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Jucker T, Fischer FJ, Chave J, Coomes DA, Caspersen J, Ali A, Loubota Panzou GJ, Feldpausch TR, Falster D, Usoltsev VA, Adu‐Bredu S, Alves LF, Aminpour M, Angoboy IB, Anten NPR, Antin C, Askari Y, Muñoz R, Ayyappan N, Balvanera P, Banin L, Barbier N, Battles JJ, Beeckman H, Bocko YE, Bond‐Lamberty B, Bongers F, Bowers S, Brade T, van Breugel M, Chantrain A, Chaudhary R, Dai J, Dalponte M, Dimobe K, Domec J, Doucet J, Duursma RA, Enríquez M, van Ewijk KY, Farfán‐Rios W, Fayolle A, Forni E, Forrester DI, Gilani H, Godlee JL, Gourlet‐Fleury S, Haeni M, Hall JS, He J, Hemp A, Hernández‐Stefanoni JL, Higgins SI, Holdaway RJ, Hussain K, Hutley LB, Ichie T, Iida Y, Jiang H, Joshi PR, Kaboli H, Larsary MK, Kenzo T, Kloeppel BD, Kohyama T, Kunwar S, Kuyah S, Kvasnica J, Lin S, Lines ER, Liu H, Lorimer C, Loumeto J, Malhi Y, Marshall PL, Mattsson E, Matula R, Meave JA, Mensah S, Mi X, Momo S, Moncrieff GR, Mora F, Nissanka SP, O'Hara KL, Pearce S, Pelissier R, Peri PL, Ploton P, Poorter L, Pour MJ, Pourbabaei H, Dupuy‐Rada JM, Ribeiro SC, Ryan C, Sanaei A, Sanger J, Schlund M, Sellan G, Shenkin A, Sonké B, Sterck FJ, Svátek M, Takagi K, Trugman AT, Ullah F, Vadeboncoeur MA, Valipour A, Vanderwel MC, Vovides AG, Wang W, Wang L, Wirth C, Woods M, Xiang W, Ximenes FDA, Xu Y, Yamada T, Zavala MA. Tallo: A global tree allometry and crown architecture database. Glob Chang Biol 2022; 28:5254-5268. [PMID: 35703577 PMCID: PMC9542605 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.16302] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2022] [Revised: 05/12/2022] [Accepted: 06/06/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
Abstract
Data capturing multiple axes of tree size and shape, such as a tree's stem diameter, height and crown size, underpin a wide range of ecological research-from developing and testing theory on forest structure and dynamics, to estimating forest carbon stocks and their uncertainties, and integrating remote sensing imagery into forest monitoring programmes. However, these data can be surprisingly hard to come by, particularly for certain regions of the world and for specific taxonomic groups, posing a real barrier to progress in these fields. To overcome this challenge, we developed the Tallo database, a collection of 498,838 georeferenced and taxonomically standardized records of individual trees for which stem diameter, height and/or crown radius have been measured. These data were collected at 61,856 globally distributed sites, spanning all major forested and non-forested biomes. The majority of trees in the database are identified to species (88%), and collectively Tallo includes data for 5163 species distributed across 1453 genera and 187 plant families. The database is publicly archived under a CC-BY 4.0 licence and can be access from: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6637599. To demonstrate its value, here we present three case studies that highlight how the Tallo database can be used to address a range of theoretical and applied questions in ecology-from testing the predictions of metabolic scaling theory, to exploring the limits of tree allometric plasticity along environmental gradients and modelling global variation in maximum attainable tree height. In doing so, we provide a key resource for field ecologists, remote sensing researchers and the modelling community working together to better understand the role that trees play in regulating the terrestrial carbon cycle.
