sPlotOpen : an environmentally balanced, open‐access, global dataset of vegetation plots

Sabatini, Francesco Maria; Lenoir, Jonathan; Hattab, Tarek; Arnst, Elise Aimee; Chytrý, Milan; Dengler, Jürgen; De Ruffray, Patrice; Hennekens, Stephan M.; Jandt, Ute; Jansen, Florian; Jiménez‐Alfaro, Borja; Kattge, Jens; Levesley, Aurora; Pillar, Valério D.; Purschke, Oliver; Sandel, Brody; Sultana, Fahmida; Aavik, Tsipe; Aćić, Svetlana; Acosta, Alicia T. R.; Agrillo, Emiliano; Alvarez, Miguel; Apostolova, Iva; Arfin Khan, Mohammed A. S.; Arroyo, Luzmila; Attorre, Fabio; Aubin, Isabelle; Banerjee, Arindam; Bauters, Marijn; Bergeron, Yves; Bergmeier, Erwin; Biurrun, Idoia; Bjorkman, Anne D.; Bonari, Gianmaria; Bondareva, Viktoria; Brunet, Jörg; Čarni, Andraž; Casella, Laura; Cayuela, Luis; Černý, Tomáš; Chepinoga, Victor; Csiky, János; Ćušterevska, Renata; De Bie, Els; Gasper, André Luis; De Sanctis, Michele; Dimopoulos, Panayotis; Dolezal, Jiri; Dziuba, Tetiana; El‐Sheikh, Mohamed Abd El‐Rouf Mousa; Enquist, Brian; Ewald, Jörg; Fazayeli, Farideh; Field, Richard; Finckh, Manfred; Gachet, Sophie; Galán‐de‐Mera, Antonio; Garbolino, Emmanuel; Gholizadeh, Hamid; Giorgis, Melisa; Golub, Valentin; Alsos, Inger Greve; Grytnes, John‐Arvid; Guerin, Gregory Richard; Gutiérrez, Alvaro G.; Haider, Sylvia; Hatim, Mohamed Z.; Hérault, Bruno; Hinojos Mendoza, Guillermo; Hölzel, Norbert; Homeier, Jürgen; Hubau, Wannes; Indreica, Adrian; Janssen, John A. M.; Jedrzejek, Birgit; Jentsch, Anke; Jürgens, Norbert; Kącki, Zygmunt; Kapfer, Jutta; Karger, Dirk Nikolaus; Kavgacı, Ali; Kearsley, Elizabeth; Kessler, Michael; Khanina, Larisa; Killeen, Timothy; Korolyuk, Andrey; Kreft, Holger; Kühl, Hjalmar S.; Kuzemko, Anna; Landucci, Flavia; Lengyel, Attila; Lens, Frederic; Lingner, Débora Vanessa; Liu, Hongyan; Lysenko, Tatiana; Mahecha, Miguel D.; Marcenò, Corrado; Martynenko, Vasiliy; Moeslund, Jesper Erenskjold; Monteagudo Mendoza, Abel; Mucina, Ladislav; Müller, Jonas V.; Munzinger, Jérôme; Naqinezhad, Alireza; Noroozi, Jalil; Nowak, Arkadiusz; Onyshchenko, Viktor; Overbeck, Gerhard E.; Pärtel, Meelis; Pauchard, Aníbal; Peet, Robert K.; Peñuelas, Josep; Pérez‐Haase, Aaron; Peterka, Tomáš; Petřík, Petr; Peyre, Gwendolyn; Phillips, Oliver L.; Prokhorov, Vadim; Rašomavičius, Valerijus; Revermann, Rasmus; Rivas‐Torres, Gonzalo; Rodwell, John S.; Ruprecht, Eszter; Rūsiņa, Solvita; Samimi, Cyrus; Schmidt, Marco; Schrodt, Franziska; Shan, Hanhuai; Shirokikh, Pavel; Šibík, Jozef; Šilc, Urban; Sklenář, Petr; Škvorc, Željko; Sparrow, Ben; Sperandii, Marta Gaia; Stančić, Zvjezdana; Svenning, Jens‐Christian; Tang, Zhiyao; Tang, Cindy Q.; Tsiripidis, Ioannis; Vanselow, Kim André; Vásquez Martínez, Rodolfo; Vassilev, Kiril; Vélez‐Martin, Eduardo; Venanzoni, Roberto; Vibrans, Alexander Christian; Violle, Cyrille; Virtanen, Risto; Wehrden, Henrik; Wagner, Viktoria; Walker, Donald A.; Waller, Donald M.; Wang, Hua‐Feng; Wesche, Karsten; Whitfeld, Timothy J. S.; Willner, Wolfgang; Wiser, Susan K.; Wohlgemuth, Thomas; Yamalov, Sergey; Zobel, Martin; Bruelheide, Helge

