sPlot - A new tool for global vegetation analyses

Helge Bruelheide; Juergen Dengler; Borja Jimenez-Alfaro; Oliver Purschke; Stephan M. Hennekens; Milan Chytry; Valerio D. Pillar; Florian Jansen; Jens Kattge; Brody Sandel; Isabelle Aubin; Idoia Biurrun; Richard Field; Sylvia Haider; Ute Jandt; Jonathan Lenoir; Robert K. Peet; Gwendolyn Peyre; Francesco Maria Sabatini; Marco Schmidt; Franziska Schrodt; Marten Winter; Svetlana Acic; Emiliano Agrillo; Miguel Alvarez; Didem Ambarli; Pierangela Angelini; Iva Apostolova; Mohammed A. S. Arfin Khan; Elise Arnst; Fabio Attorre; Christopher Baraloto; Michael Beckmann; Christian Berg; Yves Bergeron; Erwin Bergmeier; Anne D. Bjorkman; Viktoria Bondareva; Peter Borchardt; Zoltan Botta-Dukat; Brad Boyle; Amy Breen; Henry Brisse; Chaeho Byun; Marcelo R. Cabido; Laura Casella; Luis Cayuela; Tomas Cerny; Victor Chepinoga; Janos Csiky; Michael Curran; Renata Custerevska; Zora Dajic Stevanovic; Els De Bie; Patrice de Ruffray; Michele De Sanctis; Panayotis Dimopoulos; Stefan Dressler; Rasmus Ejrnaes; Mohamed Abd El-Rouf Mousa El-Sheikh; Brian Enquist; Joerg Ewald; Jaime Fagundez; Manfred Finckh; Xavier Font; Estelle Forey; Georgios Fotiadis; Itziar Garcia-Mijangos; Andre Luis de Gasper; Valentin Golub; Alvaro G. Gutierrez; Mohamed Z. Hatim; Tianhua He; Pedro Higuchi; Dana Holubova; Norbert Hoelzel; Juergen Homeier; Adrian Indreica; Deniz Isik Gursoy; Steven Jansen; John Janssen; Birgit Jedrzejek; Martin Jirousek; Norbert Juergens; Zygmunt Kacki; Ali Kavgaci; Elizabeth Kearsley; Michael Kessler; Ilona Knollova; Vitaliy Kolomiychuk; Andrey Korolyuk; Maria Kozhevnikova; Lukasz Kozub; Daniel Krstonosic; Hjalmar Kuehl; Ingolf Kuehn; Anna Kuzemko; Filip Kuzmic; Flavia Landucci; Michael T. Lee; Aurora Levesley; Ching-Feng Li; Hongyan Liu; Gabriela Lopez-Gonzalez; Tatiana Lysenko; Armin Macanovic; Parastoo Mahdavi; Peter Manning; Corrado Marceno; Vassiliy Martynenko; Maurizio Mencuccini; Vanessa Minden; Jesper Erenskjold Moeslund; Marco Moretti; Jonas V. Mueller; Jerome Munzinger; Ulo Niinemets; Marcin Nobis; Jalil Noroozi; Arkadiusz Nowak; Viktor Onyshchenko; Gerhard E. Overbeck; Wim A. Ozinga; Anibal Pauchard; Hristo Pedashenko; Josep Penuelas; Aaron Perez-Haase; Tomas Peterka; Petr Petrik; Oliver L. Phillips; Vadim Prokhorov; Valerijus Rasomavicius; Rasmus Revermann; John Rodwell; Eszter Ruprecht; Solvita Rusina; Cyrus Samimi; Joop H. J. Schaminee; Ute Schmiedel; Jozef Sibik; Urban Silc; Zeljko Skvorc; Anita Smyth; Tenekwetche Sop; Desislava Sopotlieva; Ben Sparrow; Zvjezdana Stancic; Jens-Christian Svenning; Grzegorz Swacha; Zhiyao Tang; Ioannis Tsiripidis; Pavel Dan Turtureanu; Emin Ugurlu; Domas Uogintas; Milan Valachovic; Kim Andre Vanselow; Yulia Vashenyak; Kiril Vassilev; Eduardo Velez-Martin; Roberto Venanzoni; Alexander Christian Vibrans; Cyrille Violle; Risto Virtanen; Henrik von Wehrden; Viktoria Wagner; Donald A. Walker; Desalegn Wana; Evan Weiher; Karsten Wesche; Timothy Whitfeld; Wolfgang Willner; Susan Wiser; Thomas Wohlgemuth; Sergey Yamalov; Georg Zizka; Andrei Zverev

