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

FM Sabatini; J Lenoir; T Hattab; EA Arnst; M Chytrý; J Dengler; P De Ruffray; SM Hennekens; U Jandt; F Jansen; B Jiménez-Alfaro; J Kattge; A Levesley; VD Pillar; O Purschke; B Sandel; F Sultana; T Aavik; E Agrillo; S Aćić; M Alvarez; ATR Acosta; I Apostolova; MAS Arfin Khan; L Arroyo; F Attorre; I Aubin; A Banerjee; M Bauters; E Bergmeier; I Biurrun; AD Bjorkman; Gianmaria Bonari; V Bondareva; J Brunet; A Čarni; L Casella; L Cayuela; T Černý; V Chepinoga; J Csiky; R Ćušterevska; E De Bie; AL de Gasper; M De Sanctis; P Dimopoulos; J Dolezal; T Dziuba; MAE-RM El-Sheikh; B Enquist; J Ewald; F Fazayeli; R Field; M Finckh; S Gachet; A Galán-de-Mera; E Garbolino; H Gholizadeh; M Giorgis; V Golub; I Greve Alsos; J-A Grytnes; GR Guerin; AG Gutiérrez; S Haider; MZ Hatim; B Hérault; G Hinojos Mendoza; N Hölzel; J Homeier; W Hubau; A Indreica; JAM Janssen; B Jedrzejek; A Jentsch; N Jürgens; Z Kącki; J Kapfer; DN Karger; A Kavgacı; E Kearsley; M Kessler; L Khanina; T Killeen; A Korolyuk; H Kreft; HS Kühl; A Kuzemko; F Landucci; A Lengyel; F Lens; DV Lingner; H Liu; T Lysenko; MD Mahecha; C Marcenò; P Marchand; V Martynenko; JE Moeslund; AM Mendoza; L Mucina; ZV Müller; J Munzinger; A Naqinezhad; J Noroozi; A Nowak; V Onyshchenko; GE Overbeck; M Pärtel; A Pauchard; RK Peet; J Peñuelas; A Pérez-Haase; T Peterka; P Petřík; G Peyre; OL Phillips; V Prokhorov; V Rašomavičius; R Revermann; G Rivas-Torres; JS Rodwell; E Ruprecht; S Rūsiņa; C Samimi; M Schmidt; F Schrodt; H Shan; P Shirokikh; J Šibík; U Šilc; P Sklenář; Ž Škvorc; B Sparrow; MG Sperandii; Z Stančić; J-C Svenning; Z Tang; CQ Tang; I Tsiripidis; KA Vanselow; R Vásquez Martínez; K Vassilev; E Vélez-Martin; R Venanzoni; AC Vibrans; C Violle; R Virtanen; H von Wehrden; V Wagner; DA Walker; D Waller; H-F Wang; K Wesche; TJS Whitfeld; W Willner; SK Wiser; T Wohlgemuth; S Yamalov; M Zobel; H Bruelheide

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

FM Sabatini, J Lenoir, T Hattab, EA Arnst, M Chytrý, J Dengler, P De Ruffray, SM Hennekens, U Jandt, F Jansen, …