doi:10.1111/geb.13346

Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-23071

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Title:	sPlotOpen : an environmentally balanced, open‐access, global dataset of vegetation plots
Authors:	Sabatini, Francesco Maria Lenoir, Jonathan Hattab, Tarek Arnst, Elise Aimee Chytrý, Milan Dengler, Jürgen De Ruffray, Patrice Hennekens, Stephan M. Jandt, Ute Jansen, Florian Jiménez‐Alfaro, Borja Kattge, Jens Levesley, Aurora Pillar, Valério D. Purschke, Oliver Sandel, Brody Sultana, Fahmida Aavik, Tsipe Aćić, Svetlana Acosta, Alicia T. R. Agrillo, Emiliano Alvarez, Miguel Apostolova, Iva Arfin Khan, Mohammed A. S. Arroyo, Luzmila Attorre, Fabio Aubin, Isabelle Banerjee, Arindam Bauters, Marijn Bergeron, Yves Bergmeier, Erwin Biurrun, Idoia Bjorkman, Anne D. Bonari, Gianmaria Bondareva, Viktoria Brunet, Jörg Čarni, Andraž Casella, Laura Cayuela, Luis Černý, Tomáš Chepinoga, Victor Csiky, János Ćušterevska, Renata De Bie, Els Gasper, André Luis De Sanctis, Michele Dimopoulos, Panayotis Dolezal, Jiri Dziuba, Tetiana El‐Sheikh, Mohamed Abd El‐Rouf Mousa Enquist, Brian Ewald, Jörg Fazayeli, Farideh Field, Richard Finckh, Manfred Gachet, Sophie Galán‐de‐Mera, Antonio Garbolino, Emmanuel Gholizadeh, Hamid Giorgis, Melisa Golub, Valentin Alsos, Inger Greve Grytnes, John‐Arvid Guerin, Gregory Richard Gutiérrez, Alvaro G. Haider, Sylvia Hatim, Mohamed Z. Hérault, Bruno Hinojos Mendoza, Guillermo Hölzel, Norbert Homeier, Jürgen Hubau, Wannes Indreica, Adrian Janssen, John A. M. Jedrzejek, Birgit Jentsch, Anke Jürgens, Norbert Kącki, Zygmunt Kapfer, Jutta Karger, Dirk Nikolaus Kavgacı, Ali Kearsley, Elizabeth Kessler, Michael Khanina, Larisa Killeen, Timothy Korolyuk, Andrey Kreft, Holger Kühl, Hjalmar S. Kuzemko, Anna Landucci, Flavia Lengyel, Attila Lens, Frederic Lingner, Débora Vanessa Liu, Hongyan Lysenko, Tatiana Mahecha, Miguel D. Marcenò, Corrado Martynenko, Vasiliy Moeslund, Jesper Erenskjold Monteagudo Mendoza, Abel Mucina, Ladislav Müller, Jonas V. Munzinger, Jérôme Naqinezhad, Alireza Noroozi, Jalil Nowak, Arkadiusz Onyshchenko, Viktor Overbeck, Gerhard E. Pärtel, Meelis Pauchard, Aníbal Peet, Robert K. Peñuelas, Josep Pérez‐Haase, Aaron Peterka, Tomáš Petřík, Petr Peyre, Gwendolyn Phillips, Oliver L. Prokhorov, Vadim Rašomavičius, Valerijus Revermann, Rasmus Rivas‐Torres, Gonzalo Rodwell, John S. Ruprecht, Eszter Rūsiņa, Solvita Samimi, Cyrus Schmidt, Marco Schrodt, Franziska Shan, Hanhuai Shirokikh, Pavel Šibík, Jozef Šilc, Urban Sklenář, Petr Škvorc, Željko Sparrow, Ben Sperandii, Marta Gaia Stančić, Zvjezdana Svenning, Jens‐Christian Tang, Zhiyao Tang, Cindy Q. Tsiripidis, Ioannis Vanselow, Kim André Vásquez Martínez, Rodolfo Vassilev, Kiril Vélez‐Martin, Eduardo Venanzoni, Roberto Vibrans, Alexander Christian Violle, Cyrille Virtanen, Risto Wehrden, Henrik Wagner, Viktoria Walker, Donald A. Waller, Donald M. Wang, Hua‐Feng Wesche, Karsten Whitfeld, Timothy J. S. Willner, Wolfgang Wiser, Susan K. Wohlgemuth, Thomas Yamalov, Sergey Zobel, Martin Bruelheide, Helge
et. al:	No
DOI:	10.1111/geb.13346 10.21256/zhaw-23071
Published in:	Global Ecology and Biogeography
Volume(Issue):	30
Issue:	9
Page(s):	1740
Pages to:	1764
Issue Date:	1-Sep-2021
Publisher / Ed. Institution:	Wiley
ISSN:	1466-822X 1466-8238
Language:	English
Subjects:	Big data; Biodiversity; Biogeography; Database; Functional trait; Macroecology; Vascular plant; Vegetation plot
Subject (DDC):	577: Ecology 580: Plants (Botany)
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 m². 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.
URI:	https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/23071
Fulltext version:	Published version
License (according to publishing contract):	CC BY 4.0: Attribution 4.0 International
Departement:	Life Sciences and Facility Management
Organisational Unit:	Institute of Natural Resource Sciences (IUNR)
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Sabatini, F. M., Lenoir, J., Hattab, T., Arnst, E. A., Chytrý, M., Dengler, J., De Ruffray, P., Hennekens, S. M., Jandt, U., Jansen, F., Jiménez‐Alfaro, B., Kattge, J., Levesley, A., Pillar, V. D., Purschke, O., Sandel, B., Sultana, F., Aavik, T., Aćić, S., et al. (2021). sPlotOpen : an environmentally balanced, open‐access, global dataset of vegetation plots. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 30(9), 1740–1764. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13346