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Affiliation(s)
- Tommaso Jucker
- School of Biological SciencesUniversity of BristolBristolUK
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- Laboratoire Évolution et Diversité Biologique (EDB)UMR 5174 (CNRS/IRD/UPS)Toulouse Cedex 9France
- Université ToulouseToulouse Cedex 9France
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- Conservation Research InstituteUniversity of CambridgeCambridgeUK
| | - John Caspersen
- Institute of Forestry and ConservationUniversity of TorontoTorontoOntarioCanada
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- Forest Ecology Research Group, College of Life SciencesHebei UniversityBaodingHebeiChina
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- Université de Liège, Gembloux Agro‐Bio TechGemblouxBelgium
- Laboratoire de Biodiversité, de Gestion des Ecosystèmes et de l'Environnement (LBGE), Faculté des Sciences et TechniquesUniversité Marien NgouabiBrazzavilleRepublic of Congo
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- College of Life and Environmental SciencesUniversity of ExeterExeterUK
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- Evolution & Ecology Research CentreUniversity of New South Wales SydneySydneyNew South WalesAustralia
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- Department of ForestryUral State Forest Engineering UniversityYekaterinburgRussia
- Department of Forest DynamicsBotanical Garden of the Ural Branch of Russian Academy of SciencesYekaterinburgRussia
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- Forestry Research Institute of Ghana, Council for Scientific and Industrial ResearchUniversityKumasiGhana
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- Center for Tropical Research, Institute of the Environment and SustainabilityUniversity of California Los AngelesLos AngelesCaliforniaUSA
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- Natural Recourses and Watershed Management Office, West Azerbaijan ProvinceUrmiaIran
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- Institut National pour l'Etude et la Recherche AgronimiquesDemocratic Republic of the Congo
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- Center for Crop Systems AnalysisWageningen UniversityWageningenThe Netherlands
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- AMAP LabMontpellier University, IRD, CIRAD, CNRS, INRAEMontpellierFrance
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- Research Division of Natural Resources, Kohgiluyeh and Boyerahmad Agriculture and Natural Resources Research and Education Center, AREEOYasoujIran
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- Departamento de Ecología y Recursos Naturales, Facultad de CienciasUniversidad Nacional Autónoma de México, CoyoacánCiudad de MéxicoMexico
- Forest Ecology and Forest Management GroupWageningen UniversityWageningenThe Netherlands
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- Instituto de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas y Sustentabilidad, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoMoreliaMichoacánMexico
| | | | - Nicolas Barbier
- AMAP LabMontpellier University, IRD, CIRAD, CNRS, INRAEMontpellierFrance
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- Service of Wood BiologyRoyal Museum for Central AfricaTervurenBelgium
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- Laboratoire de Biodiversité, de Gestion des Ecosystèmes et de l'Environnement (LBGE), Faculté des Sciences et TechniquesUniversité Marien NgouabiBrazzavilleRepublic of Congo
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- Pacific Northwest National LaboratoryJoint Global Change Research InstituteCollege ParkMarylandUSA
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- Forest Ecology and Forest Management GroupWageningen UniversityWageningenThe Netherlands
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- School of GeoSciencesUniversity of EdinburghEdinburghUK
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- School of GeoSciencesUniversity of EdinburghEdinburghUK
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- Yale‐NUS CollegeSingapore
- ForestGEOSmithsonian Tropical Research InstituteApartadoPanamaRepublic of Panama
- Department of GeographyNational University of SingaporeSingapore
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- Division Forest OfficeMinistry of ForestDhangadhiSudurpashchim ProvinceNepal
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- College of Urban and Environmental Sciences and MOE Laboratory for Earth Surface ProcessesPeking UniversityBeijingChina
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- Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund MachSan Michele all'AdigeItaly
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- Institut des Sciences de l'Environnement et du Développement Rural (ISEDR)Université de DédougouDédougouBurkina Faso
