Maps of the diversity and distribution of Raunkiær's life forms in European vegetation

  1. Midolo, Gabriele 123
  2. Axmanová, Irena 1
  3. Divíšek, Jan 1
  4. Dřevojan, Pavel 1
  5. Lososová, Zdeňka 1
  6. Večeřa, Martin 1
  7. Karger, Dirk Nikolaus 4
  8. Thuiller, Wilfried 5
  9. Bruelheide, Helge 67
  10. Aćić, Svetlana 8
  11. Attorre, Fabio 9
  12. Biurrun, Idoia 10
  13. Bonari, Gianmaria 11
  14. Čarni, Andraž 1213
  15. Chiarucci, Alessandro 14
  16. Ćušterevska, Renata 15
  17. Dengler, Jürgen 1617
  18. Dziuba, Tetiana 18
  19. Garbolino, Emmanuel 19
  20. Lenoir, Jonathan 20
  21. Marcenò, Corrado 21
  22. Rūsiņa, Solvita 22
  23. Šibík, Jozef 23
  24. Škvorc, Željko 24
  25. Stančić, Zvjezdana 25
  26. Stanišić-Vujačić, Milica 26
  27. Svenning, Jens-Christian 2728
  28. Swacha, Grzegorz 29
  29. Vassilev, Kiril 30
  30. Chytrý, Milan 1
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  1. 1 Department of Botany and Zoology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
  2. 2 Research Institute on Terrestrial Ecosystems, National Research Council of Italy (IRET–CNR), Pisa, Italy
  3. 3 National Biodiversity Future Center (NBFC), Palermo, Italy
  4. 4 WSL Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
  5. 5 Laboratory of Alpine Ecology, University of Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France
  6. 6 Institute of Biology/Geobotany and Botanical Garden, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
  7. 7 German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
  8. 8 Department of Botany, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
  9. 9 Department of Environmental Biology, Sapienza University of Rome, Roma, Italy
  10. 10 Plant Biology and Ecology, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Bilbao, Spain
  11. 11 Department of Life Sciences, University of Siena, Siena, Italy
  12. 12 Institute of Biology, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia
  13. 13 Faculty for Viticulture and Enology, University of Nova Gorica, Nova Gorica, Slovenia
  14. 14 BIOME Lab, Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
  15. 15 Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje, North Macedonia
  16. 16 Vegetation Ecology Research Group, Institute of Natural Resource Sciences (IUNR), Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW), Wädenswil, Switzerland
  17. 17 Plant Ecology, Bayreuth Center of Ecology and Environmental Research (BayCEER), University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
  18. 18 Department of Geobotany and Ecology, M.G. Kholodny Institute of Botany, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
  19. 19 Climpact Data Science (CDS), Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France
  20. 20 UMR CNRS 7058 Ecologie et Dynamique des Systèmes Anthropisés (EDYSAN), Université de Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens, France
  21. 21 Department of Chemistry, Biology and Biotechnology, University of Perugia, Italy
  22. 22 Faculty of Geography and Earth Sciences, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia
  23. 23 Plant Science and Biodiversity Center, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia
  24. 24 Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
  25. 25 Faculty of Geotechnical Engineering, University of Zagreb, Varaždin, Croatia
  26. 26 Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, University of Montenegro, Podgorica, Montenegro
  27. 27 Center for Ecological Dynamics in a Novel Biosphere (ECONOVO) & Center for Biodiversity Dynamics in a Changing World (BIOCHANGE), Department of Biology, Aarhus University, Aarhus C, Denmark
  28. 28 Section for Ecoinformatics and Biodiversity, Department of Biology, Aarhus University, Aarhus C, Denmark
  29. 29 Botanical Garden, University of Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland
  30. 30 Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
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Editor: Zenodo

Year of publication: 2023

Type: Dataset

CC BY 4.0

DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.10441453 lock_openOpen access editor

Abstract

This repository contains raster files (TIF format) with a 50 km × 50 km resolution (over UTM grid EPSG:32633), showcasing the diversity and distribution of Raunkiær’s life forms in European vegetation. The maps are based on two key metrics: (i) the proportion (%) of species within each life form and (ii) the diversity of life forms, including richness and evenness. To generate these maps, we averaged plot-level metric values across a comprehensive dataset comprising 546,501 vegetation plots sourced from the European Vegetation Archive (EVA; Project 163; https://euroveg.org). These plots cover diverse habitats, including 173,190 forests, 260,884 grasslands, 52,517 scrubs, and 59,910 wetlands. The maps encompass the entire dataset, offering a visualization of the geographical distribution patterns of life forms across Europe. Additionally, we created habitat-specific maps by subsetting the dataset to explore unique patterns within each habitat type (forest, grassland, scrub, and wetland). Furthermore, we generated additional maps based on standardised effect sizes (SES) of diversity metrics. Through 500 species identity shuffles without replacement, specific to each habitat type, we examined the deviations from random expectations. SES values outside the range of -1.96 to 1.96 indicate significantly lower or higher metric values than expected at random, respectively.    Folder name Description of TIF raster values full.div Mean richness and evenness of life forms across all habitat types full.mean.rel.prop Mean proportion of each life form across all habitat types habitat.div Mean richness and evenness of life forms across separate habitat types (forest, grassland, scrub, and wetland) habitat.mean.rel.prop Mean proportion of each life form across separate habitat types (forest, grassland, scrub, and wetland) SES.full.div Mean richness and evenness of life forms across all habitat types measured with standardized effect sizes (SES) SES.full.mean.rel.prop Mean proportion of each life form across all habitat types measured with standardized effect sizes (SES) SES.habitat.div Mean richness and evenness of life forms across separate habitat types (forest, grassland, scrub, and wetland) measured with standardized effect sizes (SES) SES.habitat.mean.rel.prop Mean proportion of each life form across separate habitat types (forest, grassland, scrub, and wetland) measured with standardized effect sizes (SES) Additional information is available in our publication:Midolo, G., Axmanová, I., Divíšek, J., Dřevojan, P., Lososová, Z., Večeřa, M., Karger, D. N., Thuiller, W., Bruelheide, H., Aćić, S., Attorre, F., Biurrun, I., Boch, S., Bonari, G., Čarni, A., Chiarucci, A., Ćušterevska, R., Dengler, J., Dziuba, T., Garbolino, E., Jandt, U., Lenoir, J., Marcenò, C., Rūsiņa, S., Šibík, J., Škvorc, Ž., Stančić, Z., Stanišić-Vujačić, M., Svenning, J. C., Swacha, G., Vassilev, K., & Chytrý, M. (2024) Diversity and distribution of Raunkiær’s life forms in European vegetation. Journal of Vegetation Science. Accepted on the 10th of December 2023