Sabatini, F.M. et al. (2021) ‘sPlotOpen : an environmentally balanced, open‐access, global dataset of vegetation plots’, Global Ecology and Biogeography, 30(9), pp. 1740–1764. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13346.

F. M. Sabatini et al., “sPlotOpen : an environmentally balanced, open‐access, global dataset of vegetation plots,” Global Ecology and Biogeography, vol. 30, no. 9, pp. 1740–1764, Sep. 2021, doi: 10.1111/geb.13346.

SABATINI, Francesco Maria, Jonathan LENOIR, Tarek HATTAB, Elise Aimee ARNST, Milan CHYTRÝ, Jürgen DENGLER, Patrice DE RUFFRAY, Stephan M. HENNEKENS, Ute JANDT, Florian JANSEN, Borja JIMÉNEZ‐ALFARO, Jens KATTGE, Aurora LEVESLEY, Valério D. PILLAR, Oliver PURSCHKE, Brody SANDEL, Fahmida SULTANA, Tsipe AAVIK, Svetlana AĆIĆ, Alicia T. R. ACOSTA, Emiliano AGRILLO, Miguel ALVAREZ, Iva APOSTOLOVA, Mohammed A. S. ARFIN KHAN, Luzmila ARROYO, Fabio ATTORRE, Isabelle AUBIN, Arindam BANERJEE, Marijn BAUTERS, Yves BERGERON, Erwin BERGMEIER, Idoia BIURRUN, Anne D. BJORKMAN, Gianmaria BONARI, Viktoria BONDAREVA, Jörg BRUNET, Andraž ČARNI, Laura CASELLA, Luis CAYUELA, Tomáš ČERNÝ, Victor CHEPINOGA, János CSIKY, Renata ĆUŠTEREVSKA, Els DE BIE, André Luis GASPER, Michele DE SANCTIS, Panayotis DIMOPOULOS, Jiri DOLEZAL, Tetiana DZIUBA, Mohamed Abd El‐Rouf Mousa EL‐SHEIKH, Brian ENQUIST, Jörg EWALD, Farideh FAZAYELI, Richard FIELD, Manfred FINCKH, Sophie GACHET, Antonio GALÁN‐DE‐MERA, Emmanuel GARBOLINO, Hamid GHOLIZADEH, Melisa GIORGIS, Valentin GOLUB, Inger Greve ALSOS, John‐Arvid GRYTNES, Gregory Richard GUERIN, Alvaro G. GUTIÉRREZ, Sylvia HAIDER, Mohamed Z. HATIM, Bruno HÉRAULT, Guillermo HINOJOS MENDOZA, Norbert HÖLZEL, Jürgen HOMEIER, Wannes HUBAU, Adrian INDREICA, John A. M. JANSSEN, Birgit JEDRZEJEK, Anke JENTSCH, Norbert JÜRGENS, Zygmunt KĄCKI, Jutta KAPFER, Dirk Nikolaus KARGER, Ali KAVGACI, Elizabeth KEARSLEY, Michael KESSLER, Larisa KHANINA, Timothy KILLEEN, Andrey KOROLYUK, Holger KREFT, Hjalmar S. KÜHL, Anna KUZEMKO, Flavia LANDUCCI, Attila LENGYEL, Frederic LENS, Débora Vanessa