sPlotOpen - An environmentally balanced, open‐access, global dataset of vegetation plots

Francesco Maria Sabatini; Jonathan Roger Michel Henri Lenoir; Tarek Hattab; 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 de 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; Antonio Galán-De-Mera; Emmanuel Garbolino; 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 Kavgacı; 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; 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; Risto Virtanen; Henrik von 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

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sPlotOpen - An environmentally balanced, open‐access, global dataset of vegetation plots

Francesco Maria Sabatini, Jonathan Roger Michel Henri Lenoir, Tarek Hattab, Elise Aimee Arnst, Milan Chytrý, Jürgen Dengler, Patrice de Ruffray, Stephan Hennekens, Ute Jandt, Florian Jansen, …

Global Ecology and Biogeography, Vol.30(9), pp.1740-1764

23/09/2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13346

Abstract

big data

biodiversity

biogeography

database

functional traits

macroecology

vascular plants

vegetation plots

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.

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Title: sPlotOpen - An environmentally balanced, open‐access, global dataset of vegetation plots
Creators - without role: Francesco Maria Sabatini - Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Jonathan Roger Michel Henri Lenoir - Ecologie et Dynamique des Systèmes Anthropisés
Tarek Hattab - Université de Montpellier, MARine Biodiversity, Exploitation & Conservation - MARBEC
Elise Aimee Arnst - Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research
Milan Chytrý - Masaryk University
Jürgen Dengler - German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research
Patrice de Ruffray - Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes
Stephan Hennekens - Wageningen University & Research
Ute Jandt - German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research
Florian Jansen - University of Rostock
Borja Jiménez-Alfaro - Universidad de Oviedo
Jens Kattge - Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Aurora Levesley - University of Leeds
Valério Pillar - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
Oliver Purschke - Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Brody Sandel - Santa Clara University
Fahmida Sultana - Shahjalal University of Science and Technology
Tsipe Aavik - University of Tartu
Svetlana Aćić - University of Belgrade
Alicia Acosta
Emiliano Agrillo - Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale
Miguel Alvarez - University of Bonn
Iva Apostolova - Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Mohammed Arfin Khan
Luzmila Arroyo - Gabriel René Moreno Autonomous University
Fabio Attorre - Sapienza University of Rome
Isabelle Aubin - Natural Resources Canada
Arindam Banerjee - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Marijn Bauters - Ghent University
Yves Bergeron - Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue
Erwin Bergmeier - University of Göttingen
Idoia Biurrun - University of the Basque Country
Anne Bjorkman - University of Gothenburg
Gianmaria Bonari - Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Viktoria Bondareva
Jörg Brunet - Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Andraž Čarni - Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Laura Casella - Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale
Luis Cayuela - Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
Tomáš Černý - Czech University of Life Sciences Prague
Victor Chepinoga - Central Siberian Botanical Garden
János Csiky - University of Pecs
Renata Ćušterevska - Saints Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje
Els de Bie - Research Institute for Nature and Forest
André Luis de Gasper - Universidade Regional de Blumenau
Michele de Sanctis - Sapienza University of Rome
Panayotis Dimopoulos - University of Patras
Jiri Dolezal - Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Botany
Tetiana Dziuba - M.G. Kholodny Institute of Botany
Mohamed Abd El‐rouf Mousa El-Sheikh
Brian Enquist - University of Arizona
Jörg Ewald - Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Sciences
Farideh Fazayeli - Twin Cities Orthopedics
Richard Field - University of Nottingham
Manfred Finckh - Universität Hamburg
Sophie Gachet - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Antonio Galán-De-Mera
Emmanuel Garbolino - Centre de Recherche sur les Risques et les Crises
Hamid Gholizadeh - University of Mazandaran
Melisa Giorgis - Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal
Valentin Golub
Inger Greve Alsos - UiT The Arctic University of Norway
John‐arvid Grytnes - University of Bergen
Gregory Richard Guerin - University of Adelaide
Alvaro Gutiérrez - University of Chile
Sylvia Haider - German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research
Mohamed Hatim - Wageningen University & Research
