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.

Original languageEnglish
Article number631
JournalScientific data
Volume9
Issue number1
Number of pages13
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 01.12.2022

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