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- Bordeaux Sciences Agro‐UMR ISPA, INRAEBordeauxFrance
- Nicholas School of the EnvironmentDuke UniversityDurhamNCUSA
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- Departamento de Ecología y Recursos Naturales, Facultad de CienciasUniversidad Nacional Autónoma de México, CoyoacánCiudad de MéxicoMexico
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- Department of Geography and Planning, Queen's UniversityKingstonOntarioCanada
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- CIRAD, UPR Forêts et SociétésMontpellierFrance
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- Institute of Space Technology, Islamabad HighwayIslamabadPakistan
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- Swiss Federal Research Institute WSLBirmensdorfSwitzerland
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- ForestGEOSmithsonian Tropical Research InstituteApartadoPanamaRepublic of Panama
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- Spatial Ecology Lab, School of Life SciencesSouth China Normal UniversityGuangzhouGuangdongChina
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- Department of Plant SystematicsUniversity of BayreuthBayreuthGermany
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- Gilgit‐Baltistan Forest Wildlife and Environment DepartmentGilgitPakistan
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- Research Institute for the Environment & LivelihoodsCharles Darwin UniversityCasuarinaNorthern TerritoryAustralia
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- Faculty of Agriculture and Marine ScienceKochi UniversityNankokuKochiJapan
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- Forestry and Forest Products Research InstituteTsukubaIbarakiJapan
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- Spatial Ecology Lab, School of Life SciencesSouth China Normal UniversityGuangzhouGuangdongChina
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- Faculty of Desert Studies Semnan UniversitySemnanIran
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- Japan International Research Center for Agricultural SciencesTsukubaIbarakiJapan
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- Department of Geosciences and Natural ResourcesWestern Carolina UniversityCullowheeNorth CarolinaUSA
- Graduate School and ResearchWestern Carolina UnversityCullowheeNorth CarolinaUSA
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- Faculty of Environmental Earth ScienceHokkaido UniversitySapporoJapan
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- Division Forest OfficeMinistry of ForestDhangadhiSudurpashchim ProvinceNepal
- Department of Forest Resources Management, College of ForestryNanjing Forestry UniversityNanjingJiangsuChina
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- Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT)NairobiKenya
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- Department of Forest Botany, Dendrology and Geobiocoenology, Faculty of Forestry and Wood TechnologyMendel University in BrnoBrnoCzech Republic
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of High Technology for Plant Protection, Plant Protection Research InstituteGuangdong Academy of Agricultural SciencesGuangzhouGuangdongChina
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- Department of GeographyUniversity of CambridgeCambridgeUK
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- College of Urban and Environmental Sciences and MOE Laboratory for Earth Surface ProcessesPeking UniversityBeijingChina
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- Department of Forest and Wildlife EcologyUniversity of Wisconsin‐MadisonMadisonWisconsinUSA
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- Laboratoire de Biodiversité, de Gestion des Ecosystèmes et de l'Environnement (LBGE), Faculté des Sciences et TechniquesUniversité Marien NgouabiBrazzavilleRepublic of Congo
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- Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the EnvironmentUniversity of OxfordOxfordUK
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- Faculty of ForestryUniversity of British ColumbiaVancouverBritish ColumbiaCanada
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- IVL Swedish Environmental Research InstituteGöteborgSweden
- Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre (GGBC), GothenburgSweden
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- Faculty of Forestry and Wood SciencesCzech University of Life Sciences Prague, Prague 6SuchdolCzech Republic
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- Departamento de Ecología y Recursos Naturales, Facultad de CienciasUniversidad Nacional Autónoma de México, CoyoacánCiudad de MéxicoMexico