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sPlot - A new tool for global vegetation analyses

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sPlot - A new tool for global vegetation analyses

Helge Bruelheide, Juergen Dengler, Borja Jimenez-Alfaro, Oliver Purschke, Stephan M. Hennekens, Milan Chytry, Valerio D. Pillar, Florian Jansen, Jens Kattge, Brody Sandel, …

Journal of vegetation science, Vol.30(2), pp.161-186

03/2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.12710

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Ecology

Environmental Sciences & Ecology

Forestry

Life Sciences & Biomedicine

Plant Sciences

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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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Title: sPlot - A new tool for global vegetation analyses
Creators - without role: Helge Bruelheide - Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Juergen Dengler - German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research
Borja Jimenez-Alfaro - Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Oliver Purschke - Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Stephan M. Hennekens - Wageningen University & Research
Milan Chytry - Masaryk University
Valerio D. Pillar - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
Florian Jansen - University of Rostock
Jens Kattge - German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research
Brody Sandel - Santa Clara University
Isabelle Aubin - Natural Resources Canada
Idoia Biurrun - University of the Basque Country
Richard Field - University of Nottingham
Sylvia Haider - Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Ute Jandt - Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Jonathan Lenoir - Ecology and Dynamics of Human Influenced Systems
Robert K. Peet - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Gwendolyn Peyre - Universidad de Los Andes
Francesco Maria Sabatini - Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Marco Schmidt - Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre
Franziska Schrodt - University of Nottingham
Marten Winter - German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research
Svetlana Acic - Fac Agr, Dept Agrobot, Belgrade, Serbia
Emiliano Agrillo - Sapienza University of Rome
Miguel Alvarez - University of Bonn
Didem Ambarli - Düzce Üniversitesi
Pierangela Angelini - Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale
Iva Apostolova - Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research
Mohammed A. S. Arfin Khan - Shahjalal Univ Sci & Technol, Forestry & Environm Sci, Sylhet, Bangladesh
Elise Arnst - Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research
Fabio Attorre - Sapienza University of Rome
Christopher Baraloto - National Tropical Botanical Garden
Michael Beckmann - Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Christian Berg - University of Graz
Yves Bergeron - Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue
Erwin Bergmeier - University of Göttingen
Anne D. Bjorkman - Aarhus University
Viktoria Bondareva - Institute of Industrial Ecology
Peter Borchardt - Universität Hamburg
Zoltan Botta-Dukat - Institute of Ecology and Botany
Brad Boyle - University of Arizona
Amy Breen - University of Alaska Fairbanks
Henry Brisse - MEP, Fac Sci, Marseille 20, France
Chaeho Byun - Yonsei University
Marcelo R. Cabido - Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal
Laura Casella - Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale
Luis Cayuela - Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
Tomas Cerny - Czech University of Life Sciences Prague
Victor Chepinoga - V. B. Sochava Institute of Geography
