Tallo: A global tree allometry and crown architecture database

Tommaso Jucker; Fabian Jorg Fischer; Jerome Chave; David A. Coomes; John Caspersen; Arshad Ali; Grace Jopaul Loubota Panzou; Ted R. Feldpausch; Daniel Falster; Vladimir A. Usoltsev; Stephen Adu-Bredu; Luciana F. Alves; Mohammad Aminpour; Ilondea B. Angoboy; Niels P. R. Anten; Cecile Antin; Yousef Askari; Rodrigo Munoz; Narayanan Ayyappan; Patricia Balvanera; Lindsay Banin; Nicolas Barbier; John J. Battles; Hans Beeckman; Yannick E. Bocko; Ben Bond-Lamberty; Frans Bongers; Samuel Bowers; Thomas Brade; Michiel van Breugel; Arthur Chantrain; Rajeev Chaudhary; Jingyu Dai; Michele Dalponte; Kangbeni Dimobe; Jean-Christophe Domec; Jean-Louis Doucet; Remko A. Duursma; Moises Enriquez; Karin Y. van Ewijk; William Farfan-Rios; Adeline Fayolle; Eric Forni; David Forrester; Hammad Gilani; John L. Godlee; Sylvie Gourlet-Fleury; Matthias Haeni; Jefferson S. Hall; Jie-Kun He; Andreas Hemp; Jose L. Hernandez-Stefanoni; Steven Higgins; Robert J. Holdaway; Kiramat Hussain; Lindsay B. Hutley; Tomoaki Ichie; Yoshiko Iida; Hai-sheng Jiang; Puspa Raj Joshi; Hasan Kaboli; Maryam Kazempour Larsary; Tanaka Kenzo; Brian D. Kloeppel; Takashi Kohyama; Suwash Kunwar; Shem Kuyah; Jakub Kvasnica; Siliang Lin; Emily R. Lines; Hongyan Liu; Craig Lorimer; Jean-Joel Loumeto; Yadvinder Malhi; Peter L. Marshall; Eskil Mattsson; Radim Matula; Jorge A. Meave; Sylvanus Mensah; Xiangcheng Mi; Stephane Momo; Glenn R. Moncrieff; Francisco Mora; Sarath P. Nissanka; Kevin L. O'Hara; Steven Pearce; Raphael Pelissier; Pablo L. Peri; Pierre Ploton; Lourens Poorter; Mohsen Javanmiri Pour; Hassan Pourbabaei; Juan Manuel Dupuy-Rada; Sabina C. Ribeiro; Casey Ryan; Anvar Sanaei; Jennifer Sanger; Michael Schlund; Giacomo Sellan; Alexander Shenkin; Bonaventure Sonke; Frank J. Sterck; Martin Svatek; Kentaro Takagi; Anna T. Trugman; Farman Ullah; Matthew A. Vadeboncoeur; Ahmad Valipour; Mark C. Vanderwel; Alejandra G. Vovides; Weiwei Wang; Li-Qiu Wang; Christian Wirth; Murray Woods; Wenhua Xiang; Fabiano de Aquino Ximenes; Yaozhan Xu; Toshihiro Yamada; Miguel A. Zavala

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Tallo: A global tree allometry and crown architecture database

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Tallo: A global tree allometry and crown architecture database

Tommaso Jucker, Fabian Jorg Fischer, Jerome Chave, David A. Coomes, John Caspersen, Arshad Ali, Grace Jopaul Loubota Panzou, Ted R. Feldpausch, Daniel Falster, Vladimir A. Usoltsev, …

Global change biology, Vol.28(17), pp.5254-5268

09/2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16302

PMID: 35703577

Abstract

Biodiversity & Conservation

Ecology

Environmental Sciences

Environmental Sciences & Ecology

Life Sciences & Biomedicine

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Data capturing multiple axes of tree size and shape, such as a tree's stem diameter, height and crown size, underpin a wide range of ecological research-from developing and testing theory on forest structure and dynamics, to estimating forest carbon stocks and their uncertainties, and integrating remote sensing imagery into forest monitoring programmes. However, these data can be surprisingly hard to come by, particularly for certain regions of the world and for specific taxonomic groups, posing a real barrier to progress in these fields. To overcome this challenge, we developed the Tallo database, a collection of 498,838 georeferenced and taxonomically standardized records of individual trees for which stem diameter, height and/or crown radius have been measured. These data were collected at 61,856 globally distributed sites, spanning all major forested and non-forested biomes. The majority of trees in the database are identified to species (88%), and collectively Tallo includes data for 5163 species distributed across 1453 genera and 187 plant families. The database is publicly archived under a CC-BY 4.0 licence and can be access from: . To demonstrate its value, here we present three case studies that highlight how the Tallo database can be used to address a range of theoretical and applied questions in ecology-from testing the predictions of metabolic scaling theory, to exploring the limits of tree allometric plasticity along environmental gradients and modelling global variation in maximum attainable tree height. In doing so, we provide a key resource for field ecologists, remote sensing researchers and the modelling community working together to better understand the role that trees play in regulating the terrestrial carbon cycle.