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- Laboratoire de Biomathématiques et d'Estimations Forestières, Faculté des Sciences AgronomiquesUniversité d'Abomey CalaviCotonouBenin
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- State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of BotanyChinese Academy of SciencesBeijingChina
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- AMAP LabMontpellier University, IRD, CIRAD, CNRS, INRAEMontpellierFrance
- Laboratoire de Botanique systématique et d'Ecologie, Département des Sciences Biologiques, Ecole Normale SupérieureUniversité de Yaoundé IYaoundéCameroon
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- Fynbos Node, South African Environmental Observation NetworkClaremontSouth Africa
- Centre for Statistics in Ecology, Environment and Conservation, Department of Statistical SciencesUniversity of Cape TownRondeboschSouth Africa
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- Instituto de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas y Sustentabilidad, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoMoreliaMichoacánMexico
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- Department of Crop Science, Faculty of AgricultureUniversity of PeradeniyaPeradeniyaSri Lanka
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- AMAP LabMontpellier University, IRD, CIRAD, CNRS, INRAEMontpellierFrance
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- Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia Austral (UNPA) ‐ Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA) ‐ CONICETRío GallegosSanta CruzArgentina
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- AMAP LabMontpellier University, IRD, CIRAD, CNRS, INRAEMontpellierFrance
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- Forest Ecology and Forest Management GroupWageningen UniversityWageningenThe Netherlands
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- Department of Forestry, Faculty of Natural ResourcesUniversity of GuilanSomehsaraIran
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- Centro de Investigación Científica de Yucatán A.C., Unidad de Recursos NaturalesMéridaYucatánMexico
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- Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da NaturezaUniversidade Federal do Acre, Campus UniversitárioRio BrancoBrazil
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- School of GeoSciencesUniversity of EdinburghEdinburghUK
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- Systematic Botany and Functional Biodiversity, Institute of BiologyLeipzig UniversityLeipzigGermany
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- Department of Natural Resources, Faculty of Geo‐information Science and Earth Observation (ITC)University of TwenteEnschedeThe Netherlands
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- UMR EcoFoG, CNRSKourouFrench Guiana
- Department of Natural SciencesManchester Metropolitan UniversityManchesterUK
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- Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the EnvironmentUniversity of OxfordOxfordUK
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- Laboratoire de Botanique systématique et d'Ecologie, Département des Sciences Biologiques, Ecole Normale SupérieureUniversité de Yaoundé IYaoundéCameroon
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- Forest Ecology and Forest Management GroupWageningen UniversityWageningenThe Netherlands
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- Department of Forest Botany, Dendrology and Geobiocoenology, Faculty of Forestry and Wood TechnologyMendel University in BrnoBrnoCzech Republic
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- Field Science Center for Northern BiosphereHokkaido UniversityHoronobeJapan
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- Department of GeographyUniversity of California Santa BarbaraSanta BarbaraCaliforniaUSA
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- Forest Ecology Research Group, College of Life SciencesHebei UniversityBaodingHebeiChina
- Department of Forest Resources Management, College of ForestryNanjing Forestry UniversityNanjingJiangsuChina
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- Department of Forestry and The Center for Research and Development of Northern Zagros ForestryUniversity of KurdistanErbilIran
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- School of Geographical and Earth SciencesUniversity of Glasgow, East QuadrangleGlasgowUK
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- State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of BotanyChinese Academy of SciencesBeijingChina
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- Department of Forest Resources Management, College of ForestryNanjing Forestry UniversityNanjingJiangsuChina
