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

Bibtex

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title = "sPlotOpen - An environmentally balanced, open-access, global dataset of vegetation plots",
abstract = "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 m(2). 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.",
author = "Francesco Maria Sabatini and J. Lenoir and Tarek Hattab and EA Arnst and Milan Chytry and Jürgen Dengler and Patrice De Ruffray and S. M Hennekens and Ute Jandt and Florian Jansen and Borja Jimenez-Alfaro and Jens Kattge and Aurora Levesley and Valerio D. Pillar and Oliver Purschke and Brody Sandel and F Sultana and Tsipe Aavik and Svetlana Acic and ATR Acosta and Emiliano Agrillo and Miguel Alvarez and Iva Apostolova and Mohammed A.S. Arfin Khan and L Arroyo and Fabio Attorre and Isabelle Aubin and A Banerjee and Marijn Bauters and Yves Bergeron and Erwin Bergmeier and Idoia Biurrun and Anne D. Bjorkman and Gianmaria Bonari and Viktoria Bondareva and J Brunet and Andraz Carni and Laura Casella and Luis Cayuela and T Cerny and Victor Chepinoga and János Csiky and Renata Custerevska and Els De Bie and André Luis de Gasper and Michele De Sanctis and P Dimopoulos and Jiri Dolezal and Tetiana Dziuba and MAM El-Sheikh and Brian J. Enquist and Jorg Ewald and F Fazayeli and Richard Field and Manfred Finckh and S Gachet and A Galan-de-Mera and E Garbolino and H Gholizadeh and M Giorgis and Valentin Golub and Inger Greve Alsos and John-Arvid Grytnes and GR Guerin and Alvaro G. Gutierrez and Sylvia Haider and Mohamed Z. Hatim and B Herault and GH Mendoza and N Holzel and Jürgen Homeier and W Hubau and Adrian Indreica and John A. M. Janssen and Birgit Jedrzejek and A Jentsch and N Jurgens and Zygmunt Kacki and Jutta Kapfer and Dirk N. Karger and Ali Kavgaci and Elizabeth Kearsley and Michael Kessler and Larisa Khanina and T Killeen and Andrey Korolyuk and Holger Kreft and HS Kuhl and Anna Kuzemko and Flavia Landucci and A Lengyel and Frederic Lens and DV Lingner and Hai-Ying Liu and Tatiana Lysenko and MD Mahecha and Corrado Marceno and Vassiliy Martynenko and Jesper E. Moeslund and AM Mendoza and Ladislav Mucina and JV Muller and JM Munzinger and A Naqinezhad and Jalil Noroozi and Arkadiusz Nowak and Viktor Onyshchenko and Gerhard E. Overbeck and Meelis Partel and Anibal Pauchard and Robert K. Peet and Josep Penuelas and Aaron Perez-Haase and Tomas Peterka and Petr Petrik and Gwendolyn Peyre and Oliver L. Phillips and Vadim Prokhorov and Valerijus Rasomavicius and Rasmus Revermann and G Rivas-Torres and John S. Rodwell and Eszter Ruprecht and Solvita Rusina and Cyrus Samimi and Marius Schmidt and Franziska Schrodt and HH Shan and P Shirokikh and Jozef Sibik and Urban Silc and P Sklenar and Zeljko Skvorc and Ben Sparrow and MG Sperandii and Zvjezdana Stancic and Jens-Christian Svenning and ZY Tang and CQ Tang and Ioannis Tsiripidis and Kim André Vanselow and RV Martinez and Kiril Vassilev and E Velez-Martin and Roberto Venanzoni and Alexander Christian Vibrans and Cyrille Violle and R Virtanen and Henrik von Wehrden and Viktoria Wagner and Donald A. Walker and Donald M. Waller and HF Wang and Karsten Wesche and TJS Whitfeld and Wolfgang Willner and SK Wiser and Thomas Wohlgemuth and Sergey Yamalov and M Zobel and Helge Bruelheide",
year = "2021",
month = sep,
day = "01",
doi = "https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13346",
language = "Nederlands",
publisher = "Wiley-Blackwell",
address = "België,
type = "Other"
}

