TY - JOUR

T1 - Benchmarking plant diversity of Palaearctic grasslands and other open habitats

AU - Biurrun, Idoia

AU - Pielech, Remigiusz

AU - Dembicz, Iwona

AU - Gillet, François

AU - Kozub, Łukasz

AU - Marcenò, Corrado

AU - Reitalu, Triin

AU - Van Meerbeek, Koenraad

AU - Guarino, Riccardo

AU - Chytrý, Milan

AU - Pakeman, Robin J.

AU - Preislerová, Zdenka

AU - Axmanová, Irena

AU - Burrascano, Sabina

AU - Bartha, Sándor

AU - Boch, Steffen

AU - Bruun, Hans Henrik

AU - Conradi, Timo

AU - De Frenne, Pieter

AU - Essl, Franz

AU - Filibeck, Goffredo

AU - Hájek, Michal

AU - Jiménez-Alfaro, Borja

AU - Kuzemko, Anna

AU - Molnár, Zsolt

AU - Pärtel, Meelis

AU - Pätsch, Ricarda

AU - Prentice, Honor C.

AU - Roleček, Jan

AU - Sutcliffe, Laura M. E.

AU - Terzi, Massimo

AU - Winkler, Manuela

AU - Wu, Jianshuang

AU - Aćić, Svetlana

AU - Acosta, Alicia T. R.

AU - Afif, Elias

AU - Akasaka, Munemitsu

AU - Alatalo, Juha M.

AU - Aleffi, Michele

AU - Aleksanyan, Alla

AU - Ali, Arshad

AU - Apostolova, Iva

AU - Ashouri, Parvaneh

AU - Bátori, Zoltán

AU - Baumann, Esther

AU - Becker, Thomas

AU - Belonovskaya, Elena

AU - Benito Alonso, José Luis

AU - Berastegi, Asun

AU - Bergamini, Ariel

AU - Bhatta, Kuber Prasad

AU - Bonini, Ilaria

AU - Büchler, Marc-Olivier

AU - Budzhak, Vasyl

AU - Bueno, Álvaro

AU - Buldrini, Fabrizio

AU - Campos, Juan Antonio

AU - Cancellieri, Laura

AU - Carboni, Marta

AU - Ceulemans, Tobias

AU - Chiarucci, Alessandro

AU - Chocarro, Cristina

AU - Conti, Luisa

AU - Csergő, Anna Mária

AU - Cykowska-Marzencka, Beata

AU - Czarniecka-Wiera, Marta

AU - Czarnocka-Cieciura, Marta

AU - Czortek, Patryk

AU - Danihelka, Jiří

AU - de Bello, Francesco

AU - Deák, Balázs

AU - Demeter, László

AU - Deng, Lei

AU - Diekmann, Martin

AU - Dolezal, Jiri

AU - Dolnik, Christian

AU - Dřevojan, Pavel

AU - Dupré, Cecilia

AU - Ecker, Klaus

AU - Ejtehadi, Hamid

AU - Erschbamer, Brigitta

AU - Etayo, Javier

AU - Etzold, Jonathan

AU - Farkas, Tünde

AU - Farzam, Mohammad

AU - Fayvush, George

AU - Calzado, María Rosa Fernández

AU - Finckh, Manfred

AU - Fjellstad, Wendy

AU - Fotiadis, Georgios

AU - García-Magro, Daniel

AU - García-Mijangos, Itziar

AU - Gavilán, Rosario G.

AU - Germany, Markus

AU - Ghafari, Sahar

AU - Giusso del Galdo, Gian Pietro

AU - Grytnes, John-Arvid

AU - Güler, Behlül

AU - Gutiérrez-Girón, Alba

AU - Helm, Aveliina

AU - Herrera, Mercedes

AU - Hüllbusch, Elisabeth M.

AU - Ingerpuu, Nele

AU - Jägerbrand, Annika K.

