The Global Vegetation-Plot Database a Platform of the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv). Curated by Gabriella Damasceno. Views my own.
Halle (Saale), Germany
Joined April 2018
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Double great news:
We had two papers published in the last month!
One is the relationship between traits and drought resistance (ow.ly/8rUp50PP66t) and the other on the digitization a vegetation dataset from Patagonia (doi.org/10.1111/jvs.13209).
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In the 1970s, a pioneer team of Argentinian, Chilean and UK biogeographers studied the vegetation of Patagonia along a 450 km transect. Now the data are available #OA and published in @JVSAVS, thanks to a collaboration with @sPlot_iDiv @CONICETDialoga
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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Beautiful use of the @sPlot_iDiv vegetation database ⬇️
Vulnerability to embolism #P50 & root length in woody plants are independent or othogonal traits selected by aridity, seasonality & water table depth
🚨 Just published @NewPhyt 🤩
📖 ow.ly/8rUp50PP66t
Do you already know the open version of sPlot, sPlotOpen? If not, this is a good opportunity to check it out! We have released an updated version correcting some mismatches in species occurrences.
You can access the version 2.0 of this open dataset at doi.org/10.25829/idiv.3474-b…
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Nice to see Thore Engel’s paper published! It used the @sPlot_iDiv global vegetation plot data base and started during Thore’s MSc at the Graduate Program in Ecology, UFRGS, Porto Alegre. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
📢📢 New sPlot paper published! ⭐️⭐️
@ThoreEngel led this great study in which the prevalence of traits from dominant species drives ecosystem function in grasslands worldwide.
Check it at onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
How do plant functional traits contribute to ecosystem functioning?
Using grassland data from @sPlot_iDiv and #MODIS satellite images, we found a disproprortionate contribution of dominant plant species to peak season productivity @GEB_macro
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
Plant functional traits should be tightly linked to climate, but this was elusive to prove at the global scale.
@KambachStephan
shows why: The relationship is habitat specific
🔥Hot off the press🔥nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
This is a new large-extent study with a number of co-authors contributing to the European Vegetation Archive (EVA) and @sPlot_iDiv.
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Plant functional traits should be tightly linked to climate, but this was elusive to prove at the global scale.
@KambachStephan shows why: The relationship is habitat specific
🔥Hot off the press🔥nature.com/articles/s41467-0… @sPlot_iDiv
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I am excited to share our new @NatureEcoEvo paper that uses @inaturalist citizen science observations to map plant functional traits on a global scale!
🔗nature.com/articles/s41559-0…
#iNatTraitMaps #CitizenScience #firstpaper @Rsc4Earth @UniLeipzig @NFDI4BioDiv @idiv
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I am very happy for @so_phiewolf! Her first PhD paper was just published @NatureEcoEvo where she combined @inaturalist #CitizenScience data and @TryPlantTraitDB to generate global maps of #planttraits and compared them to @sPlot_iDiv nature.com/articles/s41559-0…
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There is a #paradox in #biodiversity conservation: species disappear regionally, but local species richness is stable
@HelgeBruelheide @idiv @UniHalle and colleagues tackle this problem for Germany.
Hot of the press:
nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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‼️JOB ALERT‼️
Research Officer (m/f/d) for the project "MultiTroph Data management" (Z2), @GeobotanyHalle, @UniHalle | Halle (Saale), Germany | Closing date: 15 October 2022
verwaltung.uni-halle.de/deze…
👩🏾🔬👨🔬CALL FOR COLLABORATION👩🏾🔬👨🔬
We are looking for Global South researchers who have vegetation (plot level) data! 🌍
Join sPlot and become part of a global network of scientists unraveling patterns in plant biodiversity!
🌼🌴🌿☀️🌦️🌱☘️🌾
Contribution deadline: end of October
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A new study incl. authors from @IBOTCZ shows that the Eastern European forest-steppe region is home to a similar number of plant species as the Amazon rainforest, which only becomes apparent when species are counted in smaller sampling areas.
nature.com/articles/s41467-0… @NatureComms
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On February 9, 1990, Carl Sagan gave this speech before the 5th Emerging Issues Forum at NCSU, expounding on climate observations and energy strategies for a sustainable future, emphasizing solar
[full speech: buff.ly/3RZhLOY]
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Here is a comment about our @sPlot_iDiv paper with Francesco Sabatini: Species richness of plant communities: the rich gets richer and the poor gets poorer? ecoevocommunity.nature.com/p… #behindthepaper
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Research published in @NatureComms presents global maps of local species richness for vascular plants in order to provide a nuanced understanding of plant diversity hotspots and improve predictions of global change effects on biodiversity. go.nature.com/3ARGWeG
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In a post "linking to elsewhere", Francesco Maria Sabatini and colleagues describe a story behind their recent paper in Nature Communications: Global patterns of vascular plant alpha diversity vegsciblog.org/2022/09/03/th…
