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

F.M. Sabatini; J. Lenoir; T. Hattab; E. Arnst; M. Chytrý; J. Dengler; P. De Ruffray; S.M. Hennekens; U. Jandt; F. Jansen; B. Jimenez‐Alfaro; J. Kattge; A. Levesley; V.D. Pillar; O. Purschke; B. Sandel; F. Sultana; T. Aavik; S. Aćić; A.T.R. Acosta; E. Agrillo; M. Álvarez; I. Apostolova; M.A.S. Arfin Khan; L. Arroyo; F. Attorre; I. Aubin; A. Banerjee; M. Bauters; Y. Bergeron; E. Bergmeier; I. Biurrun; A.D. Bjorkman; G. Bonari; V. Bondareva; J. Brunet; A. Čarni; L. Casella; L. Cayuela; T. Černý; V. Chepinoga; J. Csiky; R. Ćušterevska; E. De Bie; A.L. Gasper; M. De Sanctis; P. Dimopoulos; J. Dolezal; T. Dziuba; M.A.El‐R.M. 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.G. Alsos; J‐A Grytnes; G.R. Guerin; A.G. Gutiérrez; S. Haider; M.Z. Hatim; B. Hérault; G. Hinojos Mendoza; N. Hölzel; J. Homeier; W. Hubau; A. Indreica; J.A.M. Janssen; B. Jedrzejek; A. Jentsch; N. Jürgens; Z. Kącki; J. Kapfer; D.N. Karger; A. Kavgacı; E. Kearsley; M. Kessler; L. Khanina; T. Killeen; A. Korolyuk; H. Kreft; H.S. Kühl; A. Kuzemko; F. Landucci; A. Lengyel; F. Lens; D.V. Lingner; H. Liu; T. Lysenko; M.D. Mahecha; C. Marcenò; V. Martynenko; J.E. Moeslund; A. Monteagudo Mendoza; L. Mucina; J.V. Müller; J. Munzinger; A. Naqinezhad; J. Noroozi; A. Nowak; V. Onyshchenko; G.E. Overbeck; M. Pärtel; A. Pauchard; R.K. Peet; J. Penuelas; A. Pérez‐Haase; T. Peterka; P. Petřík; G. Peyre; O.L. Phillips; V. Prokhorov; V. Rašomavičius; R. Revermann; G. Rivas‐Torres; J.S. 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; M.G. Sperandii; Z. Stančić; J‐C Svenning; Z. Tang; C.Q. Tang; I. Tsiripidis; K.A. Vanselow; R. Vásquez Martínez; K. Vassilev; E. Vélez‐Martin; R. Venanzoni; A.C. Vibrans; C. Violle; R. Virtanen; H. Wehrden; V. Wagner; D.A. Walker; D.M. Waller; H‐F Wang; K. Wesche; T.J.S. Whitfeld; W. Willner; S.K. Wiser; T. Wohlgemuth; S. Yamalov; M. Zobel; H. Bruelheide; A. Bates

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

F.M. Sabatini, J. Lenoir, T. Hattab, E. Arnst, M. Chytrý, J. Dengler, P. De Ruffray, S.M. 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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Abstract

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.

