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0000-0002-3967-6994
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University of Aberdeen
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Open University
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Publisher: Wiley
Date: 03-01-2022
DOI: 10.1002/ECY.3923
Abstract: Plant recruitment interactions (i.e., who recruits under whom) shape the composition, ersity and structure of plant communities. Despite the huge body of knowledge on the mechanisms underlying recruitment interactions between species, we still know little about the structure of the recruitment networks emerging in ecological communities. Modeling and analyzing the community-level structure of plant recruitment interactions as a complex network can provide relevant information on ecological and evolutionary processes acting both at the species and ecosystem levels. We report a data set containing 143 plant recruitment networks in 23 countries across five continents, including temperate and tropical ecosystems. Each network identifies the species under which another species recruits. All networks report the number of recruits (i.e., in iduals) per species. The data set includes >850,000 recruiting in iduals involved in 118,411 paired interactions between 3,318 vascular plant species across the globe. The cover of canopy species and open ground is also provided. Three s ling protocols were used: 1) The Recruitment Network (RN) protocol (106 networks) focuses on interactions between established plants ("canopy species") and plants in their early stages of recruitment ("recruit species"). A series of plots are delimited within a locality and all the in iduals recruiting and their canopy species are identified 2) The paired Canopy-Open (pCO) protocol (26 networks) consists in locating a potential canopy plant and identifying recruiting in iduals under the canopy and in a nearby open space of the same area 3) The Georeferenced plot (GP) protocol (11 networks) consists in using information from georeferenced in idual plants in large plots to infer canopy-recruit interactions. Some networks incorporate data for both herbs and woody species, while others focus exclusively on woody species. The location of each study site, geographical coordinates, country, locality, responsible author, s ling dates, s ling method and life habit of both canopy and recruit species are provided. This database will allow researchers to test ecological, biogeographical and evolutionary hypotheses related to plant recruitment interactions. There are no copyright restrictions on the data set please cite this data paper when using these data in publications.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 15-05-2020
DOI: 10.1111/GCB.15120
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 13-05-2019
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 13-05-2019
DOI: 10.1038/S41597-019-0062-1
Abstract: A global, unified dataset on Soil Organic Carbon (SOC) changes under perennial crops has not existed till now. We present a global, harmonised database on SOC change resulting from perennial crop cultivation. It contains information about 1605 paired-comparison empirical values (some of which are aggregated data) from 180 different peer-reviewed studies, 709 sites, on 58 different perennial crop types, from 32 countries in temperate, tropical and boreal areas including species used for food, bioenergy and bio-products. The database also contains information on climate, soil characteristics, management and topography. This is the first such global compilation and will act as a baseline for SOC changes in perennial crops. It will be key to supporting global modelling of land use and carbon cycle feedbacks, and supporting agricultural policy development.
Location: Spain
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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