per species. The data set includes > 850,000 recruiting individuals involved in 118,411 paired interactions among 3318 vascular plant species across the globe. The cover of canopy species and open ground is also provided. Three sampling protocols were used: (1) The Recruitment Network (RN) protocol (106 networks) focuses on interactions among established plants ( "canopy species ") and plants in their early stages of recruitment ( "recruit species "). A series of plots was delimited within a locality, and all the individuals recruiting and their canopy species were identified; (2) The paired Canopy-Open (pCO) protocol (26 networks) consists in locating a potential canopy plant and identifying recruiting individuals under the canopy and in a nearby open space of the same area; (3) The Georeferenced plot (GP) protocol (11 networks) consists in using information from georeferenced individual plants in large plots to infer canopy-recruit interactions. Some networks incorporate data for both herbs and woody species, whereas others focus exclusively on woody species. The location of each study site, geographical coordinates, country, locality, responsible author, sampling dates, sampling method, and life habits of both canopy and recruit species are provided. This database will allow researchers to test ecological, biogeographical, and evolutionary hypotheses related to plant recruitment interactions. There are no copyright restrictions on the data set; please cite this data paper when using these data in publications.

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Title: RecruitNet: A global database of plant recruitment networks
Creators - without role: Miguel Verdu - Centre d'Investigacions sobre Desertificació
Jose L. Garrido - Estación Experimental del Zaidín
Julio M. Alcantara - Universidad de Jaén
Alicia Montesinos-Navarro - Centre d'Investigacions sobre Desertificació
Salomon Aguilar - Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Marcelo A. Aizen - National University of Comahue
Ali A. Al-Namazi - King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology
Mohamed Alifriqui - Cadi Ayyad University
David Allen - Middlebury College (United States, Middlebury
Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira - Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Cristina Armas - Estacion Experimental de Zonas Aridas
Jesus M. Bastida - Estación Experimental del Zaidín
Tono Bellido - Conselleria de Sanitat Universal i Salut Pública
Giuliano Bonanomi - Federico II University Hospital
Gustavo B. Paterno - University of Göttingen
Herbert Briceno - Estacion Experimental de Zonas Aridas
Ricardo A. C. de Oliveira - Universidade Federal do Paraná
Josefina G. Campoy - Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
Ghassen Chaieb - University of Bordeaux
Chengjin Chu - Sun Yat-sen University
Sarah E. Collins - Centre d'Investigacions sobre Desertificació
Richard Condit - University of California, Santa Cruz
Elena Constantinou - Open University of Cyprus
Cihan U. Degirmenci - Hacettepe University
Leo Delalandre - University of Montpellier
Milen Duarte - Institute of Ecology and Biodiversity
Michel Faife - Central University of Las Villas
Fatih Fazlioglu - Ordu University
Edwino S. Fernando - University of the Philippines Diliman
Joel Flores - Institute for Scientific and Technological Research
Hilda Flores-Olvera - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Ecaterina Fodor - University of Oradea
Gislene Ganade - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte
Maria Begona Garcia - Pyrenean Inst Ecol CSIC, Zaragoza, Spain
Patricio Garcia-Fayos - Centre d'Investigacions sobre Desertificació
Sabrina S. Gavini - National University of Comahue
Marta Goberna - Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria
Lorena Gomez-Aparicio - Instituto de Recursos Naturales y Agrobiología de Sevilla
Enrique Gonzalez-Pendas - ECOVIDA, Ctr Invest & Serv Ambientales, Dept Invest Bot, Pinar Del Rio, Cuba
Ana Gonzalez-Robles - Universidad de Jaén
Stephen P. Hubbell - Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Kahraman Ipekdal - Ahi Evran University
Maria J. Jorquera - Estacion Experimental de Zonas Aridas
Zaal Kikvidze - Ilia State University
Pinar Kutkut - Hacettepe University
Alicia Ledo - Freelance Scientist Huesca Spain
Sandra Lendinez - Estación Experimental del Zaidín
Buhang Li - Sun Yat-sen University
Hanlun Liu - Sun Yat-sen University
Francisco Lloret - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Ramiro P. Lopez - Higher University of San Andrés
Alvaro Lopez-Garcia - Estación Experimental del Zaidín
Christopher J. Lortie - York University
Gianalberto Losapio - University of Lausanne
James A. Lutz - Utah State University
Arantzazu L. Luzuriaga - Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
Frantisek Malis - Technical University of Zvolen
Esteban Manrique - Real Jardín Botánico
Antonio J. Manzaneda - Universidad de Jaén
Vinicius Marcilio-Silva - University of Minnesota
Richard Michalet - University of Bordeaux
Rafael Molina-Venegas - Universidad de Alcalá
Jose Antonio Navarro-Cano - Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria
Vojtech Novotny - Czech Academy of Sciences
Jens M. Olesen - Aarhus University
Juan P. Ortiz-Brunel - University of Guadalajara
Maria Pajares-Murgo - Universidad de Jaén
Nikolas Parissis - Democritus University of Thrace
Geoffrey Parker - Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
Antonio J. Perea - Universidad de Jaén
Vidal Perez-Hernandez - ECOVIDA, Ctr Invest & Serv Ambientales, Dept Invest Bot, Pinar Del Rio, Cuba
Maria Angeles Perez-Navarro - Univ Autonoma Barcelona, CREAF, U ECOL, Dept Biol Anim Biol Vegetal & Ecol, Cerdanyola Del Valles, Spain
Nuria Piston - Estacion Experimental de Zonas Aridas
Elisa Pizarro-Carbonell - Asociac Aprisco, Torrejon El Rubio, Spain
Ivan Prieto - Estacion Experimental de Zonas Aridas
Jorge Prieto-Rubio - Estn Expt Zaidin EEZ CSIC, Dept Microbiol Suelo & Sistemas Simbiot, Granada, Spain
Francisco Pugnaire - Estacion Experimental de Zonas Aridas
Nelson Ramirez - Central University of Venezuela
Ruben Retuerto - Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
Pedro J. Rey - Universidad de Jaén
Daniel A. Rodriguez Ginart - CSIC UV GV, Ctr Invest Desertificac CIDE, Moncada, Spain
Mariana Rodriguez-Sanchez - Univ Nacl Autonoma Mexico, Posgrad Ciencias Biol, Inst Biol, Mexico City, DF, Mexico
Ricardo Sanchez-Martin - Centre d'Investigacions sobre Desertificació
Christian Schob - Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
Cagatay Tavsanoglu - Hacettepe University
Giorgi Tedoradze - Ilia State University
Amanda Tercero-Araque - Universidad de Jaén
Katja Tielboerger - University of Tübingen
Blaise Touzard - Sun Yat-sen University
Irem Tufekcioglu - University of Montpellier
Sevda Turkis - Ordu University
Francisco M. Usero - Estacion Experimental de Zonas Aridas
Nurbahar Usta - Hacettepe University
Alfonso Valiente-Banuet - Univ Nacl Autonoma Mexico, Dept Ecol Biodiversidad, Inst Ecol, Mexico City, DF, Mexico
Alexia Vargas-Colin - Inst Potosino Invest Cient & Tecnol AC, Div Ciencias Ambientales, San Luis Potosi, San Luis Potosi, Mexico
Ioannis Vogiatzakis - Open University of Cyprus
Regino Zamora - Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra
Publication Details: Ecology (Durham), Vol.104(2), pp.e3923-n/a
Publisher: Wiley
Number of pages: 5
Identifiers: 9918746908331
Academic Unit: King Abdulaziz City for Science & Technology
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article