AU - Jandt, Ute

AU - Janišová, Monika

AU - Jeanneret, Philippe

AU - Jeltsch, Florian

AU - Jensen, Kai

AU - Jentsch, Anke

AU - Kącki, Zygmunt

AU - Kakinuma, Kaoru

AU - Kapfer, Jutta

AU - Kargar, Mansoureh

AU - Kelemen, András

AU - Kiehl, Kathrin

AU - Kirschner, Philipp

AU - Koyama, Asuka

AU - Langer, Nancy

AU - Lazzaro, Lorenzo

AU - Lepš, Jan

AU - Li, Ching-Feng

AU - Li, Frank Yonghong

AU - Liendo, Diego

AU - Lindborg, Regina

AU - Löbel, Swantje

AU - Lomba, Angela

AU - Lososová, Zdeňka

AU - Lustyk, Pavel

AU - Luzuriaga, Arantzazu L.

AU - Ma, Wenhong

AU - Maccherini, Simona

AU - Magnes, Martin

AU - Malicki, Marek

AU - Manthey, Michael

AU - Mardari, Constantin

AU - May, Felix

AU - Mayrhofer, Helmut

AU - Meier, Eliane Seraina

AU - Memariani, Farshid

AU - Merunková, Kristina

AU - Michelsen, Ottar

AU - Molero Mesa, Joaquín

AU - Moradi, Halime

AU - Moysiyenko, Ivan

AU - Mugnai, Michele

AU - Naqinezhad, Alireza

AU - Natcheva, Rayna

AU - Ninot, Josep M.

AU - Nobis, Marcin

AU - Noroozi, Jalil

AU - Nowak, Arkadiusz

AU - Onipchenko, Vladimir

AU - Palpurina, Salza

AU - Pauli, Harald

AU - Pedashenko, Hristo

AU - Pedersen, Christian

AU - Peet, Robert K.

AU - Pérez-Haase, Aaron

AU - Peters, Jan

AU - Pipenbaher, Nataša

AU - Pirini, Chrisoula

AU - Pladevall-Izard, Eulàlia

AU - Plesková, Zuzana

AU - Potenza, Giovanna

AU - Rahmanian, Soroor

AU - Rodríguez-Rojo, Maria Pilar

AU - Ronkin, Vladimir

AU - Rosati, Leonardo

AU - Ruprecht, Eszter

AU - Rusina, Solvita

AU - Sabovljević, Marko

AU - Sanaei, Anvar

AU - Sánchez, Ana M.

AU - Santi, Francesco

AU - Savchenko, Galina

AU - Sebastià, Maria Teresa

AU - Shyriaieva, Dariia

AU - Silva, Vasco

AU - Škornik, Sonja

AU - Šmerdová, Eva

AU - Sonkoly, Judit

AU - Sperandii, Marta Gaia

AU - Staniaszek-Kik, Monika

AU - Stevens, Carly

AU - Stifter, Simon

AU - Suchrow, Sigrid

AU - Swacha, Grzegorz

AU - Świerszcz, Sebastian

AU - Talebi, Amir

AU - Teleki, Balázs

AU - Tichý, Lubomír

AU - Tölgyesi, Csaba

AU - Torca, Marta

AU - Török, Péter

AU - Tsarevskaya, Nadezda

AU - Tsiripidis, Ioannis

AU - Turisová, Ingrid

AU - Ushimaru, Atushi

AU - Valkó, Orsolya

AU - Van Mechelen, Carmen

AU - Vanneste, Thomas

AU - Vasheniak, Iuliia

AU - Vassilev, Kiril

AU - Viciani, Daniele

AU - Villar, Luis

AU - Virtanen, Risto

AU - Vitasović-Kosić, Ivana

AU - Vojtkó, András

AU - Vynokurov, Denys

AU - Waldén, Emelie

AU - Wang, Yun

AU - Weiser, Frank

AU - Wen, Lu

AU - Wesche, Karsten

AU - White, Hannah

AU - Widmer, Stefan

AU - Wolfrum, Sebastian

AU - Wróbel, Anna

AU - Yuan, Zuoqiang

AU - Zelený, David

AU - Zhao, Liqing

AU - Dengler, Jürgen

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2021 The Authors. Journal of Vegetation Science published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of International Association for Vegetation Science.

