TY - JOUR

T1 - ReSurveyEurope

T2 - A database of resurveyed vegetation plots in Europe

AU - ReSurveyEurope

AU - Knollová, Ilona

AU - Chytrý, Milan

AU - Bruelheide, Helge

AU - Dullinger, Stefan

AU - Jandt, Ute

AU - Bernhardt-Römermann, Markus

AU - Biurrun, Idoia

AU - de Bello, Francesco

AU - Glaser, Michael

AU - Hennekens, Stephan

AU - Jansen, Florian

AU - Jiménez-Alfaro, Borja

AU - Kadaš, Daniel

AU - Kaplan, Ekin

AU - Klinkovská, Klára

AU - Lenzner, Bernd

AU - Pauli, Harald

AU - Sperandii, Marta Gaia

AU - Verheyen, Kris

AU - Winkler, Manuela

AU - Abdaladze, Otar

AU - Aćić, Svetlana

AU - Acosta, Alicia T.R.

AU - Alignier, Audrey

AU - Andrews, Christopher

AU - Arlettaz, Raphaël

AU - Attorre, Fabio

AU - Axmanová, Irena

AU - Babbi, Manuel

AU - Baeten, Lander

AU - Baran, Jakub

AU - Barni, Elena

AU - Benito-Alonso, José Luis

AU - Berg, Christian

AU - Bergamini, Ariel

AU - Berki, Imre

AU - Boch, Steffen

AU - Bock, Barbara

AU - Bode, Frank

AU - Bonari, Gianmaria

AU - Boublík, Karel

AU - Britton, Andrea J.

AU - Brunet, Jörg

AU - Bruzzaniti, Vanessa

AU - Buholzer, Serge

AU - Burrascano, Sabina

AU - Campos, Juan A.

AU - Haider, Sylvia

AU - Härdtle, Werner

AU - von Oheimb, Goddert

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2024 The Authors. Journal of Vegetation Science published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of International Association for Vegetation Science.

PY - 2024/3/1

Y1 - 2024/3/1

N2 - Aims: We introduce ReSurveyEurope — a new data source of resurveyed vegetation plots in Europe, compiled by a collaborative network of vegetation scientists. We describe the scope of this initiative, provide an overview of currently available data, governance, data contribution rules, and accessibility. In addition, we outline further steps, including potential research questions. Results: ReSurveyEurope includes resurveyed vegetation plots from all habitats. Version 1.0 of ReSurveyEurope contains 283,135 observations (i.e., individual surveys of each plot) from 79,190 plots sampled in 449 independent resurvey projects. Of these, 62,139 (78%) are permanent plots, that is, marked in situ, or located with GPS, which allow for high spatial accuracy in resurvey. The remaining 17,051 (22%) plots are from studies in which plots from the initial survey could not be exactly relocated. Four data sets, which together account for 28,470 (36%) plots, provide only presence/absence information on plant species, while the remaining 50,720 (64%) plots contain abundance information (e.g., percentage cover or cover–abundance classes such as variants of the Braun-Blanquet scale). The oldest plots were sampled in 1911 in the Swiss Alps, while most plots were sampled between 1950 and 2020. Conclusions: ReSurveyEurope is a new resource to address a wide range of research questions on fine-scale changes in European vegetation. The initiative is devoted to an inclusive and transparent governance and data usage approach, based on slightly adapted rules of the well-established European Vegetation Archive (EVA). ReSurveyEurope data are ready for use, and proposals for analyses of the data set can be submitted at any time to the coordinators. Still, further data contributions are highly welcome.

AB - Aims: We introduce ReSurveyEurope — a new data source of resurveyed vegetation plots in Europe, compiled by a collaborative network of vegetation scientists. We describe the scope of this initiative, provide an overview of currently available data, governance, data contribution rules, and accessibility. In addition, we outline further steps, including potential research questions. Results: ReSurveyEurope includes resurveyed vegetation plots from all habitats. Version 1.0 of ReSurveyEurope contains 283,135 observations (i.e., individual surveys of each plot) from 79,190 plots sampled in 449 independent resurvey projects. Of these, 62,139 (78%) are permanent plots, that is, marked in situ, or located with GPS, which allow for high spatial accuracy in resurvey. The remaining 17,051 (22%) plots are from studies in which plots from the initial survey could not be exactly relocated. Four data sets, which together account for 28,470 (36%) plots, provide only presence/absence information on plant species, while the remaining 50,720 (64%) plots contain abundance information (e.g., percentage cover or cover–abundance classes such as variants of the Braun-Blanquet scale). The oldest plots were sampled in 1911 in the Swiss Alps, while most plots were sampled between 1950 and 2020. Conclusions: ReSurveyEurope is a new resource to address a wide range of research questions on fine-scale changes in European vegetation. The initiative is devoted to an inclusive and transparent governance and data usage approach, based on slightly adapted rules of the well-established European Vegetation Archive (EVA). ReSurveyEurope data are ready for use, and proposals for analyses of the data set can be submitted at any time to the coordinators. Still, further data contributions are highly welcome.

KW - biodiversity

KW - community ecology

KW - database

KW - macroecology

KW - monitoring

KW - relevé

KW - species richness

KW - temporal change

KW - time series

KW - vascular plants

KW - vegetation dynamics

KW - Biology

KW - Ecosystems Research

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85188842681&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1111/jvs.13235

DO - 10.1111/jvs.13235

M3 - Journal articles

AN - SCOPUS:85188842681

VL - 35

JO - Journal of Vegetation Science

JF - Journal of Vegetation Science

SN - 1100-9233

IS - 2

M1 - e13235

ER -