• Assessing sampling coverage of species distribution in biodiversity databases 

      Sporbert, Maria; Bruelheide, Helge; Seidler, Gunnar; Keil, Petr; Jandt, Ute; Austrheim, Gunnar; Biurrun, Idoia; Campos, Juan Antonio; Čarni, Andraž; Chytrý, Milan; Csiky, János; De Bie, Els; Dengler, Jürgen; Golub, Valentin; Grytnes, John-Arvid; Indreica, Adrian; Jansen, Florian; Jiroušek, Martin; Lenoir, Jonathan; Luoto, Miska; Marcenó, Corrado; Moeslund, Jesper Erenskjold; Pérez-Haase, Aaron; Rūsiņa, Solvita; Vandvik, Vigdis; Vassilev, Kiril; Welk, Erik (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      Aim: Biodiversity databases are valuable resources for understanding plant species distributions and dynamics, but they may insufficiently represent the actual geographic distribution and climatic niches of species. Here ...
    • Different sets of traits explain abundance and distribution patterns of European plants at different spatial scales 

      Sporbert, Maria; Welk, Erik; Seidler, Gunnar; Jandt, Ute; Acíc, Svetlana; Biurrun, Idoia; Campos, Juan Antonio; Čarni, Andraž; Cerabolini, Bruno E.L.; Chytrý, Milan; Custerevska, Renata; Dengler, Jürgen; De Sanctis, Michele; Dziuba, Tetiana; Fagúndez, Jamie; Field, Richard; Golub, Valentin; He, Tianhua; Jansen, Florian; Lenoir, Jonathan; Marcenó, Corrado; Martín-Forés, Irene; Moeslund, Jesper Erenskjold; Moretti, Marco; Niinemets, Ülo; Peñuelas, Josep; Pérez-Haase, Aaron; Vandvik, Vigdis; Vassilev, Kiril; Vynokurov, Denys; Bruelheide, Helge (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Aim Plant functional traits summarize the main variability in plant form and function across taxa and biomes. We assess whether geographic range size, climatic niche size, and local abundance of plants can be predicted ...
    • The European Forest Plant Species List (EuForPlant): Concept and applications 

      Heinken, Thilo; Diekmann, Martin; Liira, Jaan; Orczewska, Anna; Schmidt, Marcus; Brunet, Jörg; Chytrý, Milan; Chabrerie, Olivier; Decocq, Guillaume; De Frenne, Pieter; Dřevojan, Pavel; Dzwonko, Zbigniew; Ewald, Jörg; Feilberg, Jon; Graae, Bente Jessen; Grytnes, John Arvid; Hermy, Martin; Kriebitzsch, Wolf-Ulrich; Laiviņš, Māris; Lenoir, Jonathan; Lindmo, Sigrid; Marage, Damien; Marozas, Vitas; Niemeyer, Thomas; Paal, Jaanus; Pyšek, Petr; Roosaluste, Elle; Sádlo, Jiří; Schaminée, Joop H.J.; Tyler, Torbjörn; Verheyen, Kris; Wulf, Monika; Vanneste, Thomas (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Question When evaluating forests in terms of their biodiversity, distinctiveness and naturalness, the affinity of the constituent species to forests is a crucial parameter. Here we ask to what extent are vascular plant ...
    • Global maps of soil temperature 

