TY - JOUR T1 - sPlotOpen – An environmentally balanced, open‐access, global dataset of vegetation plots A1 - Sabatini,Francesco Maria A1 - Lenoir,Jonathan A1 - Hattab,Tarek A1 - Arnst,Elise Aimee A1 - Chytry,Milan A1 - Dengler,Juergen A1 - de Ruffray,Patrice A1 - Hennekens,Stephan M. A1 - Jandt,Ute A1 - Jansen,Florian A1 - Jimenez-Alfaro,Borja A1 - Kattge,Jens A1 - Levesley,Aurora A1 - Pillar,Valerio D. A1 - Purschke,Oliver A1 - Sandel,Brody A1 - Sultana,Fahmida A1 - Aavik,Tsipe A1 - Acic,Svetlana A1 - Acosta,Alicia T. R. A1 - Agrillo,Emiliano A1 - Alvarez,Miguel A1 - Apostolova,Iva A1 - Arfin Khan,Mohammed A. S. A1 - Arroyo,Luzmila A1 - Attorre,Fabio A1 - Aubin,Isabelle A1 - Banerjee,Arindam A1 - Bauters,Marijn A1 - Bergeron,Yves A1 - Bergmeier,Erwin A1 - Biurrun,Idoia A1 - Bjorkman,Anne D. A1 - Bonari,Gianmaria A1 - Bondareva,Viktoria A1 - Brunet,Jorg A1 - Carni,Andraz A1 - Casella,Laura A1 - Cayuela,Luis A1 - Cerny,Tomas A1 - Chepinoga,Victor A1 - Csiky,Janos A1 - Custerevska,Renata A1 - de Bie,Els A1 - de Gasper,Andre Luis A1 - de Sanctis,Michele A1 - Dimopoulos,Panayotis A1 - Dolezal,Jiri A1 - Dziuba,Tetiana A1 - El-Sheikh,Mohamed Abd El-Rouf Mousa A1 - Enquist,Brian A1 - Ewald,Joerg A1 - Fazayeli,Farideh A1 - Field,Richard A1 - Finckh,Manfred A1 - Gachet,Sophie A1 - Galan-De-Mera,Antonio A1 - Garbolino,Emmanuel A1 - Gholizadeh,Hamid A1 - Giorgis,Melisa A1 - Golub,Valentin A1 - Alsos,Inger Greve A1 - Grytnes,John-Arvid A1 - Guerin,Gregory Richard A1 - Gutierrez,Alvaro G. A1 - Haider,Sylvia A1 - Hatim,Mohamed Z. A1 - Herault,Bruno A1 - Hinojos Mendoza,Guillermo A1 - Hoelzel,Norbert A1 - Homeier,Juergen A1 - Hubau,Wannes A1 - Indreica,Adrian A1 - Janssen,John A. M. A1 - Jedrzejek,Birgit A1 - Jentsch,Anke A1 - Juergens,Norbert A1 - Kacki,Zygmunt A1 - Kapfer,Jutta A1 - Karger,Dirk Nikolaus A1 - Kavgaci,Ali A1 - Kearsley,Elizabeth A1 - Kessler,Michael A1 - Khanina,Larisa A1 - Killeen,Timothy A1 - Korolyuk,Andrey A1 - Kreft,Holger A1 - Kuehl,Hjalmar S. A1 - Kuzemko,Anna A1 - Landucci,Flavia A1 - Lengyel,Attila A1 - Lens,Frederic A1 - Lingner,Debora Vanessa A1 - Liu,Hongyan A1 - Lysenko,Tatiana A1 - Mahecha,Miguel D. A1 - Marceno,Corrado A1 - Martynenko,Vasiliy A1 - Moeslund,Jesper Erenskjold A1 - Monteagudo Mendoza,Abel A1 - Mucina,Ladislav A1 - Muller,Jonas V. A1 - Munzinger,Jerome A1 - Naqinezhad,Alireza A1 - Noroozi,Jalil A1 - Nowak,Arkadiusz A1 - Onyshchenko,Viktor A1 - Overbeck,Gerhard E. A1 - Partel,Meelis A1 - Pauchard,Anibal A1 - Peet,Robert K. A1 - Penuelas,Josep A1 - Perez-Haase,Aaron A1 - Peterka,Tomas A1 - Petrik,Petr A1 - Peyre,Gwendolyn A1 - Phillips,Oliver L. A1 - Prokhorov,Vadim A1 - Rasomavicius,Valerijus A1 - Revermann,Rasmus A1 - Rivas-Torres,Gonzalo A1 - Rodwell,John S. A1 - Ruprecht,Eszter A1 - Rusina,Solvita A1 - Samimi,Cyrus A1 - Schmidt,Marco A1 - Schrodt,Franziska A1 - Shan,Hanhuai A1 - Shirokikh,Pavel A1 - Sibik,Jozef A1 - Silc,Urban A1 - Sklenar,Petr A1 - Skvorc,Zeljko A1 - Sparrow,Ben A1 - Sperandii,Marta Gaia A1 - Stancic,Zvjezdana A1 - Svenning,Jens-Christian A1 - Tang,Zhiyao A1 - Tang,Cindy Q. A1 - Tsiripidis,Ioannis A1 - Vanselow,Kim Andre A1 - Vasquez Martinez,Rodolfo A1 - Vassilev,Kiril A1 - Velez-Martin,Eduardo A1 - Venanzoni,Roberto A1 - Vibrans,Alexander Christian A1 - Violle,Cyrille A1 - Virtanen,Risto A1 - von Wehrden,Henrik A1 - Wagner,Viktoria A1 - Walker,Donald A. A1 - Waller,Donald M. A1 - Wang,Hua-Feng A1 - Wesche,Karsten A1 - Whitfeld,Timothy J. S. A1 - Willner,Wolfgang A1 - Wiser,Susan K. 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UR - https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00702/81385/ DO - 10.1111/geb.13346 KW - big data KW - biodiversity KW - biogeography KW - database KW - functional traits KW - macroecology KW - vascular plants KW - vegetation plots N2 - 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. Y1 - 2021/09 PB - Wiley JF - Global Ecology And Biogeography SN - 1466-822X VL - 30 IS - 9 SP - 1740 EP - 1764 ID - 81385 ER -