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 P.; WOHLGEMUTH, THOMAS; XUE, TINGTING; ABERNETHY, KATHARINE; ARAVENA ACUÑA, MARIE-CLAIRE; DANIEL BARRERA, MARCELO; BARTON, JESSICA H.; BOUTIN, STAN; BUSH, EMMA R.; DONOSO CALDERÓN, SERGIO; CAREVIC, FELIPE S.; DE CASTILHO, CAROLINA VOLKMER; MANUEL CELLINI, JUAN; CHAPMAN, COLIN A.; CHAPMAN, HAZEL; CHIANUCCI, FRANCESCO; DA COSTA, PATRICIA; CROISÉ, LUC; CUTINI, ANDREA; DANTZER, BEN; JUSTIN DEROSE, R.; DIKANGADISSI, JEAN-THOUSSAINT; DIMOTO, EDMOND; DA FONSECA, FERNANDA LOPES; GALLO, LEONARDO; GRATZER, GEORG; GREENE, DAVID F.; HADAD, MARTÍN A.; HERRERA, ALEJANDRO HUERTAS; JEFFERY, KATHRYN J.; JOHNSTONE, JILL F.; KALBITZER, URS; KANTOROWIC

GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

WILEY-BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, INC

Año: 2022 vol. 28 p. 3066 - 3082

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 data set 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 5971 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 data set includes 1122 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 data set, 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.