sPlot – A new tool for global vegetation analyses

Helge Bruelheide; Jurgen Dengler; Borja Jiménez‐alfaro; Oliver Purschke; Stephan M. Hennekens; Milan Chytrý; Valério D. Pillar; Florian Jansen; Jens Kattge; Brody Sandel; Isabelle Aubin; Idoia Biurrun; Richard Field; Sylvia Haider; Ute Jandt; Jonathan Roger Michel Henri Lenoir; Robert Peet; Gwendolyn Peyre; Francesco Maria Sabatini; Marco Schmidt; Franziska Schrodt; Marten Winter; Svetlana Aćić; Emiliano Agrillo; Miguel Alvarez; Didem Ambarli; Pierangela Angelini; Iva Apostolova; Mohammed Arfin Khan; Elise Arnst; Fabio Attorre; Christopher Baraloto; Michael Beckmann; Christian Berg; Yves Berg; Erwin Berg; Anne Bjorkman; Viktoria Bondareva; Peter Borchardt; Zoltán Botta‐dukát; Brad Boyle; Amy Breen; Henry Brisse; Chaeho Byun; Marcelo Cabido; Laura Casella; Luis Cayuela; Tomáš Černý; Victor Chepinoga; Janos Csiky; Michael Curran; Renata Ćušterevska; Zora Dajić Stevanović; Els de Bie; Patrice de Ruffray; Michele de Sanctis; Panayotis Dimopoulos; Stefan Dressler; Rasmus Ejrnæs; Mohamed Abd El‐rouf Mousa El‐sheikh; Brian Enquist; Jörg Ewald; Jaime Fagúndez; Manfred Finckh; Xavier Font; Estelle Forey; Georgios Fotiadis; Itziar García‐mijangos; Luis Gasper; Valentin Golub; Alvaro Gutierrez; Mohamed Hatim; Tianhua He; Pedro Higuchi; Dana Holubová; Norbert Hölzel; Jürgen Homeier; Adrian Indreica; Deniz Işik Gürsoy; Steven S. Jansen; John Janssen; Birgit Jedrzejek; Martin Jiroušek; Jürgen Jürgens; Zygmunt Kącki; Ali Kavgaci; Elizabeth Kearsley; Michael Kessler; Ilona Knollová; Vitaliy Kolomiychuk; Andrey Korolyuk; Maria Kozhevnikova; Łukasz Kozub; Daniel Krstonošić; Hjalmar Kühl; Ingolf Kühn; Anna Kuzemko; Filip Küzmič; Flavia Landucci; Michael T. Lee; Aurora Levesley; Ching‐feng Li; Hongyan Liu; Gabriela Lopez Gonzalez; Tatiana Lysenko; Armin Macanović; Parastoo Mahdavi; Peter Manning; Corrado Marcenò; Vassiliy Martynenko; Maurizio Mencuccini; Vanessa Minden; Jesper Erenskjold Moeslund; Marco Moretti; Jonas Müller; Jérôme Munzinger; Ülo Niinemets; Marcin Nobis; Jalil Noroozi; Arkadiusz Nowak; Viktor Onyshchenko; Gerhard Overbeck; Wim Ozinga; Anibal Pauchard; Hristo Pedashenko; Josep Peñuelas; Aaron Pérez‐haase; Tomáš Peterka; Petr Petřík; Oliver L. Phillips; Vadim Prokhorov; Valerijus Rašomavičius; Rasmus Revermann; John Rodwell; Eszter Ruprecht; Solvita Rūsiņa; Cyrus Samimi; Joop H.J. Schaminée; Ute Schmiedel; Jozef Šibík; Urban Šilc; Željko Škvorc; Anita Smyth; Tenekwetche Sop; Desislava Sopotlieva; Ben Sparrow; Zvjezdana Stančić; Jens Svenning; Grzegorz Swacha; Zhiyao Tang; Ioannis Tsiripidis; Pavel Dan Turtureanu; Emin Uğurlu; Domas Uogintas; Milan Valachovič; Kim André Vanselow; Yulia Vashenyak; Kiril Vassilev; Martin Vélez‐martin; Robert Venanzoni; Christian Vibrans; Cyrille Violle; Risto Virtanen; Henrik von Wehrden; Viktoria Wagner; Donald 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, Jurgen Dengler, Borja Jiménez‐alfaro, Oliver Purschke, Stephan M. Hennekens, Milan Chytrý, Valério D. Pillar, Florian Jansen, Jens Kattge, Brody Sandel, …