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

2021

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

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Vascular plants

Macroecology

Biodiversity

Database

vegetation plots

Functional traits

Big Data

Biogeography

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: FM Sabatini - Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
J Lenoir - French National Centre for Scientific Research
T Hattab
EA Arnst - Landcare Research
M Chytrý - Masaryk University
J Dengler - University of Bayreuth
P De Ruffray - University of Strasbourg
SM Hennekens
U Jandt - Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
F Jansen - University of Rostock
B Jiménez-Alfaro - Universidad de Oviedo
J Kattge - Max Planck Society
A Levesley - University of Leeds
VD Pillar - Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
O Purschke - Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
B Sandel - Santa Clara University
F Sultana - Shahjalal University of Science and Technology
T Aavik - University of Tartu
E Agrillo
S Aćić - University of Belgrade
M Alvarez - University of Bonn
ATR Acosta
I Apostolova - Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
MAS Arfin Khan
L Arroyo - Gabriel René Moreno Autonomous University
F Attorre - Sapienza University of Rome
I Aubin - Natural Resources Canada
A Banerjee - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
M Bauters - Ghent University
E Bergmeier - University of Göttingen
I Biurrun - University of the Basque Country
AD Bjorkman - University of Gothenburg
Gianmaria Bonari
V Bondareva
J Brunet - Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
A Čarni - Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
L Casella
L Cayuela - King Juan Carlos University
T Černý - Czech University of Life Sciences Prague
V Chepinoga
J Csiky - University of Pecs
R Ćušterevska - Saints Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje
E De Bie - Research Institute for Nature and Forest
AL de Gasper
M De Sanctis - Sapienza University of Rome
P Dimopoulos - University of Patras
J Dolezal - Czech Academy of Sciences
T Dziuba
MAE-RM El-Sheikh
B Enquist - University of Arizona
J Ewald - Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Sciences
F Fazayeli - University of Minnesota
R Field - University of Nottingham
M Finckh - Universität Hamburg
S Gachet
A Galán-de-Mera - CEU San Pablo University
E Garbolino
H Gholizadeh - University of Mazandaran
M Giorgis - National Scientific and Technical Research Council
V Golub - Russian Academy of Sciences
I Greve Alsos
J-A Grytnes - University of Bergen
GR Guerin - University of Adelaide
AG Gutiérrez - University of Chile
S Haider - Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
MZ Hatim - Tanta University
B Hérault - University of Montpellier
G Hinojos Mendoza
N Hölzel - University of Münster
J Homeier - University of Göttingen
W Hubau - Ghent University
A Indreica - Transylvania University of Brașov
JAM Janssen
B Jedrzejek - University of Münster
A Jentsch - University of Bayreuth
N Jürgens - Universität Hamburg
Z Kącki - University of Wrocław
J Kapfer
DN Karger - Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
A Kavgacı
E Kearsley - Ghent University
M Kessler - University of Zurich
L Khanina - Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics
T Killeen
A Korolyuk - Russian Academy of Sciences
H Kreft - University of Göttingen
HS Kühl - Max Planck Society
A Kuzemko
F Landucci - Masaryk University
A Lengyel
F Lens - Leiden University
DV Lingner
H Liu - Peking University
T Lysenko - Komarov Botanical Institute
MD Mahecha - Leipzig University
C Marcenò - Masaryk University
P Marchand
V Martynenko - Russian Academy of Sciences
JE Moeslund - Aarhus University
AM Mendoza - National University of Saint Anthony the Abbot in Cuzco
L Mucina
ZV Müller
J Munzinger
A Naqinezhad - University of Mazandaran
J Noroozi - University of Vienna
A Nowak - Polish Academy of Sciences
V Onyshchenko
GE Overbeck - Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
M Pärtel - University of Tartu
A Pauchard - University of Concepción
RK Peet - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
J Peñuelas - Spanish National Research Council
A Pérez-Haase - University of Barcelona
T Peterka - Masaryk University
P Petřík - Czech Academy of Sciences
G Peyre - Universidad de Los Andes
OL Phillips - University of Leeds
V Prokhorov - Kazan Federal University
V Rašomavičius
R Revermann - Namibia University of Science and Technology
G Rivas-Torres - Universidad San Francisco de Quito
JS Rodwell
E Ruprecht - Babeș-Bolyai University
S Rūsiņa - University of Latvia
C Samimi
M Schmidt
F Schrodt - University of Nottingham
H Shan - Microsoft
P Shirokikh - Russian Academy of Sciences
J Šibík - Slovak Academy of Sciences
U Šilc - Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
P Sklenář - Charles University
Ž Škvorc - University of Zagreb
B Sparrow - University of Adelaide
MG Sperandii - Roma Tre University
Z Stančić - University of Zagreb
J-C Svenning - Aarhus University
Z Tang - Peking University
CQ Tang - Yunnan University
I Tsiripidis - Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
KA Vanselow - University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
R Vásquez Martínez
K Vassilev - Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
E Vélez-Martin
R Venanzoni - University of Perugia
AC Vibrans
C Violle
R Virtanen - University of Oulu
H von Wehrden - Leuphana University of Lüneburg
V Wagner - University of Alberta
DA Walker - University of Alaska Fairbanks
D Waller - University of Wisconsin–Madison
H-F Wang - Hainan University
K Wesche - TU Dresden
TJS Whitfeld
W Willner - University of Vienna
SK Wiser - Landcare Research
T Wohlgemuth - Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
S Yamalov - Russian Academy of Sciences
M Zobel - University of Tartu
H Bruelheide - Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Publication Details: Global Ecology and Biogeography, Vol.30(9), pp.1740-1764
ISSN: 1466-822X
EISSN: 1466-8238
Series / Volume: 30
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Inc
Number of pages: 25
Identifiers: (UNIBZ)66269382
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Web of Science ID: WOS:000664540200001
Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85108379972
Copyright: This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. © 2021 The Authors. Global Ecology and Biogeography published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
Academic Unit: Faculty of Science and Technology
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article
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