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Title: Tallo: A global tree allometry and crown architecture database
Creators - without role: Tommaso Jucker - University of Bristol
Fabian Jorg Fischer - University of Bristol
Jerome Chave - Laboratory Evolution and Biological Diversity
David A. Coomes - Conservation Leadership Programme
John Caspersen - University of Toronto
Arshad Ali - Hebei University
Grace Jopaul Loubota Panzou - University of Liège
Ted R. Feldpausch - Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech
Daniel Falster - UNSW Sydney
Vladimir A. Usoltsev - Ural State Forestry Engineering University
Stephen Adu-Bredu - Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
Luciana F. Alves - Univ Calif Los Angeles, Inst Environm & Sustainabil, Ctr Trop Res, Los Angeles, CA USA
Mohammad Aminpour - Soil Conservation and Watershed Management Research
Ilondea B. Angoboy - National Institute of Biomedical Research
Niels P. R. Anten - Wageningen University & Research
Cecile Antin - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement
Yousef Askari - Soil Conservation and Watershed Management Research
Rodrigo Munoz - CIUDAD
Narayanan Ayyappan - French Institute of Pondicherry
Patricia Balvanera - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Lindsay Banin - UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Nicolas Barbier - Montpellier Univ, AMAP Lab, INRAE, CNRS,IRD, Montpellier, France
John J. Battles - University of California, Berkeley
Hans Beeckman - Royal Museum for Central Africa
Yannick E. Bocko - Marien Ngouabi University
Ben Bond-Lamberty - Joint Global Change Research Institute
Frans Bongers - Wageningen University & Research
Samuel Bowers - University of Edinburgh
Thomas Brade - University of Edinburgh
Michiel van Breugel - Yale-NUS College
Arthur Chantrain - Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech
Rajeev Chaudhary - Ministry of Forests and Soil Conservation
Jingyu Dai - Peking University
Michele Dalponte - Fondazione Edmund Mach
Kangbeni Dimobe - Institut des Sciences de l'Environnement et du Développement Rural (ISEDR) Université de Dédougou Dédougou Burkina Faso
Jean-Christophe Domec - École Nationale Supérieure des Sciences Agronomiques de Bordeaux-Aquitaine
Jean-Louis Doucet - University of Liège
Remko A. Duursma - Shinto Labs, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Moises Enriquez - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Karin Y. van Ewijk - Queen's University
William Farfan-Rios - Washington University in St. Louis
Adeline Fayolle - University of Liège
Eric Forni - Forests and Societies
David Forrester - CSIRO Land and Water
Hammad Gilani - Institute of Space Technology
John L. Godlee - University of Edinburgh
Sylvie Gourlet-Fleury - Forests and Societies
Matthias Haeni - Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Jefferson S. Hall - Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Jie-Kun He - South China Normal University
Andreas Hemp - University of Bayreuth
Jose L. Hernandez-Stefanoni - Secretaría de Investigación, Innovación y Educación Superior
Steven Higgins - University of Otago
Robert J. Holdaway - Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research
Kiramat Hussain - Gilgit-Baltistan Forest Wildlife and Environment Department, Gilgit, Pakistan
Lindsay B. Hutley - Charles Darwin University
Tomoaki Ichie - Kōchi University
Yoshiko Iida - Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute
Hai-sheng Jiang - South China Normal University
Puspa Raj Joshi - Tribhuvan University
Hasan Kaboli - Semnan University
Maryam Kazempour Larsary - University of Guilan
Tanaka Kenzo - Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences
Brian D. Kloeppel - Western Carolina University
Takashi Kohyama - Hokkaido University
Suwash Kunwar - Ministry of Forests and Soil Conservation
Shem Kuyah - Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology
Jakub Kvasnica - Mendel University in Brno
Siliang Lin - Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences
Emily R. Lines - University of Cambridge
Hongyan Liu - Peking University
Craig Lorimer - University of Wisconsin–Madison
Jean-Joel Loumeto - Marien Ngouabi University
Yadvinder Malhi - University of Oxford
Peter L. Marshall - University of British Columbia
Eskil Mattsson - Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre (GGBC), Gothenburg, Sweden
Radim Matula - Czech University of Life Sciences Prague
Jorge A. Meave - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Sylvanus Mensah - Université d'Abomey-Calavi
