GrassPlot v. 2.00 – first update on the database of multi-scale plant diversity in Palaearctic grasslands

• Authors: BIURRUN Idoia; BURRASCANO Sabina; DEMBICZ Iwona; GUARINO Riccardo; KAPFER Jutta; PIELECH Remigiusz; GARCIA-MIJANGOS Itziar; WAGNER Viktoria; PALPURINA Salza; MIMET Anne; PELLISSIER Vincent; MARCENO' Corrado; NOWAK Arkadiusz; BERGAMINI Ariel; BOCH Steffen; CSERGŐ Anna Mária; GRYTNES John-Arvid; CAMPOS Juan Antonio; ERSCHBAMER Brigitta; JIMÉNEZ-ALFARO Borja; KĄCKI Zygmunt; KUZEMKO Anna; MANTHEY Michael; VAN MEERBEEK Koenraad; SWACHA Grzegorz; AFIF Elias; ALATALO Juha M.; ALEFF Michele; BABBI Manuel; BÁTOR Zoltán; BELONOVSKAYA Elena; BERG Christian; PRASAD BHATTA Kuber; CANCELLIERI Laura; CEULEMANS Tobias; DEÁK Balázs; DEMETER László; DENG Lei; DOLEŽAL Jiří; DOLNIK Christian; DRAMSTAD Wenche; DŘEVOJAN Pavel; ECKER Klaus; ESSL Franz; ETZOLD Jonathan; FILIBECK Goffredo; FJELLSTAD Wendy; GÜLER Behlül; HÁJEK Michal; HEPENSTRICK Daniel; HODGSON John G.; HONRADO Joao P.; JÄGERBRAND Annika K.; JANIŠOVÁ Monika; JEANNERET Philippe; KELEMEN András; KIRSCHNER Philipp; KLICHOWSKA Ewelina; KOLOMIIETS Ganna; KOZUB Łukasz; LEPŠ Jan; LINDBORG Regina; LÖBE Swantje; LOMBA Angela; MAGNES Martin; MAYRHOFER Helmut; MALICK Marek; MAŠIĆ Ermin; MEIER Eliane S.; MIRIN Denis; MOLAU Ulf; MOYSIYENKO Ivan; NAQINEZHAD Alireza; NINOT Josep M.; NOBIS Marcin; PEDERSEN Christian; PÉREZ-HAASE Aaron; PETERS Jan; PLADEVALL-IZARD Eulalia; ROLEČEK Jan; RONKIN Vladimir; SAVCHENKO Galina; SHYRIAIEVA Dariia; SICKE Hanne; STEVENS Carly; ŚWIERSZCZ Sebastian; TÖLGYES Csaba; TSAREVSKAYA Nadezda; VALKÓ Orsolya; VAN MECHELEN Carmen; VASHENYAK Iuliia; REIDAR VETAAS Ole; VYNOKUROV Denys; WALDÉN Emelie; WIDMER Stefan; WOLFRUM Sebastian; WRÓBEL Anna; ZLOTNIKOVA Ekaterina; DENGLER Jürgen
• Year of publication: 2019
• Type: Article in Periodical
• Magazine / Source: Palaearctic Grasslands
• MU Faculty or unit: Faculty of Science
• Web: https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/bitstream/11475/19031/3/JD264_Biurrun_et_al_2019_Palaearctic_Grassl.pdf
• Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-19031
• Keywords: biodiversity; community ecology; Eurasian Dry Grassland Group; Global Index of Vegetation-Plot Databases; grassland vegetation; GrassPlot; macroecology; nested plot; Palaearctic; scale dependence; species-area relationship; vegetationplot database
• Description: GrassPlot is a collaborative vegetation-plot database organised by the Eurasian Dry Grassland Group (EDGG) and listed in the Global Index of Vegetation-Plot Databases (GIVD ID EU-00-003). Following a previous Long Database Report (Dengler et al. 2018, Phytocoenologia 48, 331–347), we provide here the first update on content and functionality of GrassPlot. The current version (GrassPlot v. 2.00) contains a total of 190,673 plots of different grain sizes across 28,171 independent plots, with 4,654 nested-plot series including at least four grain sizes. The database has improved its content as well as its functionality, including addition and harmonization of header data (land use, information on nestedness, structure and ecology) and preparation of species composition data. Currently, GrassPlot data are intensively used for broad-scale analyses of different aspects of alpha and beta diversity in grassland ecosystems.