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- Systematic Botany and Functional Biodiversity, Institute of BiologyUniversity of LeipzigLeipzigGermany
- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle‐Jena‐LeipzigLeipzigGermany
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- Ontario Ministry of Natural ResourcesNorth BayOntarioCanada
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- Faculty of Life Science and TechnologyCentral South University of Forestry and TechnologyChangshaHunanChina
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- State Key Laboratory of Aquatic Botany and Watershed EcologyWuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of SciencesWuhanChina
- Center of Conservation Biology, Core Botanical GardensChinese Academy of SciencesWuhanChina
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- Graduate School of Integrated Sciences of LifeHiroshima UniversityHiroshimaJapan
| | - Miguel A. Zavala
- Forest Ecology and Restoration Group (FORECO), Departamento de Ciencias de la VidaUniversidad de AlcaláMadridSpain
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Falster D, Gallagher R, Wenk EH, Wright IJ, Indiarto D, Andrew SC, Baxter C, Lawson J, Allen S, Fuchs A, Monro A, Kar F, Adams MA, Ahrens CW, Alfonzetti M, Angevin T, Apgaua DMG, Arndt S, Atkin OK, Atkinson J, Auld T, Baker A, von Balthazar M, Bean A, Blackman CJ, Bloomfield K, Bowman DMJS, Bragg J, Brodribb TJ, Buckton G, Burrows G, Caldwell E, Camac J, Carpenter R, Catford JA, Cawthray GR, Cernusak LA, Chandler G, Chapman AR, Cheal D, Cheesman AW, Chen SC, Choat B, Clinton B, Clode PL, Coleman H, Cornwell WK, Cosgrove M, Crisp M, Cross E, Crous KY, Cunningham S, Curran T, Curtis E, Daws MI, DeGabriel JL, Denton MD, Dong N, Du P, Duan H, Duncan DH, Duncan RP, Duretto M, Dwyer JM, Edwards C, Esperon-Rodriguez M, Evans JR, Everingham SE, Farrell C, Firn J, Fonseca CR, French BJ, Frood D, Funk JL, Geange SR, Ghannoum O, Gleason SM, Gosper CR, Gray E, Groom PK, Grootemaat S, Gross C, Guerin G, Guja L, Hahs AK, Harrison MT, Hayes PE, Henery M, Hochuli D, Howell J, Huang G, Hughes L, Huisman J, Ilic J, Jagdish A, Jin D, Jordan G, Jurado E, Kanowski J, Kasel S, Kellermann J, Kenny B, Kohout M, Kooyman RM, Kotowska MM, Lai HR, Laliberté E, Lambers H, Lamont BB, Lanfear R, van Langevelde F, Laughlin DC, Laugier-Kitchener BA, Laurance S, Lehmann CER, Leigh A, Leishman MR, Lenz T, Lepschi B, Lewis JD, Lim F, Liu U, Lord J, Lusk CH, Macinnis-Ng C, McPherson H, Magallón S, Manea A, López-Martinez A, Mayfield M, McCarthy JK, Meers T, van der Merwe M, Metcalfe DJ, Milberg P, Mokany K, Moles AT, Moore BD, Moore N, Morgan JW, Morris W, Muir A, Munroe S, Nicholson Á, Nicolle D, Nicotra AB, Niinemets Ü, North T, O'Reilly-Nugent A, O'Sullivan OS, Oberle B, Onoda Y, Ooi MKJ, Osborne CP, Paczkowska G, Pekin B, Guilherme Pereira C, Pickering C, Pickup M, Pollock LJ, Poot P, Powell JR, Power SA, Prentice IC, Prior L, Prober SM, Read J, Reynolds V, Richards AE, Richardson B, Roderick ML, Rosell JA, Rossetto M, Rye B, Rymer PD, Sams MA, Sanson G, Sauquet H, Schmidt S, Schönenberger J, Schulze ED, Sendall K, Sinclair S, Smith B, Smith R, Soper F, Sparrow B, Standish RJ, Staples TL, Stephens R, Szota C, Taseski G, Tasker E, Thomas F, Tissue DT, Tjoelker MG, Tng DYP, de Tombeur F, Tomlinson K, Turner NC, Veneklaas EJ, Venn S, Vesk P, Vlasveld C, Vorontsova MS, Warren CA, Warwick N, Weerasinghe LK, Wells J, Westoby M, White M, Williams NSG, Wills J, Wilson PG, Yates C, Zanne AE, Zemunik G, Ziemińska K. AusTraits, a curated plant trait database for the Australian flora. Sci Data 2021; 8:254. [PMID: 34593819 PMCID: PMC8484355 DOI: 10.1038/s41597-021-01006-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2020] [Accepted: 08/05/2021] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
Abstract
We introduce the AusTraits database - a compilation of values of plant traits for taxa in the Australian flora (hereafter AusTraits). AusTraits synthesises data on 448 traits across 28,640 taxa from field campaigns, published literature, taxonomic monographs, and individual taxon descriptions. Traits vary in scope from physiological measures of performance (e.g. photosynthetic gas exchange, water-use efficiency) to morphological attributes (e.g. leaf area, seed mass, plant height) which link to aspects of ecological variation. AusTraits contains curated and harmonised individual- and species-level measurements coupled to, where available, contextual information on site properties and experimental conditions. This article provides information on version 3.0.2 of AusTraits which contains data for 997,808 trait-by-taxon combinations. We envision AusTraits as an ongoing collaborative initiative for easily archiving and sharing trait data, which also provides a template for other national or regional initiatives globally to fill persistent gaps in trait knowledge.
