MASTREE+: time‐series of plant reproductive effort from six continents

HACKET?PAIN, ANDREW; FOEST, JESSIE J.; PEARSE, IAN S.; LAMONTAGNE, JALENE M.; KOENIG, WALTER D.; VACCHIANO, GIORGIO; BOGDZIEWICZ, MICHA?; CAIGNARD, THOMAS; CELEBIAS, PAULINA; VAN DORMOLEN, JOEP; FERNÁNDEZ?MARTÍNEZ, MARCOS; MORIS, JOSE V.; PALAGHIANU, CIPRIAN; PESENDORFER, MARIO; SATAKE, AKIKO; SCHERMER, ELIANE; TANENTZAP, ANDREW J.; THOMAS, PETER A.; VECCHIO, DAVIDE; WION, ANDREAS; WOHLGEMUTH, THOMAS; XUE, TINGTING; ABERNETHY, KATHERINE; DANIEL BARRERA, MARCELO; BARTON, JESSICA H.; BOUTIN, STAN; BUSH, EMMA R.; DONOSO CALDERÓN, SERGIO; CAREVIC, FELIPE S.; VOLKMER DE CASTILHO, CAROLINA; MANUEL CELLINI, JUAN; CHAPMAN, COLIN A.; CHAPMAN, HAZEL; CHIANUCCI, FRANCESCO; DA COSTA, PATRICIA; CROISÉ, LUC; CUTINI, ANDREA; DANTZER, BEN; JUSTIN DEROSE, R.; THOUSSAINT DIKANGADISSI, JEAN; DIMOTO, EDMOND; LOPES DA FONSECA, FERNANDA; GALLO, LEONARDO; GRATZER, GEORG; GREENE, DAVID F.; HADAD, MARTÍN A.; HUERTAS HERRERA, ALEJANDRO; JEFFERY, K.J.; JOHNSTONE, JILL F.; KALBITZER, URS; KANTOROWICZ, W?ADYS?AW; KLIMAS, CHRISTIE A.; LAG

GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

WILEY-BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, INC

Año: 2022

1354-1013

Significant gaps remain in understanding the response of plant reproduction to environmental change. This is partly because measuring reproduction in long-lived plants requires direct observation over many years and such datasets have rarely been made publicly available. Here we introduce MASTREE+, a dataset that collates reproductive time-series data from across the globe and makes these data freely available to the community. MASTREE+ includes 73,828 georeferenced observations of annual reproduction (e.g., seed and fruit counts) in perennial plant populations worldwide. These observations consist of 5,971 population-level time-series from 974 species in 66 countries. The mean and median time-series length is 12.4 and 10 years respectively, and the dataset includes 1,122 series that extend over at least two decades (>=20 years of observations). For a subset of well-studied species, MASTREE+ includes extensive replication of time-series across geographical and climatic gradients. Here we describe the open-access dataset, available as a .csv file, and we introduce an associated web-based app for data exploration. MASTREE+ will provide the basis for improved understanding of the response of long-lived plant reproduction to environmental change. Additionally, MASTREE+ will enable investigation of the ecology and evolution of reproductive strategies in perennial plants, and the role of plant reproduction as a driver of ecosystem dynamics.