Journal of Vegetation Science, Vol.30(2), pp.161-186

08/04/2019

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

Abstract

Functional diversity

Ecoinformatics

Macroecology Phylogenetic diversity

Community ecology

Biodiversity

Vegetation relevé

Vascular plant

Taxonomic diversity

sPlot

Plot database

Global scale

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 - German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research
Jurgen Dengler - German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research
Borja Jiménez‐alfaro - German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research
Oliver Purschke - Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Stephan M. Hennekens - Wageningen University & Research
Milan Chytrý - Masaryk University
Valério 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 Roger Michel Henri Lenoir - Ecologie et Dynamique des Systèmes Anthropisés
Robert Peet - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Gwendolyn Peyre - Universidad de Los Andes
Francesco Maria Sabatini - German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research
Marco Schmidt - Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre
Franziska Schrodt - University of Nottingham
Marten Winter - German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research
Svetlana Aćić - Department of Agrobotany, Belgrade-Zemun, 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 - Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Mohammed Arfin Khan - Forestry & Environmental Science, Shahjalal University of Science & Technology, 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 Berg - Institute for Integrative Systems Biology
Erwin Berg - University of Göttingen
Anne Bjorkman - Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre
Viktoria Bondareva - Institute of Ecology of the Volga River Basin, Russian Academy of Science
Peter Borchardt - Universität Hamburg
Zoltán Botta‐dukát - Centre for Ecological Research
Brad Boyle - University of Arizona
Amy Breen - University of Alaska Fairbanks
Henry Brisse
Chaeho Byun - Yonsei University
Marcelo Cabido - Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal
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 - V. B. Sochava Institute of Geography
Janos Csiky - University of Pecs
Michael Curran - ETH Zurich
Renata Ćušterevska - Faculty
Zora Dajić Stevanović - Faculty
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 Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum
Rasmus Ejrnæs - Aarhus University
Mohamed Abd El‐rouf Mousa El‐sheikh - King Saud University
Brian Enquist - University of Arizona
Jörg Ewald - Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Sciences
Jaime Fagúndez - Universidade da Coruña
Manfred Finckh - Universität Hamburg
Xavier Font - Universitat de Barcelona
Estelle Forey - Normandie Université
Georgios Fotiadis - Technological Educational Institution of Sterea Ellada
Itziar García‐mijangos - University of the Basque Country
Luis Gasper - University of Blumenau
Valentin Golub - Institute of Ecology of the Volga River Basin, Russian Academy of Science
Alvaro Gutierrez - University of Chile
Mohamed Hatim - Tanta University
Tianhua He - Curtin University
Pedro Higuchi - Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina
Dana Holubová - Masaryk University
Norbert Hölzel - University of Münster
Jürgen Homeier - University of Göttingen
Adrian Indreica - Transylvania University of Brașov
Deniz Işik Gürsoy - Manisa Celal Bayar University
Steven S. Jansen - Universität Ulm
John Janssen - Wageningen University & Research
Birgit Jedrzejek - University of Münster
Martin Jiroušek - Masaryk University
Jürgen Jürgens - Universität Hamburg
Zygmunt Kącki - Wrocław Zoo
Ali Kavgaci - Central Anatolia Forestry Research Institute
Elizabeth Kearsley - Ghent University
Michael Kessler - University of Zurich
Ilona Knollová - Masaryk University
Vitaliy Kolomiychuk - Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
Andrey Korolyuk - Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Maria Kozhevnikova - Kazan Federal University
Łukasz Kozub - University of Warsaw
Daniel Krstonošić - University of Zagreb
Hjalmar Kühl - German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research
Ingolf Kühn - German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research
Anna Kuzemko
Filip Küzmič - Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Flavia Landucci - Masaryk University
Michael T. Lee
Aurora Levesley - University of Leeds
Ching‐feng Li - National Taiwan University
Hongyan Liu - Peking University
Gabriela Lopez Gonzalez
Tatiana Lysenko - Institute of Industrial Ecology
Armin Macanović - University of Sarajevo
Parastoo Mahdavi - Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg
Peter Manning - Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre
Corrado Marcenò - University of the Basque Country
Vassiliy Martynenko
Maurizio Mencuccini - Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats
Vanessa Minden - Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg
Jesper Erenskjold Moeslund - Aarhus University
Marco Moretti - Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Jonas Müller - Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Jérôme Munzinger - Université de Montpellier, BotAnique et Modélisation de l'Architecture des Plantes et des végétations - AMAP
Ülo Niinemets - Estonian University of Life Sciences
Marcin Nobis - Jagiellonian University
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
Wim Ozinga - Wageningen University & Research
Anibal Pauchard - University of Concepción
Hristo Pedashenko
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
Oliver L. Phillips - University of Leeds
Vadim Prokhorov - Kazan Federal University
Valerijus Rašomavičius - Nature Research Centre
Rasmus Revermann - Universität Hamburg
John Rodwell - Lancaster University
Eszter Ruprecht - Babeș-Bolyai University
Solvita Rūsiņa - University of Latvia
Cyrus Samimi - University of Bayreuth
Joop H.J. Schaminée - Wageningen University & Research
Ute Schmiedel - Universität Hamburg
Jozef Šibík - Institute of Botany of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
Urban Šilc - Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Željko Škvorc - University of Zagreb
Anita Smyth - University of Adelaide
Tenekwetche Sop - German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research
Desislava Sopotlieva - Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research
Ben Sparrow - University of Adelaide
Zvjezdana Stančić - University of Zagreb
Jens Svenning
Grzegorz Swacha - Wrocław Zoo
Zhiyao Tang - Peking University
Ioannis Tsiripidis - Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Pavel Dan Turtureanu - Babeș-Bolyai University
Emin Uğurlu - Bursa Technical University
Domas Uogintas - Nature Research Centre
Milan Valachovič - Institute of Botany of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
Kim André Vanselow - Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Yulia Vashenyak - Interregional Academy of Personnel Management
Kiril Vassilev - Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research
Martin Vélez‐martin
Robert Venanzoni
Christian Vibrans
Cyrille Violle - Université de Montpellier, Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive - CEFE
Risto Virtanen - German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research
Henrik von Wehrden - Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Viktoria Wagner - University of Alberta
Donald Walker - University of Alaska Fairbanks
Desalegn Wana - Addis Ababa University
Evan Weiher - University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire
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 - Ufa Institute of Chemistry
Georg Zizka - Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum Frankfurt/M
Andrei Zverev - National Research Tomsk State University
Publication Details: Journal of Vegetation Science, Vol.30(2), pp.161-186
Identifiers: 9934408209311
Academic Unit: Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive - CEFE; BotAnique et Modélisation de l'Architecture des Plantes et des végétations - AMAP
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article
Local Fields: hal-02132381