Janos Csiky - University of Pecs
Michael Curran - ETH Zurich
Renata Custerevska - Inst Biol, Fac Nat Sci & Math, Skopje, North Macedonia
Zora Dajic Stevanovic - Fac Agr, Dept Agrobot, Belgrade, Serbia
Els De Bie - Research Institute for Nature and Forest
Patrice de Ruffray - Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes
Michele De Sanctis - Sapienza University of Rome
Panayotis Dimopoulos - University of Patras
Stefan Dressler - Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum Frankfurt/M
Rasmus Ejrnaes - Aarhus University
Mohamed Abd El-Rouf Mousa El-Sheikh - King Saud University
Brian Enquist - University of Arizona
Joerg Ewald - Univ Appl Sci, Hochschule Weihenstephan Triesdorf, Freising Weihenstephan, Germany
Jaime Fagundez - Universidade da Coruña
Manfred Finckh - Universität Hamburg
Xavier Font - Universitat de Barcelona
Estelle Forey - Normandie Université
Georgios Fotiadis - TEI Sterea Ellada, Dept Forestry & Nat Environm Management, Karpenissi, Greece
Itziar Garcia-Mijangos - University of the Basque Country
Andre Luis de Gasper - Universidade Regional de Blumenau
Valentin Golub - Institute of Industrial Ecology
Alvaro G. Gutierrez - University of Chile
Mohamed Z. Hatim - Tanta University
Tianhua He - Curtin University
Pedro Higuchi - Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina
Dana Holubova - Masaryk University
Norbert Hoelzel - University of Münster
Juergen Homeier - University of Göttingen
Adrian Indreica - Transylvania University of Brașov
Deniz Isik Gursoy - Manisa Celal Bayar University
Steven Jansen - University of Ulm
John Janssen - Wageningen University & Research
Birgit Jedrzejek - University of Münster
Martin Jirousek - Masaryk University
Norbert Juergens - Universität Hamburg
Zygmunt Kacki - Wrocław Zoo
Ali Kavgaci - Southwest Anatolia Forest Res Inst, Silviculture & Forest Bot, Antalya, Turkey
Elizabeth Kearsley - Ghent University
Michael Kessler - University of Zurich
Ilona Knollova - Masaryk University
Vitaliy Kolomiychuk - College Station Medical Center
Andrey Korolyuk - Russian Acad Sci, Siberian Branch, Cent Siberian Bot Garden, Geosyst Lab, Novosibirsk, Russia
Maria Kozhevnikova - Kazan Federal University
Lukasz Kozub - University of Warsaw
Daniel Krstonosic - University of Zagreb
Hjalmar Kuehl - German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research
Ingolf Kuehn - Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Anna Kuzemko - M.G. Kholodny Institute of Botany
Filip Kuzmic - Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Flavia Landucci - Masaryk University
Michael T. Lee - NatureServe
Aurora Levesley - University of Leeds
Ching-Feng Li - Supreme Council Of Health
Hongyan Liu - Peking University
Gabriela Lopez-Gonzalez - University of Leeds
Tatiana Lysenko - RAS, Inst Ecol Volga River Basin, Dept Phytodivers Problems, Tolyatti, Russia
Armin Macanovic - University of Sarajevo
Parastoo Mahdavi - Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg
Peter Manning - Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre
Corrado Marceno - University of the Basque Country
Vassiliy Martynenko - Russian Acad Sci, Ufa Fed Sci Ctr, Ufa Inst Biol, Ufa, Russia
Maurizio Mencuccini - ICREA, CREAF, Barcelona, Spain
Vanessa Minden - Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg
Jesper Erenskjold Moeslund - Aarhus University
Marco Moretti - Swiss Fed Res Inst WSL, Biodivers & Conservat Biol, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
Jonas V. Mueller - Royal Bot Gardens, Conservat Sci, Richmond, England
Jerome Munzinger - University of Montpellier
Ulo Niinemets - Plant
Marcin Nobis - Jagiellonian University
Jalil Noroozi - University of Vienna