Xiangcheng Mi - Institute of Botany
Stephane Momo - Montpellier Univ, AMAP Lab, INRAE, CNRS,IRD, Montpellier, France
Glenn R. Moncrieff - South African Environmental Observation Network
Francisco Mora - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Sarath P. Nissanka - University of Peradeniya
Kevin L. O'Hara - University of California, Berkeley
Steven Pearce - Forestry Tasmania
Raphael Pelissier - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement
Pablo L. Peri - National University of Austral Patagonia
Pierre Ploton - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement
Lourens Poorter - Wageningen University & Research
Mohsen Javanmiri Pour - University of Tehran
Hassan Pourbabaei - University of Guilan
Juan Manuel Dupuy-Rada - Ctr Invest Cient Yucatan AC, Unidad Recursos Nat, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico
Sabina C. Ribeiro - Universidade Federal do Acre
Casey Ryan - University of Edinburgh
Anvar Sanaei - Leipzig University
Jennifer Sanger - Forestry Tasmania
Michael Schlund - University of Twente
Giacomo Sellan - Guiana Space Centre
Alexander Shenkin - University of Oxford
Bonaventure Sonke - Univ Yaounde I, Lab Bot Syst Mat & Ecol, Ecole Normale Super, Yaounde, Cameroon
Frank J. Sterck - Wageningen Univ, Forest Ecol & Forest Management Grp, Wageningen, Netherlands
Martin Svatek - Mendel Univ Brno, Fac Forestry & Wood Technol, Dept Forest Bot Dendrol & Geobiocoenol, Brno, Czech Republic
Kentaro Takagi - Hokkaido University
Anna T. Trugman - Univ Calif Santa Barbara, Dept Geog, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA
Farman Ullah - Hebei University
Matthew A. Vadeboncoeur - Univ New Hampshire, Earth Syst Res Ctr, Durham, NH 03824 USA
Ahmad Valipour - University of Kurdistan
Mark C. Vanderwel - University of Regina
Alejandra G. Vovides - University of Glasgow
Weiwei Wang - Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Bot, State Key Lab Vegetat & Environm Change, Beijing, Peoples R China
Li-Qiu Wang - Nanjing Forestry University
Christian Wirth - Univ Leipzig, Inst Biol, Systemat Bot & Funct Biodivers, Leipzig, Germany
Murray Woods - Ontario Minist Nat Resources, North Bay, ON, Canada
Wenhua Xiang - University of Forestry
Fabiano de Aquino Ximenes - New South Wales Dept Primary Ind, Forest Sci, Parramatta, NSW, Australia
Yaozhan Xu - Watershed
Toshihiro Yamada - Hiroshima University
Miguel A. Zavala - Universidad de Alcalá
Publication Details: Global change biology, Vol.28(17), pp.5254-5268
Publisher: Wiley
Number of pages: 15
Grant note: CB-2009-01-128136 / Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia; Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia (CONACyT) CAPES; Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior (CAPES) 163010230 / Nanjing Forestry University 42161144008; 41790422 / National Natural Science Foundation of China; National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) U.S. Department of Energy; United States Department of Energy (DOE) D/5822-1 / International Foundation for Science 521100221033 / Hebei University 2003205 / Division Of Environmental Biology; Direct For Biological Sciences; National Science Foundation (NSF); NSF - Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO) INTER-TRANSFER LTT19018 / Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic; Ministry of Education, Youth & Sports - Czech Republic Agua Salud Project NE/S01537X/1; NE/N011570/1 / Natural Environment Research Council; UK Research & Innovation (UKRI); Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) 35586-1 / Swedish Energy Agency 2003205; EAR-1360391 / National Science Foundation; National Science Foundation (NSF) BX2019084 / Jiangsu Science and Technology Special Project NE/S01537X/1; NE/N011570/1 / NERC; UK Research & Innovation (UKRI); Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) CZZ1636.01D / DynAfFor CAG2327-07 / FAPEMIG; Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Minas Gerais (FAPEMIG) IN217620; IN218416 / Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico 91785431 / Federal Ministry of Education and Research; Federal Ministry of Education & Research (BMBF) MR/T019832/1 / UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship; UK Research & Innovation (UKRI) CZZ1636.02D / P3FAC ANR-10-LABX-0041; ANR-10-LABX-25-01 / Agence Nationale de la Recherche; French National Research Agency (ANR)
Identifiers: 9916849308331
Academic Unit: Islamic University of Al Madinah
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article