LINGNER, Hongyan LIU, Tatiana LYSENKO, Miguel D. MAHECHA, Corrado MARCENÒ, Vasiliy MARTYNENKO, Jesper Erenskjold MOESLUND, Abel MONTEAGUDO MENDOZA, Ladislav MUCINA, Jonas V. MÜLLER, Jérôme MUNZINGER, Alireza NAQINEZHAD, Jalil NOROOZI, Arkadiusz NOWAK, Viktor ONYSHCHENKO, Gerhard E. OVERBECK, Meelis PÄRTEL, Aníbal PAUCHARD, Robert K. PEET, Josep PEÑUELAS, Aaron PÉREZ‐HAASE, Tomáš PETERKA, Petr PETŘÍK, Gwendolyn PEYRE, Oliver L. PHILLIPS, Vadim PROKHOROV, Valerijus RAŠOMAVIČIUS, Rasmus REVERMANN, Gonzalo RIVAS‐TORRES, John S. RODWELL, Eszter RUPRECHT, Solvita RŪSIŅA, Cyrus SAMIMI, Marco SCHMIDT, Franziska SCHRODT, Hanhuai SHAN, Pavel SHIROKIKH, Jozef ŠIBÍK, Urban ŠILC, Petr SKLENÁŘ, Željko ŠKVORC, Ben SPARROW, Marta Gaia SPERANDII, Zvjezdana STANČIĆ, Jens‐Christian SVENNING, Zhiyao TANG, Cindy Q. TANG, Ioannis TSIRIPIDIS, Kim André VANSELOW, Rodolfo VÁSQUEZ MARTÍNEZ, Kiril VASSILEV, Eduardo VÉLEZ‐MARTIN, Roberto VENANZONI, Alexander Christian VIBRANS, Cyrille VIOLLE, Risto VIRTANEN, Henrik WEHRDEN, Viktoria WAGNER, Donald A. WALKER, Donald M. WALLER, Hua‐Feng WANG, Karsten WESCHE, Timothy J. S. WHITFELD, Wolfgang WILLNER, Susan K. WISER, Thomas WOHLGEMUTH, Sergey YAMALOV, Martin ZOBEL und Helge BRUELHEIDE, 2021. sPlotOpen : an environmentally balanced, open‐access, global dataset of vegetation plots. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 1 September 2021. Bd. 30, Nr. 9, S. 1740–1764. DOI 10.1111/geb.13346

Sabatini, Francesco Maria, Jonathan Lenoir, Tarek Hattab, Elise Aimee Arnst, Milan Chytrý, Jürgen Dengler, Patrice De Ruffray, et al. 2021. “sPlotOpen : An Environmentally Balanced, Open‐Access, Global Dataset of Vegetation Plots.” Global Ecology and Biogeography 30 (9): 1740–64. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13346.

Sabatini, Francesco Maria, et al. “sPlotOpen : An Environmentally Balanced, Open‐Access, Global Dataset of Vegetation Plots.” Global Ecology and Biogeography, vol. 30, no. 9, Sept. 2021, pp. 1740–64, https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13346.