ReSurveyGermany: Vegetation-plot time-series over the past hundred years in Germany

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Authors

  • Ute Jandt
  • Helge Bruelheide
  • Christian Berg
  • Markus Bernhardt-Römermann
  • Volker Blüml
  • Frank Bode
  • Jürgen Dengler
  • Martin Diekmann
  • Hartmut Dierschke
  • Inken Doerfler
  • Ute Döring
  • Stefan Dullinger
  • Thilo Heinken
  • Peter Horchler
  • Florian Jansen
  • Thomas Kudernatsch
  • Gisbert Kuhn
  • Martin Lindner
  • Silvia Matesanz
  • Katrin Metze
  • Stefan Meyer
  • Frank Müller
  • Norbert Müller
  • Tobias Naaf
  • Cord Peppler-Lisbach
  • Peter Poschlod
  • Christiane Roscher
  • Gert Rosenthal
  • Sabine B. Rumpf
  • Wolfgang Schmidt
  • Joachim Schrautzer
  • Angelika Schwabe
  • Peter Schwartze
  • Thomas Sperle
  • Nils Stanik
  • Hans Georg Stroh
  • Christian Storm
  • Winfried Voigt
  • Andreas von Heßberg
  • Goddert von Oheimb
  • Eva Rosa Wagner
  • Uwe Wegener
  • Karsten Wesche
  • Burghard Wittig
  • Monika Wulf

Vegetation-plot resurvey data are a main source of information on terrestrial biodiversity change, with records reaching back more than one century. Although more and more data from re-sampled plots have been published, there is not yet a comprehensive open-access dataset available for analysis. Here, we compiled and harmonised vegetation-plot resurvey data from Germany covering almost 100 years. We show the distribution of the plot data in space, time and across habitat types of the European Nature Information System (EUNIS). In addition, we include metadata on geographic location, plot size and vegetation structure. The data allow temporal biodiversity change to be assessed at the community scale, reaching back further into the past than most comparable data yet available. They also enable tracking changes in the incidence and distribution of individual species across Germany. In summary, the data come at a level of detail that holds promise for broadening our understanding of the mechanisms and drivers behind plant diversity change over the last century.

OriginalspracheEnglisch
Aufsatznummer631
ZeitschriftScientific data
Jahrgang9
Ausgabenummer1
Anzahl der Seiten13
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PublikationsstatusErschienen - 01.12.2022

Bibliographische Notiz

Funding Information:
We are grateful to surveyors who recorded vegetation in the field and provided these data. We acknowledge those data contributors who made their data available to us or helped in recording these data: Thea Dittmann, Alexandra Erfmeier, Bernd Gerken, Kerstin Günther, Sabine Heinz, Wilfried Hakes, Heike Heklau, Alfons Henrichfreise, Elisabeth Hüllbusch, Andreas Huwer, Anneke Immoor, Sophie Luise Kühn, Benjamin Krause, Sebastian Leonhardt, Thomas Meineke, Jutta Rach, Jennifer Reinecke, Ulrich Scheidel and Immo Vollmer. We thank Diana Bowler and Netra Bhandari for the analysis of spatial representativeness. The assistance of the iDiv Data & Code Unit (Anahita Kazem, Ludmilla Figueiredo) for archiving the dataset is greatly acknowledged. The manuscript very much benefitted from the comments of Javier Gamarra and two other anonymous reviewers. We very much appreciate the support for the strategic project sMon by the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG-FZT 118, 202548816).

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