https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/641388
Title: | sPlot – A new tool for global vegetation analyses | Authors: | Bruelheide, Helge Dengler, Jürgen Jiménez-Alfaro, Borja Purschke, Oliver Hennekens, Stephan M. Chytrý, Milan Pillar, Valério D. Jansen, Florian Kattge, Jens Sandel, Brody Aubin, Isabelle Biurrun, Idoia Field, Richard Haider, Sylvia Jandt, Ute Lenoir, Jonathan Peet, Robert K. Peyre, Gwendolyn Sabatini, Francesco Maria Schmidt, Marco Schrodt, Franziska Winter, Marten Aćić, Svetlana Agrillo, Emiliano Alvarez, Miguel Ambarlı, Didem Angelini, Pierangela Apostolova, Iva Arfin Khan, Mohammed A.S. Arnst, Elise Attorre, Fabio Baraloto, Christopher Beckmann, Michael Berg, Christian Bergeron, Yves Bergmeier, Erwin Bjorkman, Anne D. Bondareva, Viktoria Borchardt, Peter Botta-Dukát, Zoltán Boyle, Brad Breen, Amy Brisse, Henry Byun, Chaeho Cabido, Marcelo R. Casella, Laura Cayuela, Luis Černý, Tomáš Chepinoga, Victor Csiky, János Curran, Michael Ćušterevska, Renata Dajić Stevanović, Zora De Bie, Els de Ruffray, Patrice De Sanctis, Michele Dimopoulos, Panayotis Dressler, Stefan Ejrnæs, Rasmus El-Sheikh, Mohamed Abd El Rouf Mousa Enquist, Brian Ewald, Jörg Fagúndez, Jaime Finckh, Manfred Font, Xavier Forey, Estelle Fotiadis, Georgios García-Mijangos, Itziar de Gasper, André Luis Golub, Valentin Gutierrez, Alvaro G. Hatim, Mohamed Z. He, Tianhua Higuchi, Pedro Holubová, Dana Hölzel, Norbert Homeier, Jürgen Indreica, Adrian Işık Gürsoy, Deniz Jansen, Steven Janssen, John Jedrzejek, Birgit Jiroušek, Martin Jürgens, Norbert Kącki, Zygmunt Kavgacı, Ali Kearsley, Elizabeth Kessler, Michael Knollová, Ilona Kolomiychuk, Vitaliy Korolyuk, Andrey Kozhevnikova, Maria Kozub, Łukasz Krstonošić, Daniel Kühl, Hjalmar Kühn, Ingolf Kuzemko, Anna Küzmič, Filip Landucci, Flavia Lee, Michael T. CHING-FENG LI |
Keywords: | biodiversity | community ecology | ecoinformatics | functional diversity | global scale | macroecology | phylogenetic diversity | plot database | sPlot | taxonomic diversity | vascular plant | vegetation relevé | Issue Date: | 1-Mar-2019 | Journal Volume: | 30 | Journal Issue: | 2 | Source: | Journal of Vegetation Science | Abstract: | 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. |
URI: | https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/641388 | ISSN: | 11009233 | DOI: | 10.1111/jvs.12710 |
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