      Lembrechts, Jonas J.; van den Hoogen, Johan; Aalto, Juha; Ashcroft, Michael B.; De Frenne, Pieter; Kemppinen, Julia; Kopecký, Martin; Luoto, Miska; Maclean, Ilya M. D.; Crowther, Thomas W.; Bailey, Joseph J.; Haesen, Stef; Klinges, David H.; Niittynen, Pekka; Scheffers, Brett R.; Van Meerbeek, Koenraad; Aartsma, Peter; Abdalaze, Otar; Abedi, Mehdi; Aerts, Rien; Ahmadian, Negar; Ahrends, Antje; Alatalo, Juha M.; Alexander, Jake M.; Altman, Jan; Allonsius, Camille Nina; Ammann, Christof; Andres, Christian; Andrews, Christopher; Ardö, Jonas; Arriga, Nicola; Arzac, Alberto; Aschero, Valeria; Leandro de Assis, Rafael; Bjerke, Jarle W.; Cooper, Elisabeth J.; Graae, Bente Jessen; Rechsteiner, Aud Helen Halbritter; Haugum, Siri Vatsø; Lang, Simone; Lynn, Joshua Scott; Moriana Armendariz, Mikel; Petit Bon, Matteo; Smith, Stuart; Sørensen, Mia Vedel; Speed, James David Mervyn; Vandvik, Vigdis; Wedegärtner, Ronja Elisabeth Magdalene; Nijs, Ivan; Lenoir, Jonathan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Research in global change ecology relies heavily on global climatic grids derived from estimates of air temperature in open areas at around 2 m above the ground. These climatic grids do not reflect conditions below vegetation ...
    • 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; Álvarez, Miguel; Apostolova, Iva; Khan, Mohammed A. S. Arfin; Arroyo, Luzmila; Attorre, Fabio; Aubin, Isabelle; Banerjee, Arindam; Bauters, Marijn; Bergeron, Yves; Bergmeier, Erwin; Biurrun, Idoia; Björkman, Anne D.; Bonari, Gianmaria; Bondareva, Viktoria; Brunet, Jörg; Čarni, Andraž; Casella, Laura; Cayuela, Luis; Cerny, Tomas; Chepinoga, Victor; Csiky, János; Ćušterevska, Renata; De Bie, Els; De 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.; Herault, Bruno; Mendoza, Guillermo Hinojos; Holzel, Norbert; Homeier, Jürgen; Kącki, Zygmunt; Kapfer, Jutta; Karger, Dirk Nikolaus; Kavgaci, Ali; Kearsley, Elizabeth; Bruelheide, Helge (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      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 ...
    • Testing macroecological abundance patterns: The relationship between local abundance and range size, range position and climatic suitability among European vascular plants 

      Sporbert, Maria; Keil, Petr; Seidler, Gunnar; Bruelheide, Helge; Jandt, Ute; Aćić, Svetlana; Biurrun, Idoia; Campos, Juan Antonio; Čarni, Andraž; Chitrý, Milan; Ćušterevska, Renata; Dengler, Jürgen; Golub, Valentin; Jansen, Florian; Kuzemko, Anna; Lenoir, Jonathan; Marcenó, Corrado; Moeslund, Jesper Erenskjold; Pérez-Haase, Aaron; Rūsiņa, Solvita; Šilc, Urban; Tsiripidris, Ioannis; Vandvik, Vigdis; Vasilev, Kiril; Virtanen, Risto; Welk, Erik (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      Aim A fundamental question in macroecology centres around understanding the relationship between species’ local abundance and their distribution in geographical and climatic space (i.e. the multi-dimensional climatic space ...
    • Think globally, measure locally: The MIREN standardized protocol for monitoring plant species distributions along elevation gradients 

      Haider, Sylvia; Lembrechts, Jonas J.; McDougall, Keith; Pauchard, Aníbal; Alexander, Jake M.; Barros, Agustina; Cavieres, Lohengrin A.; Rashid, Irfan; Rew, Lisa J.; Aleksanyan, Alla; Arévalo, José R.; Aschero, Valeria; Chisholm, Chelsea; Clark, V. Ralph; Clavel, Jan; Daehler, Curtis; Dar, Pervaiz A.; Dietz, Hansjörg; Dimarco, Romina D.; Edwards, Peter; Essl, Franz; Fuentes-Lillo, Eduardo; Guisan, Antoine; Gwate, Onalenna; Hargreaves, Anna L.; Jakobs, Gabi; Jiménez, Alejandra; Kardol, Paul; Kueffer, Christoph; Larson, Christian; Lenoir, Jonathan; Lenzner, Bernd; Padrón Mederos, Miguel A.; Mihoc, Maritza; Milbau, Ann; Morgan, John W.; Müllerová, Jana; Naylor, Bridgett J.; Nijs, Ivan; Nuñez, Martin A.; Otto, Rüdiger; Preuk, Niels; Ratier Backes, Amanda; Reshi, Zafar A.; Rumpf, Sabine B.; Sandoya, Verónica; Schroder, Mellesa; Speziale, Karina L.; Urbach, Davnah; Valencia, Graciela; Vandvik, Vigdis; Vitková, Michaela; Vorstenbosch, Tom; Walker, Tom W. N.; Walsh, Neville; Wright, Genevieve; Zong, Shengwei; Seipel, Tim (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Climate change and other global change drivers threaten plant diversity in mountains worldwide. A widely documented response to such environmental modifications is for plant species to change their elevational ranges. Range ...