sPlot – a new tool for global vegetation analyses

Bibtex

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title = "sPlot – a new tool for global vegetation analyses",
abstract = "Abstract Questions Vegetation-plot records provide information on 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. Location 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 between 1885 and 2015. Methods 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. Results 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. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.",
author = "Helge Bruelheide and Jürgen Dengler and Borja Jiménez-Alfaro and Oliver Purschke and Stephan M. Hennekens and Milan Chytrý and Valério D. Pillar and Florian Jansen and Jens Kattge and Brody Sandel and Isabelle Aubin and Idoia Biurrun and Richard Field and Sylvia Haider and Ute Jandt and Jonathan Lenoir and Robert K. Peet and Gwendolyn Peyre and Francesco Maria Sabatini and Marco Schmidt and Franziska Schrodt and Marten Winter and Svetlana Aćić and Emiliano Agrillo and Miguel Alvarez and Didem Ambarlı and Pierangela Angelini and Iva Apostolova and Mohammed A.S. Arfin Khan and Elise Arnst and Fabio Attorre and Christopher Baraloto and Michael Beckmann and Christian Berg and Yves Bergeron and Erwin Bergmeier and Anne D. Bjorkman and Viktoria Bondareva and Peter Borchardt and Zoltán Botta-Dukát and Brad Boyle and Amy Breen and Henry Brisse and Chaeho Byun and Marcelo R. Cabido and Laura Casella and Luis Cayuela and Tomáš Černý and Victor Chepinoga and János Csiky and Michael Curran and Renata Ćušterevska and Zora Dajić Stevanović and Els De Bie and Patrice De Ruffray and Michele De Sanctis and Panayotis Dimopoulos and Stefan Dressler and Rasmus Ejrnæs and Mohamed Abd El-Rouf Mousa El-Sheikh and Brian J. Enquist and Jörg Ewald and Jaime Fagúndez and Manfred Finckh and Xavier Font and Estelle Forey and Georgios Fotiadis and Itziar García-Mijangos and André Luis de Gasper and Valentin Golub and Alvaro G. Gutierrez and Mohamed Z. Hatim and Tianhua He and Pedro Higuchi and Dana Holubová and Norbert Hölzel and Jürgen Homeier and Adrian Indreica and Deniz Işık Gürsoy and Steven Jansen and John A. M. Janssen and Birgit Jedrzejek and Martin Jiroušek and Norbert Jürgens and Zygmunt Kącki and Ali Kavgacı and Elizabeth Kearsley and Michael Kessler and Ilona Knollová and Vitaliy Kolomiychuk and Andrey Korolyuk and Maria Kozhevnikova and Łukasz Kozub and Daniel Krstonošić and Hjalmar Kühl and Ingolf Kühn and Anna Kuzemko and Filip Küzmič and Flavia Landucci and Michael T. Lee and Aurora Levesley and Ching-Feng Li and Hongyan Liu and Gabriela Lopez-Gonzalez and Tatiana Lysenko and Armin Macanović and Parastoo Mahdavi and Peter Manning and Corrado Marcenò and Vassiliy Martynenko and Maurizio Mencuccini and Vanessa Minden and Jesper Erenskjold Moeslund and Marco Moretti and Jonas V. Müller and Jérôme Munzinger and Ülo Niinemets and Marcin Nobis and Jalil Noroozi and Arkadiusz Nowak and Viktor Onyshchenko and Gerhard E. Overbeck and Wim A. Ozinga and Anibal Pauchard and Hristo Pedashenko and Josep Peñuelas and Aaron Pérez-Haase and Tomáš Peterka and Petr Petřík and Oliver L. Phillips and Vadim Prokhorov and Valerijus Rašomavičius and Rasmus Revermann and John S. Rodwell and Eszter Ruprecht and Solvita Rūsiņa and Cyrus Samimi and Joop H.J. Schaminée and Ute Schmiedel and Jozef Šibík and Urban Šilc and Željko Škvorc and Anita Smyth and Tenekwetche Sop and Desislava Sopotlieva and Ben Sparrow and Zvjezdana Stančić and Jens-Christian Svenning and Grzegorz Swacha and Zhiyao Tang and Ioannis Tsiripidis and Pavel Dan Turtureanu and Emin Ugurlu and Domas Uogintas and Milan Valachovič and Kim André Vanselow and Yulia Vashenyak and Kiril Vassilev and Eduardo Vélez-Martin and Roberto Venanzoni and Alexander Christian Vibrans and Cyrille Violle and Risto Virtanen and Henrik von Wehrden and Viktoria Wagner and Donald A. Walker and Desalegn Wana and Evan Weiher and Karsten Wesche and Timothy Whitfeld and Wolfgang Willner and Susan Wiser and Thomas Wohlgemuth and Sergey Yamalov and Georg Zizka and Andrei Zverev",
year = "2019",
month = feb,
day = "04",
doi = "https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.12710",
language = "English",
publisher = "Opulus",
address = "Belgium,
type = "Other"
}

Authors

Helge Bruelheide
Jürgen 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 Lenoir
Robert K. Peet
Gwendolyn Peyre
Francesco Maria Sabatini
Marco Schmidt
Franziska Schrodt
Marten Winter
Svetlana Aćić
Emiliano Agrillo
Miguel Alvarez
Didem Ambarlı
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
Zoltán Botta-Dukát
Brad Boyle
Amy Breen
Henry Brisse
Chaeho Byun
Marcelo R. Cabido
Laura Casella
Luis Cayuela
Tomáš Černý
Victor Chepinoga
János 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 J. Enquist
Jörg Ewald
Jaime Fagúndez
Manfred Finckh
Xavier Font
Estelle Forey
Georgios Fotiadis
Itziar García-Mijangos
André Luis de Gasper
Valentin Golub
Alvaro G. Gutierrez
Mohamed Z. Hatim
Tianhua He
Pedro Higuchi
Dana Holubová
Norbert Hölzel
Jürgen Homeier
Adrian Indreica
Deniz Işık Gürsoy
Steven Jansen
John A. M. Janssen
Birgit Jedrzejek
Martin Jiroušek
Norbert Jürgens
Zygmunt Kącki
Ali Kavgacı
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 V. Müller
Jérôme Munzinger
Ülo Niinemets
Marcin Nobis
Jalil Noroozi
Arkadiusz Nowak
Viktor Onyshchenko
Gerhard E. Overbeck
Wim A. Ozinga
Anibal Pauchard
Hristo Pedashenko
Josep Peñuelas
Aaron Pérez-Haase
Tomáš Peterka
Petr Petřík
Oliver L. Phillips
Vadim Prokhorov
Valerijus Rašomavičius
Rasmus Revermann
John S. 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-Christian Svenning
Grzegorz Swacha
Zhiyao Tang
Ioannis Tsiripidis
Pavel Dan Turtureanu
Emin Ugurlu
Domas Uogintas
Milan Valachovič
Kim André Vanselow
Yulia Vashenyak
Kiril Vassilev
Eduardo Vélez-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