Auteurs

Francesco Maria Sabatini
J. Lenoir
Tarek Hattab
EA Arnst
Milan Chytry
Jürgen Dengler
Patrice De Ruffray
S. M Hennekens
Ute Jandt
Florian Jansen
Borja Jimenez-Alfaro
Jens Kattge
Aurora Levesley
Valerio D. Pillar
Oliver Purschke
Brody Sandel
F Sultana
Tsipe Aavik
Svetlana Acic
ATR Acosta
Emiliano Agrillo
Miguel Alvarez
Iva Apostolova
Mohammed A.S. Arfin Khan
L Arroyo
Fabio Attorre
Isabelle Aubin
A Banerjee
Marijn Bauters
Yves Bergeron
Erwin Bergmeier
Idoia Biurrun
Anne D. Bjorkman
Gianmaria Bonari
Viktoria Bondareva
J Brunet
Andraz Carni
Laura Casella
Luis Cayuela
T Cerny
Victor Chepinoga
János Csiky
Renata Custerevska
Els De Bie
André Luis de Gasper
Michele De Sanctis
P Dimopoulos
Jiri Dolezal
Tetiana Dziuba
MAM El-Sheikh
Brian J. Enquist
Jorg Ewald
F Fazayeli
Richard Field
Manfred Finckh
S Gachet
A Galan-de-Mera
E Garbolino
H Gholizadeh
M Giorgis
Valentin Golub
Inger Greve Alsos
John-Arvid Grytnes
GR Guerin
Alvaro G. Gutierrez
Sylvia Haider
Mohamed Z. Hatim
B Herault
GH Mendoza
N Holzel
Jürgen Homeier
W Hubau
Adrian Indreica
John A. M. Janssen
Birgit Jedrzejek
A Jentsch
N Jurgens
Zygmunt Kacki
Jutta Kapfer
Dirk N. Karger
Ali Kavgaci
Elizabeth Kearsley
Michael Kessler
Larisa Khanina
T Killeen
Andrey Korolyuk
Holger Kreft
HS Kuhl
Anna Kuzemko
Flavia Landucci
A Lengyel
Frederic Lens
DV Lingner
Hai-Ying Liu
Tatiana Lysenko
MD Mahecha
Corrado Marceno
Vassiliy Martynenko
Jesper E. Moeslund
AM Mendoza
Ladislav Mucina
JV Muller
JM Munzinger
A Naqinezhad
Jalil Noroozi
Arkadiusz Nowak
Viktor Onyshchenko
Gerhard E. Overbeck
Meelis Partel
Anibal Pauchard
Robert K. Peet
Josep Penuelas
Aaron Perez-Haase
Tomas Peterka
Petr Petrik
Gwendolyn Peyre
Oliver L. Phillips
Vadim Prokhorov
Valerijus Rasomavicius
Rasmus Revermann
G Rivas-Torres
John S. Rodwell
Eszter Ruprecht
Solvita Rusina
Cyrus Samimi
Marius Schmidt
Franziska Schrodt
HH Shan
P Shirokikh
Jozef Sibik
Urban Silc
P Sklenar
Zeljko Skvorc
Ben Sparrow
MG Sperandii
Zvjezdana Stancic
Jens-Christian Svenning
ZY Tang
CQ Tang
Ioannis Tsiripidis
Kim André Vanselow
RV Martinez
Kiril Vassilev
E Velez-Martin
Roberto Venanzoni
Alexander Christian Vibrans
Cyrille Violle
R Virtanen
Henrik von Wehrden
Viktoria Wagner
Donald A. Walker
Donald M. Waller
HF Wang
Karsten Wesche
TJS Whitfeld
Wolfgang Willner
SK Wiser
Thomas Wohlgemuth
Sergey Yamalov
M Zobel
Helge Bruelheide