GrassPlot - a database of multi-scale plant diversity in Palaearctic grasslands

• Authors: DENGLER Juergen; WAGNER Viktoria; DEMBICZ Iwona; GARCIA-MIJANGOS Itziar; NAQINEZHAD Alireza; BOCH Steffen; CHIARUCCI Alessandro; CONRADI Timo; FILIBECK Goffredo; GUARINO Riccardo; JANISOVA Monika; STEINBAUER Manuel J; ACIC Svetlana; ACOSTA Alicia T R; AKASAKA Munemitsu; ALLERS Marc-Andre; APOSTOLOVA Iva; AXMANOVÁ Irena; BAKAN Branko; BARANOVA Alina; BARDY-DURCHHALTER Manfred; BARTHA Sandor; BAUMANN Esther; BECKER Thomas; BECKER Ute; BELONOVSKAYA Elena; BENGTSSON Karin; BENITO Alonso Jose Luis; BERASTEGI Asun; BERGAMINI Ariel; BONINI Ilaria; BRUUN Hans Henrik; BUDZHAK Vasyl; BUENO Alvaro; ANTONIO Campos Juan; CANCELLIERI Laura; CARBONI Marta; CHOCARRO Cristina; CONTI Luisa; CZARNIECKA-WIERA Marta; DE Frenne Pieter; DEAK Balazs; DIDUKH Yakiv P; DIEKMANN Martin; DOLNIK Christian; DUPRE Cecilia; ECKER Klaus; ERMAKOV Nikolai; ERSCHBAMER Brigitta; ESCUDERO Adrian; ETAYO Javier; FAJMONOVA Zuzana; FELDE Vivian A; FERNANDEZ Calzado Maria Rosa; FINCKH Manfred; FOTIADIS Georgios; FRACCHIOLLA Mariano; GANEVA Anna; GARCIA-MAGRO Daniel; GAVILAN Rosario G; GERMANY Markus; GILADI Itamar; GILLET Francois; GIUSSO del Galdo Gian Pietro; GONZALEZ Jose M; GRYTNES John-Arvid; HÁJEK Michal; HÁJKOVÁ Petra; HELM Aveliina; HERRERA Mercedes; HETTENBERGEROVA Eva; HOBOHM Carsten; HUELLBUSCH Elisabeth M; INGERPUU Nele; JANDT Ute; JELTSCH Florian; JENSEN Kai; JENTSCH Anke; JESCHKE Michael; JIMENEZ-ALFARO Borja; KACKI Zygmunt; KAKINUMA Kaoru; KAPFER Jutta; KAVGACI Ali; KELEMEN Andras; KIEHL Kathrin; KOYAMA Asuka; KOYANAGI Tomoyo F; KOZUB Lukasz; KUZEMKO Anna; KYRKJEEIDE Magni Olsen; LANDI Sara; LANGER Nancy; LASTRUCCI Lorenzo; LAZZARO Lorenzo; LELLI Chiara; LEPS Jan; LOEBEL Swantje; LUZURIAGA Arantzazu L; MACCHERINI Simona; MAGNES Martin; MALICKI Marek; MARCENO Corrado; MARDARI Constantin; MAUCHAMP Leslie; MAY Felix; MICHELSEN Ottar; MESA Joaquin Molero; MOLNAR Zsolt; MOYSIYENKO Ivan Y; NAKAGA Yuko K; NATCHEVA Rayna; NOROOZI Jalil; PAKEMAN Robin J; PALPURINA Salza; PARTEL Meelis; PAETSCH Ricarda; PAULI Harald; PEDASHENKO Hristo; PEET Robert K; PIELECH Remigiusz; PIPENBAHER Natasa; PIRINI Chrisoula; PLESKOVÁ Zuzana; POLYAKOVA Mariya A; PRENTICE Honor C; REINECKE Jennifer; REITALU Triin; PILAR Rodriguez-Rojo Maria; ROLEČEK Jan; RONKIN Vladimir; ROSATI Leonardo; ROSEN Ejvind; RUPRECHT Eszter; RUSINA Solvita; SABOVLJEVIC Marko; MARIA Sanchez Ana; SAVCHENKO Galina; SCHUHMACHER Oliver; SKORNIK Sonja; SPERANDII Marta Gaia; STANIASZEK-KIK Monika; STEVANOVIC-DAJIC Zora; STOCK Marin; SUCHROW Sigrid; SUTCLIFFE Laura M E; SWACHA Grzegorz; SYKES Martin; SZABO Anna; TALEBI Amir; TANASE Catalin; TERZI Massimo; TOLGYESI Csaba; TORCA Marta; TOROK Peter; TOTHMERESZ Bela; TSAREVSKAYA Nadezda; TSIRIPIDIS Ioannis; TZONEV Rossen; USHIMARU Atushi; VALKO Orsolya; VAN der Maarel Eddy; VANNESTE Thomas; VASHENYAK Iuliia; VASSILEV Kiril; VICIANI Daniele; VILLAR Luis; VIRTANEN Risto; KOSIC Ivana Vitasovic; WANG Yun; WEISER Frank; WENT Julia; WESCHE Karsten; WHITE Hannah; WINKLER Manuela; ZANIEWSKI Piotr T; ZHANG Hui; ZIV Yaron; ZNAMENSKIY Sergey; BIURRUN Idoia
• Year of publication: 2018
• Type: Article in Periodical
• Magazine / Source: Phytocoenologia
• MU Faculty or unit: Faculty of Science
• Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1127/phyto/2018/0267
• Keywords: biodiversity; European Vegetation Archive (EVA); Eurasian Dry Grassland Group (EDGG); grassland vegetation; GrassPlot; macroecology; multi-taxon; nested plot; scale-dependence; species-area relationship (SAR); sPlot; vegetation-plot database

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• Dengler_Phytocenologia2018_GrassPlot.pdf

• 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). GrassPlot collects plot records (releves) from grasslands and other open habitats of the Palaearctic biogeographic realm. It focuses on precisely delimited plots of eight standard grain sizes (0.0001; 0.001;... 1,000 m(2)) and on nested-plot series with at least four different grain sizes. The usage of GrassPlot is regulated through Bylaws that intend to balance the interests of data contributors and data users. The current version (v. 1.00) contains data for approximately 170,000 plots of different sizes and 2,800 nested-plot series. The key components are richness data and metadata. However, most included datasets also encompass compositional data. About 14,000 plots have near-complete records of terricolous bryophytes and lichens in addition to vascular plants. At present, GrassPlot contains data from 36 countries throughout the Palaearctic, spread across elevational gradients and major grassland types. GrassPlot with its multi-scale and multi-taxon focus complements the larger international vegetationplot databases, such as the European Vegetation Archive (EVA) and the global database " sPlot". Its main aim is to facilitate studies on the scale-and taxon-dependency of biodiversity patterns and drivers along macroecological gradients. GrassPlot is a dynamic database and will expand through new data collection coordinated by the elected Governing Board. We invite researchers with suitable data to join GrassPlot. Researchers with project ideas addressable with GrassPlot data are welcome to submit proposals to the Governing Board.