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Affiliation(s)
- Daniel Falster
- Evolution & Ecology Research Centre, School of Biological, Earth, and Environmental Sciences, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Sydney, Australia
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- Evolution & Ecology Research Centre, School of Biological, Earth, and Environmental Sciences, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, Australia
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
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- Evolution & Ecology Research Centre, School of Biological, Earth, and Environmental Sciences, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, Australia
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- Evolution & Ecology Research Centre, School of Biological, Earth, and Environmental Sciences, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, Australia
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- NSW Department of Primary Industries, Orange, Australia
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
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- Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research (a joint venture between Parks Australia and CSIRO), Canberra, ACT, Australia
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- Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research (a joint venture between Parks Australia and CSIRO), Canberra, ACT, Australia
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- Evolution & Ecology Research Centre, School of Biological, Earth, and Environmental Sciences, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, Australia
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- Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Australia
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- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Sydney, Australia
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
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- Centre for Rainforest Studies, School for Field Studies, Yungaburra, Queensland, 4872, Australia
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- The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
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- Evolution & Ecology Research Centre, School of Biological, Earth, and Environmental Sciences, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, Australia
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- NSW Department of Planning Industry and Environment, Parramatta, Australia
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- Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Research Centre for Ecosystem Resilience, Australian Institute of Botanical Science, Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust, Sydney, Australia
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- Centre of Excellence for Biosecurity Risk Analysis, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
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- College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Cairns, QLD, Australia
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- Western Australian Herbarium, Keiran McNamara Conservation Science Centre, Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, Western Australia, Kensington, Australia
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- Centre for Environmental Management, School of Health & Life Sciences, Federation University, Mount Helen, Australia
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- Royal Botanic Gardens, Richmond, Kew, United Kingdom
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- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Sydney, Australia
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- Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research (a joint venture between Parks Australia and CSIRO), Canberra, ACT, Australia
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- University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia
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- Western Australian Herbarium, Keiran McNamara Conservation Science Centre, Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, Western Australia, Kensington, Australia
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- Evolution & Ecology Research Centre, School of Biological, Earth, and Environmental Sciences, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, Australia
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- The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
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- Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, Australia
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- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Sydney, Australia
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- Fenner School of Environment and Society, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
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- University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia
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- Environment Department, Alcoa of Australia, Huntly, Western Australia, Australia
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- School of Marine and Tropical Biology, James Cook University, Douglas, Australia
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- School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
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- Institute for Forest Resources & Environment of Guizhou, Guizhou University, Guiyang, China
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- Institute for Applied Ecology, University of Canberra, ACT, 2617, Canberra, Australia
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- National Herbarium of New South Wales, Australian Institute of Botanical Science, Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust, Sydney, Australia
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- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia
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- The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
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- Evolution & Ecology Research Centre, School of Biological, Earth, and Environmental Sciences, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, Australia
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- Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
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- Departamento de Ecologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Natal - RN, Brazil
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- Pathways Bushland and Environment Consultancy, Sydney, Australia
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, USA
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- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Sydney, Australia
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- Biodiversity and Conservation Science, Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, Kensington, WA, Australia
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
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- Evolution & Ecology Research Centre, School of Biological, Earth, and Environmental Sciences, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, Australia
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- Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network, The School of Biological Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, 5005, Australia
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- Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research (a joint venture between Parks Australia and CSIRO), Canberra, ACT, Australia
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- School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
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- arks Australia, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment, Hobart, Australia
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- School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, Australia
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- Nanchang Institute of Technology, Nanchang, China
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
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- Western Australian Herbarium, Biodiversity and Conservation Science, Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, Kensington, Western Australia, Australia
