VEGETATION
AusTraits, a curated plant trait database for the Australian flora

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.

BROT 2.0: A functional trait database for Mediterranean Basin plants

BROT 2.0 is a database of pant functional traits for the Mediterranean Basin flora. It includes 25764 records of 44 traits from 2457 plant taxa distributed in 119 taxonomic families.

ClimPlant

Realized climatic niches of vascular plants in European forest understoreys

Fine Root Ecology Database

Observations of belowground plant traits, with a specific focus on fine roots

FLAMITS: A global database of plant flammability traits

Open access global database on plant flammability traits measured under laboratory conditions aiming to: (a) identify the diversity of methodologies to measure plant flammability under laboratory conditions; (b) standardize the associated terminology; and (c) find geographical, ecological, and taxonomic gaps in our knowledge on plant flammability.

Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA)

The FIA program delivers current, consistent, and credible information about the status of the United States’ forests.

FunAndes: A functional trait database of Andean plants

FunAndes contains data on 24 traits across 2,694 taxa, for a total of 105,466 entries. The database features plant-morphological attributes including growth form, and leaf, stem, and wood traits measured at the species or individual level, together with geographic metadata (i.e., coordinates and elevation).

Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation

High resolution laser ranging of Earth’s forests and topography from the International Space Station (ISS)

Global Forest Biodiversity Initiative

Global forest inventory data and services

Global Inventory of Floras and Traits (GIFT)

The Global Inventory of Floras and Traits - GIFT database is a global archive of regional plant checklists and floras and plant functional traits. It contains information about the floristic status of 368,580 species across 3,627 geographic regions. Functional trait information is available for 287,245 species and 109 traits

International Co-operative Programme on Assessment and Monitoring of Air Pollution Effects on Forests (ICP Forests)

ICP Forests monitors forest condition at two monitoring intensity levels

International Tree Ring Databank

The World Data Service for Paleoclimatology manages the International Tree-Ring Data Bank (ITRDB), the world’s largest public archive of tree ring data.

Inventari Forestal Nacional d’Andorra

L’estiu del 2022 es va dur a terme el treball de camp per conèixer les principals variables silvo-dasomètriques que permeten la caracterització dels diferents tipus de boscos del Principat d’Andorra.

LOng Term Vegetation Sampling (LOTVS)

The LOTVS (LOng-Term Vegetation Sampling) database is a collection of vegetation data using permanent plots worldwide. At present the database includes vegetation data from 80 study areas covering grasslands, shrublands and forest understory around the globe

PhenoCam: An ecosystem phenology camera network

The PhenoCam Network is a cooperative continental-scale phenological observatory that uses imagery from networked digital cameras to track vegetation phenology in a diverse range of ecosystems across North America and around the World.

PREPRINT

A global map of root biomass across the world’s forests

RecruitNet: A global database of plant recruitmentnetworks

A data set containing 143 plant recruitment networks in 23 countries across five conti-nents, including temperate and tropical ecosystems. The data set includes >850,000recruiting individuals involved in 118,411 paired interactions among 3318 vas-cular plant species across the globe

Root systems of individual plants

Contains 5,647 observations, to our knowledge the largest database describing the maximum rooting depth, lateral spread, and shoot size of terrestrial plants in the world

sPlot

sPlot is the largest repository for plant community data in the world, containing more than 1 million records with full lists of plant species co-occurring in small areas (plots)

sPlotOpen

Vegetation plot database with abundance of naturally co-occurring vascular plant species within delimited areas

The China plant trait database version 2

China Plant Trait Database contains information on morphometric, physical, chemical, photosynthetic and hydraulic traits from 1529 unique species in 140 sites spanning a diversity of vegetation types

TreeNet

Point dendrometers and air and soil microclimate using an automated system

TRY

Global database initiative, which has united a wide range of the plant trait research community worldwide

Tundra Trait Team: a database of plant traits spanning the tundra biome

The Tundra Trait Team (TTT) database includes field-based measurements of key traits related to plant form and function at multiple sites across the tundra biome. The database contains 91,970 measurements of 18 plant traits.

Xylem Functional Trait Database

Observations of xylem functional traits.

ecotraj
ecotraj

Assists ecologists in the analysis of temporal changes of ecosystems, defined as trajectories on a chosen multivariate space, by providing a set of trajectory metrics and visual representations.

Vegetation R Statistics
indicspecies
indicspecies

Functions to assess the strength and statistical significance of the relationship between species occurrence/abundance and groups of sites. Also includes functions to measure species niche breadth using resource categories.

Vegetation R Statistics
vegclust
vegclust

A set of functions to perform fuzzy clustering of vegetation data and to assess ecological community similarity on the basis of structure and composition.

Vegetation R Statistics
WHAT WE DO
  • Provide training and technical support for modelling activities to research groups at CREAF.
  • Develop and promote the use of process-based and empirical models aimed at predicting the response of terrestrial ecosystems to global change at multiple scales from the forest stand to the region.
  • Facilitate discovery of data sets or models relevant for ecosystem modelling activities.
  • Develop tools aimed at facilitating the interoperability between data sources and models, and between different models.
  • Develop and maintain interactive web applications for ecosystem data exploration and visualization.
CONTACT

Campus de Bellaterra (UAB) Edifici C

08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès

EcosystemModellingFacility@creaf.uab.cat

This action is part of the Severo Ochoa "ULandscape" funded in 2019 by the Agencia Estatal de Investigación of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation to support Research Centres of Excellence.

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