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Title: sPlotOpen – An environmentally balanced, open‐access, global dataset of vegetation plots
Authors/Creators: F.M. Sabatini (Author/Creator) - Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
J. Lenoir (Author/Creator) - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
T. Hattab (Author/Creator)
E. Arnst (Author/Creator) - Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research
M. Chytrý (Author/Creator) - Masaryk University
J. Dengler (Author/Creator) - University of Bayreuth
P. De Ruffray (Author/Creator) - Université de Strasbourg
S.M. Hennekens (Author/Creator)
U. Jandt (Author/Creator) - Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
F. Jansen (Author/Creator) - University of Rostock
B. Jimenez‐Alfaro (Author/Creator)
J. Kattge (Author/Creator) - Max Planck Society
A. Levesley (Author/Creator) - University of Leeds
V.D. Pillar (Author/Creator) - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
O. Purschke (Author/Creator) - Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
B. Sandel (Author/Creator) - Santa Clara University
F. Sultana (Author/Creator) - Shahjalal University of Science and Technology
T. Aavik (Author/Creator) - University of Tartu
S. Aćić (Author/Creator) - University of Belgrade
A.T.R. Acosta (Author/Creator) - Roma Tre University
E. Agrillo (Author/Creator)
M. Álvarez (Author/Creator) - University of Bonn
I. Apostolova (Author/Creator) - Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
M.A.S. Arfin Khan (Author/Creator)
L. Arroyo (Author/Creator) - Gabriel René Moreno Autonomous University
F. Attorre (Author/Creator) - Sapienza University of Rome
I. Aubin (Author/Creator) - Natural Resources Canada
A. Banerjee (Author/Creator) - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
M. Bauters (Author/Creator) - Ghent University
Y. Bergeron (Author/Creator) - Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue
E. Bergmeier (Author/Creator) - University of Göttingen
I. Biurrun (Author/Creator) - University of the Basque Country
A.D. Bjorkman (Author/Creator) - University of Gothenburg
G. Bonari (Author/Creator)
V. Bondareva (Author/Creator)
J. Brunet (Author/Creator) - Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
A. Čarni (Author/Creator) - Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
L. Casella (Author/Creator)
L. Cayuela (Author/Creator) - Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
T. Černý (Author/Creator) - Czech University of Life Sciences Prague
V. Chepinoga (Author/Creator)
J. Csiky (Author/Creator) - University of Pecs
R. Ćušterevska (Author/Creator) - Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje
E. De Bie (Author/Creator) - Research Institute for Nature and Forest
A.L. Gasper (Author/Creator)
M. De Sanctis (Author/Creator) - Sapienza University of Rome
P. Dimopoulos (Author/Creator) - University of Patras
J. Dolezal (Author/Creator) - Czech Academy of Sciences
T. Dziuba (Author/Creator)
M.A.El‐R.M. El‐Sheikh (Author/Creator)
B. Enquist (Author/Creator) - University of Arizona
J. Ewald (Author/Creator) - Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Sciences
F. Fazayeli (Author/Creator) - University of Minnesota
R. Field (Author/Creator) - University of Nottingham
M. Finckh (Author/Creator) - Universität Hamburg
S. Gachet (Author/Creator)
A. Galán‐de‐Mera (Author/Creator)
E. Garbolino (Author/Creator)
H. Gholizadeh (Author/Creator) - University of Mazandaran
M. Giorgis (Author/Creator) - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
V. Golub (Author/Creator) - Russian Academy of Sciences
I.G. Alsos (Author/Creator)
J‐A Grytnes (Author/Creator)
G.R. Guerin (Author/Creator) - The University of Adelaide
A.G. Gutiérrez (Author/Creator) - University of Chile
S. Haider (Author/Creator) - Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
M.Z. Hatim (Author/Creator) - Tanta University
B. Hérault (Author/Creator) - Université de Montpellier
G. Hinojos Mendoza (Author/Creator)
N. Hölzel (Author/Creator) - University of Münster
J. Homeier (Author/Creator) - University of Göttingen
W. Hubau (Author/Creator) - Ghent University
A. Indreica (Author/Creator) - Transylvania University of Brașov
J.A.M. Janssen (Author/Creator)
B. Jedrzejek (Author/Creator) - University of Münster
A. Jentsch (Author/Creator) - University of Bayreuth
N. Jürgens (Author/Creator) - Universität Hamburg
Z. Kącki (Author/Creator) - University of Wrocław
J. Kapfer (Author/Creator)
D.N. Karger (Author/Creator) - Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