PY - 2021

Y1 - 2021

N2 - Aims: Understanding fine-grain diversity patterns across large spatial extents is fundamental for macroecological research and biodiversity conservation. Using the GrassPlot database, we provide benchmarks of fine-grain richness values of Palaearctic open habitats for vascular plants, bryophytes, lichens and complete vegetation (i.e., the sum of the former three groups). Location: Palaearctic biogeographic realm. Methods: We used 126,524 plots of eight standard grain sizes from the GrassPlot database: 0.0001, 0.001, 0.01, 0.1, 1, 10, 100 and 1,000 m2 and calculated the mean richness and standard deviations, as well as maximum, minimum, median, and first and third quartiles for each combination of grain size, taxonomic group, biome, region, vegetation type and phytosociological class. Results: Patterns of plant diversity in vegetation types and biomes differ across grain sizes and taxonomic groups. Overall, secondary (mostly semi-natural) grasslands and natural grasslands are the richest vegetation type. The open-access file ”GrassPlot Diversity Benchmarks” and the web tool “GrassPlot Diversity Explorer” are now available online (https://edgg.org/databases/GrasslandDiversityExplorer) and provide more insights into species richness patterns in the Palaearctic open habitats. Conclusions: The GrassPlot Diversity Benchmarks provide high-quality data on species richness in open habitat types across the Palaearctic. These benchmark data can be used in vegetation ecology, macroecology, biodiversity conservation and data quality checking. While the amount of data in the underlying GrassPlot database and their spatial coverage are smaller than in other extensive vegetation-plot databases, species recordings in GrassPlot are on average more complete, making it a valuable complementary data source in macroecology.

AB - Aims: Understanding fine-grain diversity patterns across large spatial extents is fundamental for macroecological research and biodiversity conservation. Using the GrassPlot database, we provide benchmarks of fine-grain richness values of Palaearctic open habitats for vascular plants, bryophytes, lichens and complete vegetation (i.e., the sum of the former three groups). Location: Palaearctic biogeographic realm. Methods: We used 126,524 plots of eight standard grain sizes from the GrassPlot database: 0.0001, 0.001, 0.01, 0.1, 1, 10, 100 and 1,000 m2 and calculated the mean richness and standard deviations, as well as maximum, minimum, median, and first and third quartiles for each combination of grain size, taxonomic group, biome, region, vegetation type and phytosociological class. Results: Patterns of plant diversity in vegetation types and biomes differ across grain sizes and taxonomic groups. Overall, secondary (mostly semi-natural) grasslands and natural grasslands are the richest vegetation type. The open-access file ”GrassPlot Diversity Benchmarks” and the web tool “GrassPlot Diversity Explorer” are now available online (https://edgg.org/databases/GrasslandDiversityExplorer) and provide more insights into species richness patterns in the Palaearctic open habitats. Conclusions: The GrassPlot Diversity Benchmarks provide high-quality data on species richness in open habitat types across the Palaearctic. These benchmark data can be used in vegetation ecology, macroecology, biodiversity conservation and data quality checking. While the amount of data in the underlying GrassPlot database and their spatial coverage are smaller than in other extensive vegetation-plot databases, species recordings in GrassPlot are on average more complete, making it a valuable complementary data source in macroecology.

KW - benchmark

KW - bryophyte

KW - fine-grain biodiversity

KW - grassland

KW - GrassPlot Diversity Explorer

KW - lichen

KW - open habitat

KW - Palaearctic

KW - scale dependence

KW - species–area relationship

KW - vascular plant

KW - vegetation plot

U2 - 10.1111/jvs.13050

DO - 10.1111/jvs.13050

M3 - Journal article

AN - SCOPUS:85114012813

VL - 32

JO - Journal of Vegetation Science

JF - Journal of Vegetation Science

SN - 1100-9233

IS - 4

M1 - e13050

ER -