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dc.contributor.authorSabatini, Francesco Maria
dc.contributor.authorLenoir, Jonathan
dc.contributor.authorHattab, Tarek
dc.contributor.authorArnst, Elise Aimee
dc.contributor.authorChytrý, Milan
dc.contributor.authorDengler, Jürgen
dc.contributor.authorDe Ruffray, Patrice
dc.contributor.authorHennekens, Stephan M.
dc.contributor.authorJandt, Ute
dc.contributor.authorJansen, Florian
dc.contributor.authorJiménez-Alfaro, Borja
dc.contributor.authorKattge, Jens
dc.contributor.authorLevesley, Aurora
dc.contributor.authorPillar, Valério D.
dc.contributor.authorPurschke, Oliver
dc.contributor.authorSandel, Brody
dc.contributor.authorSultana, Fahmida
dc.contributor.authorAavik, Tsipe
dc.contributor.authorAćić, Svetlana
dc.contributor.authorAcosta, Alicia T.R.
dc.contributor.authorAgrillo, Emiliano
dc.contributor.authorÁlvarez, Miguel
dc.contributor.authorApostolova, Iva
dc.contributor.authorKhan, Mohammed A. S. Arfin
dc.contributor.authorArroyo, Luzmila
dc.contributor.authorAttorre, Fabio
dc.contributor.authorAubin, Isabelle
dc.contributor.authorBanerjee, Arindam
dc.contributor.authorBauters, Marijn
dc.contributor.authorBergeron, Yves
dc.contributor.authorBergmeier, Erwin
dc.contributor.authorBiurrun, Idoia
dc.contributor.authorBjörkman, Anne D.
dc.contributor.authorBonari, Gianmaria
dc.contributor.authorBondareva, Viktoria
dc.contributor.authorBrunet, Jörg
dc.contributor.authorČarni, Andraž
dc.contributor.authorCasella, Laura
dc.contributor.authorCayuela, Luis
dc.contributor.authorCerny, Tomas
dc.contributor.authorChepinoga, Victor
dc.contributor.authorCsiky, János
dc.contributor.authorĆušterevska, Renata
dc.contributor.authorDe Bie, Els
dc.contributor.authorDe Gasper, André Luis
dc.contributor.authorDe Sanctis, Michele
dc.contributor.authorDimopoulos, Panayotis
dc.contributor.authorDolezal, Jiri
dc.contributor.authorDziuba, Tetiana
dc.contributor.authorEl-Sheikh, Mohamed Abd El-Rouf Mousa
dc.contributor.authorEnquist, Brian
dc.contributor.authorEwald, Jörg
dc.contributor.authorFazayeli, Farideh
dc.contributor.authorField, Richard
dc.contributor.authorFinckh, Manfred
dc.contributor.authorGachet, Sophie
dc.contributor.authorGalán-De-Mera, Antonio
dc.contributor.authorGarbolino, Emmanuel
dc.contributor.authorGholizadeh, Hamid
dc.contributor.authorGiorgis, Melisa
dc.contributor.authorGolub, Valentin
dc.contributor.authorAlsos, Inger Greve
dc.contributor.authorGrytnes, John Arvid
dc.contributor.authorGuerin, Gregory Richard
dc.contributor.authorGutiérrez, Alvaro G.
dc.contributor.authorHaider, Sylvia
dc.contributor.authorHatim, Mohamed Z.
dc.contributor.authorHerault, Bruno
dc.contributor.authorMendoza, Guillermo Hinojos
dc.contributor.authorHolzel, Norbert
dc.contributor.authorHomeier, Jürgen
dc.contributor.authorKącki, Zygmunt
dc.contributor.authorKapfer, Jutta
dc.contributor.authorKarger, Dirk Nikolaus
dc.contributor.authorKavgaci, Ali
dc.contributor.authorKearsley, Elizabeth
dc.contributor.authorBruelheide, Helge
dc.date.accessioned2022-03-08T12:00:14Z
dc.date.available2022-03-08T12:00:14Z
dc.date.created2021-11-15T13:41:38Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.identifier.issn1466-822X
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11250/2983772
dc.description.abstractMotivation 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.en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherWileyen_US
dc.rightsNavngivelse 4.0 Internasjonal*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.no*
dc.titlesPlotOpen – An environmentally balanced, open-access, global dataset of vegetation plotsen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US
dc.description.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2021 The Authorsen_US
cristin.ispublishedtrue
cristin.fulltextoriginal
cristin.qualitycode2
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/geb.13346
dc.identifier.cristin1954682
dc.source.journalGlobal Ecology and Biogeographyen_US
dc.source.pagenumber1740-1764en_US
dc.relation.projectEC/H2020/640176en_US
dc.identifier.citationGlobal Ecology and Biogeography. 2021, 30 (9), 1740-1764.en_US
dc.source.volume30en_US
dc.source.issue9en_US


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