Bruno Hérault - Institut National Polytechnique Félix Houphouët-Boigny
Guillermo Hinojos Mendoza
Norbert Hölzel - University of Münster
Jürgen Homeier - University of Göttingen
Wannes Hubau - Royal Museum for Central Africa
Adrian Indreica - Transylvania University of Brașov
John Janssen - Wageningen University & Research
Birgit Jedrzejek - University of Münster
Anke Jentsch - University of Bayreuth
Norbert Jürgens - Universität Hamburg
Zygmunt Kącki - University of Wrocław
Jutta Kapfer - Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research
Dirk Nikolaus Karger - Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Ali Kavgacı - Karabük University
Elizabeth Kearsley - Ghent University
Michael Kessler - University of Zurich
Larisa Khanina - Institute of Mathematical Problems of Biology
Timothy Killeen - Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado
Andrey Korolyuk
Holger Kreft - University of Göttingen
Hjalmar Kühl - Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Anna Kuzemko
Flavia Landucci - Masaryk University
Attila Lengyel - Institute of Ecology and Botany
Frederic Lens - Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Débora Vanessa Lingner - Universidade Regional de Blumenau
Hongyan Liu - Peking University
Tatiana Lysenko - Komarov Botanical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Miguel Mahecha - German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research
Corrado Marcenò - Masaryk University
Vasiliy Martynenko
Jesper Erenskjold Moeslund - Aarhus University
Abel Monteagudo Mendoza
Ladislav Mucina - Murdoch University
Jonas Müller - Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Jérôme Munzinger - Université de Montpellier, BotAnique et Modélisation de l'Architecture des Plantes et des végétations - AMAP
Alireza Naqinezhad - University of Mazandaran
Jalil Noroozi - University of Vienna
Arkadiusz Nowak - Polish Academy of Sciences Botanical Garden – Center for Biological Diversity Conservation in Powsin
Viktor Onyshchenko - M.G. Kholodny Institute of Botany
Gerhard Overbeck - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
Meelis Pärtel - University of Tartu
Aníbal Pauchard - University of Concepción
Robert Peet - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Josep Peñuelas - Centre for Research on Ecology and Forestry Applications
Aaron Pérez-Haase - Institut de Biologia Evolutiva
Tomáš Peterka - Masaryk University
Petr Petřík - Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Botany
Gwendolyn Peyre - Universidad de Los Andes
Oliver Phillips - University of Leeds
Vadim Prokhorov - Kazan Federal University
Valerijus Rašomavičius - Nature Research Centre
Rasmus Revermann - Universität Hamburg
Gonzalo Rivas-Torres - Universidad San Francisco de Quito
John Rodwell - Lancaster University
Eszter Ruprecht - Babeș-Bolyai University
Solvita Rūsiņa - University of Latvia
Cyrus Samimi - University of Bayreuth
Marco Schmidt
Franziska Schrodt - University of Nottingham
Hanhuai Shan - Microsoft
Pavel Shirokikh
Jozef Šibík - Institute of Botany of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
Urban Šilc - Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Petr Sklenář - Charles University
Željko Škvorc - University of Zagreb
Ben Sparrow - University of Adelaide
Marta Gaia Sperandii - Roma Tre University
Zvjezdana Stančić - University of Zagreb
Jens‐christian Svenning - Aarhus University
Zhiyao Tang - Peking University
Cindy Tang - Yunnan University
Ioannis Tsiripidis - Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Kim André Vanselow - Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Rodolfo Vásquez Martínez
Kiril Vassilev - Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research
Eduardo Vélez-Martin
Roberto Venanzoni - University of Perugia
Alexander Christian Vibrans - Universidade Regional de Blumenau
Cyrille Violle - Université de Montpellier, Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive - CEFE
Risto Virtanen - University of Oulu
Henrik von Wehrden - Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Viktoria Wagner - University of Alberta
Donald Walker - University of Alaska Fairbanks
Donald Waller - University of Wisconsin–Madison
Hua‐feng Wang
Karsten Wesche - German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research
Timothy Whitfeld
Wolfgang Willner - University of Vienna
Susan Wiser - Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research
Thomas Wohlgemuth - Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Sergey Yamalov - Russian Academy of Sciences
Martin Zobel - University of Tartu
Helge Bruelheide - Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Publication Details: Global Ecology and Biogeography, Vol.30(9), pp.1740-1764
Identifiers: 9934409309311
Academic Unit: Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive - CEFE; BotAnique et Modélisation de l'Architecture des Plantes et des végétations - AMAP; MARine Biodiversity, Exploitation & Conservation - MARBEC
Language: English
Resource Type: Dataset
Local Fields: hal-03286084