Arkadiusz Nowak - Polish Acad Sci, Ctr Biol Div Conservat, Botan Garden, Warsaw, Poland
Viktor Onyshchenko - Natl Acad Sci Ukraine, MG Kholodny Inst Bot, Kiev, Ukraine
Gerhard E. Overbeck - Federal Reserve
Wim A. Ozinga - Wageningen University & Research
Anibal Pauchard - University of Concepción
Hristo Pedashenko
Josep Penuelas - Universidade Aberta
Aaron Perez-Haase - Universitat de Barcelona
Tomas Peterka - Masaryk University
Petr Petrik - Czech Acad Sci, Inst Bot, Dept GIS & Remote Sensing, Pruhonice, Czech Republic
Oliver L. Phillips - University of Leeds
Vadim Prokhorov - Kazan Fed Univ, Inst Environm Sci, Kazan, Russia
Valerijus Rasomavicius - Nat Res Ctr, Inst Bot, Vilnius, Lithuania
Rasmus Revermann - Universität Hamburg
John Rodwell
Eszter Ruprecht - Babe Bolyai Univ, Fac Biol & Geol, Hungarian Dept Biol & Ecol, Cluj Napoca, Romania
Solvita Rusina - University of Latvia
Cyrus Samimi - University of Bayreuth
Joop H. J. Schaminee - Wageningen University & Research
Ute Schmiedel - Universität Hamburg
Jozef Sibik - Plant
Urban Silc - Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Zeljko Skvorc - University of Zagreb
Anita Smyth - University of Adelaide
Tenekwetche Sop - German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research
Desislava Sopotlieva - Plant
Ben Sparrow - University of Adelaide
Zvjezdana Stancic - University of Zagreb
Jens-Christian Svenning - Aarhus University
Grzegorz Swacha - Univ Wroclaw, Botan Garden, Wroclaw, Poland
Zhiyao Tang - Peking University
Ioannis Tsiripidis - Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Pavel Dan Turtureanu - Babe Bolyai Univ, A Borza Bot Garden, Cluj Napoca, Romania
Emin Ugurlu - Bursa Tech Univ, Fac Forestry, Forest Engn Dept, Yildirim, Bursa, Turkey
Domas Uogintas - Nat Res Ctr, Inst Bot, Vilnius, Lithuania
Milan Valachovic - Plant
Kim Andre Vanselow - Univ Erlangen Nurnberg, Dept Geog, Erlangen, Germany
Yulia Vashenyak - Interreg Acad Personnel Management, Khmelnytskyi Inst, Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine
Kiril Vassilev - Plant
Eduardo Velez-Martin - Univ Fed Rio Grande, Dept Ecol, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
Roberto Venanzoni - University of Perugia
Alexander Christian Vibrans - Univ Reg Blumenau, Dept Engn Florestal, Blumenau, Brazil
Cyrille Violle - University of Montpellier
Risto Virtanen - German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research
Henrik von Wehrden - Leuphana Univ, Inst Ecol, Luneburg, Germany
Viktoria Wagner - University of Alberta
Donald A. Walker - Univ Alaska, Inst Arctic Biol, Fairbanks, AK 99701 USA
Desalegn Wana - Addis Ababa University
Evan Weiher - Univ Wisconsin, Dept Biol, Eau Claire, WI 54701 USA
Karsten Wesche - German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research
Timothy Whitfeld - Brown University
Wolfgang Willner - University of Vienna
Susan Wiser - Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research
Thomas Wohlgemuth - Swiss Fed Inst Forest, Snow & Landscape Res WSL, Res Unit Forest Dynam, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
Sergey Yamalov - UFA
Georg Zizka - Senckenberg Res Inst, Dept Bot & Mol Evolut, Frankfurt, Germany
Andrei Zverev - Tomsk State Univ, Dept Bot, Tomsk, Russia
Publication Details: Journal of vegetation science, Vol.30(2), pp.161-186
Publisher: Wiley
Number of pages: 26
Grant note: NE/N01250X/1 / NERC; UK Research & Innovation (UKRI); Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) DFG FZT 118 / German Research Foundation; German Research Foundation (DFG) TRY initiative on plant traits
Identifiers: 9949440708331
Academic Unit: King Saud University
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article