sPlot – A new tool for global vegetation analyses

Bruelheide H, Dengler J, Jiménez-Alfaro B, Purschke O, Hennekens SM, Chytrý M, Pillar VD, Jansen F, Kattge J, Sandel B, Aubin I, Biurrun I, Field R, Haider S, Jandt U, Lenoir J, Peet RK, Peyre G, Sabatini FM, Schmidt M, Schrodt F, Winter M, Aćić S, Agrillo E, Alvarez M, Ambarlı D, Angelini P, Apostolova I, Arfin Khan MA, Arnst E, Attorre F, Baraloto C, Beckmann M, Berg C, Bergeron Y, Bergmeier E, Bjorkman AD, Bondareva V, Borchardt P, Botta-Dukát Z, Boyle B, Breen A, Brisse H, Byun C, Cabido MR, Casella L, Cayuela L, Černý T, Chepinoga V, Csiky J, Curran M, Ćušterevska R, Dajić Stevanović Z, De Bie E, de Ruffray P, De Sanctis M, Dimopoulos P, Dressler S, Ejrnæs R, El-Sheikh MAERM, Enquist B, Ewald J, Fagúndez J, Finckh M, Font X, Forey E, Fotiadis G, García-Mijangos I, de Gasper AL, Golub V, Gutierrez AG, Hatim MZ, He T, Higuchi P, Holubová D, Hölzel N, Homeier J, Indreica A, Işık Gürsoy D, Jansen S, Janssen J, Jedrzejek B, Jiroušek M, Jürgens N, Kącki Z, Kavgacı A, Kearsley E, Kessler M, Knollová I, Kolomiychuk V, Korolyuk A, Kozhevnikova M, Kozub Ł, Krstonošić D, Kühl H, Kühn I, Kuzemko A, Küzmič F, Landucci F, Lee MT, Levesley A, Li CF, Liu H, Lopez-Gonzalez G, Lysenko T, Macanović A, Mahdavi P, Manning P, Marcenò C, Martynenko V, Mencuccini M, Minden V, Moeslund JE, Moretti M, Müller JV, Munzinger J, Niinemets Ü, Nobis M, Noroozi J, Nowak A, Onyshchenko V, Overbeck GE, Ozinga WA, Pauchard A, Pedashenko H, Peñuelas J, Pérez-Haase A, Peterka T, Petřík P, Phillips OL, Prokhorov V, Rašomavičius V, Revermann R, Rodwell J, Ruprecht E, Rūsiņa S, Samimi C, Schaminée JH, Schmiedel U, Šibík J, Šilc U, Škvorc Ž, Smyth A, Sop T, Sopotlieva D, Sparrow B, Stančić Z, Svenning JC, Swacha G, Tang Z, Tsiripidis I, Turtureanu PD, Uğurlu E, Uogintas D, Valachovič M, Vanselow K, Vashenyak Y, Vassilev K, Vélez-Martin E, Venanzoni R, Vibrans AC, Violle C, Virtanen R, von Wehrden H, Wagner V, Walker DA, Wana D, Weiher E, Wesche K, Whitfeld T, Willner W, Wiser S, Wohlgemuth T, Yamalov S, Zizka G, Zverev A (2019)


Publication Type: Journal article

Publication year: 2019

Journal

Book Volume: 30

Pages Range: 161-186

Journal Issue: 2

DOI: 10.1111/jvs.12710

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.

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Kholodny Institute of Botany of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine UA Ukraine (UA) Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts ZRC SAZU SI Slovenia (SI) Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) DE Germany (DE) Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) BR Brazil (BR) Wageningen University & Research NL Netherlands (NL) Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn DE Germany (DE) Düzce University TR Turkey (TR) Università degli studi "La Sapienza" IT Italy (IT) Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung (UFZ) / Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research DE Germany (DE) Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz AT Austria (AT) Italian Institute for Environmental Protection and Research / Istituto superiore per la protezione e la ricerca ambientale (ISPRA) IT Italy (IT) Czech University of Life Sciences Prague (CULS) / Česká zemědělská univerzita v Praze CZ Czech Republic (CZ) V.B. 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APA:

Bruelheide, H., Dengler, J., Jiménez-Alfaro, B., Purschke, O., Hennekens, S.M., Chytrý, M.,... Zverev, A. (2019). sPlot – A new tool for global vegetation analyses. Journal of Vegetation Science, 30(2), 161-186. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jvs.12710

MLA:

Bruelheide, Helge, et al. "sPlot – A new tool for global vegetation analyses." Journal of Vegetation Science 30.2 (2019): 161-186.

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