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- Evolution & Ecology Research Centre, School of Biological, Earth, and Environmental Sciences, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, Australia
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- School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, Australia
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- Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, San Nicolás de los Garza, Mexico
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- State Herbarium of South Australia, Botanic Gardens and State Herbarium, Hackney Road, Adelaide, SA, 5000, Australia
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- Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, Australia
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
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- Department of Plant Ecology and Ecosystems Research, University of Goettingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
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- Institut de recherche en biologie végétale, Université de Montréal, 4101 Sherbrooke Est, Montréal, H1X 2B2, Canada
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- University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia
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- Ecology and Evolution, Research School of Biology, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
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- Wildlife Ecology & Conservation Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Botany, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, 82071, USA
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- University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
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- Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research (a joint venture between Parks Australia and CSIRO), Canberra, ACT, Australia
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- AMAP (Botanique et Modélisation de l'Architecture des Plantes et des Végétations), Université de Montpellier, CIRAD, CNRS, INRA, IRD, Montpellier, France
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- Environmental Research Institute, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
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- National Herbarium of New South Wales, Australian Institute of Botanical Science, Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust, Sydney, Australia
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- Laboratorio Nacional de Ciencias de la Sostenibilidad, Instituto de Ecología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, Mexico
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
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- Laboratorio Nacional de Ciencias de la Sostenibilidad, Instituto de Ecología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, Mexico
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- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia
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- Research Centre for Ecosystem Resilience, Australian Institute of Botanical Science, Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust, Sydney, Australia
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- Evolution & Ecology Research Centre, School of Biological, Earth, and Environmental Sciences, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, Australia
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- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Sydney, Australia
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- Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, Australia
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- Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network, The School of Biological Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, 5005, Australia
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- Currency Creek Arboretum, Currency Creek, Australia
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- Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartu, Estonia
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- Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research (a joint venture between Parks Australia and CSIRO), Canberra, ACT, Australia
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- Division of Natural Sciences, New College of Florida, Sarasota, USA
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- Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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- Centre for Ecosystem Science, School of Biological, Earth, and Environmental Sciences, UNSW, Sydney, Australia
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- University of Sheffield, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, Sheffield, United Kingdom
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- Western Australian Herbarium, Keiran McNamara Conservation Science Centre, Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, Western Australia, Kensington, Australia
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- Istanbul Technical University, Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
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- College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Cairns, QLD, Australia
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- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Sydney, Australia
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- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Sydney, Australia
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- School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, Australia
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- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia
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- Western Australian Herbarium, Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, Western Australia, Kensington, Australia
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- Laboratorio Nacional de Ciencias de la Sostenibilidad, Instituto de Ecología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, Mexico
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- National Herbarium of New South Wales, Australian Institute of Botanical Science, Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust, Sydney, Australia
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- Western Australian Herbarium, Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, Western Australia, Kensington, Australia
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- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Sydney, Australia
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- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia
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- School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, Australia
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- National Herbarium of New South Wales, Australian Institute of Botanical Science, Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust, Sydney, Australia
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- School of Agriculture and Food Science, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia
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- Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Rider University, Lawrence Township, Lawrenceville, NJ, USA
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- Department of Plant Ecology and Ecosystems Research, University of Goettingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Sydney, Australia
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- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Sydney, Australia
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- Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network, The School of Biological Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, 5005, Australia
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- Environmental and Conservation Sciences, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Australia
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- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
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- Evolution & Ecology Research Centre, School of Biological, Earth, and Environmental Sciences, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, Australia