A. Kavgacı (Author/Creator)
E. Kearsley (Author/Creator) - Ghent University
M. Kessler (Author/Creator) - University of Zurich
L. Khanina (Author/Creator) - Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics
T. Killeen (Author/Creator)
A. Korolyuk (Author/Creator) - Russian Academy of Sciences
H. Kreft (Author/Creator) - University of Göttingen
H.S. Kühl (Author/Creator) - Max Planck Society
A. Kuzemko (Author/Creator)
F. Landucci (Author/Creator) - Masaryk University
A. Lengyel (Author/Creator)
F. Lens (Author/Creator) - Leiden University
D.V. Lingner (Author/Creator)
H. Liu (Author/Creator) - Peking University
T. Lysenko (Author/Creator) - Komarov Botanical Institute
M.D. Mahecha (Author/Creator) - Leipzig University
C. Marcenò (Author/Creator) - Masaryk University
V. Martynenko (Author/Creator) - Russian Academy of Sciences
J.E. Moeslund (Author/Creator) - Aarhus University
A. Monteagudo Mendoza (Author/Creator)
L. Mucina (Author/Creator)
J.V. Müller (Author/Creator) - Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
J. Munzinger (Author/Creator)
A. Naqinezhad (Author/Creator) - University of Mazandaran
J. Noroozi (Author/Creator) - University of Vienna
A. Nowak (Author/Creator) - Polish Academy of Sciences
V. Onyshchenko (Author/Creator)
G.E. Overbeck (Author/Creator) - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
M. Pärtel (Author/Creator) - University of Tartu
A. Pauchard (Author/Creator) - University of Concepción
R.K. Peet (Author/Creator) - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
J. Penuelas (Author/Creator) - Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
A. Pérez‐Haase (Author/Creator)
T. Peterka (Author/Creator) - Masaryk University
P. Petřík (Author/Creator) - Czech Academy of Sciences
G. Peyre (Author/Creator) - Universidad de Los Andes
O.L. Phillips (Author/Creator) - University of Leeds
V. Prokhorov (Author/Creator) - Kazan Federal University
V. Rašomavičius (Author/Creator)
R. Revermann (Author/Creator) - Namibia University of Science and Technology
G. Rivas‐Torres (Author/Creator)
J.S. Rodwell (Author/Creator)
E. Ruprecht (Author/Creator) - Babeș-Bolyai University
S. Rūsiņa (Author/Creator) - University of Latvia
C. Samimi (Author/Creator)
M. Schmidt (Author/Creator)
F. Schrodt (Author/Creator) - University of Nottingham
H. Shan (Author/Creator) - Microsoft (Israel)
P. Shirokikh (Author/Creator) - Russian Academy of Sciences
J. Šibík (Author/Creator) - Slovak Academy of Sciences
U. Šilc (Author/Creator)
P. Sklenář (Author/Creator) - Charles University
Ž. Škvorc (Author/Creator) - University of Zagreb
B. Sparrow (Author/Creator) - The University of Adelaide
M.G. Sperandii (Author/Creator) - Roma Tre University
Z. Stančić (Author/Creator) - University of Zagreb
J‐C Svenning (Author/Creator)
Z. Tang (Author/Creator) - Peking University
C.Q. Tang (Author/Creator) - Yunnan University
I. Tsiripidis (Author/Creator) - Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
K.A. Vanselow (Author/Creator) - Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
R. Vásquez Martínez (Author/Creator)
K. Vassilev (Author/Creator) - Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
E. Vélez‐Martin (Author/Creator)
R. Venanzoni (Author/Creator) - University of Perugia
A.C. Vibrans (Author/Creator)
C. Violle (Author/Creator)
R. Virtanen (Author/Creator) - University of Oulu
H. Wehrden (Author/Creator)
V. Wagner (Author/Creator) - University of Alberta
D.A. Walker (Author/Creator) - University of Alaska Fairbanks
D.M. Waller (Author/Creator) - University of Wisconsin–Madison
H‐F Wang (Author/Creator)
K. Wesche (Author/Creator) - Technische Universität Dresden
T.J.S. Whitfeld (Author/Creator) - University of Minnesota
W. Willner (Author/Creator) - University of Vienna
S.K. Wiser (Author/Creator) - Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research
T. Wohlgemuth (Author/Creator) - Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
S. Yamalov (Author/Creator) - Russian Academy of Sciences
M. Zobel (Author/Creator) - University of Tartu
H. Bruelheide (Author/Creator) - Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
A. Bates (Author/Creator)
Publication Details: Global Ecology and Biogeography, Vol.30(9), pp.1740-1764
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Identifiers: 991005543984507891
Copyright: © 2021 The Authors.
Murdoch Affiliation: Harry Butler Institute
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article

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