FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI sPlotOpen – An environmentally balanced, open‐access, global dataset of vegetation plots BT AF SABATINI, Francesco Maria LENOIR, Jonathan HATTAB, Tarek ARNST, Elise Aimee CHYTRY, Milan DENGLER, Juergen DE RUFFRAY, Patrice HENNEKENS, Stephan M. JANDT, Ute JANSEN, Florian JIMENEZ-ALFARO, Borja KATTGE, Jens LEVESLEY, Aurora PILLAR, Valerio D. PURSCHKE, Oliver SANDEL, Brody SULTANA, Fahmida AAVIK, Tsipe ACIC, 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. 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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. PY 2021 PD SEP SO Global Ecology And Biogeography SN 1466-822X PU Wiley VL 30 IS 9 UT 000664540200001 BP 1740 EP 1764 DI 10.1111/geb.13346 ID 81385 ER EF