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- NSW Department of Planning Industry and Environment, Parramatta, Australia
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- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Sydney, Australia
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- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Sydney, Australia
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- Centre for Rainforest Studies, School for Field Studies, Yungaburra, Queensland, 4872, Australia
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- TERRA Teaching and Research Centre, Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, University of Liege, Gembloux, Belgium
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- Centre for Integrative Ecology, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University, Burwood, Australia
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- University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
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- School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, Australia
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- School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, Australia
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- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
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- Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, Australia
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- School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, Australia
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- National Herbarium of NSW and Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust, Sydney, Australia
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- Biodiversity and Conservation Science, Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, Kensington, WA, Australia
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- Department of Biological Sciences, George Washington University, Washington, DC, 20052, USA
- Department of Biology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida 33146 USA, George Washington University, Washington, DC, 20052, USA
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- AMAP (Botanique et Modélisation de l'Architecture des Plantes et des Végétations), Université de Montpellier, CIRAD, CNRS, INRA, IRD, Montpellier, France
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Franklin O, Harrison SP, Dewar R, Farrior CE, Brännström Å, Dieckmann U, Pietsch S, Falster D, Cramer W, Loreau M, Wang H, Mäkelä A, Rebel KT, Meron E, Schymanski SJ, Rovenskaya E, Stocker BD, Zaehle S, Manzoni S, van Oijen M, Wright IJ, Ciais P, van Bodegom PM, Peñuelas J, Hofhansl F, Terrer C, Soudzilovskaia NA, Midgley G, Prentice IC. Organizing principles for vegetation dynamics. Nat Plants 2020; 6:444-453. [PMID: 32393882 DOI: 10.1038/s41477-020-0655-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2019] [Accepted: 04/02/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
Abstract
Plants and vegetation play a critical-but largely unpredictable-role in global environmental changes due to the multitude of contributing processes at widely different spatial and temporal scales. In this Perspective, we explore approaches to master this complexity and improve our ability to predict vegetation dynamics by explicitly taking account of principles that constrain plant and ecosystem behaviour: natural selection, self-organization and entropy maximization. These ideas are increasingly being used in vegetation models, but we argue that their full potential has yet to be realized. We demonstrate the power of natural selection-based optimality principles to predict photosynthetic and carbon allocation responses to multiple environmental drivers, as well as how individual plasticity leads to the predictable self-organization of forest canopies. We show how models of natural selection acting on a few key traits can generate realistic plant communities and how entropy maximization can identify the most probable outcomes of community dynamics in space- and time-varying environments. Finally, we present a roadmap indicating how these principles could be combined in a new generation of models with stronger theoretical foundations and an improved capacity to predict complex vegetation responses to environmental change.
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Affiliation(s)
- Oskar Franklin
- International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria.
- Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, Sweden.
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- Department of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Reading, Reading, UK
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- Plant Sciences Division, Research School of Biology, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
- Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research/Physics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
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- International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria
- Department of Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria
- Department of Evolutionary Studies of Biosystems, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (Sokendai), Hayama, Japan
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- International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria
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- Evolution and Ecology Research Centre, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Institut Méditerranéen de Biodiversité et d'Ecologie Marine et Continentale (IMBE), Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, IRD, Avignon Université, Technopôle Arbois-Méditerranée, Aix-en-Provence, France
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- Centre for Biodiversity, Theory, and Modelling, Theoretical and Experimental Ecology Station, CNRS, Moulis, France
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Earth System Modeling, Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- Forest Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sede Boqer Campus, Israel
- Department of Physics, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva, Israel
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- Department of Environmental Research and Innovation, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
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- International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria
| | - Benjamin D Stocker
- Department of Environmental Systems Sciences, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
- CREAF, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain
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- Biogeochemical Integration Department, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany
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- Department of Physical Geography, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
- Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH-Edinburgh), Bush Estate, Penicuik, UK
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, North Ryde, New South Wales, Australia
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- Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, CEA CNRS UVSQ, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Environmental Biology Department, Institute of Environmental Sciences, CML, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- CREAF, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain
- CSIC, Global Ecology Unit CREAF-CSIC-UAB, Bellaterra, Spain
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- International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria
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- Physical and Life Sciences Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, USA
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- Environmental Biology Department, Institute of Environmental Sciences, CML, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Department Botany & Zoology, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Earth System Modeling, Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
- Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, North Ryde, New South Wales, Australia
- AXA Chair of Biosphere and Climate Impacts, Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Silwood Park Campus, Ascot, UK
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